“For me, alcohol wasn’t a bad thing. People made money and supported their families on this. I always thought that vices weren’t as bad as people thought they were,” she said to NBC New York.
Dockery was listed among Forbes 30 Under 30 list last year, and her ambition continues to grow, particularly in her hometown as New York legalized recreational marijuana on March 31.
To her, the first and foremost impact of legalization is decriminalizing marijuana possession and expunging nearly 160,000 prior convictions.
“The most important thing about legalization is that it has the potential to reverse mass incarceration,” she said.
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In a ‘joint effort’ to bring together the most brilliant minds in the cannabis industry with an experienced financial investor in the space, Catharine Dockery, founder of vice investment firm, Vice Ventures, is hosting Puff Puff Pitch, a Shark Tank-inspired investment opportunity hosted on Clubhouse on 4/20, exclusively for cannabis brands.
With the recent legalization progress made in New York, opening the floodgates to the endless possibilities in the world of cannabis, Vice Ventures is on the hunt for the Next Big CannaBrand. Boasting an impressive portfolio of investment companies in the cannabis and cannabinoids space, like InDose, Recess, HATH, and Plant People – Catharine recognizes and understands what it takes for a business to succeed in the labyrinthine and often tumultuous world of cannabis.
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Lucy Goods Inc. PMTA Accepted for Scientific Review and Key Data Accepted for Publication by The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)
March 2, 2021 GMT
LOS ANGELES, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Lucy Goods Inc., a provider of next generation nicotine products, announced today that data from their Premarket Tobacco Applications (“PMTA”) was accepted for publication and included in presentations at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (“SRNT”) conference. The PMTA was submitted, accepted, and filed for scientific review by the FDA in 2020 and the expediency of the process is a testament to Lucy’s work in the space.
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