Photos by: Lauren Dukoff For over three decades, Melissa Etheridge has been one of modern rock and pop music’s most powerful voices, as well as one of its most engaged activists. Though she had achieved moderate success in the late ’80s,

Photos by Joel Meaders Early on, standout comedian Josh Blue constantly reassured himself that he could accomplish anything that any other person could. In his own words, he “puts the ‘cerebral’ in cerebral palsy,” living with the

Photo credit: John Gilhooey Gary Payton played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), 13 of them in the cannabis-friendly state of Washington where he played for the now-defunct Seattle SuperSonics. His defense,

Ivan Moody hates being referred to as a rockstar. As frontman and lead singer of mega-successful American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, he has performed in front of hundreds of thousands of fans around the world, and he has shared

Drive around rural Colorado these days and you're apt to see hemp—fields and fields of it, growing legally in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Industrial hemp is booming, fueled by nationwide demand for CBD products, legitimized by the federal government in the 2018 Farm Bill. But how can consumers be sure that a CBD tincture is really free of THC, the psychoactive ingredient of the

For most people who enjoy cannabis edibles, taste is secondary to the buzz it packs. It's on your lips for a few seconds, while the THC inside will hopefully keep you going for the whole Phish concert. But trained pastry chef Rachel King asks why edibles can't be delicious and THC-infused? "If you're going to eat an edible, you might as well make it enjoyable," says King, co-founder and

Since you're reading this magazine, the odds are good that you or someone you know could be described as a "weedhead." Meet Dasheeda Dawson. She's The WeedheadTM, with the trademark to prove it. And she's out to prove that you don't need to grow, sell or extract cannabis to succeed in the industry. "People focus a lot on the cultivation and the dispensing, and there are so many other spaces

Derek Thomas has always been a natural born leader. For over a decade he focused on fundraising and business development consulting for multiple cannabis firms, until he finally found his home as VP of Business Development at Veritas Farms. He is now responsible for bringing the company’s CBD products to a national corporate scale through a partnership with Kroger Co. Family of

You've heard the phrase "living hand to mouth." That's how Susan Hwang was forced to run her first medical cannabis dispensary—taking the day's sales revenue to Phoenix, Arizona to buy more cannabis to sell the next day, spending eight hours a day driving around. Even when the dispensary was making $1 million a month, she said and home was a one-bedroom apartment, not that it mattered.

Jamie Pearson is a cannabis executive who raised her children in a similar environment she herself lived in, and rebelled against, while growing up during the “War on Drugs” era. After being lifted up into the cannabis industry and becoming a mother herself, she is using her position, experience and knowledge to support others in the industry—especially other women who are in leadership