Still standing. Shawn Henry of New Jersey-based Flowerbomb dispensary navigates the Garden state’s complicated cannabis terrain with his own playbook

[#item_full_content] New Jersey’s hookah king took a risk by diving into cannabis. He was one who took advantage of the state’s equity campaign for cannabis business ventures. As one of the few, fully Black-owned dispensaries in the state, and with some already folding, he endures to keep his doors open and the green leaves flowing. It’s taking more than elbow grease and prayers, it is a full-on jostle. Days before the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission’s (NJ-CRC) inspection, Shawn Henry carefully adjusts rolling papers in a spit-shine vitrine. He turns to eye a slightly tilted Basquiat-inspired portraiture by award-winning polymath Halim  Read More