Ep. 32 - Cannabis Hollingsworth Farm with Joy Hollingsworth

Weed, reefer, blunts, dope, tea, pot, herb. All these terms were
often used to hide what you were smoking because it was illegal.
Until now. Marijuana is now legal in the United States, and
everyone is going wild because of it. But our conversation today
is about ownership, family business, self-determination and the
irony of being one of the only American Black-owned farms in the
US that bought back US land, in order to till the soil, to plant
the seed, and build a sustainable home for which to harvest the
leaf that makes the weed, to create the products that people use
to heal and feel better.


Joy will share her unconventional journey from the WNBA to
learning about the depth of her grandmother's excruciating pain
and to her brother's insistence coming back home to build a
legacy. A remarkable conversation filled with curiosity, hope
beauty and resilience. 


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