High Pride: Pot Industry Embraces LGBTQ Culture, Everyone Wins

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Why pot and Pride are perfect for each other

, a certified sex coach, clinical sexologist, and queer cannabis user, agrees. “Personally I think cannabis companies align more authentically with Pride than other companies because of the marginalized way both groups are presented in society,” she explains. “Unlike stupid corporate brands that are hopping on the bandwagon to sell their shitty merchandise when they once were nominally anti-gay, cannabis companies have pretty much never been anti-queer, as far as I know. Queers love weed.

In fact, there’s a long history of the LGBTQ community’s involvement with the legal marijuana movement. “Legalization of cannabis wouldn’t be a thing if it wasn’t the LGBTQ community,” says Daniel Saynt, founder of the, a media brand that specializes in cannabis and sexual-wellness content. “The HIV/AIDS epidemic was a major driver in legalizing the drug for medicinal use. Steve L.

Peron, who Saynt mentions, is now considered the godfather of the legal cannabis movement. The openly gay man actually fought to legalize cannabis well before the AIDS epidemic, but when the disease began to ravage the gay community, Peron opened a Cannabis Buyers’ Club, where individuals with AIDS and other illnesses could purchase cannabis to help mitigate pain, nausea, headaches, wasting syndrome, anxiety, depression, and other symptoms associated with HIV/AIDS. Steve L.

, sexual minority adults are more than twice as likely to use marijuana when compared to heterosexual adults. Almost a third of sexual minority adults reported using marijuana in the past year, compared to 12.9 percent of heterosexual adults.

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Ummm... pot is a commodity. It will “embrace” anyone. 🙄

High pride eat shit

pride is a pathetic stain on everything decent, moral, and good.

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