Congratulations to Shawn M. Richard. Shawn’s dispensary became the first equity-owned cannabis shop in San Francisco.
Per SF Equity Group
Backed by a community that turned out in numbers to voice their support, yesterday Shawn M. Richard and his proposed dispensary at 1685 Haight St. was unanimously approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission, giving the green light for the City’s first Equity-Owned cannabis shop to move forward.
“We did our due diligence, the community came out to support us, and it showed today,” said Shaw M. Richard. “We got a unanimous vote from the commission, and getting a unanimous vote tells a lot.”
Shawn is a San Francisco native, founder of the anti-violence group Brothers Against Guns founder, and a founding member of SFEG. But his role as CEO of Cole Ashbury Group, the partnership behind the Haight Street location, may have the most significant impact on generations to come. The approval demonstrates that there can be real paths to ownership for Equity Applicants under the San Francisco Equity Program. And for the first Equity dispensary to be located on the iconic Haight St., a place with strong connections to activism and the cannabis movement, and just blocks away from where Shawn grew up, is particularly fitting.
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