Garden Remedies
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Originally founded by a physician who fought for the rights of medical cannabis patients and survived cancer herself, Garden Remedies operates three popular dispensaries in Massachusetts offering products from its own local cultivation facility. Through consistency, quality, and craft, Garden Remedies helps patients and consumers live their best life through safe, responsible and healthy cannabis consumption.
Grass Goddess Consulting
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Grass Goddess Consulting is a woman-owned business comprised of analytically minded cannabis experts who care about doing it right. With expertise from biotech and cannatech, there’s no one better to guide dispensaries on software decisions and implementation, inventory management and data efficiency.
The Green Approach
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The Green Approach Trading Post (TGA) is an independent medical cannabis retail store in Westbrook, Maine. Our focus is on cultivating community and making the retail experience comfortable and welcoming for everyone. As a cannabis hub, TGA carries a wide variety of Maine's premium, craft-quality products - including flower, edibles, concentrates, tinctures, and salves from sought-after brands throughout the state.
Green Line Boston
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A true local Boston craft cannabis company creating jobs and opportunities in the community it serves. In Boston by Boston.
Growv
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Growv is a regulatory compliance platform and knowledge center built to empower cannabis companies, allowing them to grow with confidence. It's on a mission to level the cannabis playing field by building the first-in-class knowledge designed to make information accessible and to contextualize regulatory compliance.
Hammerhead Strategies
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Hammerhead Strategies is a full-service consulting firm that helps small businesses, grassroots organizations, and candidates for public office dominate in the online space. Hammerhead is guided by fairness, justice, and transparency in its work in everything from helping activists mount public pressure campaigns to helping small businesses tell their stories.
The Healing Rose
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The Healing Rose is a family-owned, woman-led company handcrafting body care products using certified organic oils and other ingredients infused with hemp cannabinoids. Licensed as a MA hemp processor, The Healing Rose has been heavily involved in regulations and focused on making a positive impact in the lives of its customers, employees, and community.
The High End
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The High End is a minority-owned, woman-owned small business. Co-owner Helen Gomez Andrews first discovered how underserved patients and consumers were when her daughter, following an epilepsy diagnosis, became one of New York's first ever medical cannabis cardholders. Active participants in policymaking, The High End's owners are focused on patient care and education, environmental ethics, equitable market access, and people over profits.
Higher Power
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Higher Power uses the stories of Black Washingtonians fighting to enter the legal cannabis industry to reveal the stark reality of 700,0000 disenfranchised Americans living in the nation's capital, and the urgent need for D.C. Statehood.
The Honeybee Collective
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The Honeybee Collective is an employee-owned cannabis brand on a mission to create community wealth and a sustainable future. We make products with the best earth-friendly cannabis available, guarantee all our employees a living wage, and reinvest 10% of our profits back into the communities where we operate.
Howls
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Howls was founded in 2012 by a patient who made whole plant tincture for himself and four other patients in a coop. It is now the most trusted tincture in New England with a mission to make this valuable plant medicine available to everyone who can benefit from it.
ICIA
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The Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association exists to promote the exploration, development, and advancement of the cannabis industry for the benefit of all Indigenous communities. ICIA is dedicated to the advocacy and empowerment of our Indigenous cannabis businesses, influencers, and aspiring entrepreneurs along with being a conduit of connection and data for Indigenous Nations.
Illinois Equity Staffing
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llinois Equity Staffing, a certified WBE/MBE, specializes in talent acquisition, professional development and human resources administration and consulting. IES is focused on forward thinking solutions to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in the cannabis industry and prioritizing those most affected by the War on Drugs in ownership and employment.
IvyHill PR
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IvyHill PR is a woman-owned and LGBTQIA+ led communications agency that helps busy businesses and nonprofits connect more effectively with their target audiences. With specializations in PR, video, and social media, the IvyHill team prides itself on creating tailored content, clearer messaging, and stronger community connections on and offline.
Jennie Stepanian Law
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Attorney Jennie Stepanian is an experienced former Public Defender. Her office has decades of knowledge in criminal defense, civil, and administrative law. Ms. Stepanian helped pass multiple resolutions to decriminalize psychedelics and has collaborated with other respected attorneys to create the first Superior Court approved Indigenous Diversion Program.
Jess Sun, LLC
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Jess Sun is a content writer and strategist that helps businesses write content and grow their sales. Jess helps clients figure out what to say, where to say it, and how to get it done while providing hands-on support every step of the way. Because good writing is the key to scaling conversation.
Kapnos Cannabis Co.
