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11/02/2026

🦀🥬Ready for your next step in Maryland cannabis?

CannaWorkforce is now enrolling for Cannabis Inventory Manager Training, starting Wednesday, November 11.

‼️Applications due by Friday, November 6. DM or email TODAY! ‼️

👉If you’re a Maryland dispensary agent or inventory assistant, this training is built to move you from the sales floor or back room into inventory leadership. You’ll learn:

✅ METRC seed-to-sale tracking and chain of custody
✅ Daily counts, reconciliations, and scale verification
✅ Preventing diversion and staying compliant with MCA rules
✅ Records maintenance and audit readiness

💰 $400 stipend for every successful learner
📈 Built for career and job growth in Maryland’s regulated cannabis industry

CannaWorkforce is funded by a Maryland Department of Labor EARN (Employment Advancement Right Now) grant and was developed in partnership with CannabizMD LLC.

👉 Apply now: [email protected]

🏃‍♀️‍➡️Seats are limited. Don’t wait!

👋Cannabis Operators: We are training your next hire with award -winning cannabis industry curriculum! Email or DM - this is FREE for you! (The staff training NOT the hire)

11/02/2026

On October 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has begun issuing federal registrations to state-licensed medical ma*****na dispensaries. More than 900 dispensaries are in the first phase, across AL, FL, MS, SD, TX, VA, and WV.

What it does:
→ Registers dispensaries that applied in the initial 60-day window and passed DEA’s pre-registration investigation
→ Attaches federal security, recordkeeping, and inventory-control duties
→ Leaves manufacturer and distributor applications under further review

What it does not do:
→ Authorize adult-use or any activity outside the order’s scope, which remains Schedule I
→ Treat state licensure as federal registration
→ Replace the separate rescheduling proceeding

Registration is a compliance event, not just a milestone. Operators in the first phase now carry federal obligations alongside their state requirements, and the manufacturer and distributor gap leaves supply-chain questions open.

CannabizMD helps operators and teams build compliance programs that hold up at both levels. Link in bio.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, Press Release No. 26-1276 (Oct. 30, 2026).

10/28/2026

Calling all creatives! 🎨🌿

The Tea Pad Foundation is looking for a volunteer graphic designer to help bring our social media to life.

We’re a Maryland nonprofit empowering women to innovate and advance in cannabis and plant-based STEM. The content is written and ready. What we need is someone with a good eye to turn it into scroll-stopping graphics that fit our established brand look.

What you’d do:
✨ Design Instagram posts, carousels, and Stories from provided content
✨ Work within our existing brand guidelines
✨ Help us keep a consistent, polished presence online

😁 A strong cannabis community is a bonus for us!

What you’ll get:
💚 Portfolio-worthy work for a mission-driven organization (a legit nonprofit)
💚 A voice in a growing community of women in plant-based STEM
💚 Real impact on how our story reaches the world

Canva experience is a must, and flexible hours are fine. No cannabis background is required, just enthusiasm for our mission.

Interested? Email with a link to your portfolio or a few samples of your work on social.

Help us show up beautifully for the women we serve. 💫

10/22/2026

Billie Holiday - an icon. The man who built cannabis prohibition in America spent years trying to destroy her.

Harry J. Anslinger ran the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962. He wrote the case for criminalizing cannabis, and he made that case in explicitly racial terms — tying the plant to Black and Latino communities and to jazz. His. bureau kept files on jazz musicians.

Billie Holiday was among them. Billie Holiday was one of the greatest vocalists in American history and the voice behind "Strange Fruit," the 1939 song about lynching. The song was first a poem written by a Jewish man, Abel Meeropol

An agent was assigned to follow her. In 1947, she was arrested in Philadelphia and sent to a federal prison camp. The conviction cost her the cabaret card she needed to sing in New York clubs — for the rest of her life.

In 1959, dying of cirrhosis at 44, she was placed under guard in her hospital bed. Narcotics agents were still there when she died.

She was 44 years old. Anslinger remained in office for three more years.

While that campaign was being built, tea pads were quietly doing the opposite. They were speakeasy-style rooms, often somebody's apartment, where people gathered around jazz and cannabis. In a segregated country, they were among the few rooms where people of every racial and ethnic background could simply be together.

The rooms were the point. The gathering was the point. That is what prohibition was aimed at.

Tea Pad Foundation took the name on purpose. We are a nonprofit advancing women in cannabis science and policy, and every gathering funds the Tea Pad Fellowship — twelve weeks of education and a paid industry placement to empower women to innovate and advance in cannabis STEM.

