Building a Family Cannabis Business with Jennifer Gaskin
Jennifer Gaskin and her son, Louis, are starting a cannabis business, Empress and Bandit Greenery(EBG), right here in Massachusetts. EBG is a family-owned premium cannabis cultivator that embraces sustainable growing methods for high-quality yields. Their 11 core strains flourish through sustainable cultivation methods to harness the power of nature and craft the safest, purest, cleanest cannabis products.
But Jenn’s journey with cannabis has not always been easy. She was only ten-years-old when her family left Grenada and started a new life in Boston where she grew up shadowed by the harsh realities of the 1990s drug wars during cannabis prohibition. On today’s show she shares her story of being a mom, pharmaceutical professional, cannabis patient and a leader in cannabis social equity.
Topics Discussed
(0:50) RBG Tribute
(2:50) Jenn Gaskin Introduction
(4:20) Empress Jenn
(5:50) And D-Bandit
(7:10) Grenada and Trinidad to Boston
(8:20) Alpha Females Unite!
(9:00) Different Leaf Shout Out
(10:30) Shame Snuffed Out With Data
(12:27) MS Diagnosis 2010
(16:00) Louis!
(17:27) “Smoke More Weed”
(20:48) Talking With Doctors
(21:40) 2015 Medical Cannabis Caregiving
(23:23) Homeostasis
(24:20) 2018 Building A Cannabis Business
(27:27) The Need Of Social Equity In Cannabis Business
(28:15) Empress and Bandit Greenery Licensing Process
(34:12) Israel and Cannabis
(35:53) HipLives Promo
(37:05) Joyce’s Plea for T-Shirts
(40:33) Cancer and Cannabis
(42:55) Time Table for Licensing
(43:00) Contact EBGreenery
The Canna Mom Show thanks the following for supporting our cannabis journey.
Josh Lamkin for writing and performing TCMS theme music
Kelly Dolan of Retail Results Inc
Lori Lennon of Thinkubator Media
Kim Kramer of McLane Middleton
Pod617, The Boston Podcast Network