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CANNABIS FOR ANXIETY & ENDO ciara dubbé

The Cannabis industry attracts people from all walks of

life and former esthetician Ciara Dubbé is no different. The 30-year-old marketing director of Greenhouse Wellness previously made her profession in the beauty industry. The world of glitz and glam provided refuge to a teenager looking to rebuild herself after years of school-aged bullying.

“At the end of high school, I had to regain my

from endometriosis – a uterine disorconfidence,” said Ciara, a 2012 graduate of der that results in pain and menstrual Von Lee International School of Aesthetics. “So irregularities. I started to teach myself how to do makeup The “Sativa Diva” has found a 1:1 and put on a nice outfit. I realized how much THC/CBD ratio to be the perfect daily those simple things boosted my confidence complement, resulting in a lessening and I really wanted to help other people feel of pain, while allowing her to mainthis way.” tain a high standard of work as she

A hard worker by nature, Ciara moved balances her own business, as well beyond the daily tasks of chemical peels as the daily demands of Greenhouse and facials, earning her stripes as a spa and Wellness. marketing coordinator in Columbia. In 2017, “Whether it’s been sitting up front “Growing up, my parents told me to stay away from [Cannabis],” Ciara said. she opened up her own business – a boutique in our lobby to check patients in, “They didn’t know enough about it and at the time it was illegal.” firm called Zia Integrated – with the hopes of working behind the bar as a wellempowering other women. ness consultant, running educational “It’s about achieving balance,” Ciara said. “As

“It grew into more of a passion,” she said. events or even helping receive orders and sticking females, we’re multifaceted and have to be a lot of “It was something that I felt really good product in the back, I’ve done it all,” she said. things. Our Blissiva pens give me a pick-me-up and about.” Greenhouse Wellness has certainly made an im- level you out. It’s like a glass of wine without the

That summer, her mother Gina Dubbé also pression since joining the Maryland market. calories.” provided Ciara with a chance to carry the In 2018, Baltimore Business Journal awarded the Greenhouse has created a strong culture of womtorch for women as they endeavored to open Ellicott City dispensary as one of the Best Workplaces, anhood that has some traveling the extra mile to a female-owned medical Cannabis dispensary and in 2020, Cannabis Dispensary Magazine also visit the Route 29-based dispensary. Helping those in Ellicott City. acknowledged the culture of Greenhouse Wellness women to a better place has given Ciara purpose

“Growing up, my parents told me to stay – designating it as the best dispensary to work for and a giant sense of pride. away from [Cannabis],” Ciara said. “They in 2020. The dispensary was even featured on “The “It’s really been one of the most fulfilling experididn’t know enough about it and at the time it Today Show.” “It’s hard to verbalize how proud I am ences I have ever had and brought my family closer was illegal. I was a total rules of our team,” she smiled. in a weird-ass way,” she said, fighting back tears. follower and in our household, “But I wouldn’t change a single thing. Whether it we didn’t do things that were As the dispensary’s day one be the patients I’ve cried with, the connections I’ve illegal.” marketing director, Ciara made, the community we’ve created – it’s all been Though she admittedly dabbled as a recreational user in college, Ciara’s medical reGreenhouse has created a strong culture of has been there for it all. She has also helped grow the company’s personal brand, worth it.” Empowering women through beauty and Cannabis – that’s an homage Ciara says she happily lationship with Cannabis grew substantially when she went womanhood that has Blissiva – a brainchild of gynecologist and co-founder endorses. “I want this to be a mainstream thing,” she said. all in on the industry. Here some traveling the Leslie Apgar. The Blissiva line of “There’s no rules that say what someone who uses she began seeing Cannabis as a way to deal with anxiety extra mile to visit products, now available in 12 states, was “specifically made Cannabis is supposed to look like. I’ve had some success and I own my own business, but at the same that had followed her since pre-teen years – a bi-product of an OCD (obsessive-comthe Route 29-based dispensary. Helping for the complexity, beauty, and power of the female body” – helping women who time, I have struggled like everyone else and I don’t have it all figured out. Cannabis has helped. You can use it, you can be a good person, you can work pulsive disorder) diagnosis at the age of 12. The benefits of those women to a visit Greenhouse looking for relief from “breast cancer, hard and still be really successful. It’s about being confident in yourself and knowing that you are more the plant also helped combat severe inflammation stemming better place has given Ciara purpose and a ovarian cancer, menopause, endometriosis, and insomnia.” than enough.” GREENHOUSEWELLNESS.COM giant sense of pride.