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of work to be done. Issues such as job protection, state to state reciprocity and home cators, my husband and other medical Cannabis providers and patients. I also look
grow will not be rights easily obtainable. Patient access at nursing homes, school forward to continued non Cannabis doctor office visits to both thank our referral
environments and hospitals, and added qualifying conditions are also a huge battle friends and to spread the benefits of medical Cannabis to those still unaware or even
to be fought. skeptical. Just call me the “pied piper” of Medical Cannabis!

How did you get started within the Cannabis industry? Are you personally a MJ card holder?
It’s easy for me because I’ve been around Cannabis almost my entire life and recog- I am a medical Cannabis patient since May, 2017 which makes me more proficient
nized it as the most socially non destructive substance long ago. I’ve seen alcohol and at my job. There is a benefit to being able to try different routes of administration to
drugs destroy people’s lives. With the younger generation suffering much worse than provide more accurate information to patients. Not only that, but medicinally it’s the
mine! I have seen the elderly increasingly overmedicating through doctors orders. only medicine I take. I found it to be “my medicine” many years ago which also helps
And it was time to make the proper statement about Cannabis as a substance that assist in advising patients.
could be used and not abused.
Do you see Florida moving forward with recreational
What field are you in within the Cannabis space? Marijuana/Cannabis and how will that affect your business?
I am a Cannabis educator. Since inception of the Florida Cannabis program, I have I do see the legalization of Cannabis in the state of Florida but not for a while.
tried to provide all patients in the state of Florida with information on medical There is already a supply and demand issue. The one thing that concerns me the most
Cannabis products available to them as there were no resources at that time. I started is to make sure that the medical Cannabis patients will have supply before the sale of
what was called Powwow with Patty, a once a week on YouTube and Facebook with recreational. I’m sure the MMTCs will make more money off recreational but we are
all the changes in the medical Cannabis space. Then I started a website called thep- the ones that started this program and need to be made sure that we have our medi-
attypage.com which provided patients a plethora of information on the medical cine.
Cannabis products in the state of Florida at the touch of a button. Because the The Compassionate Cannabis Clinic and staff are not worried as we provide more
MMTCs in Florida stepped it up with marketing teams and provide more information than just your license. We pride ourselves on education and there will always be a
for patients, the need of the page and powwow was diminished. I take joy in my con- need for that!
tinued mission of providing “product expertise and updates” to the CCC staff of edu-

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