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Kapnos is a legacy, women-owned, family-operated business in Massachusetts driven by a vision to cultivate a world where the healing properties of cannabis are accessible to all. Kapnos believes in the inherent potential of the plant to provide natural healing and wellness. Peace, love, and Kapnos!
KG Consulting LLC
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With decades of experience in advocacy, public policy, communications, events, and fundraising for Massachusetts nonprofits and campaigns, KG Consulting LLC can help your organization tell its story, uplift its stakeholders’ voices, and create a more equitable and prosperous future.
Konopé Compliance
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Konopé Compliance is focused on helping small to medium-sized cannabis businesses mitigate risk and build strong foundations of compliance by providing auditing, standard operating procedures, training development, and license application assistance to all license types. For over 13 years, we've successfully lived the execution, and now we help others do the same.
Legally Great Academy
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Legally Great Academy, LLC, is a Black Woman-owned premiere educational and consulting platform that helps cannabis entrepreneurs take their businesses from conception to compliant operation by offering cannabis business courses, executive and employee training, self-development courses, as well as group and one-on-one consulting.
LOWD
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LOWD™ is an award-winning cannabis production company named one of the top 10 hottest Black-led brand by MJ Unpacked. Lowd practices the art of craft cannabis cultivation in the Pacific Northwest, the space known worldwide for producing the finest cannabis flowers. Lowd holds the cannabis culture flag, high, proud, and with unapologetic humility.
Major Bloom, LLC
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Major Bloom is rooted in transforming authentic legacy experiences into the regulated market. Major Bloom is vertically integrated through Manufacturing, Retail, and Home Deliver operations in Worcester, MA, where these licenses co-locate under one roof. Additionally, they amplify and distribute authentic cannabis stores through Radio and Podcast shows.
Marijuana Justice
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Marijuana Justice is a Black-led nonprofit organization leading the Virginia movement for legalization centered on repairing the harms of the drug war. Marijuana Justice is well known for its work educating residents about the benefits of evidence-based social equity policies, and the harms of marijuana monopolies.
Mary and Main
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Mary and Main is a family-owned medical dispensary located in Prince George's County, Maryland. Owner Hope Wiseman, the youngest Black woman to own a dispensary in the United States, is focused on a creating a space to learn about the plant and become educated about efforts to end the war on drugs.
MCR Labs
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As one of the first independent cannabis testing labs established on the East Coast, MCR is proud to offer analytical testing and R&D services to licensed MMJ and adult-use cannabis producers, patients, doctors, researchers, and homegrowers. MCR Labs partners with advocacy groups, educators, and fellow researchers to inform the public and encourage safe consumption practices.
Morem & Waller, CPAs
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Morem & Waller, CPAs works primarily with Cannabis, CBD & hemp companies. From tax planning and 280E compliance services, to creative operational partnerships, to on-time and tailored-to-you financial reporting, we provide best-in-class support, guidance, and CFO-level accounting services that give you a healthy financial path forward.
NABCL
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Founded in 2021, NABCL is the country's largest, most effective organization of Black attorneys and allies focused on equitable, inclusive and reparative justice within the cannabis industry. By bridging gaps across a fractionalized market and educating communities about decades of intentionally misleading information used to promote race bating opportunistic agendas, NABCL champions inclusion as the vehicle most pivotal to the overall success of cannabis legalization.
NCCC
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National Craft Cannabis Coalition (NCCC) is a coalition of state-level advocacy organizations collectively representing over 1,600 small and independent cannabis businesses nationwide. The NCCC’s vision is to promote policies that support small cannabis producers, support a business ecosystem that supports craft cannabis cultivation, and support consumer access to a diversity of craft cannabis products.
New Día
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New Día is a local, minority owned company dedicated to carving a new path for cannabis retail by offering the most innovative and the highest quality products in the market, while remaining true to our roots and the Boston culture.
Nuvé
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Nuvé (new-vay) is a new way to educate through immersive learning. Its mission is to solve the knowledge and skills gaps in the cannabis industry using virtual technologies. Nuvé develops cannabis consumer facing education enhanced with XR features to spread cannabis literacy among current and future consumers.
NY Cannabis United
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New York Cannabis United is a coalition created to ensure all NYS communities are prepared and supported for the cannabis industry and have a full understanding of the plant. It aims to partner with local officials, community leaders, and other key stakeholders to provide information and guidance for the critical decisions that impact both the cannabis industry and residents of New York.
NY Small Farma
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NYSF is dedicated to fostering a socially just, environmentally regenerative, and economically inclusive cannabis industry. We champion small farmers and craft, regenerative cannabis that is good for planet, safe for the consumer, good for the farm workers, and good for the communities where the farm is located.
Old Castle Ltd.
