by Katy Ibsen | Jun 13, 2022 | Parenting
SWEET JANE had the pleasure to present the 2022 Cannamom Tokeativity Social. Tokeativity is a global community of active cannabis consumers and business owners that believe in cannabis normalization, equity, and empowerment of a modern consumption culture. They...
by Sweet Jane | Feb 25, 2022 | Parenting
When moms talk cannabis. SWEET JANE founder, Katy Ibsen, joined Shonitria Anthony of the Blunt Blowin’ Mama podcast, Tanya Osborne of WomenGrow and Dr. Lanail R. Plummer of Onyx Therapy Group for an educational conversation on motherhood and cannabis via...
by Patricia A. Patton | Mar 30, 2021 | Parenting
Baby boomers are coming clean with their adult children about cannabis Seniors and baby boomers whose opinions about cannabis continue to evolve must now learn to have different conversations with their adult children. As a baby boomer, I profess to value open and...
by Leah Maurer | Mar 2, 2021 | Innovation, Parenting
Witnessing children with life-threatening diagnoses survive as a result of cannabis therapy has created an empathetic wave and propelled cannabis legalization. We’ve watched as the hearts of politicians have been tugged to give a few more families hope that their...
by Barbara Platts | Feb 23, 2021 | Innovation, Parenting
This personal essay was originally published on Lunch Ticket, a literary and art journal dedicated to issues of social, economic, and environmental justice. Click here to see the original post. I’ve never been particularly good at change. When I was nine years...
by MAMAFitWhit | Jun 25, 2020 | Innovation, Parenting
Superwoman Syndrome pushes mothers to do it all, but what about our well-being? Superwoman, much like mothers, is … Perfect. Strong. Beautiful. Independent. As a young girl I remember my mother coming home from work, setting her stuff down on the table and...
by Leah Maurer | Jun 22, 2020 | Parenting, Well-Being
Starting a Cannabis Conversation As cannabis sales continue to increase during the pandemic, one can’t help but wonder if more people are consuming cannabis than before the coronavirus outbreak. I’m sure many of those sales are due to consumers like myself stocking up...
by MAMAFitWhit | May 9, 2020 | Innovation, Parenting
MamaFitWhit Reflects on Motherhood “Mother” to me is one’s influence on children. It’s how I witnessed my own mother use her own intuition and discernment. In turn it’s now how I stand, speak, and treat other people including my children. That is motherhood in my...
by Sweet Jane | Apr 28, 2020 | Parenting, Women
A personal Essay on Mental Health, Pregnancy, and Cannabis When I found out I was pregnant last fall, I immediately stopped medicating with cannabis, as I had done in my first pregnancy years earlier. Before the first one, which was in 2013, I’d been partaking a few...
by Leah Maurer | Mar 24, 2020 | Parenting, Well-Being
These Resources Can Help Shape Age-Appropriate Conversations Earlier this year Amanda Fritz, a City Commissioner in Portland, Oregon, received attention in the media after responding to a Portland parent who complained about a cannabis dispensary opening next door to...
by Jenn Lauder | Jan 17, 2020 | Innovation, Parenting
When I first became vocal about my relationship with cannabis, I braced myself for the inevitable question: You’re a mom—how can you use marijuana? Informed by outdated stereotypes and a nagging stigma around this plant, those who ask me this question are confused....
by Sweet Jane | Nov 13, 2019 | Parenting, Well-Being
In August 2018, the University of California San Diego School of Medicine published results from a study aiming to better understand how much marijuana gets into breast milk of nursing mothers and how long it remains. Recent trends have shown that more pregnant women...
