Lo Friesen always wanted to be a doctor. But after graduating from Northwestern University with a chemistry degree and spending two years working in a…
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For Liz Stahura, it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time. The place was Boulder, Colorado, and the year…
Codie Sanchez and Tiffany Liff may have come from very different backgrounds, but together as two of the top executives at Entourage Effect Capital, they,…
Thanks to the advocacy efforts of cannabis entrepreneurs in Massachusetts, businesses owned by women and minorities will now receive priority review of their licensing applications…
Fifteen years ago, DRY Soda CEO and founder Sharelle Klaus set out to create a non-alcoholic, low-sugar beverage that would compete for shelf space against…
When Lightshade was started in 2011, the cannabis industry in most markets was still very much in its infancy. When we opened our first location,…
Bess Byers has had her Instagram account (@imcannabess), which now has more than 94,000 followers, shut down nine times. And nine times she’s successfully lobbied…
Trang Trinh For Trang Trinh, some of the best business advice she ever received came from her parents: work hard and be nice to people.…
Nearly a decade before the first U.S. states would legalize adult-use cannabis, Trista Okel recognized that reaching more women and getting them involved would be…
When asked why she founded The Initiative, an accelerator program designed specifically for women in the cannabis industry, Amy Margolis has a very simple answer:…