Sisters of the Valley explained

Retail Market Name:Sisters of the Valley[1]
Location:California's Central Valley
Opening Date:2015
Owner:Christine Meeusen[2]
Number Of Tenants:3

Sisters of the Valley is a small business that sells cannabidiol tinctures, cannabidiol infused oil, and cannabidiol salves, for oral and topical use, made with ethanol and coconut oil, via their website and the craft e-commerce website Etsy. It is based in Merced, California, and its proprietors follow a monastic motif.

History

In 2015, the sales of the Sisters of the Valley's CBD products reached $6,000,000.[3] Early on the business, the company was banned from advertising on Facebook, and started focusing its communications effort on PR.[4]

In 2017, the sales of the CBD-related products reached $25.1 million.[4]

Description

Following practices of biodynamic agriculture, workers regulate their operations by the cycles of the moon, starting two-week production intervals upon the new moon, during which time they also practice chastity and vegetarianism.

The owner and "lead Sister" Christine Meeusen, who does not identify with Christianity, considers the production to be a spiritual activity, whose rituals and incorporate New Age practices and environmentalism,[5] borrowing from "Native American" practices. Meeusen also mentions the Beguines to refer to her business' philosophy.[4] [6]

The members wear religious habits and refer to each other as sisters, but claim no affiliation with a religious order.[7]

Business Insider calls the Sisters of the Valley nuns "the most talked-about women in the pot business".

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Notes and References

  1. Ciani . Corrine . Meet the Weed Nuns: Our Ladies of the Perpetual High . 17 January 2022 . . . 25 December 2021 . When we visit, five women live in the home: Sister Kate, 62; Sister Sophia, 49; Sister Quinn, 25; and at the moment, Sister Luna and Sister Camilla, both 34, who are visiting from Mexico. Sister Kass, 29, lives off the property with her two children and her partner, Brother Rudy, the collective’s crop manager...Fifteen months later, she made a Weed Nuns Facebook page; she soon amassed 5,000 followers. In 2015, one of those adherents landed on her doorstep, declaring she would work for free. ...'Huh, if four of us lived together and made medicine together, we could share our Netflix bill and I wouldn’t have to give up cable'...'We are in our seventh year of operations'...'10 people working on a one-acre farm' .
  2. News: Barnett . Angela . Sister Act: Meet the weed nuns 'who are dealers' . 17 January 2022 . . 12 April 2019 . en-NZ . At 56, the mother of three was homeless and broke after her husband turned out to be a polygamous fraudster who siphoned their substantial earnings (which she had earned) into foreign bank accounts. Then her brother kicked her out of the home they shared and the weed-growing business they had forged together...."To stay legal we have to hide the evidence that this is medicine. The FDA would shut us down if we were making claims in the same place where we're selling." She has two websites to deal with this..
  3. News: An uncanny mixture: God, alcohol and even cannabis . BBC News . 26 October 2016 .
  4. Web site: Sisters of the Valley: The Nuns Whose Religion is Cannabis .
  5. Web site: Wong . Julia Carrie . Julia Carrie Wong . 2016-01-25 . Cannabis-growing 'nuns' grapple with California law: 'We are illegal' . 2022-10-14 . the Guardian . en.
  6. Web site: Cannabidiol Products . Sunday, June 21, 2020
  7. Web site: 08.02 EST . Cannabis-growing 'nuns' grapple with California law: 'We are illegal' | US news . The Guardian . 2016-02-17 . 2016-12-11.

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