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About two dozen women working in the North Coast’s flourishing medical cannabis industry will be rubbing elbows after business hours Thursday in downtown Santa Rosa during a launch party for a local chapter of Women Grow, a for-profit networking company.
The women say they aim to break through what some call the “green ceiling” of an industry traditionally run by men, with marketing heavily skewed toward able-bodied heterosexual males.
“It’s been a male-dominant industry for 30 years, and in this last five years I don’t feel alone as a woman in this industry,” said Tawnie Logan, co-founder and executive director of the Sonoma County Growers Alliance.
Women Grow was launched last year by two women in Colorado, where voters legalized recreational...
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