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Tami Mendonca’s first experience with topical cannabis was a letdown. She rubbed the lotion on her skin—but instead of getting medicated pain relief, she just got oily hands.
“I was skeptical at first. I used it, and it didn’t really work,” she said.
Mendonca’s experience was not unique—plenty of customers find pot topicals ineffective—but she wasn’t just another person looking to find a therapeutic treatment for their arthritis or muscular pain. Mendonca is a registered nurse and the owner of Discovery Garden, a pot farm and processor in Port Townsend. Her experience told her that topicals should theoretically work and there was a need for topical pain relievers.
