420 Girl – Fernanda De La Figuera
Being the inheritor of the 60s counterculture, of the sexual revolution and its giddy desire to shock, cannabis culture is strongly linked to sex. It uses all sorts of images of this kind in its desire to provoke, associating the cannabis high to erotic satisfaction as well as to beautiful, and buxom, women, ridding themselves of their clothes and...
420 Girl – Cecilia Silverston
The Green Rush will create tens of thousands of new jobs all across the career spectrum. Thousands of new companies are being created and licensed, all of whom will require staffing and HR help. And unlike the tech boom that preceded it, the cannabis industry is attracting folks from all sectors and age groups. The nascent industry has created...
420 Girl – Charlo Greene
Last night, after hosting a segment on the effort to legalize weed in Alaska, local KTVA news anchor Charlo Greene quit her job. Charlo went off script and told her Alaskan audience, on live TV, that she owned Alaska’s only cannabis club and that she would be leaving the news world behind in order to put all her energy...
420 Girl – Allyson Feiler
"For Michele Leonhart, the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, there is no difference between the health effects of marijuana and those of any other illegal drug. "All illegal drugs are bad for people," she told Congress in 2012, refusing to say whether crack, methamphetamine or prescription painkillers are more addictive or physically harmful than marijuana. "Her testimony neatly...
420 Girl – Muraco Kyashna-Tocha
Muraco Kyashna-Tocha, 49, of Seattle, has grown marijuana legally since 1999. Kyashna-Tocha has had five neck and back surgeries and said that using marijuana manages her pain enough so she can engage in daily life. - The Seattle Times