Hydrolife Magazine August/September 2017 [USA Edition]
One of the best parts about a budding industry like the marijuana industry is the personalities that emerge. For more than a year in these pages, we’ve worked hard to bring you the latest information, history, how-to methods, and products surrounding cannabis. In this issue, we’re focusing a little more on people, including Jim McAlpine, founder of the 420 Games and Power Plant Fitness. He graces our cover after working with San Francisco-based photographer Mark Rutherford.
One of the best parts about a budding industry like the marijuana industry is the personalities that emerge. For more than a year in these pages, we’ve worked hard to bring you the latest information, history, how-to methods, and products surrounding cannabis. In this issue, we’re focusing a little more on people, including Jim McAlpine, founder of the 420 Games and Power Plant Fitness. He graces our cover after working with San Francisco-based photographer Mark Rutherford.
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heal<br />
Steeled by a deep-seated desire to<br />
help people suffering from various<br />
ailments, Carla Baumgartner<br />
took a big risk when she opened<br />
Ganjarunner in Los Angeles in 2014.<br />
Now, the business is on a roll and<br />
changing people’s lives for the better.<br />
By Karen Lloyd<br />
Almost daily, Carla Baumgartner opens a new email from an outof-state<br />
patient desperate for relief from one of the hundreds of<br />
medical conditions marijuana can aid.<br />
While California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, patients in many<br />
other US states who suffer from anxiety, depression, stress, nausea during<br />
chemotherapy, and more also suffer from medical marijuana criminalization<br />
and are left to manage their pain with pharmaceuticals.<br />
“The prescriptions are poisoning people,” says Carla. “People take them, get<br />
addicted to them, and sometimes they don’t wake up.”<br />
The 49-year-old yogi opened Ganjarunner, a premium medical marijuana delivery service, in<br />
Los Angeles in 2014, nearly three decades after she began medicating herself with cannabis for<br />
anxiety at the age of 14. Following a 26-year career in marketing and PR that left her drained,<br />
she decided to follow her heart and do something she could feel passionate about.<br />
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grow. heal. learn. enjoy.<br />
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