America's failed War on Drugs has had a disproportionately destructive impact on communities of color. From police tactics to sentencing minimums, Blacks and Latinos in poor, marginalized, and underserved communities have borne the brunt of this country's effort to get drugs off of the streets.
Now, as marijuana is legalized and as businesses form, entrepreneur Adam Vine believes that some of those profits should go toward repairing the harms caused by the drug war. It is with that intention that he co-founded Cage-Free Cannabis --a company that sells cannabis accessories and donates the proceeds to organizations that work with formerly incarcerated individuals, at-risk youth, and black and brown people who want to create their own businesses.
Adam Vine co-founded Cage-Free Cannabis to repair harms of the War on Drugs and advocate for an equitable cannabis industry. Since launching, Adam has provided cannabis policy recommendations to the City and the County of Los Angeles, as well as to a statewide policy roundtable. The Cage-Free project has so far supported re-entry programs for formerly incarcerated women, youth organizing in Central American immigrant communities, and expungement, job, and resource fairs, among other things.
Jahan Sharif is an East Coast transplant who can't not talk to people and who has somehow, so far, avoided getting hit by a car in LA.
He was also a field organizer for Obama in 2012, and Regional Field Director for Cory Booker’s Senatorial Campaign. He produced the docuseries American Race with Charles Barkley.
Between marathon social gatherings at Maru Coffee shop in Los Feliz, he also occasionally makes television.