Women are taking the lead across Vermont's budding cannabis industry

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Women are taking the lead across Vermont's budding cannabis industry

22 June 2018

By Amy Kolb Noyes

They’ve been called Mary Janes, Puffragettes and the Women of Weed. Whatever you choose, women are making their mark on the rapidly growing cannabis industry — and Vermont women are no exception. Ashley Reynolds is President of Elmore Mountain Therapeutics, a company that sells CBD extract and a topical balm. CBD is a non-psychoactive compound extracted from the cannabis plant. People use it to treat an array of ailments, from chronic pain to anxiety. And in the year-and-a-half she’s been in the cannabis industry, Reynolds has made a point of partnering with other businesswomen. "There’s this industry for us and what we call 'breaking the grass ceiling,'" she said. "That there’s a whole culture of women that are harboring and snowballing this awesome effect of this billion dollar sector that is the cannabis industry, not being dominated by men."