Our top sponsorship tier is named for Billie Holiday. Not as decoration. As a record of what was taken and from whom.

On October 29, we gather lawfully, three miles from the Capitol.

🎟️ bit.ly/teapaddctickets

10/21/2026

🩷October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Know your numbers. Know your screening schedule. 🎀

U.S. breast cancer rates per 100,000 women (age-adjusted):

NEW CASES / DEATHS
▪️White (non-Hispanic): 141.3 / 19.1
▪️Black (non-Hispanic): 132.4 / 25.9
▪️American Indian/Alaska Native (non-Hispanic): 119.4 / 16.9
▪️Asian/Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic): 116.5 / 11.8
▪️Hispanic: 107.9 / 13.4

👉THE TAKEAWAY
Black women have a lower breast cancer incidence than White women but worse outcomes at every stage: a 38% higher death rate and 5-year survival of about 82% versus 92%. The evidence points to unequal access and treatment, more aggressive tumor subtypes, and underlying health conditions. Screening and follow-up matter.

👉WHO IS "AVERAGE RISK"?
A woman is considered average risk if she does not have:
▪️A personal history of breast cancer
▪️A strong family history of breast cancer
▪️A gene change (mutation) known to increase risk, such as in a BRCA gene
▪️A history of chest radiation therapy before age 30

👉SCREENING GUIDELINES FOR AVERAGE-RISK WOMEN
• Ages 40 to 44: option to start yearly mammograms
• Ages 45 to 54: yearly mammograms
• Ages 55 and older: switch to a mammogram every other year, or continue yearly. Keep screening as long as you are in good health and expected to live at least 10 more years.

🫨Clinical breast exams (physical exams by a health professional) are not recommended for breast cancer screening in average-risk women at any age. That's right - NOT.

❓Not sure whether you are average risk? Ask your healthcare provider, especially if you have a family history or other risk factors. Share this with the women in your life. 💗

🤓Sources: DM - we've got them!

😁Educate. Build. Engage. CannabizMD.com That's what we do! Follow for more.

10/20/2026

Look closely at this poster. Four women. Four skin tones. One room.👉

That is the whole idea, and it is why the Tea Pad poster exists.

In the 1920s and '30s, a tea pad was a speakeasy-style room where people of every racial and ethnic background gathered around jazz — free from the violence of a federal prohibition campaign whose harshest and longest consequences fell on Black and Brown communities. Those rooms were among the few places in American life where that mix of people could simply be together.

🎨The original artwork repeats one woman in four palettes because that room was never meant for one kind of woman. It still isn't.

Tea Pad Foundation revived that experience first in Maryland in 2019 and has since carried it across the region — to D.C., Atlanta, Boston and New Jersey — as a gathering devoted to equity, education, and the advancement of women in the legal cannabis industry. The poster is the shortest way we know to say what we are about.

Here are the details:

🖼️Standard poster size, 24 x 36 inches, printed from the original artwork. Customize with your favorite city!
🟢Unframed — $75 plus shipping
🟢Framed in black — $130 plus shipping

Every poster sold funds the Tea Pad Fellowship. A Fellowship runs twelve weeks: one week of onboarding, three weeks of cannabis science and policy education, then eight weeks placed with a cannabis business for mentored, paid work experience — with the goal of permanent employment at the end of it. It is built to empower women to innovate and advance in cannabis STEM. Fully funding one Fellow costs $15,000.

So this is not merchandise. It'z piece of art that pays for a woman's way into this industry.

Hang it where people will ask about it. Then tell them what it means.

🖼️ Posters: https://teapad.co
🎟️ Tea Pad D.C. is Thursday, October 29 at Higher Ground Cannabis Dispensary, 1135 Okie St NE, Washington, D.C. — tickets at https://bit.ly/teapaddctickets
✉️ Sponsorship and vendor tables: [email protected]

Tea Pad Foundation LTD is a 501(c)(3) organization.

10/07/2026

🎀 You're invited! 🎀

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Join our industry partner D.C. medical cananbis dispensary Holistic District and District Cannabis for an afternoon of evidence-informed education and hands-on self-care.

🌿 Cannabis + Cancer Presentation: What the current research says (and doesn't yet say) about medical cannabis for managing symptoms during and after cancer treatment, like nausea, appetite, sleep and pain.
🛁 Infused Bath Salt Workshop: Make your own to take home.

📅 Saturday, October 24
🕐 1:00–3:00 PM
📍 Holistic District 2002 17th St NW, Washington, D.C.

💗Space is limited. RSVP https://bit.ly/4hKsr1X💗

👉This is an educational event, not medical advice. Talk with your oncology care team before using cannabis alongside cancer treatment.

