Women in Cannabis: Paola Pineda is Bogota's Top Cannabis Doc
The cannabis industry may be disproportionately male, but pioneering women across the globe are thinking outside the box to return cannabis to the mainstream of medicine and society. In Colombia, Dr. Paola Pineda Villegas, a surgeon with a master’s degree in the study of HIV and a specialist in medical and sanitary law, is just such a leader.
Pineda, 37, has been the most cited expert on medical cannabis in Colombia in recent years, as interest in the plant’s medicinal use has grown. She’s been hailed by the press as "the cannabis doctor” and has treated more than a thousand patients.
Pineda is scientific director of a cannabis research collective called Grupo Curativa (the Healing Group), based in Bogota, Medellín, and Popayán. She’s been collecting patient data on the efficacy of cannabinoid therapy in observational trials to share with peers and guide future treatments.
For 13 years, Pineda worked with patients suffering from...
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