Jill Woodworth

Marissa Fratoni, Holistic RN - Cannabis Therapeutics - Maternal Health - Writer - Public Speaker, is a wealth of information and insight on cannabinoid therapeutics holistic medicine and integrative health. I met Marissa through Jessie Gill, Marijuana Mommy, when discussing our medical cannabis project, wondering if she knew of any local to MA cannabis nurses so was thrilled when she agreed to have a chat.We started off talking about how she went from traditional nursing in a very demanding operating room at a local hospital to becoming a visiting nurse, then "on a whim" taking a job in a local dispensary, she says, "Working in the dispensary just completely opened, changed my entire perception of the plant. I was in interacting with people who were very chronically ill and seeing miraculous changes in their overall quality of life with the use of cannabis. And these are things as a visiting nurse, I didn't see you know, my patients were always you know, very a lot of them were very compliant with their phar