In order to build a socially just cannabis industry, we must make sure that we are upholding fairness in our systems, communications, and organizations. But what is social justice, and what does it mean within the cannabis industry?
Before we get into what social justice in cannabis is, first let’s break it apart.
Social is an adjective meaning “relating to a society.” And justice means embodying, “the moral principle of what is equitable or reasonable.” String those together, and we could say that social justice is “the adjustment or allocation of a society’s resources based on what is equitable or reasonable.”
In order to manifest the idea of fairness in a society, it has to be assessed in four different ways: human rights, access, participation, and equity.
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