Getting stoned is part of LGBTQ history. It kept us alive

Keenly aware of the role LGBTQ people played in ending marijuana prohibition, America’s cannabis industry has raised the bar on how companies should do Pride. And this month, quite a few cannabis companies are flexing their queer bone fides while putting their money where their mouth is.

One of the spokespeople for Curaleaf, America’s biggest cannabis company, is a gay man who knows his history.

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“The legal cannabis industry has a responsibility to honor the LGBTQ community,” Noah Bethke, Curaleaf’s director of communication, told LGBTQ Nation. “The cannabis industry wouldn’t exist in the way that it does today if it wasn’t for the AIDS activists of the ‘70s and ‘80s who fought for the passage of medical cannabis legislation.”

That sentiment was echoed by…

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