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Hard-won lessons from Posh Green Cannabis Boutique’s Reese Benton

Reese Benton opened the Posh Green Cannabis Boutique in San Francisco in 2020, solidifying her place in history as the first Black woman and first social equity recipient to become the sole owner of a cannabis retail store anywhere. It only got harder from there…

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Space To Dream: Black Cannabis Journalists Share Their Stories

Most of us had barely cleared away the confetti from New Year’s when just weeks into 2020, humanity was thrust into an existential nightmare.

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This 72-Year-Old Grandmother Is Changing The Weed Game

Sue Taylor was the first cannabis celebrity I ever met. I spotted her, chic and golden-haired, in the hotel bar at a weed conference in a San Francisco hotel back in 2017. She greeted a line of admirers with a warm smile, but her commanding presence signaled she wasn’t someone to be messed with.