For decades, Whoopi Goldberg has spoken about cannabis the same way she speaks about life: plainly, honestly, without pretending it started mattering yesterday.
On February 10, Goldberg will bring that voice to the stage at IgniteIt’s Market Spotlight: New Jersey, joining a live, moderated conversation that centers on cannabis, wellness, and entrepreneurship. The 30-minute session, scheduled from 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM, will feature Goldberg alongside her business partners Davina Kaonohi and Melissa Jochim, founding partners of Beauty Evolution. The discussion will be moderated by New Jersey attorney Lou Magazzu.
This is not a keynote. It is a conversation. And for those who have followed Goldberg’s relationship with cannabis over the years, it is also a continuation.
When Goldberg spoke with Javier Hasse, she described cannabis not as an abstraction or an industry trend, but as something that had been present in her life for a long time, first as a way to manage pain and later as something more expansive.
“Cannabis is probably the greatest medicine on the planet that everybody can have,” Goldberg said at the time. For her, the plant entered her life in a practical way. “For people like me, it was always used to stop the cramps. And the side hustle of that is that it was fun, it made you laugh and stuff.”
That mix of relief, humanity, and normalcy runs through how she continues to talk about cannabis. In the same interview, she questioned why medicine is so often framed as something cold or punitive.
“Medicine doesn’t have to be horrifying,” she said. “Especially when it’s herbal, when it’s growing out of the ground and doesn’t need an additive, which means it can stay reasonably priced for people to go pick it up.”
Goldberg has also been consistent about something …
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