The High Times Female 50
ALIX HADLEY
C.R.A.F.T. CANNABIS
Alix Hadley is the CEO and cofounder of C.R.A.F.T. Cannabis, a boutique cannabis company located in California’s Bay Area. Hadley is a master cultivator and entrepreneur with 20-plus years of organic farming/gardening experience. She produces some of the most exotic strains available in California as evidenced by C.R.A.F.T.’s multiple cannabis-competition awards and accolades from High Times, East Bay Express and Patients’ Choice.
RYLIE MAEDLER
RYLIE’S SUNSHINE
Rylie Maedler is the teenage powerhouse and CEO behind Rylie’s Sunshine and the founder of the Rylie’s Smile Foundation nonprofit. She has helped pass five laws granting access to medical cannabis for sick children in her home state of Delaware, and she is supporting additional laws being presented this legislative session, including one related to nurse-administered cannabis on school grounds. Maedler’s mission is expressed through activism, particularly at conferences throughout the world, and despite using medical cannabis every day, frequent brain scans show that her brain is developing normally—her honor-roll status further proves she’s on the path to greatness.
TRACY RYAN
CANNAKIDS
Tracy Ryan is the CEO of CannaKids and the founder of savingsophie.org. After her infant daughter’s brain-tumor diagnosis in 2013, Ryan dedicated her life to helping patients with her line of CannaKids medical-cannabis oils. With preclinical human trials underway involving Canna-Kids’ cancer patients, including an animal-model trial on her daughter, it’s Ryan’s mission to bring nontoxic drugs to market for patients suffering from cancer and other life-altering diseases.
RENEE GAGNON
HOLLYWEED NORTH CANNABIS INC.
Renee Gagnon, founder and chief executive officer of HollyWeed North Cannabis Inc., is one of the most dynamic voices in today’s cannabis market. At the world’s first transgender-female-led federally licensed public cannabis company (she also founded Thunderbird Biomedical, now known as Emerald Health Therapeutics), Gagnon built a women-centered team dedicated to setting the standard for both research and manufacturing.
EMILY SKROBECKI
CANNSTEM
Emily Skrobecki is the manager of process engineering at SRSE Technology and a co-founder of CannSTEM, an organization that brings scientists together to promote the development of cannabis scientific knowledge and innovation. Skrobecki quickly became an expert in the industry because of her chemical-engineering background and experience with commercializing botanical extractions. After legal cannabis sales picked up in 2015, she immediately applied her knowledge to the industry and rapidly grew with it. Today, Skrobecki is working on perfecting water-soluble applications, the newest
