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Community criticizes CCB social equity efforts and industry prices during public comment
Summary
At the July 17 Cannabis Compliance Board meeting, public commenter Ron Baker criticized the agency's social equity efforts, said consumption lounges have failed to attract residents, and warned that the licensed market is losing customers to lower prices in informal markets.
Ron Baker, speaking during two public‑comment periods at the Cannabis Compliance Board meeting on July 17, urged the board to do more to support social equity and criticized the licensed market’s pricing and community presence.
"I'm here representing the cannabis community, not necessarily the industry," Baker said at the start of his comment. He told the board he has attended meetings and reached out repeatedly over several years with ideas—such as state‑run consumption programming and cannabis cooking classes—that he said received no response.
Baker said he had…
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