STIRING THE POT
On a recent afternoon at Poppy & Monroe, the Germantown spa known for its natural and eco-friendly products and services, the air swirled with the clean fragrances of beauty creams and nail polishes—universal scents of self-care.
Roaming the shelves in the clean white space, a woman with electric blue eyeliner showed a customer concoctions of cannabidiol (CBD) tinctures blended with turmeric, black pepper, or other herbs. The pale peach and floral Yuyo Botantics label wrapped around a brown bottle with black dropper top helping it blend in like feminine camo.
But not all products with CBD—the acronym for cannabidiol, one of more than 100 cannabinoids in a cannabis plant—come with such a soft touch. Christie Tarleton, a co-founder of Yuyo Botantics, says farmers growing cannabis plants overwhelmingly tend to be men. And yet when it comes to Yuyo’s products,