10/05/2026

After 90 years, Tea Pad is legal in D.C.! Join us Thursday, October 29, 6–9 PM at Higher Ground Cannabis Dispensary, in a licensed consumption lounge.

Eric Scott joins us as our featured artist at Tea Pad.

"I think being an artist means having the ultimate trust in yourself." Washington, DC singer/songwriter and bassist Eric Scott returns to Tea Pad DC. He is an 18-time Wammie winner (Washington Area Music Association), has released 6 solo albums on his own Itzall Goode Music label, and has shared the stage with B.B. King, Mavis Staples, Aaron Neville, and Roger Waters. His new Eric Scott Trio album, with 10 original tracks, arrived earlier this year. A "Modern Soul" sound that's funky, upbeat, socially aware, and ever soulful.

Early bird tickets are now on sale for $35! That's product samples, good food, swag, and more!
🔗 for tickets on TeaPad.co and in our IG bio.

Thank you to our Founding Sponsor: CannabizMD and Ella Fitzgerald Level Sponsor: Cannaline

Founding sponsor: CannabizMD. Ella Fitzgerald Level Sponsor: Cannaline.

Tea Pad empowers women to advance in cannabis STEM through skill-building education and professional development.

10/02/2026

What a perfect day to share that CannabizMD has been nominated by Americans for Safe Access for THE 2026 PROFESSIONAL STANDARD AWARD: Professional Education & Training as part of Cannabis Safety Month, the 8th anniversary since our website launch! Voting soon - we'll be sharing that link!

Founder Jacquie Cohen Roth conceptualized CannabizMD in 2017, pivoting from physician and healthcare stakeholder education to a full focus on medical cannabis. No platform existed to educate, build, and engage an ecosystem committed to optimal patient and product outcomes, so she built one. It soon went international.

Over eight years, CannabizMD has:
🔹 Hosted webinars, Cannabis Science + Policy Forums, Cooking with Cannabis for Patients, Cannabis + Innovation, and Grow the Ladies
🔹 Become the first cannabis ancillary funded by MD Commerce and an ExportMD grant
🔹 Earned MBE/SBE/DBE certification as a woman-owned company
🔹 Been approved by the Maryland Cannabis Administration as a Responsible Vendor Training provider (the only MD-based company)
🔹 Launched Maryland and D.C. Cannabis Industry Professional courses
🔹 Partnered with CannaWorkforce, Inc. on MD Labor EARN grants, training from trimming to cultivation to dispensary ops. A national first!
🔹 Built AskCBMD.ai, an AI-powered cannabis clinical care, science and policy research assistant
🔹 Grown a sister social enterprise into The Tea Pad Foundation LTD, a 501(c)(3) empowering women in cannabis and plant-based medicine STEM
🔹 Been nominated by Americans for Safe Access for the 2026 Professional Standard Award: Professional Education & Training. Voting starts today! 🗳️

And to everyone who has advanced the CannabizMD mission: patients, scientists, researchers, physicians, nurses, legislators, industry colleagues, interns, and Tea Pad fireside chat guests. Some are from the 2018 launch party (some pics here), and some are from our programs. All part of the story,

Eight years in, more energized than ever. Here's to what's next.💚

🗳️ Vote: link will be in bio. Stay tuned!

09/29/2026

🍪🏭 🥬Bakers, line cooks, food-production pros: your skills transfer to the regulated cannabis industry!

➡️🙌CannaWorkforce is now enrolling for processing training, which prepares Maryland residents to work on the production floors of the state's regulated cannabis industry.

👉 One of our industry partners is actively recruiting for a Baltimore-based position now!

Processing teams follow precise formulas, keep batch and temperature logs, and hold themselves to strict sanitation and food-safety standards. If you've worked in a commercial kitchen, a bakery, or food manufacturing, you already know how that works.

CannaWorkforce training prepares you for entry-level production roles, with a clear path to lead and floor-management positions as you build experience.

💥AND YOU GET PAID $400 TO LEARN! As long as you meet our requirements and successfully complete all training.

✔️ Maryland resident ✔️ High school diploma or GED ✔️ Unemployed or underemployed and ready for a career move

CannaWorkforce curriculum was built with our Strategic Industry Partners (SIP), who interview successful Learners for open roles. The training includes state-mandated industry training, Responsible Vendor Training, developed and delivered by the only Maryland-based company to do so, US - CannabizMD! All plant-touching training is taught using h**p.

CannaWorkforce is funded by the Maryland Department of Labor's EARN (Employment Advancement Right Now) grant.

👉 Send an email to [email protected].