Treatwell: Food as Medicine

Alison Ettel can attest to the healing powers of cannabis. You’d never know it by sight, but the bright, bubbly young woman behind TreatWell had a near-death experience a few years ago. While she had never tried cannabis prior and hasn’t since, using marijuana as a medicine during her recovery changed her life.

“I don’t use it recreationally, I used it coming out of a coma, that was the first and only time I’ve used it,” Ettel says while introducing the story of her San Francisco-based edibles, extracts and tinctures company. “I basically was walking down the street in Vancouver, I didn’t know I had meningitis, I thought I had somebody following me. It was this weird feeling of cloak and dagger. So I asked a stranger on the street, ‘Please take me to the hospital. Something’s wrong with my brain.’”

Ettel lapsed into a coma in the waiting room...

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