Jill Woodworth

TSC Talks! Full Circle; Farming to Finance~Cancer & Cannabis w/Jon Workman, VP Industrial Hemp Business Dev. at American Cannabis Co.

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Jon Workman is Vice President - Industrial Hemp Business Development at American Cannabis Company and President - Arkansas Hemp Assoc. He has had a long career in the industry, starting out growing up on a farm in Arkansas, getting into the finance industry in California, having much success, then a random snowboarding accident revealed he had multiple myeloma. Given 3 years to live, he was hit with another disease called TTP ( Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura).He shares, "I was in the hospital for over 60 days at City of Hope in Los Angeles, I was down to about 139 pounds. I'm six-one and it didn't look real real good on me. In fact, I was scared I was going to not make it out of there. So I I took it upon myself to bring in some assistance in the form of cannabis edibles" While Jon would not say cancer cured him, it definitely helped ease his recovery and he's gone on to be in remission since shortly after his last bone marrow transplant to address his TTP. In his own words,"I am a stage 2 cancer survivo