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The only headaches Pamela Hadfield might experience these days come if her three young girls are talking incessantly simultaneously.

Hadfield, 45, suffered from debilitating migraines for 25 years — that is until she spent six months taking non-psychoactive cannabis products to manage, and ultimately prevent, the pain. She hasn’t had a migraine since, and that was almost five years ago.

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“Even in progressive areas, people still have an enormous amount of stigma towards their own personal use of cannabis,” Hadfield told the Montreal Gazette Tuesday by phone from her San Francisco home. “We’re extremely progressive here. Yet people call me … people I know, my neighbours. They say, ‘don’t tell anyone that I’m considering using cannabis.’

“Cannabis is everywhere. It’s not like it’s a new kid on the block.”

Hadfield is a tech entrepreneur and the co-founder of HelloMD, an online community of health and wellness cannabis consumers. She initially launched her company in California more than four years ago as a service to connect medical cannabis patients with doctors from the privacy of home, but has since expanded to include community, educational content and product sales.