TED: COMING UP NEXT ON ARIZONA HORIZON: WE'LL DISCUSS THE POOL OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, INCLUDING DONALD TRUMP AND RON DESANTIS ALSO, MANY STUDENTS ARE LOOKING FOR WORK THIS TIME OF YEAR.

WE'LL DISCUSS WHAT INDUSTRIES ARE TRENDING IN PHOENIX AND NEED WORKERS.

PLUS, MEET THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO OPEN A DISPENSARY THROUGH OUR STATE'S SOCIAL EQUITY PROGRAM.

EVEN AS HER FATHER SERVES PRISON TIME FOR CANNABIS SALES.

THESE STORIES AND MORE, NEXT, ON ARIZONA HORIZON.

GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO ARIZONA HORIZON.

I'M STEVE GOLDSTEIN IN FOR TED SIMONS.

A SURPRISE WIN FOR MINORITY VOTING RIGHTS IN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT TODAY.

THE RULING WAS IN FAVOR OF BLACK VOTERS IN A CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING CASE.

THE COURT AFFIRMED A LOWER-COURT RULING THAT FOUND A LIKELY VIOLATION OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IN AN ALABAMA CONGRESSIONAL MAP.

THE MAPS HAD ONE MAJORITY BLACK SEAT OUT OF SEVEN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS IN A STATE WHERE MORE THAN ONE IN FOUR RESIDENTS IS BLACK.

THE CASE HAD BEEN CLOSELY WATCHED FOR ITS POTENTIAL TO WEAKEN THE LANDMARK VOTING RIGHTS LAW.

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES PRAISED IN ANOTHER RULING FROM THE U.S.

THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND ILLEGAL TO ENGAGE IN RACE-BASED GERRYMANDERING.

SUPREME COURT TODAY, AN ARIZONA- BASED COMPANY LOST ITS CASE IN A TRADEMARK DISPUTE OVER IT'S POOP- THEMED DOG TOY MADE TO RESEMBLE A BOTTLE OF JACK DANIELS WHISKEY.

VIP PRODUCTS CLAIMED THAT SINCE THEIR PRODUCT WAS A PARODY WITH DOG-EXCREMENT JOKES, IT FELL UNDER FIRST-AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS.

THE COURT REMANDED THE CASE BACK TO A LOWER COURT.

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS AIDES ARE BRACING FOR A POTENTIAL INDICTMENT IN THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS INVESTIGATION AS PROSECUTORS HANDLING THE PROBE HAVE BEEN SPOTTED AT A MIAMI COURTHOUSE WHERE A GRAND JURY HAS BEEN HEARING FROM WITNESSES.

TRUMP'S LAWYERS HAVE BEEN TOLD HE IS A TARGET OF THE INVESTIGATION, TRUMP AIDES HAVE BEEN REACHING OUT TO TRUMP ALLIES IN CONGRESS TO BE PREPARED TO GO ON TELEVISION AND OFFER DEFENSES OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT.

A TRAIN DERAILMENT LAST NIGHT.

A TRAIN DERAILMENT IN NORTHERN ARIZONA LATE LAST NIGHT.

COCONINO COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS SAID THE.

DERAILMENT OCCURRED EAST OF WILLIAMS.

THEY SAID THE TRAIN CARS WERE CARRYING A VARIETY OF NEW CARS, VANS AND TRUCK.

COUNTY.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS.

SAID CLEANUP WAS ALREADY UNDERWAY THIS MORNING NO REASON FOR THE DERAILMENT HAS BEEN.

RELEASED AND NOBODY WAS HURT.

WE ARE 18 MONTHS AWAY FROM ELECTION DAY AND THE FIELD OF.

CANDIDATES IS STARTING TO TAKE.

SHAPE.

FORMER VP MIKE PENCE AND.

FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS.

ARE THE LATEST TO ENTER THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL RACE.

JOINING US TO TALK ABOUT THESE CANDIATES IS MIKE O'NEIL OF O'NEIL.

AND ASSOCIATES 900-POUND FOR RIL LA ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE.

YOU HAVE DONALD TRUMP AND NOT DONALD TRUMP.

>> AND SO RON DESAN SIS IS HOW POWERFUL COULD HE BE THERE?

IS' TRUE CONTENDER?

HE HAS, THAT IS WHY THERE IS NO INDICATION OF THAT.

