CANNABIS EMPOWERMENT: Massage therapist Jennifer Chan and Cannabis Basics founder Ah Warner provide cannabis education at the Senior Center of West Seattle with NORML Women of Washington. COURTESY OF JENNIFER CHAN
In her first year as a massage therapist, Jennifer Chan became used to her hands aching at the end of a day’s work. But one day, one of her clients brought her own massage oils for Chan to use.
Afterward, Chan noticed that her hands, normally sore after eight hours of kneading, didn’t hurt as much.
“My hands weren’t as swollen or as achy as I expected them to be after a really long day of massage,'” she said. “I was staring at my hands that evening, and my friends were laughing at me. They were like, ‘Are you high?'”
It turned out the massage oils contained cannabis.
