courtesy of Harvest of Oh By Rayna Reid ·Updated April 19, 2022
As of April 13, 2022, Ariane Kirkpatrick became “the first female and Black, majority owner of a vertically integrated cannabis company in Ohio.” A company that is vertically integrated means, they control all of the stages “of the production path – growing, dispensing, and processing.”
Despite being granted a license in 2017, Kirkpatrick had a difficult road before
