Weed Tea

Since the beginning of time, we have turned to nature to find
plants and roots and fungi to calm us or pep us up, help us
perform better, or take us out of our bodies and minds to some
other dimension. It’s an age old tradition that continues to the
present day and has given us foods, beverages, remedies,
supplements and, drugs around which entire industries have been
built.


Randy Mire makes his living in one of those industries: medical
marijuana.


Randy is a pharmacist and owner of Capitol Wellness
Solutions.  We had Randy on this show back in 2018, when the
state’s medical marijuana industry was just getting started and
Randy was the sole licensed pharmacist in the state to dispense
medical marijuana.


Today, Capitol Wellness Solutions is one of 9 licensed pharmacies
around the state that is selling medical marijuana, and state
lawmakers in 2022 passed several measures to grow the size of the
industry by allowing more licenses and more types of legal
marijuana.


Randy had been a licensed pharmacist in Baton Rouge for a decade
and already had a niche in specialty drugs before he decided to
try selling medical marijuana. 


Rachel Jackson also has a niche in Baton Rouge selling a
plant-based product with what some might consider healing
properties: tea! Rachel’s business, Adornleaf Tea, blends
handmade organic herbal teas with inspired names like Goddess In
Repose, Early Rise, and Mull It Over.


Rachel was a visitor services coordinator at the Louisiana Arts
and Sciences Museum, when she decided in 2018 to pursue her
passion for tea by starting her own business. Rachel sources the
leaves then blends them by hand and packages them to
sell.  


Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the
Boulevard. You can find photos from this show by Erik Otts at
itsbatonrouge.la.


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