Holocaust survivors, descendants join forces on social media

[ad_1] BERLIN (AP) — Assia Gorban was 7 years old when the Germans occupied her hometown of Mogilev-Podolsky in Ukraine. The Jewish girl and her family were first imprisoned in a ghetto on the outskirts of town and later forced onto a cattle car that took them to the Pechora concentration camp in 1941. After a few failed attempts, Gorban, her mother, and younger brother managed to escape in 1942, and spent the rest of…

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Why Did the Rich, White CEO of Curaleaf Say Social Equity Programs Go Too Far? And Is He Right?

[ad_1] The commercialization of the cannabis market has resulted in its transformation from a movement to an industry. This shift brings added responsibilities, particularly in the area of social equity. As a regulated industry, the cannabis market bears a significant burden to prioritize and advance fairness and justice.   The marijuana industry in the US, both medical and recreational, is thriving nationwide. With legalization in various states, business owners are eager to establish cultivation sites,…

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New York Cannabis: Social and Economic Equity Applicants

[ad_1] As we previously broadly summarized on December 27, 2022 (here), in late December 2022, the Office of Cannabis Management (“OCM”) released its first proposed adult-use cannabis rules and regulation for New York (the “Proposed Regulations”). The official document is 282 pages, so we won’t cover every detail. But we will highlight the big-ticket items, significant issues that all applicants should be aware of, and the license application process as a whole.  This post will go…

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How to Disconnect From Social Media

[ad_1] What does social media have in common with cave drawings, the printing press, and the telephone? They’re all part of an elite group of inventions we celebrate for having revolutionized the very nature of human communication. They were so instrumental in our civilization’s advancement that we think of history as divided into the periods before and after each. For social media, that distinction came in 2003 with the release of Myspace. Although we didn’t…

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The Benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility

[ad_1] Corporate social responsibility is a management concept that is woven into corporate identity rather than a singular initiative or a one-off drive like a seasonal donation. By practicing CSR as a regular means of operation, companies aim to balance economic, social and environmental imperatives into what UNIDO describes as a “triple-bottom-line approach” without neglecting shareholder or stakeholder expectations. It’s through that foundational application that CSR becomes so vital to the cannabis industry, an industry…

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Celebrities who’ve been cancelled by social media

[ad_1] Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of who’s been cancelled on social media. Most of the time, cancellation stems from very valid critique of a celebrity’s public mistakes. And sometimes a celeb is cancelled for no reason. Here are some celebrity cancellations from the last few years which seem to have really stuck. J.K. Rowling saw a massive downfall in 2020 after repeatedly tweeting anti-trans messaging. (Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic) J.K. Rowling Harry Potter author J.K.…

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