EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Cannabis Social Equity that moved Tuesday, June 4, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the 55th graf of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
PHOENIX – A June 4 Cronkite News story about Arizona’s cannabis social equity program misquoted civil litigation and cannabis lawyer Jimmy Cool. “You’re going to send these people back to their communities, they’re going to spend money at the local store, they’re gonna contribute to the property tax base, they are going to enrich their community,” Cool said. “It creates economic activity in these areas that we hollowed out.”