BERKELEY, Calif. — “What’s wrong with just feeling good?” Asks Sue Taylor, “I naturally feel good.”
And if you ask Taylor how she’s feeling, she’ll likely say…
“Oh, I’m incredibly well.”
And her mission is to make sure as many people around her age can say the same thing.
“This is what 76 looks like, woohoo!” says Taylor.
She’s doing that here, at Farmacy Berkeley, the cannabis dispensary she co-founded, celebrating 4 years in business.
“This has really been a dream come true,” says Taylor, “servicing the community, servicing seniors.
A former Catholic school principal in Oakland, Sue never imagined she’d be serving seniors like this…until a lifelong friend passed away from cancer.
“I feel some kind of way in my heart that I didn’t serve as a well because my mindset wasn’t on cannabis,” says Taylor. “Because I was secretly afraid of it because of the reefer madness that was instilled in me as I was growing up.”
When Sue saw the impact cannabis made in the lives of seniors, she pivoted. She began working with seniors and her family, investing their own money, including her entire retirement, to open a dispensary.
“It took us eight years before we could get that permit,” she says. “No, no, it was