This Cambridge dispensary caters to women, LGBTQ and older customers
Leah Samura’s mission is to sell cannabis to your friends, parents and grandparents. Photo courtesy of Leah Samura Harvard Square’s first cannabis dispensary — and its first Black-woman-owned business — is on track to open in September, CEO Leah Samura tells Axios. Driving the news: Yamba Boutique is undergoing architectural review as Samura […]
A Growing Advantage
By Jessica Bartlett – Reporter, Boston Business Journal | Apr 1, 2021 The owners of three local cannabis firms seized on the chance to launch a delivery business Sieh “Chief” Samura and his wife Leah Samura are opening two dispensaries between them, and will soon launch a delivery business. GARY HIGGINS / BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL […]
Marijuana-infused lubricant is hitting the shelves in Mass.
Boston Globe By Felicia Gans Globe Staff,Updated March 1, 2019, 12:00 a.m. PURIENT/SIRA NATURALS The marijuana industry is about to get sexier. A cannabis-infused lubricant is hitting dispensary shelves this week for the first time in Massachusetts, and the product’s creators hope it revolutionizes the way people think about marijuana. “We designed […]
Republicans And Democrats Are Divided Over Marijuana. Businesses Are Caught In The Middle
WBUR Article June 28, 2021 | Callum Borchers The store on Church Street in Harvard Square which Leah Samura plans to open this fall as the Yamba Boutique. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Traducido en español por El Planeta Media. On a sweltering morning in Harvard Square, Leah Samura strode through the future home of […]
In the Weeds
BY JOSIE F. ABUGOV, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER APRIL 1, 2021 Leah Y. Samura is now one step closer to opening a sex-positive, women-focused cannabis boutique at 33 Church St. — a 1,300 square ft. space in Harvard Square that was once a police headquarters. Last month, she reached the final checkpoint in the convoluted […]
Boston-born entrepreneur hopes to educate and empower women at Cambridge cannabis shop, Yamba Boutique
We meet Leah Samura, owner of the soon to open Yamba Boutique who is on a mission to empower women to enter the cannabis industry NEEDHAM, Mass. — Leah Samura is on a mission to empower women in the cannabis industry. She intends to do this with her own adult-use marijuana shop called […]
Massachusetts Recreational Marijuana Sales Approach $3 Billion
BOSTON — Massachusetts recreational marijuana sales are approaching $3 billion, three-and-a-half years after the first pot shop opened its doors. Read More
Black-Owned Pot Shop in Cambridge Celebrates Successes on 4/20
4/20 is known as the high holiday, and for a Black-owned dispensary that just blazed its way into Central Square in Cambridge, there are a lot of reasons to celebrate. Read More
Adult use licensees reach some – not all – diversity goals, review of Mass. data shows
A Grown In review of required diversity plans submitted by Massachusetts’ adult use cannabis license holders finds that many are getting close to attaining their goals, but overall the state’s cannabis workers remain largely Read More
Cambridge finally has a fully approved adult-use cannabis dispensary
More than five years after the state legalized cannabis for recreational use, Cambridge is finally getting its first adult-use dispensary. The state’s Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday approved a retailer license for Yamba Market, a Black-owned retailer based at 580 Mass Ave. The company, the first adult-use dispensary to get final licensure in Cambridge, plans […]
5 Years After Mass. Voted to Legalize Recreational Pot, How Has Business Grown?
Five years ago, Massachusetts voters decided to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes for people 21+. Voters made their voices heard loud and clear that day, but state lawmakers essentially rewrote that law, and it was a couple more years after that until the sale of legal recreational pot. Read More
…Hiring during COVID pandemic while waiting to open is a ‘complicated dance’
For Sieh Samura, the process of opening a cannabis dispensary in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemic and while getting through the hurdles of the licensure process feels like a “complicated dance.” “Any one thing can set off and destroy your timeline and be extremely costly,” Samura said in an interview with MassLive. “So this is […]
