Episode 6 • Flowers & Tea - Season Finale - When the Tea Boils Over: Closures, Consequences & Common Ground

The ladies of Flowers & Tea close out the inaugural season the only way they know how — raw, unfiltered, and necessary.

In this season finale, it’s just the women. No guest. No soft edges. Just an honest reckoning with what’s happening in cannabis right now. They go in on the wave of dispensary closures and the state’s alarming lack of acknowledgment, sentiment, or meaningful reporting on the impact.

They unpack what it means to support your neighbors in a time of economic strain, rising uncertainty, and silence from those in power.

The conversation widens — touching on ICE, community responsibility, and the moral weight of policy decisions—before Gretchen takes the soapbox to call out the industry’s chronic failure to invest in cannabis education as infrastructure and a smarter way to move the needle.

For the first time, an MSO leader, a small local operator, a lobbyist/publicist, and a medical operator find themselves saying the same thing — out loud, together. The unison is unexpected, but it proves a powerful point....common ground exists when ego steps aside.

Dr. Beast and Gretchen also share their sincere frustration with the industry as a whole and openly question whether stepping away may be the only act of self-preservation left.

This is the most honest dialogue Flowers & Tea has ever had.

This is what it sounds like when the table is set — and then flipped. The home of the P3 (Pot, Politics & Policy) takes flight one last time this season.

🎥 Season Finale —February 4th @ 8am

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Episode 5 • Flowers & Tea Featuring Holly DeLorenzo of Abundant Brands — From Risk Management to Risk for Healing: Breast Cancer, Cannabis & Building Solutions

The ladies of Flowers & Tea return with one of their most personal & inspiring conversations yet 🌸

In this episode, we sit down with Jersey native Holly DeLorenzo, founder of Abundant Brands, for an honest conversation about survival, reinvention, and purpose-driven entrepreneurship.

Holly shares her journey through breast cancer and how that experience led her to the plant. Formerly working in insurance on the risk-management side of business, she made the pivotal decision to take a risk for her health - turning a deeply personal healing journey into a mission to create products that serve as real solutions to problems she once faced herself.

From experimenting in her test kitchen to securing a partnership that positions her for growth, this episode explores what it means to build from lived experience, resilience, and intention in a highly regulated industry.

As always, the tea doesn’t stop there.

This conversation also unpacks:

• Breast cancer, healing, and cannabis

• Risk management vs. personal risk-taking

• Turning lived experience into product innovation

• Building a brand with purpose and authenticity

• Women creating solutions in women-owned spaces

Filmed at Holistic Solutions, because Flowers & Tea is committed to featuring women in women-owned spaces - community is the point. This episode is honest, grounded, and quietly powerful.

A must-watch for survivors, founders, wellness advocates, and anyone curious about how healing can spark innovation.

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Filmed at Sunny Tien Consumption Lounge, Atlantic City, New Jersey

The ladies of Flowers and Tea pulled up to the League of Municipalities and brought excitement, clarity, and cannabis right to the heart of Atlantic City.

In our premiere episode, we break down the hemp ban tucked inside the recently passed shutdown bill — and what its fallout means for a $30 billion industry. Then we shift into a conversation on women at the helm: how leadership is rapidly transitioning into women’s hands, and what it means that New Jersey just elected a female governor. And then… the legendary Wanda James joins the table.

She gets real about the problems with politics, the first cannabis bill she would draft, and exactly how she plans to unseat 30-year incumbent Diana DeGette.

This is not an episode you want to miss. We came out the gate swinging — and we’re coming in hot. Tune in every Weed Wednesday at 8PM with the women of Flowers & Tea, where we’ll be sipping tea… and spilling it too. 🌿☕🔥

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