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Dr. Amanda Reiman

Dr. Reiman is a social worker who has been studying the relationships between people and psychoactive plants for 20+ years. Dubbed the “Dr. Ruth of cannabis”, Amanda’s superpower is taking complicated and stigmatized information and making it accessible to the masses. Quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Playboy and elsewhere, she is the trusted voice and conscience of the cannabis space. Her research focuses on the use of psychoactive plants in a harm reduction context and through her company, Personal Plants, she educates others around developing and maintaining healthy relationships with psychoactive plants. Amanda resides in Mendocino County, CA, in the famed Emerald Triangle and is a dedicated teacher, gardener, partner and dog and cat mom.

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Dr. Amanda Reiman
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Regulate cannabis like…coffee?

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Talking to your doctor about weed: should you do it?

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Mood altering, pain altering, but not mind altering: microdosing with cannabis

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Finding community, changing society: the importance of consumption lounges

Dr. Amanda Reiman

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