CannabizMD

10/07/2026

🎀 You're invited! 🎀

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Join our industry partner D.C. medical cananbis dispensary Holistic District and District Cannabis for an afternoon of evidence-informed education and hands-on self-care.

🌿 Cannabis + Cancer Presentation: What the current research says (and doesn't yet say) about medical cannabis for managing symptoms during and after cancer treatment, like nausea, appetite, sleep and pain.
🛁 Infused Bath Salt Workshop: Make your own to take home.

📅 Saturday, October 24
🕐 1:00–3:00 PM
📍 Holistic District 2002 17th St NW, Washington, D.C.

💗Space is limited. RSVP https://bit.ly/4hKsr1X💗

👉This is an educational event, not medical advice. Talk with your oncology care team before using cannabis alongside cancer treatment.

10/05/2026

After 90 years, Tea Pad is legal in D.C.! Join us Thursday, October 29, 6–9 PM at Higher Ground Cannabis Dispensary, in a licensed consumption lounge.

Eric Scott joins us as our featured artist at Tea Pad.

"I think being an artist means having the ultimate trust in yourself." Washington, DC singer/songwriter and bassist Eric Scott returns to Tea Pad DC. He is an 18-time Wammie winner (Washington Area Music Association), has released 6 solo albums on his own Itzall Goode Music label, and has shared the stage with B.B. King, Mavis Staples, Aaron Neville, and Roger Waters. His new Eric Scott Trio album, with 10 original tracks, arrived earlier this year. A "Modern Soul" sound that's funky, upbeat, socially aware, and ever soulful.

Early bird tickets are now on sale for $35! That's product samples, good food, swag, and more!
🔗 for tickets on TeaPad.co and in our IG bio.

Thank you to our Founding Sponsor: CannabizMD and Ella Fitzgerald Level Sponsor: Cannaline

Founding sponsor: CannabizMD. Ella Fitzgerald Level Sponsor: Cannaline.

Tea Pad empowers women to advance in cannabis STEM through skill-building education and professional development.

10/02/2026

What a perfect day to share that CannabizMD has been nominated by Americans for Safe Access for THE 2026 PROFESSIONAL STANDARD AWARD: Professional Education & Training as part of Cannabis Safety Month, the 8th anniversary since our website launch! Voting soon - we'll be sharing that link!

Founder Jacquie Cohen Roth conceptualized CannabizMD in 2017, pivoting from physician and healthcare stakeholder education to a full focus on medical cannabis. No platform existed to educate, build, and engage an ecosystem committed to optimal patient and product outcomes, so she built one. It soon went international.

Over eight years, CannabizMD has:
🔹 Hosted webinars, Cannabis Science + Policy Forums, Cooking with Cannabis for Patients, Cannabis + Innovation, and Grow the Ladies
🔹 Become the first cannabis ancillary funded by MD Commerce and an ExportMD grant
🔹 Earned MBE/SBE/DBE certification as a woman-owned company
🔹 Been approved by the Maryland Cannabis Administration as a Responsible Vendor Training provider (the only MD-based company)
🔹 Launched Maryland and D.C. Cannabis Industry Professional courses
🔹 Partnered with CannaWorkforce, Inc. on MD Labor EARN grants, training from trimming to cultivation to dispensary ops. A national first!
🔹 Built AskCBMD.ai, an AI-powered cannabis clinical care, science and policy research assistant
🔹 Grown a sister social enterprise into The Tea Pad Foundation LTD, a 501(c)(3) empowering women in cannabis and plant-based medicine STEM
🔹 Been nominated by Americans for Safe Access for the 2026 Professional Standard Award: Professional Education & Training. Voting starts today! 🗳️

And to everyone who has advanced the CannabizMD mission: patients, scientists, researchers, physicians, nurses, legislators, industry colleagues, interns, and Tea Pad fireside chat guests. Some are from the 2018 launch party (some pics here), and some are from our programs. All part of the story,

Eight years in, more energized than ever. Here's to what's next.💚

🗳️ Vote: link will be in bio. Stay tuned!

09/29/2026

🍪🏭 🥬Bakers, line cooks, food-production pros: your skills transfer to the regulated cannabis industry!

➡️🙌CannaWorkforce is now enrolling for processing training, which prepares Maryland residents to work on the production floors of the state's regulated cannabis industry.

👉 One of our industry partners is actively recruiting for a Baltimore-based position now!

