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BOSTON, MA - APRIL 2: A passerby is reflected in the window of the proposed location where entrepreneur Kobie Evans would like to put a marijuana store on River Street in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston on April 2, 2019. The business of selling legalized pot to the public is finally getting underway in Boston, and, viewed at street level, the market is unfolding very little as the state had intended. Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to make social justice goals a cornerstone of marijuana legalization. But two years in, those equity provisions are giving way to old inequities, small players are being squeezed by the bigger national ones, and the question of which minority entrepreneur most deserves the neighborhoods trust is proving to be hard to discern, a Boston Globe Spotlight Team review showed. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)