Reefer MEDness: Recent Episodes
Trevor Shewfelt and Kirk Nyquist
As a nurse and pharmacist we focus our stories on people’s use and perception of cannabis as Reefer Madness, Reefer Medicine, Reefer Mellow. We are exploring how society is changing its understanding of cannabis.
Can a small craft cannabis producer survive when government gatekeepers control which products reach consumers?
Kirk visits Edmonton’s New Life Canna to speak with co-founder Robert Raposo. A former firefighter-paramedic and entrepreneur, Robert explains how a casual idea about growing cannabis became a 6,000-square-foot micro-cultivation and processing operation.
Robert takes us inside the difficult economics of Canada’s legal cannabis industry—from rotating SKUs to provincial product listings. He explains how government-controlled distribution can limit consumer choice, and why successful products can still be delisted.
The conversation also explores the BC cannabis distribution strike, farmgate retail, cannabis marketing restrictions, funding barriers and the challenges of supporting local growers. Robert shares why New Life Canna works with independent cultivators to create “win-win” partnerships while producing distinctive craft cannabis strains.
Listen now to discover what it really takes to build a craft cannabis company—and why growing exceptional cannabis is only one part of surviving the regulated market.
New Life Canna Ltd - website
Robert Raposo - LinkedIn
Patrick Neary - Research Gate
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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What happens when the medical cannabis system veterans depend on becomes more expensive, less accessible and increasingly disconnected from their needs?
In Part 2 of this candid conversation, veterans Rob Sipes and Natalie Forcier—joined by cannabis nurse Kala Knudslien—explore how education, professional guidance and intentional cannabis use can help veterans manage PTSD-related sleep disturbances, chronic pain and inflammation.
Rob shares how he incorporates CBD, THC edibles and topical cannabis into a carefully structured routine while living with serious medical challenges, including hemodialysis, neuropathy, two lung conditions, oxygen therapy and a complex medication regimen. His experience reinforces one of the episode’s most important messages: veterans using medical cannabis, especially alongside multiple prescription medications, benefit from individualized assessment, ongoing follow-up and knowledgeable healthcare support.
The conversation also examines Veterans Affairs Canada cannabis reimbursement limits, the potential relationship between medical cannabis and polypharmacy, and the widening gap between Canada’s medical and recreational cannabis markets. As recreational producers increasingly prioritize high-THC products, Kirk and Trevor ask whether veterans and other medical patients are losing access to consistent CBD-rich formulations, balanced cannabinoid products and the clinical guidance needed to use them safely and effectively.
This episode is a thoughtful, human look at medical cannabis for veterans—and a warning about what could be lost if Canada’s medical cannabis system continues to shrink.
Listen now to hear Rob and Natalie’s stories and learn why cannabis education, professional support and reliable access remain essential parts of veteran care.
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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What happens when veterans turn to medical cannabis after conventional treatments leave them exhausted, foggy or still unable to sleep?
Former Canadian Armed Forces medics Natalie Forcier and Rob Sipes share how PTSD, chronic pain, anxiety, nightmares and service-related injuries shaped their journeys with medicinal cannabis.
Together with cannabis nurse Kala Knudslien, Natalie and Rob discuss administration routes like cannabis gummies, oils, creams and other non-inhaled products. Then they get into how various cannabinoids like CBD, CBN, CBG and lower-dose THC, cannabis tolerance effect their individualized care. Natalie also explains how non-intoxicating cannabis topicals can help cautious veterans and first responders reconsider medical cannabis as a pain-management option.
The conversation also examines Veterans Affairs Canada cannabis coverage, including the three-gram daily limit, reimbursement reductions and the widening gap between recreational and medical cannabis prices. It raises important questions about access, veteran advocacy and whether commercial interests are influencing Canada’s medical cannabis system.
Listen now to hear two veterans speak candidly about PTSD, sleep, pain, cannabis education and the struggle to access the care and benefits they earned through service.
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Could cannabinoids eventually help protect athletes’ brains from the repeated impacts of contact sports?
In Part 2 of Kirk’s conversation with University of Regina researcher Dr. Patrick Neary, the focus shifts from proving that athletes can safely tolerate high doses of CBD to investigating whether cannabinoids may provide neuroprotection against concussions in contact sports.
