As someone from SoCal, and from as a PoC from a rough neighborhood affected by the war on drugs. I remember when legalization began, the law said they would have a place for for those affected by the war on drugs to get into the cannabis market. It has been the exact opposite it's still inaccessible!
In order to get the license which is like a liquor license, you have to front over $10K then if you qualify for the waiver the state will reimburse you. No one from these hoods has $10K+ lying around yo do this. Hence why the cannabis market is so white and bourgeois.
And then to read this, it just angers me.
Weed being legal has only been shitty here. You can't pick spend a couple hundred of your last paycheck on weed to sell and be able to keep yourself afloat, if you buy in quantity you either buy an ounce of a single strain or spend a fortune buying a little of this and that, you can even fucking look at the product before buying so you can get home and end out with a sack of crispy trash. It was just enough to fuck over smaller dealers and now you gotta get it in the mail in bulk and in a quantity that is still illegal cause you still can't have over an ounce at a time per household. Also the government run weed shops that get a monopoly look like apple stores. It sucks.