aides. She quickly became a star sales person, breaking records in sales
despite her experience in corporate hearing aide sales. She worked long nights and weekends, but quickly became burnt out. The path she was heading down was becoming too
corporate. Wanting to get back to something more wholesome, she felt there could be a way to combine audiology with her other passion, cannabis. Then one day Curley quit her job and moved out to Colorado, a place she's never been.
Upon landing in the Mile High State, Curley knew she wanted to find a way to combine audiology and cannabis. She was settled in the Denver area in September 2015 and immersed herself
into the cannabis industry. Working for existing companies as well as
developing her own projects, she spent the next few years as an outspoken advocate. In July 2018, she connected with Dr. Regina Nelson and the two talked about their shared love for
healing and cannabis. Shortly thereafter, Curley started working with Nelson for an organization called Signs for the Times. The mission of this group is to help sign language for
the deaf and hearing impaired become more inclusive with the ever-changing cannabis industry.
Nelson is currently aiming to change how the hearing impaired community uses sign language to communicate about cannabis. Up until now the only sign for cannabis was the
sign that communicated 'smoking a joint.' That means everything from hemp to oils and Cannabidiol (CBD) to flower, were only signed with the
Photos: Cait Curley
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