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January 2026, Providence Journal: Inside one worker co-op’s struggle to open a cannabis dispensary in RI

November 2025, Collective Magazine: Cultivating Change: A union-cooperative collaboration may expand opportunities in cannabis

• Motif Magazine: Social justice and cannabis in RI
• 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