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Trailblazers with Jennawae of Calyx + Trichomes
ADCANN March 25, 2021 This week’s Trailblazer is Jennawae McLean, Co-Founder, and CEO of Calyx + Trichomes, a provincially licensed cannabis store in Kingston, Ontario, and 2020
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Kingston pot shop is hiring — and those with drug charges on their records ‘need apply’
“In order for our justice system to be truly effective, we need to have viable options for people to do after while they’re in rehabilitation, after they’ve done their sentence, whatever it may be,” she said.
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How Authorized Cannabis Retailers Give Back to Their Communities
“From our perspective, we’re paying a debt owed to the people who fought for legalization,” says CEO and co-founder Jennawae McLean.
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Cannabis Canada Weekly: Pot stock rally fizzles, Q1 sales to slow due to COVID-19
“I’m sure next January will be better in gross sales and profitability,” she said in an interview. “I really think that the lockdown took a big chunk and having to pivot [to delivery] was really what depressed sales.”
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1-gram cannabis flower sales fell in 2020 amid pandemic, but don’t write off the small packet
The small packages have been “desperately lacking on our (wholesalers’) buy (sheet) every week,” said McLean, founder and CEO of Calyx + Trichomes, a licensed cannabis store in Kingston, Ontario.
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Canadian Cannabis Storefront Brand of the Year Finalists
Calyx + Trichomes embraces the beauty and complexity of the cannabis plant – in their store name and design.
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Opinion: Allow curbside pickup and delivery for all Ontario cannabis stores
Cannabis delivery and curbside pickup are a labour of love, a public service and quite frankly the only responsible approach to help flatten the curve. Let us do our part.
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OCS halving liability requirement lightens load for Ontario weed stores
Most insurance companies aren’t really looking at cannabis stores right now. It’s even worse than the way banking is for weed businesses, notes McLean.
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‘It’s still too slow’: Ontario doubles monthly weed retail approvals to 40
“It’s still too slow,” says Calyx + Trichomes Cannabis co-owner Jennawae McLean. “As an owner, I am holding back opening more locations because I quite frankly do not want to go through another year or two holding a lease with that type of uncertainty.”
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Kingston sees increase in cannabis store applications
In April 2020, Jennawae McLean, owner of Calyx + Trichomes, announced that “she had finally obtained her license.” According to a Global News report. Calyx + Trichomes became Kingston’s third licensed Cannabis retailer.
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Retailers face backlash after ‘tone deaf’ letter attacks illicit market
m, McLean says the eight retailers need to apologize and consider donating to Cannabis Amnesty, an organization that lobbies for expungement of cannabis-related charges to undo the some of the harms of cannabis prohibition.
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Behold, a weed store that looks like it actually sells weed
For longtime cannabis advocates and former legacy market operators Jennawae McLean and Lorenzo Cavion, building authenticity into the four walls of their regulated store came naturally.