As Planting Seeds of Kindness begins its journey, we will be posting up original content and interviews. In the meantime, we’re starting with a homegrown Bay Area hero, Sweetleaf Joe of Sweetleaf Collective.
As the pandemic set in in early 2020, I was able to connect Forbes with Joe for an in-depth interview about the compassion-based work he has done since 1996. You can read Joe’s full interview here.
What do they do?
Sweetleaf Collective is exclusively a donation-based charity organization. Since 1996, when the groundbreaking 215 proposition passed in California, they have been providing free medical cannabis to HIV/AIDS and cancer patients in California & the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Sweetleaf facilitates the giveaway of free medical cannabis to low income terminally ill patients, veterans, and seniors. Established in 1996, making them one of the oldest medical cannabis groups in the world. In the past two decades, they have given away more than $2 million worth of compassionate cannabis.
If you’re looking for a way to support:
It’s not always about money, following Joe online is a free and simple way to help spread the word about the work he’s doing:
Consider spreading some light by supporting the Lighter Project: Dispensaries and delivery services sell lighters to their customers as a benefit to Sweetleaf. The money raised from the sale of one lighter pays the overhead on dispensing 3.5 grams of compassionate cannabis.
