A new North Side dispensary, Sway, is deeply rooted in the history of America’s AIDS crisis.
Sway cannabis dispensary, the first LGBTQ+- and BIPOC-owned cannabis company in Illinois, seen April 12, 2024, opened in the Lakeview neighborhood.
He is a co-founder of Equality Illinois, the state’s oldest and largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. Sway “is built on the strong, sassy shoulders of those who dared to challenge the status quo,” its mission statement reads. So, advocates took to the streets to help them find comfort in weed. In San Francisco, “people from our community and friends opened illegal dispensaries, often across the street from police stations,” Johnson said, “where they were giving out … marijuana, to assist people with the usual loss of hunger that came with the illness, with the pain.
“And if we go back to the years of the AIDS activism in the streets, and how the community responded, when so few would, to the fact that our friends were dropping like flies. Everything was underground in the beginning,” Cannon told me.
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