Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to open most of downtown Chicago to pot shops advances in City Council – Chicago Tribune*

Far South Side Ald. Anthony Beale complained that the marijuana industry wrote the new city rules to protect itself. “The industry does not want people of color part of this program. We know that,” he said. But the chair of the Black Caucus, Ald. Jason Ervin, said the sky isn’t falling, “it’s raining hundred-dollar bills.”
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Curious Observer
4 years ago

The pot shops will go quite well with the BBQ joints, currency exchanges, dollar stores, pawn shops, and nail salons that will soon be filling the abandoned stores as major businesses move to the greener fields of Indiana

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