CANNAHEALTH Digital magazine is introducing a new and exciting section called NORMLIZING CANNABIS! Starting with the Chicago, Illinois Chapter, this section will highlight NORML chapters and their members!
Edie Moore is one of the original owners of the only minority-owned firm, Illinois Grown Medicine, to receive Cannabis licensure in Illinois in 2014. Working primarily on the compliance and community relations teams, she has since begun to advise firms in other markets seeking licensure.
Recognizing that opportunities for success in the national Cannabis community were overwhelming to many of her friends and colleagues, she looked for a way to break down the content and entry points into more manageable opportunities. Her firm HUE is a media space that delivers original and informative content and promotes business connections and diversity in the local Cannabis industry. HUE is a 2017 recipient of Chicago Community Trust’s Acting up Grant to produce their Cannabis on the Table microfilm series.
Edie is passionate about reforming Cannabis policies in communities of color. To that end, she is a founding board member, Treasurer, and interim Executive Director of Chicago NORML, a local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, started in August. Chicago NORML’s mission is to educate and motivate communities of color to destigmatize and accept the Cannabis plant as a vehicle for political, economic, and health & wellness empowerment.
Each of the Chicago NORML's 2018 initiatives focuses on WORK; Cannabis industry workplace training, exposing unfair workplace drug testing polices for Cannabis patients, and records expungement for
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“The miseducation and underrepresentation of people who look like us and live near us is the main reason we started our chapter. I got sick and tired of hearing decades-old rhetoric and ideas regarding Cannabis from within our communities. The war on drugs has also taken a toll on our awareness & sensibilities. Others, who were WOKE and interested, simply didn’t know where to start making connections, whether they were social, medicinal or business related. It needed to change."
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