Cannabis Brand Viola Is Pursuing Equitable Growth in the Industry

As the company grows, it's empowering entrepreneurs of color along the way

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Al Harrington, who spent 16 years in the NBA, spent his life until early adulthood entrenched in the stigma surrounding cannabis.

Growing up in Orange, N.J., Harrington saw classmates arrested for cannabis found in their lockers, saw others stopped and frisked after school, and was told by parents and teachers that it was a gateway drug.

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