Ben & Jerry’s co-founder begins nonprofit hashish firm

WILLISTON, Vt. — One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has gone from ice cream to hashish with a social mission.

Ben Cohen has began Ben’s Best Blnz, a nonprofit hashish line with a acknowledged mission of serving to to proper the wrongs of the struggle on medication. The firm says on its web site that 80% of its income will go to grants for Black hashish entrepreneurs whereas the remaining shall be equally divided between the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance and the nationwide Last Prisoner Project, which is working to free individuals incarcerated for hashish offenses.

“The War on Drugs (first so named by President Richard Nixon) has targeted lower income Black and Brown people thru over policing, discriminatory prosecution, and discriminatory sentencing,” the web site states. “That’s why despite using pot at the same rate, Black people are 4 times more likely to be arrested than Whites.”

Ben’s Best Blnz, or B3, says it licenses its formulation, packaging, logos, and advertising supplies to for-profit companies that pay a royalty. After bills are deducted, the royalties are donated to the trigger.

The hashish is grown in soil utilizing no nonorganic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, the web site states.