SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A cannabis dispensary in San Francisco’s Mission District is responding to the crisis in Ukraine by raising money to provide medical and humanitarian aid to those affected by the Russian military invasion.
“War is terrible wherever it happens anywhere in the world but when it happens in the city you were born in, raised in, have memories of it is especially devastating,” said CEO of MediThrive Misha Breyburg.
Breyburg is the owner of MediThrive Cannabis Dispensary in San Francisco’s Mission District.
He has been following the devastation in his homeland.
“I was driving into work in the first day or two I had this huge sense of I wish I can do something,” Breyburg said.
To help any way he can, Breyburg’s founding partners and colleagues who are Ukrainian Jewish refugees agreed to donate all of Sunday’s in-store and online cannabis sales proceeds to Ukraine.
“I feel that this is a travesty that Putin and his cronies are putting the Ukrainian people and Russian people who nobody wants this kind of war,” Breyburg said. “Unfortunately, there’s little opportunity to stop him right now and I hope our government in the world can actually do that because it’s just terrible.”
The money raised will be donated to the organization Sunflower of Peace to help with medical needs and first aid kits for Ukrainian families affected by the Russian…
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A cannabis dispensary in San Francisco’s Mission District is responding to the crisis in Ukraine by raising money to provide medical and humanitarian aid to those affected by the Russian military invasion.
“War is terrible wherever it happens anywhere in the world but when it happens in the city you were born in, raised in, have memories of it is especially devastating,” said CEO of MediThrive Misha Breyburg.
Breyburg is the owner of MediThrive Cannabis Dispensary in San Francisco’s Mission District.
He has been following the devastation in his homeland.
“I was driving into work in the first day or two I had this huge sense of I wish I can do something,” Breyburg said.
To help any way he can, Breyburg’s founding partners and colleagues who are Ukrainian Jewish refugees agreed to donate all of Sunday’s in-store and online cannabis sales proceeds to Ukraine.
“I feel that this is a travesty that Putin and his cronies are putting the Ukrainian people and Russian people who nobody wants this kind of war,” Breyburg said. “Unfortunately, there’s little opportunity to stop him right now and I hope our government in the world can actually do that because it’s just terrible.”
The money raised will be donated to the organization Sunflower of Peace to help with medical needs and first aid kits for Ukrainian families affected by the Russian…
