The Sisters of The Valley are a group of women who grow medical cannabis and began selling it on their store on Etsy. After making a $40,000 profit, the sisters closed down their Etsy store and made their own website where they could cater to a wider range of customers.
The company started with Sister Kate, whose real name is Christine Meeusen. Sister Kate wanted to start a medical cannabis company that worked to erase the negative stigma that surrounded cannabis. According to Business Insider, Sister Kate brought together a group of women who “believed in its healing powers.” Sister Darcy, a 24-year-old who met Sister Kate through a mutual friend, joined Sister Kate’s cause after a 30-minute phone call.
The sisters claim not to be a part of any religious institution, much less the Catholic church. Sister Kate told Business Insider that nuns are going extinct in this country.
“If you look up what makes up a sister, there are five elements… We live together, we wear the same clothes, we take a vow of obedience to the moon cycles, we take a vow of chastity (which we don’t think requires celibacy), and a vow of ecology, which is a vow to do no harm while you’re making medicine,” Sister Kate told Business Insider.
The forms of marijuana Sister Kate and Sister Darcy grow contain large of amounts of cannabidiols (CBD), and the two sisters claim that all of their products are practically free of THC, which is the chemical in cannabis that gives the feeling of being high.
The sisters have built their business and watched it flourish for the past two years without serving the possibility of being jailed because while marijuana may be legal at the state level, it remains illegal at the federal level. The Sisters Of The Valley have been featured on Refinery29, Business Insider, Daily Mail Online, NY Daily News, LA Times and Leafly.
If one takes the time to look at the demographics of it, the Sisters of The Valley are less likely to be arrested for their business anyway. The Washington Post claims that marijuana use is roughly at the same rate between both black people and whites, but black people are arrested far more than whites are in terms of the same circumstance.
In an article written in 2016, criminologists told the NY Times that black people are arrested “more often than whites and others for drug possession in large part because of questionable police practices.”
The Sisters of The Valley just prove how law enforcement turns their cheek and arrests a black person like Dianne Jones, who is simply in possession of marijuana and prosecutes them so heavily.
