'… If there’s not equity baked into cannabis, what hope is there left for any kind of justice when it comes to the unfair treatment of people of color in America?'įollowing the horrific and public murder of George Floyd in 2020, a group of Chicago hospitality professionals noticed that many local restaurants were posting messages of solidarity with Black Lives Matter. 'There’s no other industry that is so intrinsically connected to the criminalization of Black and Brown people,' Lindsay says. On the sidelines, Lindsay also co-founded Equitable Opportunities Now, a nonprofit fighting to preserve equity provisions in local cannabis laws and create opportunities for women and people of color in the industry. It doesn’t take long to crank out weed-infused treats without stinking up your entire block. The company’s crown jewel is the Ardent FX, an 'Easy Bake' device that allows you to decarboxylate, infuse and bake flower-all inside a vessel that’s about the size of a rice cooker. Lindsay finds motivation in educating and empowering her customers to understand exactly what’s going into their bodies every time they puff puff pass.
Every unique element of her identity paved the way to Ardent, her Boston-based biotech and medical cannabis device company that’s revolutionizing the way we get high. Shanel Lindsay is a mother, a lawyer, an entrepreneur and a cannabis connoisseur. With more than 3 million users and almost 15 million portions of food shared, Clarke and Celestial-One are setting their sights on an even bolder target: 1 billion OLIO users by 2030 – an effort that could ultimately help ease climate and hunger issues around the globe. 'That’s because COVID highlighted just how precious food is, which led to a collective leap in terms of how much we value it.' 'COVID has resulted in an outburst of neighbourly sharing, as reflected by the fact that the amount of food being shared each month has increased five-fold since the pandemic struck,' Clarke says. It’s a mission that’s become increasingly urgent over the past year. OLIO is a neighbour-to-neighbour food-sharing platform that combats waste by allowing folks to list and claim surplus eats. So she dreamed up the idea for an app and brought it to life with help from friend and co-founder Saasha Celestial-One. 'The problem was they just didn’t know about it.' 'Through the whole process, it seemed to me crazy that I should have to throw this food away when there were surely plenty of people within hundreds of metres of me who would love it,' Clarke says. It sent her on a wild (and ultimately unsuccessful) goose chase to find a good home for the orphan produce. Tessa Clarke was in the middle of moving when she came across some food she couldn’t bear to throw away.
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