Welcome to the Black Cannabis Week Media Hub

Overview:

Black Cannabis Week (BCW) 2025 is coming, September 21–28, across six cities and culminating in Philadelphia, PA. BCW is a transformative, participant-led experience blending healing, culture, advocacy, and innovation in the cannabis space.

Core Pillars:

Why It Matters:

  • Black Americans represent a tiny fraction (1.2%–1.7%) of cannabis business owners despite historic ties to the plant and disproportionate punishment under prohibition.

  • Black Cannabis Week reclaims narrative and opportunity, centering community, justice, and joy.

Media Toolkit Available:

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BCW DAY 1
Sep 21
BCW DAY 1
BCW DAY 2
Sep 22
BCW DAY 2
BCW DAY 3
Sep 23
BCW DAY 3

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Media Access:

  • Hybrid access available for virtual press attendance

  • In-person press tours and onsite interviews in Philadelphia (TBD)


Join Us:

Be part of the story. This isn’t just an event, it’s a cultural reclamation, healing ritual, and policy reckoning.



Schedule

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Suggested Story Angles

  • “How BCW’s unconference model is rewriting cannabis gatherings”

  • “From expungement tables to fashion runways: BCW’s community-led model”

  • “Building legacy in cannabis: Intergenerational business stories emerging from BCW”

  • “From the Frontlines to the Future: How Black Women Are Healing Through Cannabis Justice”

    • “Black women leading cannabis justice” — highlight Cherron Perry-Thomas as a founder and wellness agent, Dr. Brandi Hester-Harrell's journey and legacy, Kristal Bush’s A Woman on the Outside and rise in activism (tie-in BCW’s Film Festival), and the intergenerational power of Black women shaping freedom movements.

  • “Clearing Cannabis Convictions: A Grassroots Push to Close America’s Justice Gap”

    • Policy + personal — “How Philadelphia’s cannabis expungement clinics are rewriting futures.” Past testimony of a story of someone being helped through the clinic.

  • “Cannabis Justice in Limbo: What Philadelphia’s Expungement Push Reveals About Federal Inaction”

    • Policy + numbers — the racial disparities in cannabis arrests, stalled federal rescheduling, and what’s at stake if community programs aren’t funded.

  • “Black Cannabis Week Is Making Cannabis Justice Cool — and Necessary”

    • Culture-forward — “The intersection of cannabis, Black joy, and systemic liberation.” Spotlight BCW as a new cultural hub.

  • “Black Cannabis Week’s founder on Love, Healing, and Black Futures in Cannabis”

“How the cannabis industry is failing Black people, and the organizations building solutions.”

Key Contacts for Interviews:

  • Co-Founder, DACO: long-time community activist, restorative justice leader.

    “Black Cannabis Week is more than a gathering—it’s a declaration that our voices, our histories, and our futures belong at the center of this industry.”

    “We are here to transform the narrative. Cannabis justice is racial justice, and it starts with building spaces rooted in equity and liberation.”

    “Cannabis justice is racial justice.”

  • Founder, Advocate, and BCW Representative

    “For me, this work is personal. Families like mine have been torn apart by unjust cannabis laws. Black Cannabis Week is about turning our grief into fuel for liberation.”

    “Every record expunged, every door opened, every life restored—this is what cannabis justice looks like in real time.”

  • BCW Convener and representative: cultural strategist behind BCW’s unconference format

    “Our communities have carried the heaviest burdens of the war on drugs. Black Cannabis Week is about more than healing—it’s about reclaiming power and building pathways for health, wealth, and freedom.”

    “We cannot wait for justice to trickle down. We must demand it, design it, and deliver it together.”

  • Co-Lead Strategist for BCW