'Godmother' of cannabis meets her tech-happy children at SF pot summit

SAN FRANCISCO — Lynette Shaw, the self-proclaimed “godmother of marijuana dispensaries,” is thrilled that tech is helping bring cannabis into the mainstream.

“It’s fabulous. I’m honored to see my godchildren creating all of this,” the 61-year-old said here Friday at the inaugural New West Summit, a two-day conference on the budding billion-dollar convergence of pot with technology, business and media.

Shaw, who in 1997 opened one of the first legal cannabis dispensaries in the US, received a lifetime achievement award at the confab,…