So you’ve got priority in getting your marijuana license application reviewed in Massachusetts. But you’ve got a major hurdle ahead of you — getting through the actual application.

Applicants who get priority are from communities disproportionately criminalized for marijuana — like people of color. Marijuana use is similar among different groups, but minorities have been punished for it at far higher rates.

The state set up the priority status to help them get a piece of the new legal cannabis market, a potential billion-dollar industry. The status fast-tracks the license review process.

But many of the people eligible for the priority status are struggling with the regulatory process.

Kijana Rose, 28, is one of those people. She teaches yoga classes out of her home in Roslindale. On a recent weekday evening, she leads a small group through exercises in her backyard. There’s upbeat music, courtesy of Beyoncé, some ab work — and marijuana.

The group vapes before class and again halfway through.

“I’m switching strains,” Rose explains. “This is going to calm them down because they just did all those flows. So their hearts [are] racing right now…” [Read more at WBUR]