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May 5, 2024

Rickey McCullough, who is looking for investors and a place to open his cannabis dispensary, in Oakland, Calif., Feb. 8, 2018. A program in Oakland that offers marijuana licenses to those with prior convictions contrasts with Compton, where voters banned marijuana sales. “If you look at the numbers, we were definitely more targeted than any other race,” McCullough said. “The city is helping us to fight back.”

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Rickey McCullough, who is looking for investors and a place to open his cannabis dispensary, in Oakland, Calif., Feb. 8, 2018. A program in Oakland that offers marijuana licenses to those with prior convictions contrasts with Compton, where voters banned marijuana sales. “If you look at the numbers, we were definitely more targeted than any other race,” McCullough said. “The city is helping us to fight back.”