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Jorge Moral, a veteran firefighter for the past 30 years, used to think he had a drinking problem. It’s something many firefighters struggle with — turning to the bottle in response to on-the-job stress and, in more extreme cases, trauma and PTSD. Only for Jorge, he realized it wasn’t actually a drinking problem he had.…

So, you’ve got a couple of pot plants in your basement. How do you take that and build a real business from it? Tony Frischknecht has, you could say, some experience in this arena. He started out in black market cannabis and, after founding a small, medical marijuana caregiving business in Colorado circa-2005, ultimately worked…

Drug tests today are antiquated and often inaccurate, and they keep folks from accessing the medicine they need. There’s reason to think that, soon, this will change. But in the meantime, what should you know about your risk of failing a drug test due to using CBD products, or inhaling secondhand smoke? As a firefighter…

Zachary Babcock was sitting in prison, having just been booked a second time after a previous four-year stint, trying to picture what his newborn twin sons looked like. That’s when, as he tells it, he woke up. He’d grown up without a father himself, spending time in and out of juvenile detention centers, boys’ homes,…

Back in the ‘90s, Dr. Pamela Kryskow was a forestry firefighter in the summertime while earning her undergraduate degree in criminology. But being a first responder, she discovered, was something she had a natural affinity for, as well as something that felt like so much more than a summer gig. So, she became a firefighter in…

Former college football player Mark Tullius has always had dark thoughts. That’s part of the reason he was drawn to heavy metal music, and it’s a big part of his writing today in the horror and dystopian genres. But after a lifetime of playing violent, contact-based sports, he started to think that maybe the darkness…

At 18, Nick Wingo thought he’d struck gold in his new career as a firefighter. It was the period just after 9/11, and it felt like he was doing something purposeful with his life: “We were America’s heroes,” he says.  Then, the deaths started — and so did the impact they’d ultimately have on him.…

A consultant in the emerging field of psychedelic medicine, Dr. Julia Mirer’s medical career began first on the path to pediatrics. But after graduating from medical school and beginning her pediatric residency, she realized the medical system wasn’t exactly what she’d imagined it to be. Namely, she got to see its many pitfalls up close.…

Dr. Lonny Weiss got his professional start in integrative psychology working in a drug treatment program, where he eventually became clinical director. But his personal introduction to the merits of integrative, holistic medicine came much earlier in life.  “My mom comes from the islands, and when I was a child, I remember walking through parks…

Supporting small cannabis and hemp farmers don’t just carry the benefit of knowing you backed a small business. From a product quality standpoint, there’s no comparison between mass-produced CBD purveyors on Amazon and small, boutique farmers like John Sedillo, Founder of Family Hemp Brands. That’s because, with CBD, consistency counts for a lot. Too often,…