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Etien Fontaine

Regular Panelist First appears: Ep. 216

Veterans Action Council founder and cannabis veterans advocate. Works at the intersection of cannabis policy and veteran care, uncovered VA health directives on medical cannabis through FOIA requests, and serves as California State Fair cannabis ambassador. Chronic pain patient who credits cannabis with saving his life from opioid dependency.

" Compassion is a verb. Empathy is the feeling, but when you engage in the action of empathy to help, you are creating compassion. "

" Before 1900, cancers were one in a million. They're now one in two. "