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Old Castle Ltd. is a digital marketing consultancy started by Puja Chugh. Puja provides strategic support across the marketing spectrum with specialty focus in social media, email marketing and influencer outreach for various cannabis brands. She also supports strategic planning for out of home activations, partnerships, and retail marketing for dispensary clients. Having worked with a variety of organizations in this space, Puja is a passionate advocate for small, independently owned businesses in the cannabis space.
OliveOuid
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OliveOuid is a women-owned curated marketing/PR and influencer community. It offers holistic business growth, providing expert assistance in product selling and fostering robust partnerships in wholesale, analytical testing, product/event promotion, and more. OliveOuid helps you make a lasting impression and lets your brand flourish.
Omar Figueroa Law
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The Law Offices of Omar Figueroa is recognized as one of the leading cannabis, hemp, and psychedelics law firms, with offices in California and New York. We are passionate about human rights and civil liberties, and have decades of experience zealously advocating for our clients and for social justice reforms.
PCBA
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The Philadelphia CannaBusiness Association (PCBA) is an organization of entrepreneurs and community stakeholders who seek to R.E.P.A.I.R the damage done by cannabis prohibition. R.E.P.A.I.R stands for Reparations, Expungement, Policy & Political Mobilization, Abolition, Inclusion, Reinvestment.
Paper Crane Cannabis
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Paper Crane Cannabis is a family-owned farm raising sun-grown cannabis. Owned by formerly incarcerated social equity program participant Boey Bertold and his wife Lisa Mauriello, Paper Crane is known for its exceptional marijuana products grown utilizing organic and regenerative cultivation methods harnessing nature's incredible powers of the sun and earth.
Park Jordan
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With over fifty years of experience in commercial real estate, land use, and hospitality, coupled with a decade of industry knowledge, Park Jordan is a woman- and POC-run real estate firm consistently delivering strategic real estate solutions for the emerging, dynamic sector.
Point Seven Group
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Point Seven Group (Point7) is a certified, 100% WBE management consulting firm supporting cannabis operators since 2014. Point7 has worked in 42 U.S. states and six countries providing services including business planning and financial modeling/valuations, cannabis business licensing and permitting, brand building and exit strategy planning.
Pure Oasis
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Pure Oasis, Boston's first recreational cannabis dispensary, is a Black-owned economic empowerment business with a user-friendly experience, knowledgeable staff, and a wide variety of high-quality cannabis products. Twice voted best dispensary by Boston Magazine, Pure Oasis is locally owned and socially conscious company committed to addressing the needs of underserved communities.
Raven Grass
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Raven is a small, independently owned and operated, live earth cannabis farm in Olympia, Washington. Is it possible to be a successful business, independent of profit motivation? Raven makes choices that are the greatest benefit to the quality and healthfulness of our end products. It aims to use its platform to inform consumers about its products and practices with transparency to empower them to make educated decisions.
Rudick Law Group, PLLC
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Rudick Law Group, PLLC, is a boutique, women-led law firm representing small and diversely held businesses together with investors and small investment networks to deploy capital responsibly, in support of robust competition.
Sativa Remedy
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Sativa Remedy is a minority, women-owned, and family-operated hemp dispensary located in Western New York. Co-founded by Nhi Kha and John Frazier in 2018, our mission is to normalize cannabis and reconnecting consumers with the plant by providing education, guidance, and support alongside a highly curated selection of quality, safe, and affordable hemp products. Our belief is that all should have the right to access plant medicine without having to compromise on price, quality, potency, or safety.
SeaWitch
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SeaWitch is a woman-owned and operated cannabis business located in Rhode Island. Started in 2014, SeaWitch manufactures quality tonics, tinctures and topicals for both the medical and adult-use market. Taking great care to fully embody the concept of Green Medicine, SeaWitch appeals to a wide range of cannabis users who are seeking a deeper experience with their self-care rituals.
Simply Pure
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Simply Pure is considered the best dispensary in Denver. We focus on sharing both our experience and knowledge about cannabis in a safe and comfortable environment. Our passionate budologists work to constantly educate newcomers and frequent consumers alike on safe, sustainable, and beneficial cannabis products. We strive to bring our love of cannabis, both wellness and recreational aspects, to the forefront of your cannabis experience.
Socíale Dispensary
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Socíale is a female-founded and female-owned dispensary slated to open in Park Ridge, IL later this year. Granted a social equity charter, the dispensary is also one of the first dispensaries in the U.S. founded and owned by an Indian-American woman. Committed to cannabis education and female empowerment, Socíale is eager to make an impact on the Chicagoland community.
