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Inside a speakeasy-themed weed dispensary by and for women of color | The Green Room

By Adam Tschorn
, Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Mark E. Potts and Cody Long
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With a sense of can-do optimism, a Pinterest board full of ideas, help from Jay-Z, and Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday as their spirit guides, Ebony Andersen and Whitney Beatty opened Josephine & Billie’s, a cannabis dispensary designed by women for women – especially women of color, a cannabis-consuming demographic the duo say is often overlooked.
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Adam Tschorn

Senior features writer Adam Tschorn is a former small-town newspaper editor, game-show question-and-answer man and fashion scribe who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007. He currently covers a wide range of pop-culture topics with a focus on cannabis culture. Holding a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in journalism, he feels perfectly suited to looking at things, asking “why?” and writing down the answers.
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