Black Cannabis Magazine Partners with MJBizCon & Cookies To Provide Education and Networking Opportunities That Promote Diversity and Equity While Highlighting Minority Entrepreneurship

Black Cannabis Magazine is thrilled to announce its powerful presence and participation in this year’s MJBizCon.

Founded in 2011, the annual conference has grown from a grassroots movement to a professional B2B focused four-day event with 35,000+ attendees and 1400+ vendors.

MJBiz, in partnership with Black Cannabis Magazine/BCM, presents a panel of industry pundits that will break down the legacy to legal conversation and how BIPOC operators and industry participants can build and grow. Haze Palmer – aka Hazey Taughtme –, Founder of Black Cannabis Magazine, will moderate the panel to address Building on 2%: The State of BIPOC Cannabis and the Opportunities Ahead.

Joining him are Bonita Money, Founder and Executive Director of NDICA/National Diversity & Inclusion Cannabis Alliance, and Freeway Rick Ross, Founder at LA Kingpins. Panelists include Jamal Weathers, CEO at Kush Boys Worldwide, and LaQuita Honeysucker, Civil Rights & Community Action at UFCW, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union.

On Wednesday evening, BCM is hosted a private mixer sponsored by Gumbo, a NY legacy brand that recently partnered with the global cannabis brand, Cookies.

“I’m proud to align with MJBiz and so many brilliant industry leaders and look forward to celebrating a bit. We’re here to educate business leaders on the power of entrepreneurship in black and brown communities,” says Haze.

“To have true social equity, you first need an equal share of voice. Social Equity is not a free ride. It’s about providing resources to members of communities who have been disproportionally impacted by the policies of cannabis prohibition. And that’s what we’re doing MJBiz!”

On Thursday (Nov. 17), expo attendees can attend The Diversity Village Takeover Experience, sponsored by Cookies, THC Metaverses Boycott Shitty Weed, PolitiKan Broadcasting, We Are The Cultures History W.A.T.C.H. THE CULTURE and Haze Hope Center.

Diversity Village is a Metaverse that hosts boutique-style showrooms for cannabis brands and companies to improve the consumer experience with cannabis products of black and brown operators and entrepreneurs. There is also an outside theater to hold panels, lectures, and concerts. Users may also visit the Gallery, which will have educational materials, the latest news, and previous issues of Black Cannabis Magazine.

These B2B focused panels bring forth established industry professionals to address the following: Women Bosses in Cannabis, Black Cultivators, Web3 & Metaverse, Supply Chain, Hip Hop’s impact on Cannabis, Social Equity in Cannabis, and Partnerships.

Here are the presenting speakers and companies you will see at Diversity Village Takeover at MJBizCon experience:

Redman – United Empowerment Party
Xzibit – Napalm Brands
Trick Trick – Heavyweight Heads
Karim Butler – Gumbo Brands
Felix Murray – GasHouse
Chris Ball – Ball Family Farms
Bonita Money -National Diversity & Inclusion Cannabis Alliance
Alex Major – Gumbo Brands
John “JO” Pratt – Riddlz
Everett Smith – Presidential
Sephida Artis Mills – United Empowerment Party
Bryant Mitchell – Blaqstar Farms
Jason McKnight – Greenlabel RX
Donte West – Last Prisoner Project
Hassim Robinson – Winner Circle Genetics
Margeaux Bruner – Holi Smokeables
Kebra Smith Bolden – Noir En Verte
Celeste Rodriguez – Acre 41
Marlo Richardson – Greenwood & Co
Victoria Williams – Star Buds
Dr. Shalair Armstrong – Lucasville
Sakara Barnes – Four Twenty
Danny Maldonado, Ricardo Hernandezof THC Group
Colin Fraser – Uplin,
Maggie Wilson – Fruit Slab,
JM Balbuena – Boycott Shitty Weed
Juan Aguirre – NDICA
Jay Mills – The Green Life Report
Eva Silva – NDICA
Damien “Dthefuture” Smith W.A.T.C.H.
Mang-yee Reverie – Flow 107.1
Jason Washingon, Kulture

On Friday (Nov.18), Black Cannabis Magazine will host a meet and Greet with “D the Future” at Cookies Flamingo in Las Vegas. This is your chance to connect with Cookies brands like Gashouse, Pure Blanco, and Gumbo with appearances by Luka Brazi, Felix Murry, Alex Major, Hazey Taughtme, Majix and other special guests.

Black Cannabis Magazine looks forward to continued growth and increased activity and achievements in social equity in the cannabis industry. As their platform expands its reach, they embrace providing increasing opportunities to the communities and individuals they serve.

To view the Diversity Village panels livestream on Thursday, Nov 17, please visit here.

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