The cannabis space is still fraught, and full of confusing restrictions. These Black innovators are shaping what the future of legal weed will look like.
Xula blends concentrates from low-THC hemp grown organically at its Oregon farm with those of medicinal plants—the same the founders’ respective forebears in West Africa and pre-colonial Mexico used for centuries—into liquid supplements supporting pain management, insomnia, and reproductive health issues like PMS, cramps and side effects from menopause.
All in the name of building back respect for plant medicine, and its long tradition among African and Indigenous Americans. “Plant medicine was in our history, but has been something that has historically been systematically put down,” Primelles says. “How are we part of the movement and put a drop in the lake of creating that change? First and foremost, everything we do works.”
“I try to do what I love and help people find a little happiness and community—this plant embodies all that,” she says. “But I still have to have my feet planted in the real world. For now, that means doing cannabis work outside cannabis.”
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