HAS SO FAR COALESCED THE MAJORITY OF THE DONALD TRUMP VOTE THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER THAT PER SEST THEN THINKING BACK TO THE 2016 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY THEN YOU HAD A CANDIDATE THEN I KNEW IT WITHS A DOZEN CANDIDATES AND SEEMED LIKE ALMOST EVERYONE OF THEM WAS GOING TO BE THE THEY WENT WAY UP THEN THEY DISAPPEARED.

YOU NO KNOW INTHEY WENT WAY UP.

PEOPLE TOOK A LOOK AT THEM THEN IT PLUMMET.

RON DESANTIS AT THIS POINT, THIS IS SIX MONTHS BEFORE ANYONE VOTE, HAS REALLY PRETEMPTED THE NONTRUMP FIELD SO FAR.

WHEN YOU MENTIONED 2016 THAT BRENS ME TO CHRIS CHRISTIE WHO DECIDE HE WILL JUMP IN GAIN P.M. ONE TRAGEDY HE HAS HAD SO FAR IS TO REALLY ATTACK DONALD TRUMP AND CRITICIZE HIM AND YOU THINK THAT HAS ANY LEGS FOR ANYONE ELSE?

>> I AM NOT SURE IT HELPS CHRISTIE.

I THINK HE IS FORMER PROSECUTOR AND I THINK HE CAN MAKE THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP AS WELL AS ANYONE.

HE CAN BE A REAL ANNOYANCE.

AND ULTIMATELY, A PROBLEM FOR TRUMP IF ANY OF THE PUNCHES START TO HAND, BUT FOR CHRISTIE AS A CANDIDATE, ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS PULL OUT THE OLD TAPES WITH CHRISTIE BASICALLY TO TRUMP IT IS THAT READY TO SEE HIM YOUING THAT INTO A PERSONAL VICTORY FOR HIMSELF.

>> FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE IN THE OLD DAYS, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT HAS USUALLY GOT LEGS OUT OF THIS BUTS ONLY HE HAD A HARSH BREAK WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND DOES HE HAVE ANY LEGS?

IF SO, IS THE KIND OF PERSON?

>> THAT COULD BE THE CASE.

I THINK HE IS HOVERING CLOSE TO 0.

I FIND IT REALLY DIFFICULT TO SEE THAT PUSHED INDEPENDENCE AMONG ANY KIND OF CONTENDER.

>> THIS IS A PUBLIC BROADCASTING PROGRAM SO TALK ABOUT ISSUES THAT WILL BE IS CUSSED WHAT IT THE ECONOMY OR IMMIGRATION.

DO THESE CANDIDATES WE VERY SEEN SO FAR ACTUALLY DISAFFRAY ABOUT ANYTHING EX SET PERHAPS THE OUTCOME OF THE 2020 LEX.

NO.

THAT IS ABOUT IT.

THIS IS ONE MIND ON ALMOST EVERY ISSUE THERE IS A SORT OF NOT CLASSIC CONSERVATIVE.

IF THERE HE IS ANOTHER POINT OF DIFFERENTIATION IT MAY BE THE IRAQ WAR.

THE CLASSIC CONSERVATIVE STRONG AMERICAN WHO WILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF UKRAINE AND THEN THERE IS DONALD TRUMP AND BASICALLY SAID, YOU KNOW INWHO REFUSES TO SAY WHO HE IS ROOTING FOR, SO IF YOU REALLY WANT TO MIRROR TRUMP THEN YOU EXPRESS SKEPTICISM ABOUT AIDED TO UKRAINE, I THINK I ALREADY -- THE PROPONENTS OF TRATITIONALING CONSERVATIVE APPROACHES HAVE THE UPPER HAND WHO CAN POINT OUT FOR FIVE PERCENT OF THE DEFENSE PUD DES WE MANAGE AD NOT, INDIRECTLY TO GUESSTIMATE THE RUSSIAN ARM M ARMY.

THAT IS A GOOD BARGAIN.

IN A DIFFERENT FORM PAUSE YOU SAID THERE IS DONALD TRUMP AS EVERYONE ELSE.

THERE IS A LANE?

I THINK THIS WAY.

I THINK ABOUT ARIZONA'S U.S. SENATE RACE AND THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT THE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL MARK BRNOVICH TOOK THE NOT SUPPORTING TRUMP LANE.

IT IS THERE ANYONE STRONG ENOUGH.

HE TENDS TO AFREE.

HE HAS THAT QUESTION AND A RACE M OR THE NEGATIVE TRACK RECORD.