Processing teams follow precise formulas, keep batch and temperature logs, and hold themselves to strict sanitation and food-safety standards. If you've worked in a commercial kitchen, a bakery, or food manufacturing, you already know how that works.

CannaWorkforce training prepares you for entry-level production roles, with a clear path to lead and floor-management positions as you build experience.

💥AND YOU GET PAID $400 TO LEARN! As long as you meet our requirements and successfully complete all training.

✔️ Maryland resident ✔️ High school diploma or GED ✔️ Unemployed or underemployed and ready for a career move

CannaWorkforce curriculum was built with our Strategic Industry Partners (SIP), who interview successful Learners for open roles. The training includes state-mandated industry training, Responsible Vendor Training, developed and delivered by the only Maryland-based company to do so, US - CannabizMD! All plant-touching training is taught using h**p.

CannaWorkforce is funded by the Maryland Department of Labor's EARN (Employment Advancement Right Now) grant.

👉 Send an email to [email protected].

09/22/2026

Welcome to the Tea Pad Foundation Board, Krysta Jones!

We're thrilled to announce that Krysta Jones has joined the Advisoary Board of The Tea Pad Foundation LTD.

Krysta is the founder of The Highly Connected and THC GIRLS, and has spent her career building community and opportunity for women in cannabis. She brings exactly the kind of perspective the Tea Pad mission needs: someone who understands that this industry is only as strong as the people we bring into it and the knowledge we equip them with.

Her words capture why nonrprofit Tea Pad has existed since 2019 and why we're founded in science and ensuring equity in the cannabis industry:

"Cannabis has always been STEM. Science helps us understand the plant, technology helps us advance it, engineering helps us scale it, and mathematics helps us build a sustainable industry around it."

That is the heart of Tea Pad Cannabis and plant-based medicine are built on rigorous science, and women deserve a seat at every table where that science is practiced, applied, and commercialized. Krysta's network, energy, and commitment to connection will help us expand the programs and partnerships that make that possible.

Krysta, welcome. We're lucky to have you!

Want to meet the Tea Pad community in person? Join us at Tea Pad DC on October 29. "After 90 Years, We're Legal in DC!" We'll be hosting at Higher Ground DC, a state of the art cannabis facility in Washington, DC. Currently the largest consumption lounge on the East Coast, HG provides a safe environment to shop for, consume, and find community through cannabis.

🔗 Tickets to Tea Pad DC: https://lnkd.in/ek5gT5gj

Tea Pad with its founding sponsor , has been hosted thorughout Maryland and in Boston, Atlanta, DC, and NJ since its founding in 2019, brining foclikes togeterh with a shared common goal: equity in the cannabis industry. Now, we're zeroed in ensuring women have the professional skills and opportunities to innovate and advance. DM if you'd like to support The Tea Pad Foundation LTD mission through donor support or with leadership

09/15/2026

It's Terpene Tuesday, and today, +1.

What is a flavonoid?

If terpenes explain the smell, flavonoids explain a good deal of the color.

They belong to the same chemical family responsible for the pigment in blueberries and the bitterness in citrus pith. Roughly 20 have been identified in cannabis. Three of them, cannflavins A, B, and C, have never been found in any other plant.

For the plant, flavonoids are a sunscreen, an antioxidant, an immune defense, and a communication system. For people, they are a promising research area with an unsolved bioavailability problem and, in cannabis specifically, no human efficacy data at all.

Misha, Jacquie's clone of the cultivar Pink Certz, is currently producing anthocyanins, a flavonoid subclass. These are the pigments behind the red, pink, and purple in berries, cherries, red grapes, red cabbage, eggplant, and black rice. Alongside carotenoids, they also color autumn leaves. Their biological function is signaling: advertising to animals that a fruit is ripe or a flower is open for pollination.

Temperature is the trigger. Nights are cooling in Maryland, and anthocyanin production increases in cooler conditions. Mid-September is when that switch begins to flip. Misha is, in a real sense, wearing the weather.

An important distinction follows from that.

Pink is not potency. Pink is not ripeness. Pink is a weather report.

Research indicates the pigment pathway and the cannabinoid pathway respond to different variables. A purple flower is not inherently a stronger flower, and a pink Misha is not a harvestable Misha.

The harvest decision rests on trichome maturity under magnification: clear, then cloudy, then amber. That assessment will be done on camera.

One more correction worth making. You may see the claim that a cannabis flavonoid is "30 times stronger than aspirin." The study is real and the figure is real, but it is 1980s cell-culture data that has never been tested in humans. That belongs in the category of interesting preliminary research, not therapeutic guidance.

