Women Create Their Own Opportunities In New York's Growing Weed Industry
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine|Issue 59

On a recent Thursday evening in downtown Manhattan, nearly 50 women and a few men, ranging from millennials to baby boomers, gathered in a sleek co-working space to talk about weed.

​​​​​​​Madison Margolin
Women Create Their Own Opportunities In New York's Growing Weed Industry

 

Each month, a different group of enterprising women gives a presentation at  Women Grow, a national organization founded in Denver in 2014 that connects, educates, and empowers women in the cannabis industry. Before and after the feature presentation, women have a chance to network with other aspiring entrepreneurs or industry veterans, fostering connections that may help with their own canna-businesses.

The group at the most recent meeting included lawyers, nurse practitioners and an edibles chef,and the presenting company was AnnaBís, a line of luxury accessories to help women keep their medicinal cannabis products safe, secure, odor contained, and separate from everything else in their purse.

Beside a projector screen, a table was set up with various handbags, cut from luxurious Italian leather and designed to be smell-proof. A group of women sipping champagne and munching on finger foods huddled around the table, mingling before the night’s formal programming began. “These bags have been to bar mitzvahs, weddings, and they’ve even been to a wake, I hate to tell ya,” one of the AnnaBís designers told the group, as she demonstrated with a sample bag. Some of the bags, which can cost in the triple digits, have secret compartments where women can keep their stash.

This story is from the Issue 59 edition of Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine.

Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.

This story is from the Issue 59 edition of Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine.

Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.

MORE STORIES FROM HAMPTONS COUNTRY CAPITALIST MAGAZINEView All
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

Colonial Day Along The Gold Coast

Do you know about colonial day?

time-read
3 mins  |
Issue 61
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

Scott Swimming Pools

Scott Swimming Pools, Inc. is a luxury design-build swimming pool company celebrating its 80th year in business this year.

time-read
1 min  |
Issue 61
Megyn Kelly Settle For More
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

Megyn Kelly Settle For More

Rye’s Megyn Kelly, in the Spotlight.

time-read
6 mins  |
Issue 59
Women Create Their Own Opportunities In New York's Growing Weed Industry
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

Women Create Their Own Opportunities In New York's Growing Weed Industry

On a recent Thursday evening in downtown Manhattan, nearly 50 women and a few men, ranging from millennials to baby boomers, gathered in a sleek co-working space to talk about weed.

time-read
3 mins  |
Issue 59
The Perelman Performing Arts Center At The World Trade Center
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

The Perelman Performing Arts Center At The World Trade Center

IN the 1950s and ‘60s, when Lincoln Center was being built and Carnegie Hall was scheduled for demolition, few believed New York City could handle more than one performance space each for concerts, ballet or opera.

time-read
6 mins  |
Issue 59
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

Saint In The City

Seeking the star man on the streets of soho.

time-read
3 mins  |
Issue 61
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

Vice President Joe Biden Redraws The Battle Lines In America's Longest War

I know of no cadre of people in the world more desperately in need of hope than the sixteen million people with cancer,” Vice President Joe Biden told the nation’s leading cancer researchers and clinicians at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago on June 6, 2016.

time-read
7 mins  |
Issue 61
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

Breaking The Fourth And Fifth Wall

Dear Evan Hansen began as a germ of an idea about the yearning for a connection with others; co-lyricist and writer Benj Pasek was considering the embellished ties his teenaged peers had to a suspected victim of suicide.

time-read
10+ mins  |
Issue 61
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

Mah Jong Memory

I remember mah jong through a haze of memory and my mother’s Benson & Hedges cigarette smoke.

time-read
6 mins  |
Issue 61
We Can End America's Addiction Crisis... But Only Together
Hamptons Country Capitalist Magazine

We Can End America's Addiction Crisis... But Only Together

I HAD A HORRIBLE FEELING that late October Friday in 2012.

time-read
6 mins  |
Issue 61