EVERY CANDIDATE WITH OTHER CANDIDATES WANT TO SEE TRUMP FALTER THEN THEY BE WITH TO ATTRACT THE TRUMP VOTERS IF YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS ATTACKING DONALD TRUMP THEN THAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO EXPRESS TO TRUMP VOTERS TO IF TO YOU SO IT ICINESS OF A PRICE IN'S DILEMMA KIND OF SITUATION IN TERMS OF WHAT THE TRAGEDY IS AND NO CLEAR WAY TO DO IT.

THEN THE HEADLINES YOU MENTIONED THE FACT THE TRUMP SUPPORTERS OR TRUMP ATTORNEYS YOU MAY BE ON DERING WHAT IS NEXT FOR HIM?

HE COULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT?

>> THERE IS PRECEDENT FOR THAT.

1920 U GENE RAN FOR PRESIDENT FROM BEHIND PRISON AND 3.5 MILLION VOLS.

OK. LET'S GO.

PRESIDENT BIDEN ADMINISTRATION POINTS TO MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT YET STILL SEEN AS OLD PERSON WHO IS SEEN AT THE STOP GAP TOP GET THE COUNTRY AWAY FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP HOW STRONG OR WEEKS THE POSITION NOW?

YOU MAY BE DESCRIBED IT PERFECTLY.

HE IS.

HE IS A STOP GAP PERSON.

THEN THAT PROVES TO THE DEMOCRATS THAT IS WHY THEY ARE PE HINDS THINK A THAT IS WHAT WE NEED.

AND WHAT HE HAS DONE IS PREEMPT ANYBODY ELSE FROM COMING OUT AND STAING THE TWO ANONES AND NOT SERIOUS CONTENDERS AND UNMARK THE REPUBLICAN SIDE WHERE THEY HAVE SERIOUS PEOPLE ON THERE.

THERE IS NO SERIOUS OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT BIDEN EVEN THOUGH SOME PEOPLE SAY THEY WOULD LIKE SOMEBODY ELSE BUT DIDN'T AGREE ON ON WHO THAT WORK ARE PERSON WOULD BE.

TEN SECONDS.

IT IS THERE SOMEONE GAVIN NEWSOM AND GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.

ANY CHANCE SOMEONE OF REAL STATURE GETS IT?

>> I REALLY DOUBT IT.

THINK THIS RACE, AT THIS POINT, BARRING ANY HEALTH EMERGENCY, I THINK THAT, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

OK.

THANK YOU.

UP NEXT, SOME HELP FOR JOB SEEKERS.

WE'LL LOOK AT WHICH INDUSTRIES ARE TRENDING IN ARIZONA.

STEVE: WITH GRADUATION SEASON OVER, MANY STUDENTS ARE NOW LOOKING FOR CAREER PATHS.

JOINING US NOW TO DISCUSS WHAT STUDENTS NEED TO DO TO LAND A JOB.

CEO OF PIPELINE ARIZONA MARY FOOTE.

AND KEVIN IMES, THE DEPUTY ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT, CAREER.

AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION AT THE.

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

>> MOVED FROM A REGION AND A STATE THAT HAS ATTRACTED BACK OFFICE TO HIRE TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS.

THAT HAS BEEN THE STRENGTH OF THE WORKFORCE BUT WE HAVE TO GROW THAT WORKFORCE AND THAT US THE AREAS OF HEALTH CARE, TECHNOLOGY, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND WHERE WE ARE SEEING GROWTH THEN A LOT OF WHAT WE ARE SEEING STUDENTS ACTUALLY INTERESTED IN REALLY DO ALAIN WITH THAT AS WELL.

SO A LOT OF TRINst IN CYBER AND NURSING, HEALTH CARE, PROFESSIONS AS WELL.

ARE WE SEEING THAT REFLECTED AS FAR AS WHAT IS BEING CAUGHT?

AND CAN WE IMPROVE ON THAT IN.

>> ABC HATLY.

STUDENTS ARE SHOWING INTERESTS SO BY REGISTERING FOR THOSE CLASSES IN THE CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

AND WE'LL START WITH YOU.

WE THINK HOW THINGS CAN BE MORE STREAM LINED BUT SPECIALIZED SO THAT STUDENT WHATS WANT SOME FORM OF EDUCATION MAYBE CAN I REAR TECH CAN AND TRADITIONAL AND WHATEVER IT MAY BE.

