Ethan Ruby

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Ethan Ruby is the president and CEO of Theraplant, a company that grows and processes legal medical cannabis in Connecticut. He also leads the Connecticut Medical Cannabis Council. After a traffic accident left him paraplegic, he started speaking about how cannabis helped relieve his severe pain.

Ruby was a standout baseball player at Moses Brown School in Providence, then played college baseball at Brandeis University and the University of Pennsylvania. He was on the 1995-96 Ivy League championship team with Mark DeRosa and earned a psychology degree from Penn in 1997.

He founded Theraplant to help open a licensed medical marijuana facility in Connecticut after the state legalized medical cannabis in 2012. In September 2014, Theraplant became Connecticut’s first medical marijuana producer. The company operates in Watertown, and its products are sold at dispensaries across the state.

Ruby has also worked to open similar licensed facilities in Minnesota and other states.