Episode 05 — Priya Mishra

Priya Mishra is the founder of Hempvati, working at the intersection of industrial hemp and medical cannabis in India, where the conversation around the plant is still layered with stigma, history, and complexity. Her work spans farmer education, patient support, research, and policy, all grounded in a deeper effort to reshape how cannabis is understood and accessed.In this conversation, we get into how Priya found her way into this space through her own health journey, and how that experience now informs the way she approaches advocacy, business, and care. We talk about the realities of navigating cannabis in India today, the gap between perception and science, and what it looks like to build something meaningful in a system that hasn’t fully caught up yet.This is a conversation about challenging narratives, working within constraints, and slowly shifting a culture around a plant that has always been there.