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 | Innovation, 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...
by Luna Reyna | Feb 26, 2020 | Women
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...
by Katy Ibsen | Feb 19, 2020 | Women
Tina Gordon is a Northern California cannabis cultivator in southern Humboldt County. A former music industry guru and current documentary filmmaker, Gordon transitioned from city life to the sweet solitude of mountain life in 2007 after taking over a 40-acre stretch...
by Katy Ibsen | Jan 14, 2020 | Women
Yvonne Perez Emerson is the founder of Make and Mary, a plant medicine brand focusing on the connection between creativity and cannabis. Emerson’s background is as a graphic designer, with more than three decades in the industry. She also started a nonprofit in...
by Katy Ibsen | Jan 10, 2020 | Women
In late 2014, Christine Smith’s curiosity for incorporating cannabis into her wellness routine led her to launch Grön, a line of environmentally conscientious hemp-infused confections. She was looking for something that could help with her anxiety, stress, and the...
