ABOUT

Biko’s founder & CEO, Timeka Drew, is a medical cannabis patient and is extremely passionate about the plant that she credits for saving her life. As an operating social equity licensee, she stays close to the manufacturing process, ensuring only top-quality products (suitable for medical patients like her) are created at the manufacturing facility where Biko is made in downtown Los Angeles.

Timeka believes in everyone’s unique ability to, “light the spark that leads the way,” - one of the ways she works to embody Biko’s tagline is by supporting equity in the industry as an organizer, mentor, advocate and coach. She comes to cannabis after working for years grassroots organizing against systemic racism, economic injustice, voter suppression and for climate democracy.

Biko is a family owned and operated company. The brand celebrates how cannabis helps bring together people and cultures - Biko means please in the Igbo language, celebrating Founder and CEO Timeka Drew’s Nigerian heritage. The name of Biko’s preroll -- “Juseyo'' means "give me please" in Korean, honoring Timeka’s partner & Biko COO Jake Gildea’s heritage.