Meet the change makers in Australia’s booming multi-million-dollar medicinal cannabis industry

Lisa Nguyen has been called everything from a drug dealer to a “crazy woman” since launching the country’s first female-led medicinal cannabis business. The skepticism has been worth it as the industry grows and more patients have legal access to medicinal, doctor-prescribed cannabis, she says.

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“Just about every single person you meet will have an opinion on cannabis,” says pharmacist Lisa Nguyen, the co-founder of medicinal cannabis dispensary Astrid Dispensary.