Women of weed rise high in Philly - Cannabis News

Is there “pink-washing” in marijuana, where male-owned businesses use women as cover on an application? Probably. But nevertheless, women persist.

One area woman has received $3.5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to study aspects of marijuana.

Another is a former martial arts athlete who ran an erotic boutique before seguing into CBD products. And a third is a former Top Chef contestant who infuses marijuana in her food and aims to write a cookbook.

Cannabusiness is attracting women of all backgrounds, from millennials to boomers, from private equity hotshots and serial entrepreneurs to planners of underground pot parties.

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Sam Wood and Erin Arvedlund ~ Philadelpia Inquirer ~