Tahir Johnson, a 39-year-old cannabis advocate, is set to open Simply Pure Trenton in Ewing Township, NJ, and become the first entrepreneur with a “cannabis-related conviction to own and operate a legal adult-use dispensary in New Jersey.”
According to NJBIZ, Johnson wants to offer the community a cannabis experience through education, inclusion, social justice. He plans to bring the “best of the best” technology systems to provide Ewing, located just outside of Trenton, with a high-end retail setting full of premium products.
“I don’t want to just be the best Black-owned dispensary or social equity dispensary,” Johnson said. “When people come and shop here, we want it to feel like that high-end customer service experience…And, from an education standpoint, letting customers know that we’re here to educate them and help them be able to meet whatever needs they have and also having the best product selection, quality products that are tested.“
Johnson has a passion for those impacted by the war on drugs. May 2022 was a turning point for Johnson and his longtime friend John Dockery after they obtained two of the first 11 conditional class 5