Allison Ray Benavides, Medical Cannabis Advocate, USA If you wouldn’t expect the titles Licensed Social Worker and pediatric Cannabis advocate/mother to overlap, that’s because you haven’t yet met Allison Ray Benavides. Perceptions are changing, and this amazing, compassionate woman is making sure of it. When her own son was diagnosed with an intractable seizure disorder,…

MMJ Patient : David Ruise, San Diego, CA This young gentleman is only 19 years old, but has found cannabis to be an integral part of controlling his insomnia and anxiety. He’s blessed to have a supportive family, a pioneer for alternative medicine as a mother, and a mind all his own! He struggled for…

Weedmart.io is an online marketplace that gives proprietors of cannabis dispensaries the ability to provide customers with access to a diverse selection of cannabis-related goods. The goal of the site is to provide its users with a shopping experience that is uncomplicated and safe, making it easy for users to browse through a variety of…

Let’s just start by saying that John Malanca is a people person! He loves working with people, helping others and has dedicated his life to paying it forward and connecting patients and medical professionals to education on cannabis. Serving others runs deep in his veins and he’s doing his very best, along with his wife…

Park Major, Medical Cannabis Patient He was diagnosed as terminally ill by his doctors and was suffering a great deal. He felt that his health was out of his control and that he was at the mercy of the myriad of health conditions he had and yet, he decided to take the reigns and make the move to Colorado to pursue…

Medicinal Mike Boris, Medical Cannabis Activist, USA You might know him from his Nuglife Radio Show—and if you don’t you should tune in—but Medicinal Mike Boris is an activist with far more than just comedy on his mind. With a heart for kids healed with Cannabis and a mission to bring education and lots of laughs…

Michelle Mangione, Medical Cannabis Patient With multiple-disease diagnoses and well-wishes from a doctor who handed her a standard-issue pamphlet for the terminally ill and told her she had three months to live, Michelle Mangione of Orange County, CA had every typical reason to give up.  But there is nothing “typical” about this woman, her positive…

Vivian Stagg was facing the ultimatum of having a no-guarantees invasive brain surgery when her daughter suggested they try one more thing to help Vivian’s debilitating and unpredictable seizures: hemp-based cannabidiol (CBD) oil.At the time, Vivian was having 12 to 15 seizures per month, and doctors wanted to drill holes in her skull to place nodes,…

CannaEffect first revealed Sadie’s story last July in the documentary short Sadie Higuera: A Little Girl with a Second Chance. In little less than a year, the monumental change in Sadie’s condition has allowed her to live a life previously thought impossible. Sadie has been overcoming the most optimistic expectations for years now, redefining traditional treatments…

Little Sadie Higuera is a model for what it means to fight for one’s life. She’s a testament for what hope and bravery can accomplish in a moment of utmost desperation and she’s living proof of the efficacy of a little green plant we know as cannabis. She’s a gorgeous child with a beautiful heart…