Women are having a greater influence in marijuana reform and business than ever before. We've combined lists created by Marie Claire and Canna Law Blog, added a few of our favorites, and and came up with 20 leading ladies of weed (in alphabetical order).
• Betty Aldworth left her job as deputy director of the NCIA to become executice director of SSDP. She lives in Denver.
• Valerie Corral runs the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a cannabis-growing collective in Santa Cruz, and is on NORML's advisory board.
• Noelle Crombie covers the marijuana beat for The Oregonian.
• Jodie Emery is best known as wife of Canadian activist Marc Emery. She's currently running to be the Liberal Party representative in Vancouver-East in British Columbia.
• Sabrina Fendrick founded the NORML Women's Alliance. She's curently NORML's director of strategic partnerships and lives in Denver.
• Diane Fornbacher publishes Ladybud.com and is on the board of NORML. She also lives in Colorado.
• Debby Goldsberry co-founded Berkeley Patients Group amd is now affilated with Magnolia Wellness in Oakland, where she lives.
• Diane Goldstein, a fomer Califiornia police officer, is on the exective board of LEAP.
• Alison Holcomb engineered the legalization victory in Washington State as campaign director of Initiative 502. She's the drug policy director of ACLU of Washington and is leading the ACLU's $50 million campaign focused on ending mass incarceration in America.
• Wanda James is managing partner of the Cannabis Global Initiative and, with her husband, owns and operates Jezebel's Southern Bistro and Bar in Denver.
• Dale Sky Jones is executive chancellor of Oaksterdam University. She was one of many activists who tried to get Prop 19 passed in California in 2010.
• Ellen Komp is deputy director of California NORMl, publishes VeryImportantPotheads.com and Tokin Woman, and writes for CelebStoner.
• Madeline Martinez wears multiple hats. She's on the board of NORML, is executive director of Oregon NORML and runs the Wolrld Famous Cannabis Cafe in Portland.
• Genifer Murray is founder and CEO of Cannlabs. She's also based in Denver.
• Elvy Musikka, who suffers from glaucoma, is one of four people who receives a medical-marijuana prescriptiuon from the federal government. She lives in Oregon.
• Mikki Norris wrote Shattered Lives: Portraits from America's Drug War, founded the Cannabis Consumers Campaign and edits theleafonline.com. She lives in the Bay Area.
• Amanda Reiman is marijuana law and policy manager at the DPA and chairs Berekely's Medical Commision. She also lives in the Bay Area.
• Steph Sherer is the longtime executive director of American for Safe Access, which is based in the Bay Area.
• Jane West has made a name for herself in Denver with her Edible Events around town. She recenty co-founded Women Grow.
• Taylor West is deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association based in Denver.
Who else is a "leading lady of weed"? Let us know.
