Originally posted on Phoenix New Times
In 2018, Ed Leclere had acoustic neuroma surgery to remove a benign tumor from his brain. His preparation for the procedure?
He smoked a lot of weed.
“When they finally did the surgery, they said it was more cyst-like than tumor. So I believe the cannabis was helping to break it down, even though the neurosurgeon didn’t think so,” said Leclere, a Scottsdale-based event promoter. “The doctors and Big Pharma don’t believe anything other than what they prescribe.”
The experience gave Leclere an improbable idea: What if there was a television show, both entertaining and educational, that spotlighted passionate plant innovators in the newly legal weed industry?
