Amy Khare: Mother, research professional, and out of the green closet
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...
Delene Gilbert, co-founder of the Oklahoma Women Cann Association
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...
Anna Petty-Guthridge: Herbalist, Cannabis Cultivator, Mother
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...
Whitney Beatty, Founder and CEO of Apothecarry
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...
CBD: Calm Better Days with Amy Chin
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...
Dasheeda Dawson
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...
Nurturing a New Market: Karli Warner
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...
Jo’s Journey: A pregnancy essay
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...
A Note From the Publisher
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...
Q&A with Dahlia Mertens, Mary Jane’s Medicinals
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...
5 Black Women: Advocating for Equality and Creating Business Opportunities
As Black History Month comes to a close we honor some of the Black women in the industry that we admire most. Black women are making their impact in the cannabis industry just as they have in every other social movement — advocating for equality and creating business...
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