by Jordan Winter | Sep 24, 2021 | Women
The cannabis industry is booming, but for some communities more than others. As the industry grows, so do the issues around equity. Cannabis companies owned by people of color comprise only 19.1% of the industry, and for women, it’s about 25%, according to a 2017...
by Sweet Jane | May 12, 2021 | Women
Founder of the Colorado Hemp Project and Nature’s Root, and general badass Dani Fontaine’s inspiring story begins with using cannabis as a teenager. She is upfront and honest about her experience with the plant (she hustled it in her younger days) and how she got in...
by Liz Weslander | May 7, 2021 | Women
These days, reaching for a glass of wine to soften the stress of parenting is an accepted social norm. Amy Khare, a Chicago professional and mother of three, would like to see cannabis enjoy the same status. Khare, a remote research professor at Case Western Reserve...
by Sweet Jane | May 4, 2021 | Women
Mother, wife, cultivator, dispensary owner Delene Gilbert beams a welcomeness indicative to the Midwest. She and her husband, Chance, were early adopters of cannabis in Oklahoma following the state’s 2018 vote to legalize medical marijuana. “My husband and I have...
by Johanna Siilver | Apr 15, 2021 | Women
Homesteading was always the plan for Anna Petty-Guthridge. Raised in California, she spent much of her childhood with nature and animals. “It was a 4-H-type of upbringing,” she says. What wasn’t part of the plan? Cannabis. But in 2008, she and her husband, Cyril...
by Sweet Jane | Apr 7, 2021 | Women
Whitney Beatty is no stranger to risk. She leveraged her family’s comfort and security to pursue an entrepreneurial venture in cannabis. When she’s not making deals for her personal cannabis storage brand, Apothecarry, she is celebrating women of color and motherhood...
by Katy Ibsen | Mar 12, 2021 | Women
By now, CBD is commonly talked about, but for many Americans, they do not know enough about it to actually understand how it works or could aid them. Enter Amy Chin, founder of Calm Better Days. As a sufferer of anxiety and postpartum depression, she found great...
by Nadia Imafidon | Jun 2, 2020 | Industry, Women
The Weed Head, Global Cannabis Advocate, Executive Strategist and Visionary “My journey to cannabis legally started in 2016, and it was through something that was relatively catastrophic. My mom unexpectedly passed away from liver cancer. She was my only parent, and...
by Katy Ibsen | May 7, 2020 | Women
When I met Karli Warner of the very successful California edibles brand Garden Society, I expected someone unlike myself who would intimidate me with her vast knowledge of cannabis and give me the latest pitch of why her product is the best. After all, this is the...
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 Katy Ibsen | Apr 1, 2020 | Women
There really aren’t words for what we are living right now. If you’re like me, you’re well into another week of social distancing, working from home, educating children, attempting patience with a partner, and cooking more meals than you can ever...
by Katy Ibsen | Mar 12, 2020 | Women
Dahlia Mertens, creator of Mary Jane Medicinals lives a life we want. She’s perched up on Colorado’s Western Slope, yet nestled comfortably in the small mountain town of Telluride. She is a dog lover extraordinaire, and she is a thriving entrepreneur who has created...
