Editor-in-Chief at Cannareporter and Cannadouro Magazine | Program Curator at PTMC – Portugal Medical Cannabis
With a degree in Journalism from the University of Coimbra, Laura Ramos has been a Journalist since 2000, having worked as a writer and reporter in several News Media, from the national television (RTP) to newspapers and magazines like Euronotícias, A Capital or Sábado.
She was news correspondent for the daily newspaper “Jornal de Notícias” in Rome, Italy, in 2004 / 2005, where she did her post-graduation studies in Photography. Laura was later a Press Officer at the Ministry of Education in addition to creating the street-art photographic archive “Say What Lisbon?”.
Laura is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the news website CannaReporter and Cannadouro Magazine, having directed the documentary “Patients”, on the users of medicinal cannabis, that was presented at the Health Commission at the Portuguese Parliament in 2018.
She co-founded PTMC – Portugal Medical Cannabis, where she is Program Curator, and coordinated three international conferences that together received more than 1.000 attendees from 25 different nationalities.
Laura was also involved in the organization of the first Post-Graduate Program for Medicinal Cannabis GMP’s in Portugal, in 2019, in partnership with the Military Laboratory of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon.