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41 - They Burned the Women, Not the Wisdom with Melanie Wentzel.
A History of Women in Cannabis - with Melanie Wentzel
Before prohibition.
Before pharma.
Before THC percentages became a marketing strategy.
Cannabis lived in women’s hands.
In this episode of Canna Curious, Kyla is joined by healthcare strategist, bestselling author of Cannabis Queens, and women’s health advocate Melanie Wentzel to trace the history of cannabis through a female lens.
Together, they travel back through:
Ancient China and early medical pharmacopoeias
Ancient Egypt and recorded cannabis suppositories for period pain
Medieval Europe and Hildegard von Bingen’s writings on hemp…
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