When Mahria Baughn first began advocating for cannabis back in 2019, she faced scrutiny from her community and peers who remained unsure of the benefits of the plant. “No one was really doing it at the time,” Mahria remembers, “and I was trying to be super vocal and positive. For me, education was key. Putting the research out there, talking about the terpenes, trying to teach patients.” Fortunately, Mahria’s valiant efforts to change the hearts of those in doubt paid off when she began to meet like-minded individuals who wanted to grow and learn alongside her. As she sought out and traded knowledge with some of the industry’s pioneers, people who were sick, or just curious about cannabis, would ask her for more information. Mahria would meet with cancer patients to help them educate themselves on the benefits and safe consumption of RSO, raise money to help patients afford their medicine, and set them up with full RSO regimens by working with processors and cultivators to provide wholesale pricing.
Mahria By Anna Ervin Staff Writer
“I didn’t realize how uneducated people were on the medicinal use of marijuana,” Mahria says. “It really is amazing. Doing the advocacy work at such an early stage really helped me get my name out
