Meet Holly Bell, Florida’s Mother Of Marijuana
WUFT FM By Gabriella Paul

One day six years ago, Holly Bell was rummaging through her daughter’s Volkswagen when she stumbled upon an identification card. It was issued from a medical marijuana registry in Los Angeles, California. She stared at Hilary’s face on the card, fascinated but not surprised.

“I mean I grew up in an era where everybody smoked pot. It was no big deal,” Bell says.

She can laugh about it now but back then, she had a slew of questions for her daughter.

In her answers, Hilary described how medical marijuana relaxed her muscles and soothed her anxiety – both crippling symptoms of a congenital disease; she was born 10 weeks premature and with mild cerebral palsy.

Today, Hilary Bell, 28, works as a film writer in Nashville, where medical marijuana is still illegal. And Bell has recently been named the first-ever cannabis director of Florida, where the regulation and use of cannabis remains a political hot topic.

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