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Volume XLVIII • Number 30
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Wednesday • August 14, 2019
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A block party Saturday in northeast Portland will support the local dispensary Green Hop as it continues teaching classes for jobs in the cannabis indus-
try for communities of color most affected by past criminalization of marijuana. Local emcee Fountaine will headline.
Block Party
for
Green Hop
Dispensary
puts emphasis
on careers,
neighborhoods
A local hip-hop themed dispensary
is once again holding a block party
in part to emphasize efforts by local
African Americans displaced by gen-
trification to return to their historic
neighborhoods and to raise donations
to continue career programs geared to
communities of color most impacted
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