Wanda James is one of the most widely respected leaders in cannabis today. As a Black woman, a veteran, a former Fortune 100 executive, and now and now an elected official. she has spent the past decade working to remove the stigma of the plant and shedding light on the racial inequities of the cannabis industry.
Wanda is the founder and CEO of Simply Pure Dispensary in Denver. Along with her husband Scott Durrah, they became the first African Americans, legally licensed in America, to own a dispensary, a cultivation facility, and edible company.
“Things like ‘first’ and ‘only’ just motivate me to want to open up the floodgates”
