Women in Cannabis: The Founders, Farmers, and Advocates Reshaping the Industry

Sharing an important article here about Women in Cannabis. We’ll quote a bit of it, and then link to the original article:

“Women built the cannabis industry before it had a name. The story of women in cannabis predates the legal market by decades. A hospital volunteer in San Francisco baked brownies for AIDS patients in the 1980s. A neuroscientist in St. Louis identified the brain receptor that explains how THC works. A Black Navy veteran opened a licensed dispensary in Colorado in 2009. The legal cannabis market that generates billions of dollars today rests on that foundation, and the women who laid it are still fighting for a proportional share of what they helped create.”

And yet…

“In 2023, women cannabis executives held 39% of senior positions in the U.S. industry, according to MJBizDaily’s annual DEI survey. That figure exceeded the national average across other major industries. The headline is real, and it is incomplete.

Women-owned cannabis businesses fell from 22.2% of all operations in 2022 to 16.4% in 2023. Less than 3% of all cannabis financing flows to women-owned businesses. Executive titles and ownership are different measures, and capital access determines long-term survival. Women may occupy senior roles; they receive almost none of the investment that shapes who builds lasting companies.”

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