How carpool-driving suburban moms are taking the cannabis industry to new highs
Jane West has gotten high with Snoop Dogg, been busted by the SWAT team, and fired from her job for vaping.
Like West, you’d never guess that Rosie Mattio, a bubbly mom of four kids all age 10 or under, works in weed. The Boston University-educated brunette, who does public relations for cannabis companies such as marijuana dating app High There, seems like every other mom in her daughter’s carpool line. That is, until she jumps out of the car rocking a marijuana-leaf tank.Mommies who pay the bills with weed.
One of West’s newer pot-ventures is Jane West, a female-friendly line of sleek bongs and other products in trendy colors like cobalt and amber. The company is successful enough that she now pays herself and three employees a salary, although she won't get in to the weeds with numbers and declined to share exact figures. West projects that in the next few years, her take-home pay will exceed the $80,000 a year she made in her former corporate job.
Then she discovered weed, which helped her lose weight and curb her stress — and decided to make a career out of it. She started with a very part-time gig hosting pot parties — think Mary Kay, but for Mary Jane — giving groups of eight to 12 women lessons about cannabis, and then selling them everything from $50 vape pens to $600 table-top pot vaporizers. She says she could make anywhere from nothing to more than $1,000 a party.
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