By Sarah H.
I found B when I was very sick and smoking all day to manage my chronic pain and nausea, which was expensive and debilitating. As a college senior, my grades were nosediving and my future was looking bleaker every day.
My mother stumbled across the number for a medical cannabis provider and soon B would walk through our front door with a huge bag of cannabis products and 4 hours of information on how to use it as medicine. It saved my life. Definitely the weirdest drug deal I’ve been a part of, but I am forever grateful that my mom made that first call.
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B’s underground dispensary focuses on innovative, research-based delivery methods that won’t get you too high to function. This attracts even patients with legal access because suppositories and high potency balms aren’t commercially produced or sold.
This fact alone demonstrates that the current medical marijuana system is failing its most vulnerable patients by getting them high instead of healing their pain.
A year later, I am lucky to call B a friend and mentor, but even luckier to have my health back. As B worked on my case and my energy returned, I decided that her story was too badass not to share with the world.
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This film on B’s life and work only touches on the pain and suffering she has relieved with her dedication to cannabis science. This is her story.
B was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease 20 years ago and was subsequently given a five to ten-year life expectancy, seven years ago. B placed her unwavering faith in healthcare professionals who had years of expertise and education.
She took all the medications, agreed to all the surgeries and procedures. She followed all the rules. After years of painfully battling the disease, B had lost her colon and three weeks of her life to a coma. She was left with 43 accumulated diagnoses and a cocktail of opioids, biologics, and prescription medications to treat them. And still, B was dying.
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Today, three years after doctors predicted her life would end, she has achieved remission and has made it her life’s work to share the science that saved her life.
Instead of giving up when the experts did, she chose to investigate the only thing that had relieved her pain: cannabis. She educated herself, became an expert in pharmacodynamics, and healed herself.
Products from B’s dispensary have now relieved the pain and illnesses of hundreds of people and helped them get off prescription painkillers, making her kitchen Big Pharma’s worst nightmare.
Today, B provides the education and access to the cannabis medications that she was never granted herself. The compassionate, collaborative health community B has curated through her dispensary is both extraordinary and precarious due to its illegality.
The existence of an illegal healthcare system in itself begs the question of what cracks in the legal system allowed so many people to fall through and right onto the doorstep of B’s dispensary.
You can learn more about B and her Remission Kitchen by checking out this short documentary.