By: Kristilyn Waite
As the fact that America is really only the land of opportunity for white people, and actually a really scary place for so many, has trended like never before, it’s important to listen to Black people. You’ll realize these things (if you haven’t already).
It’s about time.
This cannot be just a trend.
And it’s important for you to put your money where your mouth is.
No, really. Help financially.
Slavery, Jim Crow, the War on Drugs, and the prison industrial machine have all worked to the financial detriment of Black Americans. The effects compound with each generation.
And a really effective way to support the movement is with your money.
That means integrating more intention into your every day purchasing decisions. These Black owned canna-businesses are some pretty great options.
Black Owned Canna-Businesses
Pearle’s Pastries
Kelsey Pearle is a Philly-based baker and the woman behind Pearle’s pastries, purveyor of artful cakes and cookies that can be infused with cannabis and also prepared vegan.
She is also one of three co-founders of Pearle’s Kitchen, a Black womxn led, community focused initiative to network and educate about cannabis.
Join their Patreon for cannabis cooking classes, garden visits, Tarot readings, and other cool events and you will be supporting their efforts to provide funds and resources to smaller Black and allied womxn led high end cannabusinesses.
Hemp Hands
Hemp Hands makes CBD infused soaps, body creams, and pain salves for wellness support. Directly from their online dispensary to your home, find relief from pain, depression, anxiety, and skin conditions.
Juice Joint
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAgM7dgByez/
Fresh. Quality. CBD Infused. 100 mg of full spectrum in each bottle, to be exact. Just the way juice should be.
And with enticing flavors to choose from like Pineapple Ginger, Strawberry Lemonade, and Blueberry Mint, you’re sure to find your Juice Joint flavor.
BedTanicals
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCHgowcpaq3/
Founded by sex blogger Ashley Cobb, BedTanicals, is a sexual health focused wellness brand.
Offerings include infused bath salts, body oils, and butters, CBD infused pleasure enhancers to combat stress, performance anxiety, and pain in the bedroom. They smell pretty great too!
Black Dragon Breakfast Club
Black Dragon Breakfast Club is a Black and female first vision with their sights set on medicinal cannabiz, wellness, diversity of thought, creativity, and social justice.
Their product offerings include herbal allies and apparel promoting their benefits – their popular “Cannabis is Medicine” tees are pretty adorable – and then business, marketing, and social media coaching services.
Blissful Stoner Body Essentials
For the body and mind, Blissful Stoner Body Essentials (BSBE) is a Black, woman owned endeavor, aiming to help folks to feel better without breaking the bank.
Infused clay masks, pain relieving balms, body oils, and bath teas are handmade in small batches in New Orleans with CBD isolate, zero THC, and therapeutic grade essential oils.
Elio Wellness
Part of the Hollingsworth Hemp Company, a family-run hemp farm located in the Pacific Northwest, Elio Wellness features CBD infused soothing salve, moisturizing cream, and a bath bomb all made according to “Auntie Jackie’s Recipe.”
Auntie Jackie carefully developed these CBD-infused topicals to help her 90-year-old mother with the aches and pains of aging, and her husband, who became quadriplegic after a spine injury.
Girls Who Canna
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCMNtDDhD0x/
Girls Who Canna just want to have fun. Attire, accessories, and greeting cards celebrate cannabis and the people who enjoy it.
Be sure to check out their super cute Grams, Ounces, and Pounds hairclips!
Budzy
https://www.instagram.com/p/CB1QluvBKqA/
Budzy is not your average monthly subscription box. These babies are “specially curated to raise style standards and lessen the stigma” around cannabis.
Boss lady Betty and her squad expertly curate premium CBD products for your enjoyment.
Stoney’s all about the lifestyle and artfully elevating the experience with posh rolling trays, papers, and accessories.
Puff’s beauty picks will up your self care game with balms, oils, and masks. And Blaze, the foodie, finds top shelf snacks, teas, and even pet treats to pack into your monthly box.
Made in Melanin
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Looking for novelty rolling trays and smoking accessories? Check out Made in Melanin’s apparel, pipes, grinders, and jewelry.
Show your team spirit with a custom rolling or ash tray. Or maybe you’re more for the cheeky “Your Highness” crown. Either way, they’ve got ya covered.
Purple Leaf Bath
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLlUuHBq47/
Hand-made with love in Portland, Oregon, Purple Leaf Bath products contain 99% hemp derived CBD isolate.
THC-free, with no psychoactive effects, their tinctures, body butters, bath bombs, soaking salts, and scrubs combine the “wonderful properties of essential oils with the medicinal benefits of CBD.”
Lemon Lavender, Autumn Falls, and Rose Petal are just a few of the enticing scents you can choose.
Kayaire
Black and WOC veteran owned, Kayaire is a luxury CBD skincare line aiming to address the needs of minority women and men, especially those who suffer from psoriasis, eczema, and acne.
Tired of using steroid creams to treat her own bouts of stress induced psoriasis, Ebony Clay, founder of Kayaire, discovered CBD’s healing potential.
The full line includes a cleanser, toner, polisher, and a moisturizer.
