Women Grow announced a major leadership change late last month, as founders Jazmin Hupp and Jane West stepped away from their day-to-day roles at the cannabis networking organization. After guiding the company through two years of exceptional growth, Hupp and West have handed the reins to Leah Heise, a Maryland attorney and entrepreneur. Heise comes […]
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8 Reasons the Women Grow Leadership Summit was a Must-Attend Event
During the first week of February, over a thousand women (and a handful of men) from Canada, Puerto Rico, and across the United States gathered in downtown Denver for the 2016 Women Grow Leadership Summit. The event had a herstorical purpose – to connect, inspire, and empower women to lead the new legal cannabis […]
Cannabias & Other Obstacles to Diversity: A Conversation with Betty Aldworth
Last week we brought you the first part of our two-part interview with Betty Aldworth, Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. In part two, we talk with Betty about cannabias, diversity in the emerging industry, the baggage of the drug war, and how organizations like SSDP and Women Grow can help promote […]
Eat the Roach: Women Grow Better Together
As women in the cannabis industry, we’ve got an uphill climb and it’s steep. We must walk a fine line, hit just the right note: presenting the new face of cannabis in order to move the industry forward while scrambling to maintain credibility in the boys’ club that has historically been this culture. Images […]
Eat the Roach: Cannabis and the Social Construction of Motherhood
“There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men. The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.” — Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Institution and Experience Women in cannabis were big news last week, between Charlo Greene launching her crusade for legal marijuana in […]