In Prince George’s County, tensions are surfacing over a proposal to funnel new dispensaries away from highly visible retail locations.
A budding marijuana plant grows in Jessup, Md. The Prince George's County Council is proposing restrictions on where cannabis shops can locate. Speaker after speaker at the Prince George’s County Council meeting had just railed against the very business that Chante Goodwin, 35, hoped to launch as a Black women intent on joining the green rush ushered in when Maryland legalized adult cannabis sales.
“I was called to speak because I did hear … a lot of, ‘I don’t like it.’ ‘I don’t like the smell.’ ‘I don’t like this,’” she said in an interview. “How does putting us in an industrial zone prevent any of those issues?” The council advanced the proposal last week, over concerns from Fisher. The bill has a scheduled public hearing date of Nov. 21 at 10 a.m. where members of the public can share their comments before the council makes another, final vote and the bill becomes law.
About 90 percent of people arrested in Prince George’s County for possessing more than 10 grams of marijuana between 2018 and 2019 were Black,in the state eligible for the Maryland Social Equity Criteria, with a total of 18 Zip codes where cannabis charges exceeded 150 percent of the 10-year state average. Baltimore had 19.Reed, a Prince George’s native, said she hopes the county won’t miss out on a potentially meaningful moment.
While she said she understands the hesitations of generations of people who lived through the crack epidemic and are confronted by an opioid epidemic, she hopes for a continued shift in public perception toward a substance the state has legalized.
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