Undefined Beauty
With clean, conscious plant magic, Undefined Beauty is looking to “change the narrative” and debunk the stigma around cannabis.
Founder Dorian Morris is a beauty industry veteran devoting her expertise to not only a CBD-infused beauty line, but also a new and better vision for business.
Social justice is important to her, and she puts her money where her mouth is, working to empower disenfranchised communities.
She’s also democratizing retail through the @undefined_collective project.
Natural Elevation
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For the health conscious cannabis consumer, edibles are the way. Enter Natural Elevation’s 100% organic, vegan, eco-friendly snacks.
Made with locally sourced ingredients and infused with responsibly sourced sativa grown without any chemicals, these granola bars, clusters, and honeys are designed to elevate in the healthiest way possible.
Local Meditations
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Local Meditations, a D.C. area brick and mortar CBD shop, started out as a pop up. Co-owners Shara Gibson and Tanya Duckett, concerned about the stigma and questions around canna-businesses’ legitimacy, welcomed local police and residents to their shop, effectively educated them, and established a strong relationship with their Georgetown neighbors.
They continue to do it right, offering carefully curated artisan CBD products sourced from local growers and often made in-house, they also offer a weekly CBD education workshop.
Buena Botanicals
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9aSr-RFumh/
Buena Botanicals’ cheerful branding so perfectly represents their motto, “Make Life Buena.”
Afro-latin twin sisters Coral and Rah Hines first perfected their therapeutic CBD-infused creams, elixirs, and soaps to help their mother with general pain relief.
With their line of lab tested full spectrum organic CBD-infused body care, they aim to make life better for as many people as possible.
Viola
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPTChphngn/
NBA veteran Al Harrington named Viola, one of the nation’s leading producers and licensed wholesalers of cannabis, after his grandma who finds solace from her glaucoma and diabetes through cannabis.
“One flower at a time” Harrington is bringing the healing power of cannabis to a growing market.
Thicc Stoners
Owned by two proud, thicc, Black stoner women, thicstoners is the “headquarters for the most fashionable plus-size ganja goddesses.”
Their lifestyle apparel, adorned with funny expressions like “Kief Thief” and “Weed Watch” is good for a smile and a chill sesh.
Gemineye Grinders
A good grinder is essential to your herb habit, and Gemineye Grinders promises to bring you “elevation without the frustration.”
Premium ceramic, non-stick, and durable, these grinders are the real deal. They also offer spliff sleeves, water and smell-proof capsules to keep your prerolls fresh and discrete.
Rosee Buds
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Rosee Buds is all about creating a stress free lifestyle, one jar at a time, with suggestively named CBD strains like Sex Addict and Menage a Trois.
Dealing exclusively in hemp flower, they ship to all 50 states. They also do wholesale, and, as a family owned business, take an intimate approach, tailoring offerings to best support clients’ success and even offering free samples.
Angel Haus Creamery
Serving up seriously gourmet THC-infused ice cream, Angel Haus Creamery is out to “extremely blow your mind.”
All natural, made from scratch, with no added sugar or preservatives, picking your flavor is only going to get harder, as Angel Haus is always adding new ones to the lineup.
So will it Pineapple Kush, Ces-Man Choco Moco, or Oreo Cookie Rush this time?
Sweets
As straight forward at it gets, Sweets offers CBD flower and pre-rolls farmed in Vermont and hand-rolled in Brooklyn.
Link in their bio to pay via Venmo, and wait for your Suver Haze or Sour Space Candy to arrive.
Planthaya
Approachability is the word at Planthaya CBD. With products that are easy to choose and simple to use, they offer wellness you can trust.
Balance Drops, Sooth Balm, or Boost Capsules will help you to relax, refresh, and recharge.
Maat Apothecary
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Oakland based and woman owned, Maat Apothecary is home to holistic focused herbalists who are passionate about your wellness.
Their straightforward, artisan crafted tincture, salve, oil, and spiced honey all contain “the goddess’ gift.”
brwnbox
Ethically sourced in Colorado, brwnbox delivers and ships CBD that works. And in various forms.
DM to order potent gummies, flower, tincture, honey, bath bombs, or pain cream infused with high quality cannabidiol.
Mind Blowing
Shop Mind Blowing for soaps and candles infused with 210 mg of full spectrum CBD in delicious scents like Lemon Sour Diesel and Raspberry Cough.
Or try the Key Lime in a coconut shell for the ultimate escape.
Mello Infusions
Mello Infusions offers high quality herbal products, a place to use them, and a place to meet others who do as well.
Become a member and enjoy your herbal pre-roll, CBD with damiana, rose, and red raspberry leaf among a like minded community.
Green Heffa Farms
Black family owned, Green Heffa Farms grows medicinal plants and hemp. They offer teas, balms, and education through their Big Hemping course.
Through their 4E Solutions Approach, Economic Empowerment, Equity, Education, and Environment, Green Heffa is on a mission to increase the number of socially conscious farmers and entrepreneurs.
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Kristilyn Waite is a writer who focuses on cannabis culture and lifestyle.