Say Hello To Our New CEO
DENVER (JUNE 29, 2016) — Women Grow, the cannabis industry’s largest professional networking organization, today named Maryland attorney Leah Heise as acting CEO effective July 1. Co-Founders Jane West and Jazmin Hupp are stepping down from their respective roles as National Events Director and CEO to offer the next generation of cannabis industry leaders, headed by Heise, opportunities within Women Grow’s executive team.
read moreWhere We Stand – Women Grow 4Twenty Update
20 months, 22 days, and several hours after the launch of Women Grow we have a lot of hope. Hope for a new industry choosing to do things the right way instead of the easy way. Hope for our community of 50,000 women & men finding the perfect way for their talents to create greater wellness for us all. And Hope for ending plant medicine prohibition in several more states this fall.
read moreThe Women Grow Effect Is Permanent For Liesl Finkler
Fifty floors below our Presidential Suite, in The Rio’s in-house tattoo parlor, a gaggle of Women Grow staff held back our own tears as we watched Liesl Finkler adding our signature red leaf to her permanent tattoo collection… To say that we were moved by the experience would be an understatement.
read moreToken Women to Tokin’ Women: Three Days at a Conference for Ladies Who Simply Love Weed
Of the existing billion-dollar industries, women are in control of none of them. Could legal cannabis be the first? As women, weed, and control make up three of my top five interests, I had flown to Denver for the annual Women Grow conference to find out.
read moreMeet 5 of the Most Powerful Women in the Pot Business
In honor of 4/20—the 20th of April, which has become an unofficial marijuana holiday in the U.S—Fortune took a look at some of the pot industry’s female pioneers, including a “cannabusiness” investor, a dispensary owner, a grower, and a professional connector. A “genius entrepreneur,” Jazmin Hupp launched …
read moreThe Future (of Weed) Is Female: WEEDIQUETTE – Mary Janes
The Future (of Weed) Is Female: WEEDIQUETTE – Mary Janes. Can the booming business of marijuana become the first gender-equal industry? Krishna meets women working across the pot trade who are trying to put the Mary back in Mary Jane. Watch Women Grow featured in Viceland TV Weediquette.
read moreWomen Grow: Elevating Women In The Cannabis Industry
Women and apothecary historically go hand-in-hand, so it’s only natural the ladies are stepping up in this nurturing market. Keeping their aprons on and balancing good business practices in high heels, they are ignoring the “good old boys” club altogether while creating their own places of power.
read moreThe Economist: Mother of All Highs
It is a scene Americans will be accustomed to by about 2025, according to Jazmin Hupp, head of Denver’s Women Grow society. “Once moms are on board, that’s it,” she explains, taking a drag on a hot pink e-cigarette filled with cannabis oil. Her battle cry explains the recent surge in products such as vegan weed bonbons, cannabis kale crisps, cannabis spiced almonds and “high tea”.
read moreWomen In Weed: Legal Marijuana Could Be The First Billion-Dollar Industry Not Dominated By Men
Women’s presence in the pot industry does more than just close the gender gap, their participation is necessary to legitimize marijuana as a business….And women are moving into the pot business so quickly that they could make it the first billion-dollar industry that isn’t dominated by men.
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