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Nathan Mulholland grew up in a family of entrepreneurs and understands the importance of community support. He believes that giving back to the community is the cornerstone of a business’s success. Nathan developed his passion for supporting people in need by watching his mother advocate for the less fortunate during the holidays by using their family business as a platform for charity fundraising and awareness. He completed his undergraduate in Political Science at McMaster University before entering into the world of corporate sales. Nathan now volunteers his networking knowledge and business planning expertise to strategically support the medicinal cannabis industry. Nathan’s dedication to help change the laws, rules, and regulations surrounding access to medicinal cannabis is fueled by his desire to help patients who are suffering every day.

Shalynn Hamilton is a creative and strategic salesperson known for building collaborative and long-lasting relationships with her clients, internal teams and suppliers. She is a skilled writer and communicator who is passionate about leadership and empowering those around her with tools and strategies to help them succeed. While studying at Brock University she led the English Students’ Association (ESA) as president – implementing digital tools, growing the organization’s membership, creating a university-wide peer-proofreading program, as well as founding a now-annual event for students of the department to connect with alumni and explore career options for their degree. She put herself through school with multiple on-campus jobs, including running peer education workshops at the university on a range of over 70 topics. Alongside her BA in English Language, Literature and Business, Shalynn is proud to have earned the top-level certification in the “Foundations in Leadership Practicum Series” – a program aimed…

Adam Oldfield is an entrepreneur and also president of CityHosting website hosting, president of Vacu-Man Duct Cleaning, and has various other Canadian company investments. Adam is the host of TechTalk on syndicated Global Radio network across Ontario (900 CHML Hamilton, AM 640 Toronto) and is a part-time professor at Mohawk College to second-year radio broadcasting students.  In 2018, Adam founded Medicinal My Way with a mission to create brick and mortar access for medical cannabis patients when he began to recognize the many barriers that patients face under the current mail order model in Canada. Patients without a fixed address or a credit card cannot get their medication easily and those who can access it through the current channels, are then required to pay a tax not applicable to any other medication needs in the country. As support for this mission grew, and together with other like-minded individuals, Adam was…

Sam is Treasurer of the board for Medicinal My Way. Having grown up in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of one of the poorest cities in Canada, she saw cannabis provide both a healing aspect among the most disenfranchised of that population, as well as unjustifiably turn patients and their caregivers into criminals. Sam believes in Medicinal My Way because it is first and foremost a human rights advocacy program that strives to serve the most vulnerable population of medicinal cannabis patients by facilitating better access to medical cannabis. In her words, “Ideally, access means exactly that. Accessibility. Meeting patients where they’re at. Access would provide medicinal cannabis patients the same experience as any other medical patient on a quest to pick up a prescription.” Her urgency for quick change comes from a fear that the current medicinal cannabis access restrictions, along with the final shut-down of dispensaries that have…

School teacher Michelle began struggling with standing and sitting for periods of time at the onset of major back pain in 2016. Unsure of the cause, she reached out to her doctor for support and treatment options and was initially prescribed medication primarily used in the treatment of epilepsy as well as highly addictive pain medications. When she asked for medicinal cannabis to be considered in her treatment plan, several doctors ignored her in favour of the pharmaceuticals, even after specialists diagnosed her with unknown lower vertebrae compression that meant a lifetime of pain management. Like too many patients, Michelle was forced to advocate for her desired treatment plan until finally with the support of professionals, has integrated medical cannabis into her life. While there is yet a solution to her ongoing pain, medicinal cannabis has allowed Michelle a safer alternative to treating her condition so that she can focus…