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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