One of Ben & Jerry’s co-founders has started a charitable cannabis line with 80% of its profits going to grants for Black cannabis entrepreneurs, while the rest will be divided between the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance and the Last Prisoner Project.
FILE - Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, during a rally at the Statehouse in Concord, N.H., Jan. 21, 2015. Cohen has launched a nonprofit cannabis line with the mission of righting what it calls the wrongs of the war on drugs.
WILLISTON, Vt. — One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has gone from ice cream to ‘blunts,’ promising a line of marijuana products with a social mission. “The War on Drugs has targeted lower income Black and Brown people thru over policing, discriminatory prosecution, and discriminatory sentencing,” the website states. “That’s why despite using pot at the same rate, Black people are 4 times more likely to be arrested than Whites.”
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