Social justice and economic development came together at The Healing Garden, an urban farm in Far Rockaway, where community youths grow produce on an abandoned city-owned lot on Beach 45th Street, providing produce in a southeast Queens food desert.
State Senator James Sanders chose that location and “made history” as he joined Cannabis Hub to launch the first-of-its-kind cannabis workforce training in the nation. His “Breaking Ground: Cannabis Education Initiative” is for individuals who want to start a business or simply get a job in the emerging cannabis industry coming soon to New York state, and made possible by the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA).
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