420 Girl – Teri Heede
Teri Heede pulls out 25 orange, prescription pill bottles from a cloth bag hanging from the handles of her red motorized scooter. Then an inhaler, and, from another bag, empty cranberry juice jugs filled to the top with disposable interferon shots. This used to be Heede’s life living with multiple sclerosis (MS), pills in the morning, afternoon and evening....
420 Girl – Kristin Peskuski
A survivor of lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, hypoglycemia, anemia, cervical cancer, chronic sinusitis, chronic bacterial infections and other serious ailments, Kristen Peskuski has come to believe that what she really suffered from was cannabinoid deficiency disorder, and that drinking raw cannabis juice saved her life - Google
420 Girl – Kristie “Parrot” Rodgers
In Washington, where the legal pot industry kicked off last week, companies like Winterlife jumped in to fill demand from consumers for marijuana while the state spent the past 19 months building the regulations and licensing growers and retailers. Winterlife has 25 to 30 delivery personnel in cars and bicycles with operators fielding between 400 and 600 calls a...
420 Girl – Mandy Denson
Mandy Denson co-owns Compassionate Distributors dispensary in Ruidoso. She says when medicinal marijuana was approved in New Mexico and dispensaries started setting up shop they were mainly in the northern part of the state. “Our portion of the state in southeastern New Mexico is very poor. I grew up in Roswell so I am familiar with the general demographics",...
420 Girl – Kathy Parkins
Kathy Parkins of Seattle owns her own cannabis baking company. Here she puts a few drops of a marijuana tincture into a spoon for a customer to sample at the Seattle Cannabis Farmers Market. In many ways, medical marijuana entrepreneurs are no different than any other business start-ups. They need a business plan, venture capital and a fair dose...
