Here’s one of the tremendous ironies about cannabis. In modern human society, men are the dominant force. But in nature, it’s frequently the females who run the show. Cannabis is dioecious (meaning the species includes separate female and male plants) but the magic only happens when the males are separated from the females so the ladies can do their magic thing. Sadly, popular cannabis culture and especially the cannabis industry are male-dominated. We need more people like these weed-loving nuns – “Sisters of the Valley” – who have turned their cannabis operation into a lucrative business growing the plant and making a variety of medical and healing products despite all efforts of law enforcement to shut them down. The truth is there might be fewer women in positions of power and leadership in the cannabis industry than other industries. But this probably has more to do with culture than cannabis. The women’s rights movement isn’t much older than the “right to cannabis” movement. Here’s the trailer for a film – Breaking Habits – about these cannabis loving, gun toting nuns.
Greenstate has a nice write up of some famous women that have been brave enough to 
discuss cannabis openly and honestly – including Maya Angelou and Natalie Portman.
And while you’re not likely to see any headlines about a massive increase in female representation in CEO and CFO positions at multinational cannabis companies, there are plenty of women changing the world for the better with a little help from Mother Nature and cannabis. You just have to dig a little deeper to find out about them.
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