Ep 44 - Changing The Way We Look At The CBD Industry. An interview w/ Tahira Rehmatullah, Co-Founder, Commons

11/18/21 • 60 min

Starting her career in the financial industry, Tahira Rehmatullah, ended up on a mission to change the way we look at the CBD industry. We got a chance to interview her during MJbizcon 2021 in Las Vegas.
Tahira earned her MBA from the Yale School of Management and B.S. in Finance from The Ohio State University. Since entering cannabis in 2014, Tahira has held positions at MTech Acquisition Corp., Hypur Ventures, Marley Natural, and Privateer Holdings, and prior to that, at City First Enterprises, Perry Capital, and Ernst & Young.
Fortune Magazine has called Tahira one of the top 5 most powerful women in pot and Business Insider has deemed her one of the rising stars of the marijuana investment scene.
Tahira wanted to find a way to use her expertise in finance to support a mission-oriented, social goal. Fast forward to today and she is the Co-Founder at Commons. Which offers a variety of CBD-based products through a network of trained coaches.
Commons is working to bring the benefits of CBD to middle America, minority groups, and people the cannabis industry has often overlooked.
Visit Commons website to learn about their CBD products and how they can help you.
Connect w/ Tahira:
Tahira Rehmatullah | LinkedIn
https://www.instagram.com/commons_co/
Tahira (@TahiraRehm) / Twitter
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The Green Room Podcast - Ep 44 - Changing The Way We Look At The CBD Industry. An interview w/ Tahira Rehmatullah, Co-Founder, Commons

Transcript

Ronjini Joshua00:00:11.490

In this interview, I talked to Tahira co founder and CEO of comment and partner at Highland venture partner. She talks about her journey to the cannabis industry and how as a brown woman and child of Pakistani immigrants, she kind of came upon getting into the cannabis industry, as well as investing in how important it is to have social equity as as well as giving opportunities to people to become entrepreneurs in the industry. So this is an