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As more states move to open access to medical and recreational cannabis, municipalities around the country are struggling to reconcile the horrific effects of America’s drug war with the new push to license and tax the once-outlawed plant. In Oakland, California and Maryland, social justice-minded regulators have made efforts to set aside a portion of permits for residents previously prosecuted for cannabis crimes, while California’s state-level program helps residents expunge marijuana-related crimes from their criminal records. In Ohio, though, where state regulators recently finished screening 109 applications from hopeful ganjapreneurs, one prospective cultivator is blaming his failed bid for a growing license on an application grader’s criminal past, bringing the same dangerous mentality of the War on Drugs into the one industry actively trying to right those historic wrongs.
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Jimmy Gould, chairman and CEO of CannAscend, conducted his own internal background checks of Ohio’s application reviewers after being denied a “Level 1” cultivators’ license, and discovered that Trevor Bozeman — owner of…
