Author: Carma Henry

       At 46 years old, I’ve lived long enough to know that silence is rarely accidental. It’s often a choice, one shaped by comfort, fear, exhaustion, or the belief that what’s happening doesn’t quite touch our front door yet. I’ve also learned this: silence has a sound. You may not hear it immediately, but over time it echoes, carrying consequences far beyond the moment we chose not to speak.

       Too many Black people heard truth come from Malcolm’s mouth yet discounted truth because it could not be right, it came from “a non-believer;” from someone not baptised in the faith, in Eurocentric Christianity. Beset by classical conditioning, beaten through the body into maimed minds, the African that left many doors of no return, survived horrible slave ships in crossing the Atlantic Ocean to centuries of chattel slavery, years of Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, legal discrimination, drugs and mass incarceration, heard truth and found a way to run from it, to hide somewhere in no man’s land, to so-called freedom!

   The Trump administration’s move to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III marks a major shift for the medical cannabis industry, with implications for taxation, research, insurance coverage, and patient access. While marijuana remains federally illegal unless Congress acts, the new classification recognizes accepted medical use and lowers regulatory barriers.

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     The corporate world is getting flatter. In recent years, companies have had to respond quickly to unanticipated major shifts in the marketplace, including a worldwide pandemic and tariff-driven cost increases. One popular strategy is to find greater efficiencies where you can, and the most vulnerable are middle managers. This is the group that is not directly responsible for generating revenue.

   This begins a series of articles that provide actionable tools to integrate conversations about legacy, estate planning, and asset protection into your everyday life with your family, across the generations, in a way that makes it easy. You’ll do so with confidence. And your family will thank you. They’ll feel heard, included, and empowered. No longer will legacy be a shunned, unspoken, abandoned topic until a crisis. Your family won’t be one that falls prey to the turmoil that comes from avoidance.

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