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Wendy Read is the author of the new book, Cannabis Therapy: A Complete Guide. Wendy is a certified herbalist, holistic massage therapist, and plant spirit healing practitioner with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry who has studied with herbalists and shamanic healers from around the world. Since 2005 she has taught at Motherland Sanctuary and many other herbal schools and symposiums, including her own school, The California Healing Institute. She is a spiritual counselor and the founding minister of the Caretaker’s Garden, where she also runs a holistic family practice.
She has cultivated and made medicine from marijuana and hundreds of different medicinal herbs for the past twenty years … has led a pagan church and maintained a holistic clinical practice for fifteen years. Wendy lives in Northern California.