Cage-Free Cooperative
Equity | Justice | Repair
OUR PURPOSE
The War on Drugs has disproportionately harmed communities of color.
People have lost jobs, education, housing, their liberty, their families, and their lives to this War.
Now they deserve equity, justice, and repair:
ownership of cannabis businesses, full and automatic expungement, and community reinvestment of tax revenue and corporate philanthropy.
We help cannabis companies, patients, and consumers engage with this work.
Cage-Free Cannabis is rooted in three kinds of justice:
Reparative - We coordinate expungement events and support both people and organizations from communities harmed by the War on Drugs.
Economic - We create jobs for communities of color and advocate for an equitable industry.
Environmental - We promote a sustainable cannabis industry.
OUR STORY SO FAR
Since our launch in 2017, we have assisted in record clearance, youth job development, reentry programs, online education, corporate social responsibility research, and worked alongside community-based organizations like these:
65,000+ records cleared and/or sealed
Thousands more wraparound services provided
5 reports on various aspects of the cannabis industry
1 worker-owned cooperative developed
Instagram Live Talks
(2022-2023)
These events were hosted by Faith Garcia and Tauheedah Shakur, who allowed us to amplify the voices and work of organizers around the U.S.
Some of our Conversation Themes:
Anxiety & Trauma
Policy: East Coast x West Coast
Worker-Owned Cooperatives
LGBTQI+ Community & Cannabis
Yale Undergraduate Prison project (YUPP)
(2020 - Present)
Participants from Past Speaker Series Include:
Mona Zhang, Politico
Aaron Romano, NORML
Freedom Gerardo, SEAmarron Farms
Anh-Thu Nguyen, Democracy at Work Institute
Cannabis Social Responsibility Report
2023
REPARATIVE JUSTICE
What we fund, what we advocate.
Our non-profit side, Cage-Free Repair, is a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund.
Cage-Free Repair helped launch the first-ever National Expungement Week and supports organizations that provide services to communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the War on Drugs.
Our Community Work in Action
CONTACT US
At Cage-Free Cannabis, we are looking for partners to join us in the national imperative to create a cannabis industry rooted in equality and social justice. We would love to hear from you on how we can work together.
You can also request to be added to our mailing list to get updates.
