The person profiled on Coastal Healing’s About page reached medical cannabis by way of hydroponic lettuce: the page says he was cultivating the former by 18 after starting with the latter at 13. It also follows him through college and medical school at Dartmouth College, a surgical internship at Maine Medical Center, residency at Albert Einstein Hospital, and further surgical training in Salt Lake City. The excerpt does not identify him by name, but the sequence frames the retailer’s origin story around cultivation and medicine. Coastal Healing also states that it received a Westport letter of non-opposition and Cannabis Control Commission approval for a vertically integrated medical-cannabis facility in 2017. Its undated page describes construction and pursuit of adult-use approval as ongoing, so those details are historical plans, not current status.