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by Windy Borman | Nov 4, 2016 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director, Notes from the Field
On October 28th, I returned to my home state of Oregon to film some inspiring “women of weed”, including 3 of the 10 women listed in a recent Huffington Post article about Oregon’s successful female “ganjaprenuers”. It was also the first time “Mary Janes: The Women of...
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by Windy Borman | Jul 25, 2016 | 2016 Marijuana Campaigns, Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
“2016 is a record year for marijuana drug policy reform,” observes Karen O’Keefe, Director of State Policies for Marijuana Policy Project. When we sat down with her last week, O’Keefe shared that as of July 2016, there are 25 states that allow medical marijuana, and...
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by Windy Borman | Jul 18, 2016 | Featured Article, Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
The concept of the “Male Gaze” was first developed by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay entitled “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. “The Male Gaze” is the way visual arts depict the world and women from a...
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by Windy Borman | Jul 11, 2016 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director, Reasons We Need a film about Women in Cannabis
Recently, Weediquette ran it’s “Mary Janes” episode, which featured the women who are building the foundation of the cannabis industry–like our amazing Puffragettes Jane West, Jazmin Hupp, Julianna Carella and Sabrina Fendrick–and gave them a national...
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by Windy Borman | Jun 30, 2016 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director, Notes from the Field
Oakland, California hosted the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) Business Summit and Expo last week, and we were there to document it for “Mary Janes: The Women of Weed”. I was thrilled to return to the Bay Area for a few days. I lived in the...
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by Windy Borman | Jun 6, 2016 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
I get asked this a lot: “Why produce a Film about WOMEN in Cannabis?” My snarky answer is: “Why Not?” Sometimes that does the trick, but other times the Querent needs a list of reasons why women are important in cannabis. To wit, here are my...
