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heal
Steeled by a deep-seated desire to
help people suffering from various
ailments, Carla Baumgartner
took a big risk when she opened
Ganjarunner in Los Angeles in 2014.
Now, the business is on a roll and
changing people’s lives for the better.
By Karen Lloyd
A
lmost daily, Carla Baumgartner opens a new email from an out-
of-state patient desperate for relief from one of the hundreds of
medical conditions marijuana can aid.
While California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, patients in many
other US states who suffer from anxiety, depression, stress, nausea during
chemotherapy, and more also suffer from medical marijuana criminalization
and are left to manage their pain with pharmaceuticals.
“The prescriptions are poisoning people,” says Carla. “People take them, get
addicted to them, and sometimes they don’t wake up.”
The 49-year-old yogi opened Ganjarunner, a premium medical marijuana delivery service, in
Los Angeles in 2014, nearly three decades after she began medicating herself with cannabis for
anxiety at the age of 14. Following a 26-year career in marketing and PR that left her drained,
she decided to follow her heart and do something she could feel passionate about.
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