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Name
Shanel Lindsay
Title
Founder & CEO - Ardent Life, Inc.
Bio
Shanel A. Lindsay is the Founder and CEO of Ardent Life Inc., based in Boston, MA. Ardent is a cutting-edge appliance and education company that has become a global leader in providing high-tech consumer products to the cannabis space.
Among consumers and within the commercial industry, utilizing the beneficial compounds of cannabis involves significant uncertainty and expense. Based on breakthrough research into the underlying process of decarboxylation, Ardent developed the first and only precision decarboxylator, the NOVA to fully activate THC and CBD with no loss. The NOVA allows consumers to create accurately dosed cannabis therapies at a fraction of the cost. Just this month, Ardent launched the long-awaited FX All-In-One Cannabis Kitchen, the “easy bake oven” for cannabis that cooks food and bakes edibles right inside the device. Ardent is poised for explosive growth in both the B2B and B2C cannabis segments, as well as the broader health and wellness market.
Shanel’s journey with cannabis began nearly 20 years ago when she began growing cannabis to make edibles, topicals, and suppositories to treat an ovarian cyst that developed after her son was born. Shortly after Massachusetts decriminalized cannabis possession in 2008, Shanel saw first-hand that decriminalization didn’t grant communities the protections they were supposed to be afforded, when instead of receiving a small citation, she was arrested for possessing less than half of the decriminalized amount. An attorney by training who clerked, excelled as a civil litigator, and worked as an executive for the State prior to becoming a cannabis entrepreneur, one of Shanel’s missions is to see the new cannabis economy converge with the traditional professional world while reversing the disproportionate and racially-biased trauma stemming from the War on Drugs.
Shanel co-drafted Question 4, the successful ballot initiative that legalized cannabis for adult use in Massachusetts, and was twice appointed by the State Treasurer to the Massachusetts Cannabis Advisory Board. Shanel called on regulators to reserve social consumption and delivery licenses exclusively for participants in the state’s equity and economic empowerment programs and fights to expand protections and access for underserved patients and communities.
Shanel is also co-founder of Equal Opportunities Now, a non-profit that successfully fought to preserve and expand the equity provisions in the new Massachusetts cannabis law and works with communities and state governments around the country to create an equitable marijuana industry.
Shanel received a degree in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
Among consumers and within the commercial industry, utilizing the beneficial compounds of cannabis involves significant uncertainty and expense. Based on breakthrough research into the underlying process of decarboxylation, Ardent developed the first and only precision decarboxylator, the NOVA to fully activate THC and CBD with no loss. The NOVA allows consumers to create accurately dosed cannabis therapies at a fraction of the cost. Just this month, Ardent launched the long-awaited FX All-In-One Cannabis Kitchen, the “easy bake oven” for cannabis that cooks food and bakes edibles right inside the device. Ardent is poised for explosive growth in both the B2B and B2C cannabis segments, as well as the broader health and wellness market.
Shanel’s journey with cannabis began nearly 20 years ago when she began growing cannabis to make edibles, topicals, and suppositories to treat an ovarian cyst that developed after her son was born. Shortly after Massachusetts decriminalized cannabis possession in 2008, Shanel saw first-hand that decriminalization didn’t grant communities the protections they were supposed to be afforded, when instead of receiving a small citation, she was arrested for possessing less than half of the decriminalized amount. An attorney by training who clerked, excelled as a civil litigator, and worked as an executive for the State prior to becoming a cannabis entrepreneur, one of Shanel’s missions is to see the new cannabis economy converge with the traditional professional world while reversing the disproportionate and racially-biased trauma stemming from the War on Drugs.
Shanel co-drafted Question 4, the successful ballot initiative that legalized cannabis for adult use in Massachusetts, and was twice appointed by the State Treasurer to the Massachusetts Cannabis Advisory Board. Shanel called on regulators to reserve social consumption and delivery licenses exclusively for participants in the state’s equity and economic empowerment programs and fights to expand protections and access for underserved patients and communities.
Shanel is also co-founder of Equal Opportunities Now, a non-profit that successfully fought to preserve and expand the equity provisions in the new Massachusetts cannabis law and works with communities and state governments around the country to create an equitable marijuana industry.
Shanel received a degree in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
