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Former NBA Player, Springfield Native Travis Best Announced As Co-Owner Of Massachusetts Cannabis Dispensary Lemonnade
Travis Best, a Springfield native who formerly played in the NBA, has been announced as a co-owner of a cannabis dispensary looking to open in his home city. The dispensary, Lemonnade, is majority-owned by Brittany Washumare, a Western Massachusetts resident who is also a certified economic empowerment applicant with the state Cannabis Control Commission. Lemonnade is a sister brand of Cookies, a company with some of the most popular cannabis products in the U.S. In…
How Al Harrington Is Helping Build a Black-Owned Weed Industry
“We’re pioneering something,” says the former NBA star and founder of Viola cannabis, who says he wants to create 100 Black millionaires by funding new businesses. At the end of 2011, Al Harrington’s 79-year-old grandmother Viola came to visit. When the Denver Nuggets star discovered that she was taking multiple medications for glaucoma, diabetes, and high blood pressure, he told her that he’d recently read about treating glaucoma with cannabis, and asked if she’d consider…
Magic Johnson on How He Treats Pain from ‘Many Years in the NBA’: ‘Your Body’s Going to Break Down’
Magic Johnson recently joined Uncle Bud’s Hemp & CBD as a brand ambassador. Magic Johnson knows he’s far from his days of lobbing passes to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy as a young star on the Los Angeles Lakers. With his 62nd birthday approaching in August, Johnson — who led the Lakers to five NBA championships during the 1980s — says keeping active has remained a priority for him. Even today, Johnson works out at…
Retired Athletes Jumping High Into The Cannabis Industry
Cannabis, by any name, has long been abhorred in the world of professional sports. But, times are changing. Prior to this year, the drug had been on the banned substance list of every major sports association save the National Hockey League. While marijuana remains on the list, the NBA initially elected to suspend testing players for it during the 2019 season restart – a policy they extended into the 2020-2021 season. Let’s be frank, weed…
From The NBA To Cannabis: How Al Harrington Is Changing The Industry For People Of Colour
Al Harrington is a trailblazer. At a time when it seems that yet another professional athlete is making a foray into the cannabis landscape with product launches or endorsements, Harrington preceded them years earlier with his own milestone: In 2011, the former NBA player founded Viola, a medical marijuana operation he named in honor of his grandmother after he saw how the plant treated her glaucoma. However, becoming an entrepreneur in an industry that was…
Al Harrington Talks Cannabis Sales and Covid-19, The Hiring Power of Social Equity and ‘Never Giving Up’
As a founder, 16-season NBA player, and father of four, Al Harrington may be more experienced than most at staying cool under pressure and at making tough decisions, including pivots, that benefit a larger goal. But Harrington, who’s been an active cannabis entrepreneur and advocate since retiring from the NBA in 2014, believes that anyone can find success in their chosen field so long as they’re in it for the right reasons — even now,…
5 Must-Read Books About Cannabis for Athletes and Active People
According to former Duke University and Chicago Bulls star Jay Williams, approximately 75 to 80 percent of NBA players use cannabis, despite it being banned by the league. Like Williams, many athletes across sports have turned to cannabis for alleviating pain in place of treatment protocols that have the potential for dangerous side effects and addiction. However, you don’t have to be a collegiate or professional athlete to benefit from cannabis. Whether you’re a gym…
The First Black-Owned Multinational Cannabis Brand: Al Harrington’s Viola To Launch In Canada
March 24, 2021
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