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The Dispensary was founded by fellow physicians Sumner and Annie Elmira Rice in 1883 to serve mostly lower-income women of color. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Clinics of the day were segregated , and when Helberger left about a year later she founded the Woman's Clinic, serving lower-income white women and children who were unable afford traditional health care.
She established a dispensary in the city, opened three times a week, and she sometimes had as many as 100 patients in a day at that dispensary. [4] She opened the first woman's hospital in Shanghai, under the auspices of the Woman's Union Missionary Society, and spent over three decades there (1883-1914). [5]
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"The American cannabis industry accounted for $10 billion of 2018’s [global] figures, with the average U.S. dispensary pulling in $3 million a year." [1] Women took the helm in new businesses and markets as recreational cannabis was legalized particularly in four states—Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington—from 2012 to 2014.
Living Local: After terrifying diagnosis, Middle GA woman opens dispensary to help others. Jessica Payne. February 29, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Crystal Nugs, the city’s first Black woman-owned dispensary, recently opened in midtown Sacramento.
Mary Jane Rathbun (December 22, 1922 – April 10, 1999), popularly known as Brownie Mary, was an American medical cannabis rights activist. As a hospital volunteer at San Francisco General Hospital, she became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDS patients. [1]
She was the third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York state. [1] [2] [3] McKinney-Steward's medical career focused on prenatal care and childhood disease. From 1870 to 1895, she ran her own practice in Brooklyn and co-founded the Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary. [4]