New Mexico has approved more than 1,000 licenses for businesses to manufacture, produce, test and sell cannabis in the first year-plus of the new industry.
The vast majority of those who hold a controlling interest in those businesses — 70 percent — are men, and 67 percent report they are white, according to a presentation Tuesday before lawmakers on the Legislature’s interim Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee.
Thirty-eight percent of those who identified as white also cited some Latino, Hispanic or Spanish origin, according to the report.
(Originally posted by Cannabis News)