Meet the mayor-elect who wants to use a weed tax to pay for a guaranteed income program in New York's 4th-biggest city: 'This is an industry with the potential to make millions of dollars.'
Evans wants Rochester's program to ultimately be less reliant on that money, although he is looking to expand the current guaranteed income program to 1,000 families using private funds.
"We want to start getting revenue from marijuana because you can't just have the government," he said. Evans launched the Rochester Cannabis Preparation Commission last week, so that the city can get started the moment it gets the go ahead. This builds on the proposal of Evans' predecessor, Lovely Warren, who wanted to use a tax on legal marijuana sales to fund aa similar program in March. Rochester is the fourth largest, according to the US Census.
New York municipalities have until December 31 to opt out of hosting dispensaries or consumption spaces. More than 400 towns and villages across the state have blocked dispensaries from opening up as the deadline approaches, Rochester being only one of four municipalities in Monroe County to opt in. found this year that top executives at the 14 largest cannabis companies are overwhelmingly white men — about 70% of them.
"We'll have to figure out how we go about setting up our program to make sure we can help entrepreneurs who may not have been involved in the [cannabis industry] in the past," Evans said.Subscribe to push notificationsNOW WATCH: How racism contributed to marijuana prohibition in the US
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