A double-blind crossover design compares a THC-free, broad-spectrum cannabinoid formulation with a placebo. Researchers measure cerebral blood flow, brain oxygenation, cardiovascular function, blood biomarkers and neural activity before and after treatment. Athletes who experience a concussion receive additional testing and symptom monitoring throughout their recovery.
Dr. Neary also previews a planned pain-management study comparing CBD, THC, full-spectrum cannabinoids and placebo in former professional and junior athletes experiencing neuropathic or orthopedic pain. Kirk and Trevor discuss CBD safety, medication interactions, cannabis stigma and why rigorous research could change how professional sports leagues approach athlete recovery.
Listen now to learn how Canadian researchers are testing cannabinoid concussion protection, brain health and chronic pain in contact-sport athletes.
Patrick Neary - University of Regina - website
Patrick Neary - LinkedIn
Patrick Neary - Research Gate
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Can cannabinoids change the future of concussion care in contact sports?
Kirk follows up with Dr. Patrick Neary, PhD, from the University of Regina, to see how his NFL-funded research into CBD, concussions, pain management, and athlete health is going now that the study has moved from planning to execution. Recorded on 4/20, let's dive in: can CBD help reduce concussion risk, support brain recovery, and offer athletes an alternative to opioids?
Dr. Neary explains the first phase of his research: a CBD dose-escalation safety study in athletes, including very high daily doses, brain blood-flow testing, cardiovascular monitoring, pharmacokinetics, biomarkers, and side-effect tracking. The episode also previews two related studies: a double-blind placebo-controlled concussion study and an upcoming pain study comparing THC, CBD, full-spectrum cannabinoids, and placebo.
Listen now to learn how a multidisciplinary Canadian research team is studying cannabis, neuroprotection, inflammation, chronic pain, and the future of sports medicine.
Patrick Neary - University of Regina - website
Patrick Neary - LinkedIn
Patrick Neary - Research Gate
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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What happens when medical cannabis is legal—but medical patients are still left without meaningful guidance?
Part 2 of Kirk’s conversation with Ted Smith of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club explores the widening gap between legalization, Health Canada’s medical cannabis framework, and the real-world needs of patients. It seems many Canadians using cannabis for medical reasons are now being pushed toward recreational stores, where staff are not equipped to discuss drug interactions, dosing, high-potency extracts, suppositories, cancer care, or complex chronic conditions.
Kirk, Trevor, and Ted dig into why compassion clubs still matter after legalization, how cannabis coaches, and community-based educators are filling gaps left by doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and regulators, and why “legal cannabis” is not the same as “medical cannabis.” The conversation also touches on RSO, cytochrome P450 drug interactions, CBD and prescription medications, harm reduction, stigma, raids on the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, and Ted’s long-term vision for integrated cannabis-focused palliative care.
Listen now to understand why medical cannabis advocacy did not end with legalization—and why patients, healthcare professionals, and policymakers still need to pay attention.
The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club - website
Ted Smith - LinkedIn
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Marc Clement - Facebook
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What happens when a cannabis compassion club gets raided again despite previous Supreme Court decisions on their side, fervent public support, and years after cannabis legalization?
Kirk visits Ted Smith at the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club (VCBC) just days after its latest raid. Ted discusses ongoing legal challenges, compassionate access, Rick Simpson Oil (RSO), cannabis harm reduction, pharmacist-led patient screening, CBD drug interactions, and the future of medical cannabis in Canada.
This is a thought-provoking conversation about patient care, cannabis policy, and why some Canadians still struggle to access the products they need.
Listen now to learn how advocacy, healthcare, and cannabis policy continue to collide in post-legalization Canada.
The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club - website
Ted Smith - LinkedIn
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Why is cannabis research so much harder than researching other medicines?
Dr. Lauren Kelly—Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba, Cannabis researcher and Trialist, CCIC President, and CMCN Co-Lead—joins Reefer MEDness to explain why cannabis clinical trials face unique barriers in Canada. Learn how Health Canada regulations, GMP vs GPP standards, product consistency challenges, and gaps in the Cannabis Act affect research, patient care, and evidence generation.
Discover why researchers often can't study the same cannabis products patients actually use, how clinical trials begin from real-world observations, and what Canada can do to become a global leader in cannabis science.
Listen now to understand the hidden challenges behind cannabis research and the future of evidence-based medical cannabis.
