In 2012 Rocio Vargas had a vigorous marijuana plant growing in her closet, and three more in her West Lawn backyard. Thanks to the advice of an arborist friend, she and her boyfriend were growing more weed than they could smoke.
Against doctor’s orders he flew to Mexico to his late mother’s farm in San Luis Potosí. Vargas followed. “When he passed away I took a step back from my career,” she says. “I didn’t want to talk to anybody. I didn’t want to deal with anybody.” She spent a month on the farm reflecting on her life and work, and it seemed like a sign when she discovered her grandmother’s marijuana plants still growing on the property. Her grandmother wasn’t a smoker. Like many in the area who practiced traditional medicine, she infused the flowers into alcohol to make a topical painkiller. “That’s when I decided to merge both worlds,” says Vargas.
Vargas currently has four private clients she’s teaching how to use their medicine. Her current challenge is creating cannabis suppositories for a woman suffering from MS, arthritis, and breast cancer.
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