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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Women at work: No old-boys network in new field, medical marijuana pioneers say 🌿Women at work: No old-boys network in new field, medical marijuana pioneers say
It’s an industry, they say, that’s too new to have a glass ceiling. And for many women, that’s a good reason to get into the booming legal marijuana business.
“There is no such thing as an old boys’ network in a new industry,” says Wendy Berger Shapiro, co-founder of a group called Illinois Women in Cannabis.
Berger Shapiro started the professional networking group with attorney Dina Rollman last August to “get women at the starting line at the same time as the men,” Rollman says. “So they’re not playing catchup, and they’re leading the industry, shoulder-to-shoulder with the men.”
With Illinois having legalized medical marijuana, seriously ill people who qualify could be able to obtain legal weed as soon as this fall, some predict.
That has attracted entrepreneurs from all over the country who want to cash in on the green wave sweeping the nation.
Among them is Norah Scott, an...
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