WE GETTING BETTER AT THAT IN TERMS OF ALIGNING CAREER GOALS WITH WHAT STUDENTS CAN FIND AVAILABLE TO HELP THEM GET THERE FASTER OR THE UNIQUE PATH FOR THEMSELVES.

ABC LOOSELY.

THE THING THAT IS STARTING TO COME IS THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESSES AND EDUCATION AND FIND OUR SELLS NOW WITH ONLY A HAN AND NOVEMBER SITUATION BETWEEN BUSINESS AND EDUCATION.

BUSINESS RECOGNIZES THAT THE TALENT PIPELINE BECOMES AND STARTS WITHIN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND SO STUDENTS ARE STARTING TO FEN RATE AN INTERESTS SO INDUSTRY IS REACHING DOWN.

>> YEAH.

PLOM YEARS HAVE TAKEN A MUCH MORE ACTIVE INTEREST THEY NEED TO GROW THE TALENT PIPELINE AND SO A LOT OF THE INDUSTRIES ARE INFORMATION WE SHOW ARE PULLED THROUGH INFORMATION LIKE STATISTICS BUT WE GO DIRECTLY TO INDUSTRY TO FUNNER STAND WHAT ARE THE CAREER PATHWAYS WE SHOW BE HIGH LIKING AND THE ENTRY LEVEL YOU WANT TOP SEE STUDENTS CONNING OUT OF SCHOOL WITH?

>> HOW DIFFERENT IS IT FROM WHEN SOMEONE LIKE ME TO TAKE THE LITTLE TEST AND EITHER A TALK SHOW HOST.

SO HOW MUCH MORE SPECIFICS.

WELL, WE DO NOT HAVE TALK SHOW HOSTS IN THIS BUT HAVE SOME MEDIA RELATIONS AND INDUSTRY INFORMATION AND PATHWAY INFORMATION YEAH I REMEMBER FILLING OUT A VERY LONG SCAN AND THINK THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES WE DONE USE THEM ANY MORE.

BUT REALLY, WE UNDERSTANDING WHETHER INTERESTS ARE AND THEN HOW THOSE ALIGN CANNOT HAVE PATHWAY AND ROW FESSINGS BUT WHAT ARE THOSE IN DEMAND IN THE STATES SO THEY CAN EX PLER ALL CAREER PATHWAYS WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON REALLY HELPING CONTROL AND WHAT IS IN TEE MANNED THREE YEARS FROM NOW, FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, TEN YEARS FROM NOW.

YEAH.

ABSOLUTELY.

AGAIN, ALL DRIVEN BY THE INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE THROUGH EDUCATION.

THEY ARE COMING TO US TO TELL US WHAT THE TALENT PIPELINE IS.

THEN WE DEVELOP THE STANDARDS AND THE CURRICULUM TO MEET THOSE INDUSTRY EXPECTATIONS.

WE DEVELOP THE STANDARDS BUT THAT ALIGN SPECIFICALLY WITH THE CERTIFICATION THEY ARE ABLE TO EARN EITHER IN HIGH SCHOOL OR POST HIGH SCAL AND TO BE READY FOR THE JOB.

>> LET'S TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT WHAT THE JOB MARKETS NOW?

IT IS GLOOM AND DOOM AND HAS NOT BEEN REFLECTED ON THE FACT THAT THE JOB MARKET IS PRETTY GOOD AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS ARE YOU SEEING STUDENTS ARE PRAD GRADUATING ARE THEY EXCITED NOW.

DID THEY ARIZE THE OPPORTUNITIES THEY HAVE INYEAH.

I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF TUNES IN OUR MARKET.

I MEAN WHAT ARIZONA HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO IN TERMS OF THE TYPES OF INDUSTRIES AND COMPANIES THEY HAVE BEEN IN CORNELLING TO AM COL HER AND GREAT TUNES HERE FOR STUDENTS NO LONGER FEEL LIKE THEY VERY TO LEAVE THE STATE SO YOU SEE A LOT OF EXCITEMENT NOT IN THE TATE BUY COMPANIES RECOGNIZING WE ARE DOING A BETTER JOB RETAINING TALENT THEN COMING HERE TO TAP INTO THAT TALENT.

>> PREVIOUSLY, LESS THAN A MACHINE MIN OR SO.

WHEN IT COMES TO RETANNING TALENT, DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT.

IN TERMS OF COLLEGE GRADUATION.

BUT THAT AFFECTS THE HIGH SCHOOL AS WELL.

HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN ACTUALLY STAGE HERE IF THEY WANT TO.

WELL YOU CANS DONE THE CHOICE, TOO.

THEY HAVE A CHOICE TO IN ABLE TO MAKE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COME MACHINE TAN LIKELY TO STAY AND THE COMMUNITY.

>> VERY PREVIOUSLY.

ANY THOUGHT ON THAT YEAH.

I THINK REALLY WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF EXCITEMENT ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE STATE AN TO STAY HERE AND NOT ONLY THAT BUT INDUSTRY HELPING BRING THEM ALONG TO FIND THE POSITIONS THEY WANT TO FO INTO.

THANKS VERY MUCH.

THANKS.

>> THANK YOU.

>> THANKS.

>> THANK YOU.

>> IT WAS INTERESTING TIME TO BE IN SMALL RURAL TOWNS IN THE MIDWEST.

AND REALIZING I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE.

I HAVE BEEN CHASED BY PEOPLE WIELDING BASEBALL BATS BECAUSE OF WHO I WAS.

I ALSO WALKED DONE THE STREET IN NEW YORK AND PHOENIX HOLDING THE HANDS OF THE OTHER HALF.

IT IS NOT THE SAME FOR EVERYONE AND IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE GET OUT AND TO MAKE THEIR VOICE HEARD.

GET OUT AND GO VOTE.

JUST MAKING SURE THAT THEIR VOICE IS A PART OF SOCIETY.

>> ALICIAS THE FIRST.

ALICIA DEALS IS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO OPERATE A CANNABIS.

DISPENSARY UNDER ARIZONA'S SOCIAL EQUITY PROGRAM EVEN AS HER FATHER SERVES PRISON TIME FOR CANNIBIS.

SHE JOINS US NOW TO DISCUSS THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY AND THE IMPACT.

ITS HAD ON HER LIFE.

WHAT WAS HE PUT BEHIND BARS FOR?

>> YES.

MY FATHER CURRENTLY IS SERVING 18 YEAR PRISON SENTENCE IN YUMA PRISON.

HE WAS FUNDAMENTAL REASON FOR GOING ON THIS JOURNEY.

AS OF OW, WE REASON THE RELEASE PROCESS.

WE ARE MORE THAN HOPEFUL THAT HIS JOURNEY WILL BE COMING TO AN END.

HE HAS DONE MUCH MUCH MORE TIME THAN HE SHOULD HAVE DONE.

WE IN THE 12th YEAR OF THE PRISON SENTENCE.

WE ARE HOPING TO COME TO A FUNDAMENTAL END.

HOW MUCH DID THE SITUATION FACE WAN YOU TO BE INVOLVED IN LEGAL CANNABIS SALES AND BE INVOLVED AS LEADER?

>> YEAH.

HE WAS DEFINITELY MY MOTE VISIONAL FACTOR FOR THIS.

AS BEING A TRUE NATURE AND PERFECT PEA HOON THE SOCIAL TK K TY PROGRAM.

I SEE IT AS THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE TO PRJ THE GP BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND THOSE PEN FITTED ON THE PASS SIS OF CANNABIS.

>> HOW TREMENDOUS IS THAT GAP?

AMAZING THE IDEA THAT THE SITUATION YOUR FATHER IS IN THE 12th YEAR OF A LONG PRISON SENTENCE THEN ARIZONA VOTERS APPROVED IT SO IT IS LEGAL AND ALMOST SEEMS SURREAL.

DOESN'T IT IN THE.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

ABSOLUTELY.

SUFFERING ON THE PASS SIS OF CANNABIS THEN HE IS BECOMING THE FORTUNATE AND I SEE THE DIVINE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING CHANGE IN THE INDUSTRY AS WELL AS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE STILL SUFFERING ON THE PASS SIS OF CALM NA IS ABOUT AS IT CONTINUES TO BE A VERY GROWING AND LOOKTIVE INDUSTRY IN THE NATION.

>> IT IS IMPORTANT FOR TO YOU RAISE AWARENESS?

>> AND USING THE PLATFORM AND MY GROWING VOICE TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR MY FATHER AND MANY OTHERS SUFFERING ON THE BASIS OF CAN NA PIS HOPING TO BRING TEAMS AND BRINGING PEOPLE HOME AND ALSO FORKING LAW FIRMS TO HELP OTHERS BEAT THES ARE SES Z WE HAVE.

>> SO VERY AM PUSH HOUSES TO ARE THE THINGS GOING ON.