Soulstar Holdings
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Soulstar is a female-led cannabis company building a portfolio of diverse and high performing businesses and brands in the Northeast’s emerging adult use markets. Driven by a team of proven industry leaders and true cannabis lovers, Soulstar is here to build a more inclusive and authentic cannabis industry.
SSDP
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Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) is replacing the disastrous war on drugs with policies rooted in evidence, compassion, and human rights. Our 5,000 active members, made up of young people and students, mobilize from 300 schools around the globe to make change from the campus to the United Nations.
Stem Haverhill
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Stem is a woman-owned, designated economic empowerment business in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts. Run by cannabis enthusiasts, its mission is to provide premium cannabis products to all customers from first-time shoppers to experienced consumers. Stem is well known for supporting its community and standing up for other small, local businesses.
Supernova Women
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Supernova Women is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2015 by Black and Brown women that works to empower Black and Brown people to become self-sufficient shareholders in the cannabis and natural plant medicine space through education, advocacy, and network building.
Tetragram
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Tetragram is an award-winning SaaS platform that collects data from cannabis and CBD consumers to measure the effects of various cannabis products. We partner with dispensaries, and brands to help them tell their product's story, connect directly to customers, and leverage our consumer insights to understand customer needs and the impact of products.
Top Flor
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Top Flor is a family-owned craft cannabis cultivation business in Añasco Puerto Rico. Owned by a brother and sister team with respective expertise in cannabis laws and medical science, Top Flor focuses on using the natural benefits of a tropical climate to ensure accessibility of our medicine to all, and to invest in environmentally sustainable and socially equitable business practices.
Trella Tech
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Trella Technologies brings innovative and environmentally sustainable technologies to industry growers. CEO Aja Atwood has said it is not lost on her as a black female entrepreneur – a group that has traditionally seen their innovations exploited -- that the company holds a patent for technology that will disrupt the status quo in traditional indoor farming.
Terptown Throwdown
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Terptown Throwdown is an annual two-day cannabis, art, and music festival centered around the legal cannabis industry in the northeast U.S region, with past headliners including Atmosphere and Matisyahu. The organizers are dedicated to protecting the right to home grow, and Terptown focuses on giving home growers particular attention and a platform.
Transform
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Transform is an independent charity based in the UK working towards a just and effective system of legal regulation for all drugs. Their vision is a world where drug policy contributes to safer and healthier societies. Through their Anyone's Child campaign, they provide opportunities for people with personal experiences of drug policy failures to be heard.
Veridis Quo
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Veridis Quo, LLC, is a Latina-owned company that provides educational and cannabis consulting services to institutions of higher education, state agencies, and private companies. Owner, Jessica F. Gonzalez, is an attorney, advocate and professor that has presented at the municipal, state and federal level on topics including social justice, intellectual property, cannabis legislation and licensing.
Vermont Growers
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Vermont Growers Association is a non-partisan, mutual benefit, trade association and the largest member-based cannabis nonprofit in the state. Its mission is to establish, preserve, and protect Vermont's cannabis industry by advancing the interests of independent family farms and small businesses and supporting an equitable, viable, craft-centric, small business-driven cannabis marketplace through advocacy, education, and marketing.
Victoria Litman Law
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Victoria Litman Law, LLC, specializes in cannabis, psychedelics, and tax with an emphasis on exempt nonprofit organizations. Victoria is a longtime medical cannabis patient, passionate advocate, and Ganjier in training. She strives to share her vision for social justice through innovative and reparative drug policy, value driven legal practice, and mass education.
The Weedaker Group
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The Weedaker Group is a women-owned business development agency that focuses on providing strategic solutions (including licensing, HR, training, communications, and events) in support of those operating in the cannabis industry. TWG believes in the power of the plant and is dedicated to working with businesses that prioritize their impact.
Women Grow
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Women Grow was created to Connect, Educate, Empower and Inspire the next generation of leaders by creating educational programs, community building and networking events for aspiring and current business executives. It serves as a catalyst for women to shift the narrative, influence community and further the path towards business success in the cannabis industry as the end of marijuana prohibition occurs on a global scale.
WONPR
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Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform® is a global organization dedicated to the advancement, education, and empowerment of women. As a nonpartisan nonprofit, WONPR provides mentorship, logistical support and financial backing to women who are actively working to reverse the harms of prohibition.
Zèb Boutique
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Zèb Boutique is not merely a boutique-style cannabis retail destination; it is a movement. Zèb Boutique believes in the transformative power of cannabis to enrich lives. Its mission extends beyond offering high-quality, responsibly sourced products — it's about fostering a movement that celebrates diversity, encourages personal growth, and champions the healing power of nature.
