One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has gone from ice cream to cannabis with a social mission.
FILE - Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, during a rally at the Statehouse in Concord, N.H., Jan. 21, 2015. Cohen has launched a nonprofit cannabis line with the mission of righting what it calls the wrongs of the war on drugs.
“The War on Drugs has targeted lower income Black and Brown people thru over policing, discriminatory prosecution, and discriminatory sentencing,” the website states. “That’s why despite using pot at the same rate, Black people are 4 times more likely to be arrested than Whites.” The cannabis is grown in soil using no nonorganic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, the website states.
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