Ethan Ruby is the president and CEO of Theraplant, a company that produces and processes legal medical marijuana in Connecticut, and is president of the Connecticut Medical Cannabis Council.
[1] He became involved in debates over medical marijuana in part because, after a traffic accident left him a paraplegic, he has given testimony about the benefits he has received from his use of cannabis for control of severe pain.
Ruby was a star baseball player at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island,[2] and played college baseball at Brandeis University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he played left field briefly with future major leaguer Mark DeRosa on the 1995-96 Ivy League championship team.
[citation needed] Ruby founded Theraplant as part of an effort to open a licensed medical marijuana production facility in Connecticut[1] after that state legalized the medicine in 2012.
Ruby has also joined efforts to open similar licensed facilities in Minnesota[4][5] and other states.