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Meet the other Candy Girls

In this week's Westword, Joel Warner reports on the ganjapreneurs, economic adventurers exploring this state's booming business in medical marijuana. Among the folks high on the field's possibilities: the Candy Girls, three women who started a company that cooks up goodies made with cannabis-infused oils or butters. This medicine may...
By Patricia Calhoun
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In this week’s Westword, Joel Warner reports on the ganjapreneurs, economic adventurers exploring this state’s booming business in medical marijuana. Among the folks high on the field’s possibilities: the Candy Girls, three women who started a company that cooks up goodies made with cannabis-infused oils or butters.

This medicine may be good for you, but it also tastes good. (The chocolate-covered cherries are the most popular item.)

For a slide show of these Candy Girls (who are not to be confused with the Candy Girls that post on this blog every Thursday), click here.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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