Growing Up Cannabis: Cannabis and LGBTQIA

In this second episode of Growing Up Cannabis, host Victoria Martinez is discussing the racial makeup of the cannabis industry. High lighting the Summer celebration of Pride that wasn’t celebrated in person with a parade in New York. Cannabis and the LGBTQIA community play a huge partnering role together, with the key term of “Pink Dollars,” with the belief that the LGBTQIA spends the most money in the cannabis industry. The bulk of the revenue comes from “Pink Dollars” in the industry, which comes with marketing up Pride all Summer long. Also, rooting back to the actual support of the industry for a community that faces many hardships and mistreatment. Medical use being a large part of HIV/AIDS and mental illness that can be helped with medical cannabis that can help with the anxiety and depression brought on from not being supported and homelessness from not being accepted.