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Gran with a plan: The great-grandmother facilitating medicinal cannabis use

By Russel Brown
Herald on Sunday·
16 mins to read

Three and a half years ago, Pearl Schomburg was in a very bad way.

She'd washed up in Auckland after a marriage separation and her physical and mental health were deteriorating. The former computer programmer and social entrepreneur had always been a doer and now she couldn't do anything. She was in constant pain from worsening rheumatoid arthritis. She remembers the day she hit the wall.

"I'd been to my doctor for prescriptions because I wasn't doing well. I had

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