In the News

• News stories on PVD Flowers and the Rhode Island Cannabis Justice Coalition
  • Providence Journal: RI’s first pot co-op hopes to light the way toward social equity for cannabis businesses
  • Boston Globe: Advocates urge RI to keep focused on social equity one year after marijuana legalization 
  • Marijuana Moment: Rhode Island Activists Call on Senate to Press Cannabis Commission Nominees on Equity and Justice 
  • UpriseRI: RI Cannabis Justice Coalition renews call for economic and racial justice in nascent cannabis industry 
  • US Federation of Worker Cooperatives: Making Cannabis Cooperative: community ownership and racial justice in the cannabis industry
  • Grassroots Economic Organizing: I Got 5 On It: Co-op Rhody Turns Community Proverbs into a Cannabis-Based Business Model
  • Providence Journal: The state of cannabis cooperatives in RI: 5 questions with union organizer Emma Karnes
  •  Public News Service: Worker-owned cannabis co-ops in RI aim for economic justice
• Full language of the Rhode Island Cannabis Act