Nurse and cannabis healthcare entrepreneur Elisabeth Mack’s debut memoir, Wine, Women and Weed: A Memoir of Faith, Hope, and Love chronicles her personal reinvention, celebrates LGBTQ+ love and reflects her mission to advance healing rooted in truth, dignity and compassion.
The memoir’s title reflects the chapters of Mack’s evolution. “Wine” symbolizes partnership and refinement, “women” represents sexual awakening and self-acceptance, and “weed” marks her professional reinvention through cannabis medicine.
“I’ve lived a wildly interesting life,” Mack said in the book’s press release. “But this book isn’t about spectacle — it’s about survival. It’s about what happens when everything falls apart and you decide to rebuild anyway.”
Mack recounts her many reinventions and major life shifts — from nurse to wine entrepreneur, widow, cannabis advocate and eventually to marriage with her wife. She presents her journey as proof that authenticity can emerge from hardship and that self-love can become the foundation of survival.
“Wine, Women, and Weed was born from a desire to make sense of it all,” Mack explained, “to turn chaos into clarity, pain into purpose, and love into legacy. I wanted to share not just the adventures, but the lessons—the healing, faith and courage it takes to live authentically in a world that often asks us to hide. No matter who you are, you’ll see a piece of yourself—or someone you love—somewhere in these pages.”
Mack, MBA, BSN, RN, is a nurse entrepreneur and recognized leader at the forefront of integrating cannabis into mainstream healthcare. She is co-founder of Holistic Caring and The Green Nurse and CEO of Bloom Hemp, where she integrates conventional medicine with holistic and plant-based therapies. Learn more at ElisabethMack.com.
–From staff reports