Have you recently partaken in this now legal. Legal product here in Illinois? No, but I encourage people who want to go into business in our state, and in particular, as you know, We have social equity licenses so that people who come from disadvantaged communities can be in that business. It's one of the big reasons that we legalized, to be frank with you, is to make sure that we could put people in business who had been ill affected by the war on drugs. (27:42–27:48)
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