Dr Mark Hotu spent his first 10 years working in Internal Medicine in NZ before moving Melbourne to apply his trade in General Practice. In 2018 he moved back to NZ and started the country’s first and only home visiting GP service in Auckland and during this time Dr Hotu was exposed to a lot of patients with chronic pain, many of whom requested medicinal cannabis. After a lot of self directed learning, Dr Hotu attended an intensive teaching program in Montreal on medicinal cannabis including some time spent spent at Sante Cannabis clinic in that city. Dr Hotu now runs Green Doctors, NZ’s first and largest specialised medicinal cannabis clinic which is based in Ponsonby, Auckland.