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Marijuana pioneers partner to expand Black-owned retail locations

Tahir Johnson and Wanda James are in rare company in the U.S. marijuana industry.

Johnson, who spent years building up operational skills and developing national social equity initiatives for trade groups, recently opened Simply Pure Trenton, one of the few Black-owned adult-use cannabis stores in New Jersey.

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The launch is a bit of a full-circle moment for James, too, a cannabis pioneer who established the brand’s first location in Colorado in 2015.

A licensing agreement between the trailblazers finally brought to reality James’ vision of franchising retail outlets to social equity entrepreneurs and other disenfranchised minorities.

A ‘near perfect’ partnership Wanda James (Photo by MJBizDaily/Emerald)

“Very few things in life are damn near perfect, but this partnership is one of them,” James told

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