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For some vets, cannabis can serve not only as a medical treatment, but as a professional endeavor to get them back on their feet.

For some vets, cannabis can serve not only as a medical treatment, but as a professional endeavor to get them back on their feet.

SAN FRANCISCO — Female leaders of the cannabis industry in the Bay Area shared their secrets of success with up-and-coming women who want to stake a claim in the business during a gathering Thursday night hosted by Women Grow.

The projections from the report by New Frontier Data paint a pretty rosy picture for folks interested in entering into the legal cannabis industry.

We sat down with Women Grow CEO Heise to learn more about the organization and her plans for 2017.

The new and flourishing business of cannabis is drawing large numbers of women execs. Why does marijuana draw a higher percentage of women than many other industries?

Marijuana is now legal in some form in more than half of all states, and more women are legally getting into the pot industry -- many of them are moms.

By the time his acting career had slowed, Perry Anzilotti had already learned how to extract THC from cannabis so that it could be used for cooking.

The company’s founders are applying hard-won lessons learned in mainstream business towards issues such as employee retention in the rapidly-evolving legal marijuana sector.

So much about selling legal cannabis remains to be worked out—including the industry’s gender norms.

Female entrepreneurs are carving out a space for themselves in the burgeoning sector.