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Founder Story

Bridging 35 years of pharmaceutical expertise with CBD wellness

Rick Bauer spent three and a half decades inside the pharmaceutical industry. He saw what clinical rigor looks like — and what happens when it's absent. CBD Health Collection is the answer to that absence.

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Rick Bauer
Founder & CEO
CBD Health Collection
35+
Years in pharma
The Story

He saw the gap.
Then he closed it.

For 35 years, Rick Bauer worked inside the pharmaceutical industry — understanding how drugs are developed, validated, and brought to patients. He learned what evidence-based medicine actually means: rigorous testing, verified potency, documented outcomes, physician trust built over time.

When the CBD market exploded, Rick watched with growing frustration. Hundreds of brands, almost no standards. Products with wildly inconsistent potency. Marketing claims with zero clinical backing. Physicians unable to recommend anything because nothing met the bar they required.

The gap was obvious. The CBD industry needed someone who understood what pharmaceutical-grade actually means — not as a marketing phrase, but as a production standard. GMP-compliant manufacturing. Third-party verified potency on every batch. Dosing protocols grounded in clinical research.

Rick founded CBD Health Collection to fill that gap. Not to add another CBD brand to a crowded market — but to build the first one that physicians could confidently stand behind. Every product, every batch, every label reflects the same standard he applied for three decades in pharma.

Career & Company

The path here

A career spent building pharmaceutical credibility, applied to the one wellness category that needed it most.

1984 – 2008
Pharmaceutical sales & management
Spent over two decades working directly with physicians, hospitals, and health systems. Built deep expertise in how clinical evidence translates to patient care — and what it takes for physicians to trust a product recommendation.
2008 – 2019
Senior pharmaceutical leadership
Moved into strategic roles overseeing product development and market development. Gained firsthand understanding of GMP manufacturing, regulatory compliance, and the clinical documentation standards that separate pharmaceutical products from supplements.
2019
Founded CBD Health Collection
Identified the CBD market's credibility gap and founded CBD Health Collection in Columbus, Ohio — applying pharmaceutical-grade manufacturing standards, third-party verification, and physician-focused distribution to a category that had neither.
Today
Physician referral network, Columbus & beyond
Built a physician referral network that accounts for approximately 50% of customers. A+ BBB rating. Every product manufactured in an FDA-registered, GMP-compliant facility, with third-party Certificates of Analysis on every batch.
Why It's Different

The pharmaceutical difference

Most CBD brands were founded by marketers. This one was founded by someone who spent 35 years in drug development.

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GMP-Compliant Manufacturing
Every product manufactured in an FDA-registered, Good Manufacturing Practice facility — the same standard required for pharmaceutical products. Not a supplement factory. Not a kitchen. A real GMP facility.
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Third-Party Verified Every Batch
Independent laboratory testing on every production batch — verifying potency, purity, and absence of contaminants. Certificate of Analysis available on every product. No self-reported numbers.
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Physician Referral Network
~50% of customers come via physician referral. Physicians don't refer products they don't trust. Rick's pharmaceutical background is why that trust was built — and why it holds.
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Clinical Dosing Protocols
Dosing recommendations grounded in peer-reviewed research. Not guesswork, not "start low and go slow" vagueness — actual clinical documentation backed by published studies in JAMA, The Lancet, and Pain.
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A+ BBB Rating
Better Business Bureau A+ accreditation. Not an award you buy — a rating earned through years of customer service, transparent business practices, and zero unresolved complaints.
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Evidence-Based, Always
If a claim can't be backed by published clinical research, it doesn't get made. Rick spent 35 years learning how pharmaceutical companies earn and lose physician trust. That discipline runs through everything here.

"The pharmaceutical industry taught me that trust is earned through evidence, not marketing. That's the standard CBD Health Collection holds itself to — every product, every batch, every claim."

Rick Bauer, Founder & CEO
What's Next

See the standard in practice

Whether you're a healthcare provider or a consumer, there's a place for you here.

For Healthcare Providers
Physician Partnership Program
Join the referral network Rick built from his pharmaceutical background. Free sample kits, clinical documentation, dosing protocols. Everything your patients need, and everything you need to recommend with confidence.
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For Consumers
CBD Products
Browse the full product line — each formulated to pharmaceutical-grade standards, third-party verified, with dosing guidance grounded in clinical research. This is what CBD should have been from the start.
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