This is Clara! She is a Cannabis Advisory Agent

Hi. My name is Amber and this is Clara.

She is a cannabis advisory agent.

She is also my best friend, and I have watched

her go through this journey for years and to see

her finally be here is amazing.

And while she's been going through this journey, I've been

progressing where I was going to be a nurse and

I broke my leg and that didn't happen.

So I have made other decisions, and opportunities have arrived

for me, and I am moving forward in life and

looking for new jobs.

And I've stumbled across a rehabilitation and there are so

many different opportunities for you that are out there.

And one of them could possibly be helping people in

this industry.

And it's an industry that speaks dearly to me because

of personal reasons.

Um, so she said that the job enrolled is so

much more than people actually think that it does.

Um, and I decided to interview her because I wanted

to know if there was a place for me there

in my world.

Um, and I think that there might be Yeah, So

I asked her to go ahead and describe her main

responsibilities for me.

And she said, I advise customers and patients on the

proper products that would be best to help them with

their anxiety, pain, seizures or anyone that is interested in

a recreational use as well.

Um, this is something that is becoming medical.

Um, it is medicine for a lot of people.

There are people that get the different products to help

with their anxiety or their pain.

There are Children that use it for seizures.

There are people that also just use it for recreational

use because they don't qualify for the card, but it

helps them or they just want to have a great

time. Um, it's still an industry, she said.

That is very, um, um, judged by a lot of

people, but it's growing.

It's evolving every day.

I asked her for some things to share with you

guys, and she sent me this as some qualifying conditions.

For the medical aspect of it, Um, it says severe

fibromyalgia, spinal cord diseases.

Um, neural batch.

It's autoimmune disorders.

Neurofibromatosis, osteoarthritis, Parkinson's disease.

Um, muscular dystrophy, um, autism, HIV AIDS.

There's so many anorexia, things that qualify for this, and

if you look at it as a medication.

That's amazing.

These people were on meds and pills and they weren't

getting any relief and they were actually getting more problems.

And now it's a more herbal situation in lifestyle, and

it's better.

It's better for a lot of people.

Yeah, this is an example of dozing.

And for someone who has cancer, I don't know if

you've ever spoken to somebody who's had cancer and who

has gone through chemotherapy and radiation.

But they have.

I have, and I've taken care of them.

And I've taken care of people who have taken marijuana

to help them with the nausea and vomiting and to

help them with, um, the pain, because cancer is very,

very painful.

And I have also taken care of people that have

used morphine and narcotics.

And for one, they say, that doesn't even touch it,

and to their sleep in their life, away there, drooling

on themselves, they're having no quality of life.

And the person that had, you know, marijuana had a

better quality of life.

And she said that was actually one of her main

reasons for getting into, um, marijuana into this industry.

Yeah, how does this pertain?

to my career.

I think I said that a little bit already, Um,

that there's so many different alleys that you can go

down as a rehabilitation issue can go down and help

people who have disabilities and disorders that marijuana would be

a great way to treat them.

And it could keep addiction down.

Um, you have to realize that a lot of people

who are given narcotics for pain then become an opiate

addiction, and it only takes about four days of taking

those prescriptions as prescribed for addiction to occur.

And at that point, is addiction truly a choice?

Not so much.

So there's other options available.

And there's an awesome opiate alternative program that I think

could also qualify in my world and my realm of

my profession being a rehabilitation therapist or counsellor, whatever you

want to say, Um, by taking these people who have

had these prior addictions or are a current addict and

trading that narcotic for a, um, marijuana, you see, that

could help.

That could potentially help them.

It's not exchanging one for the other.

It's it's just different.

Yeah, what made you Clara decided to get into this

industry, she says.

I worked hospice over 20 years ago for many years,

and I didn't like that.

They were forced into having only one option and taking

narcotics at the end of life.

It was a much different experience for the end of

life, for the people that tipped the narcotics than for

the marijuana.

The individuals that use marijuana had a better end of

life experience.

She sent me a picture of her licensing.

She wanted me to note that, yes, it does say

it's expired.

But the thing is, is that she, um because of

covid everything is slow and taking a long time, and

she is actually renewed and good to go, um, and

is doing great.

Um, in the in the industry, it is something she

wanted to know.

And she says I am licensed through the state of

Illinois that this you have to be licensed.

You have to go through fingerprinting.

You have to You have to know what you're doing.

You have to go through training.

You have to, you know, make sure that you're following

the laws and you're checking IDs and your you're sticking

to the amount that you're allowed to get um, there's

just a lot of protocols for it, this one, she

said. There, what opportunities for advancement are there there?

Um, this is something that she said is evolving literally

every day.

It's something that this industry was like I said, scrutinized

and judged against.

And there was a lot of speculations against this industry

saying that it wasn't going to do as well And

is it really a medicine?

And it does wonders for people.

I've watched people who were dying and started using this.

It gave them an appetite and it gave them energy

and it gave them life, and they started moving and

doing things again and gaining weight.

And these individuals are thriving now.

So I think ultimately, after this interview with her, I

have decided that I think there could be a position

here in this industry for me and that I am

interested in doing more research and seeing if I could

get into this industry and help individuals this way.

I really do.

I hope I helped it Phil, anybody in and give

any information that anybody needed.

If you have any questions, Richard

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