Elisha Millan is a self-described “goody-two-shoes.”
“I’m a stay-at-home-mom-looking rule-follower,” she says. “I’m not someone you’d look at and think, ‘Oh, she’s on cannabis.'”
Except Millan is on cannabis. She takes cannabidiol (CBD) for Crohn’s Disease and inflammatory arthritis. Moreover, her CBD experience led her to open Grass Roots Health in downtown Chattanooga five years ago this month – the first store in Tennessee of its kind, she says.
“I was in the store one day when one of my customers with Crohn’s came in, and I got to hear what products of mine are helping her,” says Millan, who opened a second retail location in Fort Oglethorpe in 2019 and a wholesale operation on Wilcox Boulevard in 2020.
“I have another customer who’s the parent of a toddler with seizures, and she uses my products for her daughter. It’s great to see the reach that cannabis has – it’s not about getting high. It’s about getting healthy,” she adds.