About this ebook
It’s medical. It’s political. It’s revolutionary.
Cannabis Queens explores the complex, dangerous, beautiful, uplifting, funny, heartbreaking, and joyful relationship between women and cannabis to rewrite the negligée-clad, arched back, ‘Reefer Madness’ narrative.
Women and cannabis have a special connection.
We stand with the plant.
We are the Cannabis Queens.
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About the author
Melanie Wentzel is a people person. She cares about authentic leadership, creating value, and making room for joy; and she believes in women, in people, and their communities.
She has committed her career to health system reform and the improvement of health and care for communities in Australia and abroad. She has a rare talent for the meaningful implementation of innovative, person-centred systems and technology, is fascinated by people and their behaviour, and by making what is transactional, transformational.
The author of Cannabis Queens, and #1 bestselling author of A Love Letter to Women in Business (from Women Making a Difference), Melanie is a recipient of the Women Changing the World Emerging Global Leader Award 2024, and has been featured in Forbes Magazine, MJBiz Daily, Leafie, Head Magazine, Loud Magazine, Cannabis Law Report, Mary Jane Universe, and Cannabiz, and was an invited panelist at the MJBizCon 2024 Women in Leadership Forum. She is also twice published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
A Bachelor of Psychological Science, she is an experienced Healthcare Strategist, Project- and Operations Manager, and a graduate of Griffith University, The Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the Harvard Medical School Executive Education Program.
