For many people, 2020 was an eye-opening year. Just ask Nicole Brown, founder and owner of Sage Decoded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen COVID-19 hit, I\u2019d been a nurse for nearly 15 years and had experienced a lot of different things over the course of my career, but nothing like that,\u201d she says. \u201cI knew I wanted to do something different and 2020 seemed like the year to go in a new direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
With medical marijuana recently becoming legal in Virginia, Nicole also knew she had a unique opportunity to serve a growing population of patients and healthcare providers as they navigated this new treatment option.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost medical professionals \u2014 especially those who were trained prior to the 1990s \u2014 were taught that all \u2018drugs\u2019 are bad, so there\u2019s this huge gap in knowledge surrounding the body system that regulates and is affected by medical marijuana,\u201d she explains. \u201cHealthcare providers and patients alike need to be educated on how to use cannabis products in a way that\u2019s safe and effective. That\u2019s how my business was born.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sage Decoded Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n As a medical cannabis patient herself, Nicole was able to combine her nursing background with her own personal experience \u2014 a pairing that makes her uniquely suited to help her clients.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause of the lack of education around medical cannabis, I had to learn a lot on my own, which wasn\u2019t always easy,\u201d Nicole says, admitting she definitely went through some trial and error when finding the right dosing to effectively treat her chronic anxiety symptoms. \u201cBy using my experience and my knowledge, I realized I could help people so they wouldn\u2019t have to face those adverse reactions themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s with that mission in mind that Nicole is educating people on medical cannabis, a natural alternative to big pharma treatments that can be addictive and come with their fair share of side effects.<\/p>\n \u201cI want people to know there are safe, effective treatments out there,\u201d she says. \u201cMedical cannabis is not just a fad, but an option that can really help when used the right way, under the right circumstances. My job is to educate and advocate for my clients so they can use cannabis appropriately to improve their quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For many people, 2020 was an eye-opening year. Just ask Nicole Brown, founder and owner of Sage Decoded. \u201cWhen COVID-19 hit, I\u2019d been a nurse for nearly 15 years and had experienced a lot of different things over the course of my career, but nothing like that,\u201d she says. \u201cI knew I wanted to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n