Paola Pineda Villegas

Paola Pineda Villegas is a Colombian doctor specialising in medical cannabis, a field in which she has been working and researching for years. With a degree in Medicine from the Universidad Pontificia de Bogotá, and serving as the scientific director of the Cannabis Research Centre, she began to prescribe marijuana when, out of options to treat the symptoms of one of her patients with the AIDS virus (who was also suffering from a bone sarcoma), she decided to try cannabis.