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Jeanine Moss, a 62-year-old grandmother of two, never expected to get into the cannabis industry. But that was before her hip-replacement surgery. Ms. Moss, of Marina Del Ray, Calif., had quit her job as a marketing consultant before she had her hip done in 2014. As she left the hospital, her...

It turns out that there may be more women smoking pot than previously thought. A new report from the Cannabis Consumers Coalition (CCC) says that just as many women consume cannabis as men. This result is dramatically different from other reports that usually find that men dominate the cannabis...

People talk dude. Friends of friends. People who you've smoked pot with.. For whatever reason sometimes they'll drop a dime on you. Just my two cents... A word to the wise....

Marijuana consumption has been increasing among women, according to a new study conducted by Eaze, a service that allows medical marijuana users to purchase home-delivered products from their favorite dispensaries. One out of every three marijuana consumers were women, according to the company's...

Leah Heise is sitting in a green room behind the stage of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, by a wide mirror that takes up the entire wall beneath a row of round-bulb makeup lights. Countless performers have prepared for the stage in this room, but now it's Women Grow's turn to shine. Women...

Just over a year ago, Jesse Meighan attended a fundraising event for her boyfriend's cannabis media company. "Unfortunately, as most cannabis events and as most fundraising events are, it was a sausage party," she says. "So I found the one woman in the room to chat up, and it was Jane." By...

Of all the industries that attract American women to their senior ranks, the marijuana business may not immediately spring to mind as a likely magnet. But women fill 36 percent of executive positions in US companies that grow, test, sell, and market pot products in this ballooning...

Despite Donald Trump's devastating Election Day win that put most of the country into a tailspin, cannabis supporters had one to celebrate this year, as eight states legalized weed for medicinal or recreational use. But as Trump's win proved true in politics, the cannabis industry, too, is...

Jeanine Moss was out with her girlfriends one night. All of the women in the group consume cannabis in one way or another, and they all decided to smoke together. Everyone started pulling out baggies and tins of weed. The next day, Moss remembers, she started looking for little cases to buy her...

A small group of New York women hope to make a real difference in the future of the cannabis market. Jazmin Hupp, Amy Peckham and her daughters, Hilary and Keeley have parlayed the Peckham wealth to establish Etain, a push for authorization to dispense medical marijuana. Their independent...

In a climate of race and gender storms, much of it driven by political discourse, a quiet one is brewing in the emerging cannabis industry, which recorded $6 billion in sales during 2015. According to the most current data from ArcView Market Research, those sales represent a $4 billion increase...

Several times per month someone will ask me how can they break into the cannabis industry. They've heard how lucrative dispensaries are, and often people believe that that's the only place to enter. Not true! Any of your existing skills and expertise can be aligned with the cannabis industry...

Before they were representing and creating communications programs for growers, dispensaries, and ancillary cannabis companies, Tracey and Brenda made names for themselves in New York City's competitive public relations industry. Tracey met Type A co-founder and partner Brenda Loughery on a job...

Meet the Sisters of the Valley. They're nuns. They're feminists. And they grow weed. Two nuns who grow and sell marijuana in from their California home are looking for a divine intervention to stop city officials from closing them down. Sister Kate and Sister Darcy, who live in a three-bed...

Rachael Speegle, director of operations at the Verdes Foundation, New Mexico's highest-grossing medical cannabis producer in the first quarter of 2016, says when she was working as a registered nurse she never felt conspicuous or disadvantaged as a woman. When she transitioned into the world...

Rachael Speegle, director of operations at the Verdes Foundation, New Mexico's highest-grossing medical cannabis producer in the first quarter of 2016, says when she was working as a registered nurse she never felt conspicuous or disadvantaged as a woman. When she transitioned into the world...

The burgeoning sisterhood of Maryland's marijuana entrepreneurs gathered in the back room of a Columbia chain restaurant recently, swapping business ideas over chicken wings and cheese cubes. Maryland's long-promised medical marijuana industry doesn't exist yet, and that's precisely why more...

The burgeoning sisterhood of Maryland's marijuana entrepreneurs gathered in the back room of a Columbia chain restaurant recently, swapping business ideas over chicken wings and cheese cubes. Maryland's long-promised medical marijuana industry doesn't exist yet, and that's precisely why more...

Marijuana prohibition in the US is quickly losing ground, with 13 states having passed decriminalization laws since 1973 and at least 20 states poised to vote on similar measures in 2016. As cannabis inches towards broader legalization, it has created the country's fastest-growing industry——and...

More than 50 people gathered in Monroe Park in the Jefferson-Westside neighborhood to celebrate Mother's Day with crafts and activities for kids of all ages, thanks to the Eugene-based Women Leaders in Cannabis, a group of local women working in the cannabis industry. The booths gave kids and...