Despite major alleged corruption at the local level in Massachusetts' blooming cannabis industry, Vanessa Jean-Baptiste made history last month when she became the first Black woman to open a licensed cannabis dispensary on the east coast.

Vanessa is a first generation Haitian-American who recently launched Legal Greens dispensary in her hometown of Brockton, Mass. Now, she plans to show the larger industry that people like her can not just enter the world of weed, they can lead it. Find out more at LegalGreens.net.

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