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“The military s posture is zero tolerance,” Almonte said. “It was really really tough for me to wrap my brain around this concept, but it was good for me to find this program because this program really allowed me to see cannabis from all of these perspectives.”
With her new degree, Almonte recently finished the manuscript for a book on cannabis. She’s also working on a pilot for a cannabis ecotourism television series.
Almonte received her Master s in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The program is the first graduate program of its kind in the nation. Leah Sera, the program’s director, said that the program focuses on the pharmacology and pharmaceutics related to cannabis medicine.
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Founder, National Cannabis Festival and National Cannabis Policy Summit
As a kid growing up in 16th Street Heights during the ’90s and early 2000s, she’d watch her neighbors’ residences being raided for pot offenses. As an adult, she has turned her hometown into a destination for weed stans, organizing the area’s first cannabis festival in 2016. Nearly 20,000 people attended the last in-person event, at RFK; it now includes a policy component, too.Back to Top
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Co-owners, Phyto Management and Maryland Cultivation and Processing
When longtime lawyer and Reagan campaign counsel Ed Weidenfeld was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, his son introduced him to farmer and Landon alum Andras Kirschner. The pair became partners in pot-growing ventures in Hagerstown and DC. The latter, Phyto, was DC’s highest-grossing in 2019, with $3.2 million in revenue. “I once thought cannabis would put users on the path to inevitable addiction,” Weidenfeld says. Now it “keeps me cl