Just over an hour's drive from New York City, Warwick is one of those Hudson Valley towns perfect for perusing boutiques filled with aromatic candles after a hike to take in the fall foliage. The town was built upon farms, small businesses, and until about a decade ago, a medium-security prison.

The grounds of the shuttered Mid-Orange Correctional Facility, which once counted people locked up on drug offenses among its inmates, have now become populated by cannabis companies that are promising to vitalize economic activity in the area. At least one of those companies, Green Thumb Industries, is framing it as a full-circle story, a chance to right some of the wrongs of the drug war by creating new opportunities in a once derided industry. Whether this justice can be achieved by companies representing the mostly white, corporate face of legal weed remains a point of contention for advocates.

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