The broader point: this plant is far more than THC. Terpenes, flavonoids, and cannabinoids operating together are precisely why chemovar literacy matters.

We are hoping she blushes. We are simply not letting the blush make the decision.

09/14/2026

🥬🦀 Maryland's cannabis industry is hiring. We'll get you qualified—for free.

👉CannaWorkforce is now enrolling for Cultivation + Trimming Agent Training. Free tuition, a $400 stipend on successful completion, and a 90% placement rate into Maryland's regulated cannabis industry.

👉You qualify if you're a Maryland resident, 21 or older, with a high school diploma or GED. No cannabis experience required—that's the point.

🌟CannaWorkforce is the first workforce development program of its kind in Maryland, funded by a Maryland Department of Labor EARN grant (Employment Advancement Right Now). Our curriculum is built with Strategic Industry Partners who help shape what we teach—and who interview and hire our graduates. All hands-on plant instruction is conducted with h**p.

❗Also enrolling now: Processing Agent and Dispensary Agent. Dispensary Inventory Manager training coming soon.

📧 [email protected] to enroll.

💚 Curriculum developed in partnership with CannabizMD, LLC

09/10/2026

Summer isn't over yet, but kids are back to school, and the cannabis industry is gearing up for Croptober.

👋Misha Update: our Pink Certz clone (Compound Genetics; The Menthol × Grape Gasoline) is deep in flower on the deck. As nights cool, we may see pink and purple anthocyanin expression. It's pretty, but it isn't a harvest signal. We're watching under close inspection as trichomes shift from clear to cloudy to amber.

❓Terpene or terpenoid? Strictly speaking, terpenes are hydrocarbons, and terpenoids carry oxygen-containing functional groups. Limonene, myrcene, and β-caryophyllene are terpenes. Linalool, a terpene alcohol, is a terpenoid.

🧐There's also a COA literacy lesson here. One cultivar guide lists Pink Certz as β-caryophyllene, β-myrcene, limonene, and linalool. Another leads with limonene and adds ocimene. The two guides give the same name and different profiles, likely because they describe different phenotypes and different grows. Only a Certificate of Analysis (COA) tells you what's actually in the jar. We have a new article on CannabizMD.com that breaks down the science on both. Link in bio.

🎵🥬🫖 October belongs to Tea Pad. Tea Pad DC: Legal Ninety Years Later is October 29, 6–9 PM, at Higher Ground in Washington, DC. Expect live jazz, infused drinks, and the DMV cannabis community raising funds for the Tea Pad Fellowship for women in cannabis STEM. Early bird tickets are $35 through September 30. A valid medical cannabis card is required.

Details: | TeaPad.co

09/03/2026

Terpenes, Terpenoids, and the Entourage Effect: What Science Actually Shows

By Jacquie Cohen Roth, MS and Sunehera Hasib Walk through a pine forest, peel an orange, or brush past a lavender bush, and you're breathing in the same broad chemical family that gives cannabis its aroma. That family is terpenes and understanding them means understanding one of the oldest chemical languages plants use to survive. Terpenes vs. Terpenoids: A Quick Distinction…...

By Jacquie Cohen Roth, MS and Sunehera Hasib Walk through a pine forest, peel an orange, or brush past a lavender bush, and you’re breathing in the same broad chemical family that gives canna…

09/01/2026

🌿 🔬 It's Terpene Tuesday and it's 420 somewhere! And this week we're going microscopic.

🪄What you're looking at right now are trichomes: tiny, crystal-like structures covering the cannabis flower. They are everything. They are where the magic of the cannabis plant sits.

Trichomes are the birthplace of terpenes. Every scent, every flavor, every aromatic compound we talk about in this series? It starts right here in these microscopic resin glands

Here's what's happening inside each one:

🌶️ Terpenes—the aromatic compounds that shape scent, flavor, and therapeutic effect
🧬 Cannabinoids—THC, C*D, CBG, and more
💜 Flavonoids—plant compounds with their own antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties

⚛️ The more trichomes, the richer the terpene profile. The richer the terpene profile, the more complex the entourage effect. This is why top-shelf flower look like it's covered in frost—that's not just aesthetics. That's chemistry.

Next time you look at a dense, resinous bud, you're not just seeing a pretty flower. You're seeing a full-spectrum biochemical factory working in your favor

This is why terpenes matter. This is where it all begins.

👋Share it with someone who thinks cannabis education isn't science.