“This year we combined it with our first psychedelics conference, so this was the place to do it, if any," Miranda says, pointing to when Denver became the first city in the U.S. to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms. "There's a ton of interest there, and that's been going great."
For Miranda, however, the expo still centers on CBD. The CEO of Mace Media Group, a CBD trade publication network and industry event organizer, was introduced to the benefits of CBD after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a decade ago. After waking up with the inability to feel anything from her waist down, an eighteen-hour trip to the emergency room and three lesions on her brain and spine, Miranda began using muscle relaxers, but those left her frequently feeling unable to function. She tried CBD per a friend's recommendation, and the spasms virtually went away.