WESTWORD: How Women Can Continue Rising in the Cannabis Industry

From Left to Right: Steph Wilson, Wanda James, Karin Lazarus, Dr. Daniela Vergara and Director Windy Borman.

When Windy Borman started making her documentary on women in the cannabis industry in 2015, women held 36 percent of its senior leadership roles, compared to 22 percent across all industries in the United States. But by the time her film, Mary Janes: The Women of Weed premiered at the Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton [CO on] March 3 to a sold-out crowd, the latest news showed that that statistic had dipped nine points, to 27 percent.

The new number “gives the film’s call to action a new meaning,” Borman said in a panel discussion after the viewing. “Geena Davis says, ‘If you can see it, you can be it.’”

Read the full film review by Madeline St. Amour here.