2024 was a turbulent year for me. To talk about my 2024, though, I have to first talk about someone else: Deirdre Olsen.The Weed SceneThe year was 2019, and I had moved to Vancouver the year before to take a job with Tantalus Labs. I was working for Tesla of cannabis, and I really thought I had died and gone to heaven. I was living twin lives as a regulatory affairs executive and a social media celebrity.This is SunLab, Tantalus Labs primary production facility - I miss it a lot.SunLab was am...

Inching my piece of writing about being sexually assaulted at Vibecamp over the finish line, but I want to publish something I’ve been thinking about for a while.I was in the closet, pretending to be a male for most of my life. March of 2025 will mark my 5 year anniversary of coming out. I did so publicly, owing to my position at the time as a very public figure in the cannabis industry. After I posted my blog on Twitter, when you could still do such a thing, I was relieved. I felt really fre...

Liking this format so far, so here's another tale about that time I was part of winning the drug war in Canada.If there's one cause that ...

Liking this format so far, so here's another tale about that time I was part of winning the drug war in Canada.If there's one cause that ...

We all have those pivotal moments in our lives, when one big choice has the potential to send us in two vastly different directions. The most pivotal ...