Enid Parham remembers friends and family going to prison for marijuana-related offenses and having their families taken away when she was a child growing up in Detroit. Now, she’s working as a cannabis chef in Michigan’s legalized recreational marijuana industry.
Parham, who also goes by Chef Sunflower and owns the Detroit-based company Lucky Pistil Catering, is one of a few Black women working in the state’s 3-year-old recreational cannabis industry.