Written by Art Cosgrove Cannabis and artistic expression go hand-in-hand. Now that the industry has come out of the shadows, so have the genres of art it inspires. Julia Krase is riding this wave. She primarily works as a sequential artist, a medium that uses images to tell a story, and supplements her income as a bud-tender at the popular … [Read more...] about The Art and The Leaf with Julia Krase
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Backcross PR
BUILDING CONNECTIONS and EMPOWERMENT Through Cannabis Angelica Tellez is on a mission to connect the power of cannabis with people. She is the founder of Backcross Public Relations, a firm that works exclusively with clients in the cannabis industry. Though she is now an active force in many facets of the industry, it took her awhile to come out of the “green … [Read more...] about Backcross PR
Emerald Scientific
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