Hemp Lab was founded in 2018 by two native New Yorkers on a mission to bring the west coast back home.
We provide cannabis education & access at compassionate and affordable pricing while working to destigmatize cannabis through community.
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Made by New Yorkers
For New Yorkers.
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Our founders met in high school, quickly bonding over a shared love of plant medicine & cannabis. Upon graduation, they relocated to Washington state to immerse themselves in the medical cannabis industry.
A year later, they started their first cannabis collective garden, allowing them to closely study and practice horticulture and extraction.
By their 3rd year they were operating 3 collective gardens in the state, honing their skills in indoor and outdoor cultivation & working with patients of various ailments with great success.
Returning to New York after 5 years, passionate about applying their experience & continuing their work in helping others at home and abroad, Hemp Lab NYC was conceived.
OUR STORY
OUR FOUNDERS
a little about the people that started it all
Manos Lupassakis
grew up in Brooklyn NY
He's first generation Greek- American
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He comes from a long line of entrepreneurs and continues this tradition through cannabis.
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Likes :
Chemistry
Taking things apart
Putting them together again
Chemistry
knife carving
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Stephanie Diaz
grew up in the Bronx, NY
She's First Generation
Dominican+Puertorican American
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Cannabis has always been the vessel used to express her passion for horticulture , sustainability and design .
Likes:
Long walks in the forest
Mining for crystals
Instruments
Alchemy
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