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NUG is a proud supporter of Oakland’s social equity cannabis program. It aims to provide opportunities in the legal cannabis industry to locals who have been disadvantaged and targeted by the failed war on drugs. Equity applicants are city residents earning less than 80 percent of the average city income and either living in a designated high-crime zone for at least 10 of the past 20 years or have been convicted of a cannabis-related crime in Oakland after November 5, 1996.Iowa Robinson is an East Oakland native and the owner of Dakota West Coast, one of NUG’s equity partners. Here is Iowa on her participation in NUG’s social justice program, “Teamwork makes the dream work, and we’ve been ve...