As the U.S. legal cannabis industry enters its second decade, tricky questions are arising that policymakers did not necessarily anticipate when crafting the rules governing the $32 billion market.
Among these, prompted by a situation in Illinois involving stores operating under the prominent Cookies brand: What happens when a marijuana social-equity permit holder dies?
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Perhaps more to the point for some advocates: What should happen to achieve cannabis social-equity’s goals of a diverse market in which the people who suffered under the drug war enjoy the benefits?
Answers could come thanks to Illinois, where the social-equity permit holder for three marijuana stores using the prominent Cookies brand died at age 73 in December.
Exactly what happens next is not immediately clear, but the
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