In the News
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
- Journal of Cooperative Studies: Sustaining communities: The Roots of Hope Cannabis Co-operative and the struggle for social equity (Henry, J., Lyle, T., Rios, A., Urena, V., & Larson, E. (2025). Sustaining communities: The Roots of Hope Cannabis Co-operative and the struggle for social equity. Journal of Co-operative Studies, 58(3), 26-33. https://doi.org/10.61869/KGCY5020)
- 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