AS OPERATOR THEN, THEN, CANNABIS SALES THEN YOU MAKE IT CLEAR TO PEOPLE WHO PERHAPS PARTNERS OR CUSTOMERS THAT THIS IS WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT NOT THE FACT YOU ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN BUT THE FACT YOU ARE INVOLVED IN THIS IN A PERSONAL WAY.

>> YES.

ABSOLUTELY.

IT HATS BEEN USED MANY TIMES TO DESCRIBE MYSELF AND THE SITUATION.

BUT YES, CHANGING LEAVES IS OUR MOTIVE AND ATTENTION.

TO PURSUE THIS, THAT IS OUR MOTIVATION.

THE THINGS WE WILL DO TO CHANGE THE CAN NA PIS INDUSTRY AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY.

>> WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN SO FAR IN IS THERE ANY FACTS THAT YOU ARE MAKING PAIM K THERE?

>> YES, VERY MUCH SO.

VERY, VERY FORTUNATE TO MAKE A PARTNERSHIP WITH PEOPLE WHO FIRST AND PORE MOST AND INTEGRITY, THEIR MOTIVE, THEIR INTENTIONS MATCH MINE,.

>> SO HOW ARE YOU DOING WITH THE BUSINESS?

WAS IT SOMETHING THAT WHEN YOU FIRST WENT INTO IT, PREPARED YOURSELF VERY WELL FOR IT.

HAVE THERE BEEN THINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PITFALLS YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO AROID FOR THING YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LIKE TO?

>> AN AMOUNT OFFED A RAILROADS TY.

IT IS VERY -- DIDN'T IS A HARD INDUSTRY TO NAVIGATE THROUGH.

AND THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD, WE MADE IT.

WE ARE FLOURISHING.

WE HAVE THE GRAND OPENING ON THE 24th.

SO IT IS A WONDERFUL OCCASION.

>> ARE YOU EXPECTING THIS TRY TO CONTINUE TO GROW AND GROW?

ABSOLUTELY.

IT CONTINUES TO GRE AND THAT THAT IS THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY AS WELL.

>> IF SOMETHING WORKS OUT AND SAR REN DEPUTY AGAIN, IF THINGS WORK OUT FOR THE FATHER.

YOU WANT HIM TO BE ACTIVE PART OF WHAT ARE DOING?

>> ABSOLUTELY.

ABSOLUTELY.

HIS MOTHER'S IN CONTINUATIONS FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE.

GOING THROUGH WHAT HE HAS GONE THROUGH, HE WANTS TO HELP OTHERS NOT FO THROUGH WHAT OUR FAMILY HAS PHONE THROUGH, SO WE'LL WORK AS AS FAMILY TO CONTINUE TO BRING CHANGE AS HOLE.

WE MENTIONED YOUR BACKGROUND THE FACT YOU ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN.

HOW MUCH RACISM IS INVOLVED WHEN IT COMES TO THIS AND WHEN IT COMES TO NOT JUST PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN PROVIDING FOR US FOR CAN NAPPIES BUT HAVE YOU NOTICED IT IS WORSE FOR PEOPLE OF A CERTAIN COLOR?

>> ABSOLUTELY.

ABSOLUTELY.

AND JUST STATISTICALLY, TEN TIME MORE LIKE TOY FACES A CANNABIS CHARGE AND NEVER OWN A BUSINESS IN THE STATE ACROSS THE NATION AND SO GRATEFUL TO BE A PART OF THIS GROWING INDUSTRY AND TO FORCE THE CHANGE.

>> NOW THE LAST FEW SECONDS I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR FOLKS WHO HAD SIMILAR BACKGROUND TO YOU OR JUST THINKING ABOUT GETTING IN THE BUSINESS BECAUSE YOU ACCEPT ON MULTIPLE FRONTS THEN YOU AGAIN, ADVICE YOU HAVE NOT DONE THIS BEFORE OR HAVE EARN PERSONAL EX PIERCE.

TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

FOLLOW YOUR HEART.

DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU YOUR DREAMS ARE UNFUNDED OR YOUR FAITH.

BE WHO YOU ARE.

>> THANKS FOR BEING HERE.

GOOD LUCK.

HIGH PRESSURE.

THANKS.

THAT IS IT FOR TONIGHT'S EDITION OF ARIZONA HORIZONS I AM STEVE SIT IN FOR TED SIMONS.

HAVE A GREAT THURSDAY NIGHT.

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