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Tag: Medical Marijuana Diversity

Posted inBaltimore News

Md. Legislative Black Caucus Chair to Meet with Md. Gov. Hogan on Medical Marijuana

by Associated PressAugust 25, 2016January 25, 2022

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan is scheduled to meet with the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland to discuss the shortage of Black applicants chosen as […]

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Is Legal Weed for Whites Only?

by Special to the AFROAugust 24, 2016January 25, 2022

In 1950, a Black man named Parren Mitchell applied for admission to graduate school at the University of Maryland in College Park. The university president said it was “inadvisable” for […]

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