Month: June 2016

Marijuana Entrepreneurs – Guess What? They Are Women

Marijuana Entrepreneurs – Guess What? They Are Women

Posted by | Jun 30, 2016 | , |

Numbers would seem to bear those sentiments out. According to Marijuana Business Daily, women make up about 36 percent of executives in the legal-marijuana industry, compared to about 22 percent of senior managers in other industries. Women hold just 4.2 percent of the CEO positions at S&P 500 companies. At tech companies like Google and Twitter, disproportionately few executives and engineers are women. “It’s a new chance for many women who have been in the corporate world who couldn’t get to the next level,” said Becca Foster, an independent consultant with Healthy Headie, an in-home cannabis shop co-founded by Holly Alberti-Evans that goes by...

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Earliest Discoveries of Marijuana Use

Earliest Discoveries of Marijuana Use

Posted by | Jun 30, 2016 | |

Here’s a marijuana fact that you probably didn’t know: the same people responsible for building the pyramids of Egypt were also known for their cannabis use? And it wasn’t just the workers, but royalty too, including one of Ancient Egypt’s greatest pharaohs. King Ramses II’s mummy was found covered in kief particles. Additionally, another mummy was found buried along with a 2-pound stash of marijuana, that was prepared for the mummy’s afterlife. And it doesn’t just stop there, or stop in Egypt: from the ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls, to the first Mesopotamian clay tablets, evidence of prehistoric marijuana use...

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Is The Marijuana Stigma Waning Among Corporate America?

Is The Marijuana Stigma Waning Among Corporate America?

Posted by | Jun 29, 2016 | |

The giants in American business are starting to open up to cannabis. Maybe it’s because they have no choice, after all, it is becoming normalized in our society, whether they like it or not. Maybe it’s because they understand that there are big bucks in the industry. Or, a more hopeful “maybe” is that they are growing to truly accept cannabis. Either way, more and more of America’s big businesses are getting comfortable about partnering with marijuana and marijuana related companies – and they’re even willing to go public about it. In just the course of a week, giant,...

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America’s First Cannabis Church

America’s First Cannabis Church

Posted by | Jun 27, 2016 | |

Around 50 people gathered Sunday in south Lansing, Michigan for the debut of a new church: The First Cannabis Church of Logic and Reason. The gathering was the first kick-off for what organizer, Jeremy Hall hopes will become monthly meetings celebrating the spiritual properties of cannabis. He says that he intentionally chooses the word “spirituality.” The church has no specific ideology, no texts or prophets to speak of. “The biggest question I get is, ‘How can this be a church if we don’t subscribe to a religious theology?'” he told attendees. “Well, the reality is it sounded better than a cannabis cult.” Those...

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NFL’s Derrick Morgan Joins The Marijuana Cause

NFL’s Derrick Morgan Joins The Marijuana Cause

Posted by | Jun 23, 2016 | , |

Eugene Monroe no longer stands alone in his advocacy for the use of medical marijuana in the NFL; linebacker, Derrick Morgan has now also stepped in. Morgan says that the NFL has a responsibility to look into the potential benefits of medical marijuana. He wants them to invest the time and money into researching medical cannabis – they owe it to their players. However, the NFL has decided thus far not reconsider their stance on marijuana use among their pro football players. They have taken the stance that cannabis does not benefit the long-term health of its players – which...

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