Sister Act: California's 'weed nuns'

Brut America

Nuns, cannabis and a higher power...  Meet the "sisters" who sell cannabis products.

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00:00This refrigerator is meant just to hold our cannabis.

00:03We have recently begun making something called stick tincture.

00:11Come on sisters.

00:13My journey with cannabis was very interesting because

00:16I was using it instead of taking my Adderall for ADD.

00:21And it really helped me a lot with a lot of my symptoms and stuff like that.

00:26So I feel like I've been a sister for a long time.

00:29But now it's just formalized more.

00:36I want to show you the pictures of the sisters.

00:38This is something we do every year where the sisters gather.

00:43And we have a picture of the sisters.

00:49So this is our abbey.

00:50We call it the abbey.

00:52It's where our medicines are made.

00:53So our garden is here and we just harvest.

01:03It's kind of like we're coming into winter.

01:06And so normally our plants will be all across the garden.

01:20We make hemp-based products, CBD products.

01:22Our bestseller is a topical salve.

01:24And we also make drops and tinctures for people.

01:28Primarily for people who have pain relief.

01:30But some of us take it just as a health maintenance.

01:33So right now we're making the salve.

01:34We're starting the base of the salve.

01:38Which is your coconut oil and also flour.

01:44And we let this boil for three hours.

01:53We're definitely nuns.

01:57We never went after calling ourselves nuns.

02:00When I started this six years ago, I wasn't like,

02:02oh, I'm going to make a convent with nuns.

02:04And we're all going to go to bed at the same time.

02:07And we're all going to wake up at the same time.

02:08And we're all going to get our periods together.

02:10That wasn't the intention.

02:11It was a sisterhood where women help women own businesses.

02:23They grew hemp.

02:24And they grew cannabis.

02:25And they made medicines.

02:26And they made textiles.

02:27And they made soaps.

02:29And they were in high demand because of their excellence.

02:31So we have patterned ourselves after the Beguines.

02:34We want to be like them.

02:36Our other sister.

02:38She's rolling a joint.

02:39She has her little joint there.

02:46I was a corporate girl.

02:47And I worked in corporate America for corporate America.

02:53And ending up in California made me realize that I could continue to be poor.

03:00Or I could embrace the most newly deregulated business on the planet, which is cannabis.

03:11To make a very long story short, when Congress declared Pete's a vegetable,

03:15I declared myself a nun.

03:16I started going to protests as a nun.

03:19The women wanted me to formalize my belief system as they got to know me.

03:23And I was like, no, you don't formalize this.

03:26This is a statement against everything that's wrong with our society.

03:29We cover ourselves for a number of reasons.

03:31We cover ourselves to honor a plant that has been dishonored for 100 years.

03:36And we believe that our uniforms speak to the public and say,

03:40these women know plant-based medicine and know plant-based diets.

04:04We allow 20% of the enclave to be brothers.

04:07If you want to be a brother, all you have to do is be a feminist man.

04:15The cannabis plant is definitely a plant that calls to the women to come out and grow me.

04:20It is meant for the women to create industries with.

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