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Carlen Costa is The Everyday Goddess, a Sexologist and OCSWSSW Psychotherapist. She empowers people to embody an unapologetically passionate lifestyle through her teachings and support in intimacy, sexuality, sensuality, self-worth, body-image and, relationships. Carlen encourages us to become sassy, sexy and switched on, through a holistic approach in her private practice available to individuals and couples (in-office or online), speaking nation-wide about sexuality and cannabis, as well as in her growing women’s only Facebook group, The Everyday Goddess Gang and, with her lifestyle brand, The Everyday Goddess. Carlen is also the founder of The Goddess Foundation, which seeks to fund initiatives by women, for women, across Canada. A portion of every sale of The Goddess Collection for The Everyday Goddess brand is contributed to The Goddess Foundation.

Murray Reid lives in a small coastal community in Cape Breton Island with his wife, and five children. He is one of five siblings, and has over 30 nieces/nephews, along with being a grandfather to two. On December 3rd 1990 Mr. Reid started his position as a pipe layer with the municipality of Cape Breton Island and began his day working in volatile conditions laying pipe as deep as 8 to 10′ feet in the ground. As the walls began to cave from heavy rain falls, Mr. Reids employer did not correct the situation and continued to have his employees work in unsafe conditions that evidently lead to in Mr. Reid being buried into a ditch resulting in severe spinal cord injuries. Following the incident Mr. Reid underwent surgery to relieve the symptoms of a bulged disc at just the age of 21. Mr. Reid went on to work for…

Corey Favell is the Founder and Director of Favell Fitness/The Performance Lab. Corey is also a medicinal cannabis patient and a strong advocate for finding alternative solutions for individuals suffering from chronic pain, addiction and/or mental illness. Favell is a key member and founder of a not-for-profit organization called Parent’s for Care which focuses on helping individuals with children or family members suffering from addiction and/or mental illness,creating a community for support and hope not just for the patient but also for the parent, guardian or caregiver. Corey’s daughter (Zoe) is a survivor of the opioid epidemic who was misdiagnosed at an early age and prescribed highly addictive medications that would lead to years of destruction. Corey’sdecision to introduce his daughter to medicinal cannabis became a positive game changer with her conditions, but would also create a backlash of resistance from medical professionals alongwith negative support from parents regarding Corey’s…

Water Rau is a Veteran of 27 and a half years of service to the Army and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) having done six tours overseas in Camp Mirage and Afghanistan. Attributing from his service, Mr. Rau became affected with PTSD and back injuries. In 2016 Mr. Rau was medically retired from the RCAF and after much research began using medicinal cannabis upon learning about the strains of cannabis and its effects to help with his pain. Mr. Rau is passionate about helping, and informing his fellow brothers and sisters in arms and other patients about the benefits of medicinal cannabis.

Ashleigh is a medical cannabis patient and passionate advocate for the rights and education of her fellow Canadian Cannabis patients. In 2017, still a new patient herself, she founded a social media community alongside a handful of other patients. This community, named SheCann, was created with the intention of providing information, resources and support to prospective and existing ACMPR patients. Although it is geared towards women, SheCann also welcomes supportive and respectful men, and members of industry, including legal clinics and Licensed Producers. SheCann’s primary goal is to create a compassionate space for patients to speak openly about their journeys as cannabis patients. Ashleigh works alongside advocacy groups like CFAMM (Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana) to advocate for accessible and affordable access to medical cannabis. She is a member of Cannabis Canada’s Patient Advocacy Committee, and has recently joined the Strainprint Technologies team as their Community Manager and…

Robert W.E. Laurie is an international lawyer, writer, and speaker, qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and called to the British Columbia Bar as a barrister and solicitor. After practicing law in London and New York in the areas of International hedge fund formation and securities fraud litigation, Robert founded AD LUCEM LAW CORPORATION in Vancouver in 2013. Robert’s legal practice focusses on cannabis, including business law, administrative and family litigation, plus criminal and marijuana regulatory defense. Robert is also a recent appointment to the City of Nanaimo’s newly established municipal Cannabis Task Force and is a Board Advisor to MAPS Canada. Robert has advised licensed producers, pre-license entities, technology companies, and other domestic and foreign participants in the Canadian cannabis industry in relation to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and its regulations, including the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (the “ACMPR”) and the Narcotic…

Gerald Major is a medical cannabis patient, a staunch chronic illness advocate and an arthritis survivor. Gerald’s Arthritis took him out of full time employment 8 years ago when he was the Senior Vice President of Operations for Citibank Hedge Fund Services North America. Since then, he’s become the President of the Canadian Spondylitis Association, Vice President of Canadians for Fair Access to Medicinal Marijuana, board member and consumer group chair of the Arthritis Alliance of Canada, Best Medicine Coalition board member, and a member of Ontario Best Practice Research Initiative patient advisory committee. His passion for advocacy stems from his personal battle with Ankylosing Spondylitis and Psoriatic Arthritis, both inflammatory arthritis that ends in fusion in the back and peripheral joints. Gerald is frequently invited to share his story of Spondyloarthritis, Mental Health and Medical Cannabis by the health care community. In 2016, upon noticing the barriers to medical…