Franny Tacy | Source | Founder and CEO at Franny's Farmacy

Franny Tacy, CEO of Franny’s Farmacy, called a "Trailblazer" by Fox and a "Pioneer in Hemp" by NBC is the visionary of Franny's Farmacy. With the heart of the business on her farm in Asheville NC, Franny Tacy became the 1st female hemp farmer in 2017. Since then, the entrepreneurial business leader has built vertically-integrated CBD businesses utilizing a farmer network and manufacturing over 80 proprietary CBD products, maintaining distribution, growing wholesale & e-commerce platforms, while franchising as multi-state operators of dispensaries in 6 states. 

Franny has been featured by every major media - ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, and has participated in over 50 podcasts and interviews, and is famously referred to as "The Force" and "The Hippie in High Heels," because she brings energy, education and passion to audiences across the country.  She is a published author in The Art of Cooking with Cannabis and Courage in Cannabis. She is considered one of the preeminent experts of all things hemp, participated in the Hemp Research Trials with North Carolina State University and has a TEDx speech on hemp. She has degrees and work experience in Forestry and Education and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over a decade prior to transitioning into the cannabis space.