Dr. Lauren Kelly -LinkedIn
-University of Manitoba
Canadian Medical Cannabis Trials Network - CMCN -Website
Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids - Website
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Can medical cannabis help children—and what does the evidence actually show?
Pediatric pharmacologist, Dr. Lauren Kelly, joins Trevor and Kirk to discuss medical cannabis in children. This wide ranging conversation includes discussion about epilepsy, autism, pediatric oncology, and the unique challenges of studying cannabinoids during development. Learn what researchers know about CBD, THC & kids, why evidence remains relatively limited, and how stigma, policy, and education continue to affect patient care.
Listen now for an evidence-based discussion on pediatric cannabis research, safety, and the future of cannabinoid medicine for children.
Dr. Lauren Kelly -LinkedIn
-University of Manitoba
C4T - The Canadian Collaborative for Childhood Cannabinoid Therapeutics -Website
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Could CBD help your dog with seizures, chronic pain, or relentless itching—and is THC really as dangerous for pets as we've been told?
Trevor and Kirk sit down with Dr. Kevin Toman, a California-based veterinarian specializing in pet longevity and preventive care. Drawing on more than 40 years of veterinary experience, Dr. Kevin explains why CBD has become an important tool in his practice, particularly for managing seizures, joint pain, inflammation, and skin conditions in dogs.
The conversation explores the science behind cannabinoid therapy in pets, common misconceptions about THC toxicity, the challenges veterinarians face when recommending cannabis products, and why product quality matters. Dr. Kevin also shares his perspective on modern veterinary medicine, proactive wellness strategies, and helping pets live longer, healthier lives.
Whether you're a dog owner, a healthcare professional, or simply curious about veterinary cannabis medicine, this episode offers a balanced, evidence-based look at a fast growing area of pet health care.
Listen and learn how cannabinoids can fit into a comprehensive wellness plan for your dog—and what every pet owner should know before choosing a CBD product.
Dr. Kevin -LinkedIn
Helping Pets Live Longer -Website
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Can full-spectrum cannabis work better than isolates — even if it tastes worse?
In Part 2 with Seann Poli of JAN Rx, Trevor explores CBG, CBC, acidic cannabinoids, the entourage effect, veteran cannabis care, and why cannabis companies are increasingly filling healthcare roles traditionally held by pharmacists and nurses. Plus: a new “rocket fuel” cannabinoid blend, hormone-focused cannabis products, and the future of medical cannabis guidance in Canada.
Listen now.
Seann Poli - LinkedIn
JANrx -Website
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Can medical cannabis care become more personalized and patient-focused? Trevor and Kirk talk with Seann Poli of JANrx about raising capital during the early LP boom to building a 100% Canadian, independent medical cannabis company.
Seann tells us about veteran cannabis care, challenges dealing with insurance companies, CBD/CBN products, medical cannabis education, and the future of holistic cannabinoid wellness in Canada.
Learn how personalized cannabis support is helping veterans manage PTSD, sleep, pain, and overall health for veterans and civilians alike.
Seann Poli - LinkedIn
JANrx -Website
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Can medical cannabis help patients reduce opioids, sleep better, and reclaim quality of life? In Part 2 of Trevor and Kirk’s conversation with German physician Dr. Vlad Gavril, they continue to explore cannabinoid medicine in Germany. Dr. Vlad discusses chronic pain, insomnia, cannabis smoking vs vaping, opioid reduction, and the evolving German cannabis system. He shares powerful patient stories while emphasizing an honest message: cannabis can help many people — but it’s not magic, and it doesn’t work for everyone.
Listen to how cannabis medicine is evolving in Europe.
Dr. Vlad Gavril - LinkedIn
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A German cannabis physician, a nurse and a pharmacist walk into a bar...I mean a podcast. In this fascinating episode of Reefer MEDness, Trevor (pharmacist) and Kirk (registered nurse) sit down with Dr. Vlad Gavril, a German GP specializing in cannabinoid therapy, to explore how medical cannabis is transforming patient care in Germany.
Dr. Vlad explains how Germany’s partial cannabis legalization in April 2024 dramatically changed access to medical cannabis. But with this rapid expansion comes challenges: inconsistent patient education, and stigma around cannabis.
The conversation unpacks how Dr. Vlad uses cannabis clinically—from chronic pain and insomnia to depression and ADHD—and why education about cannabinoids, terpenes, and individualized treatment is critical. Dr. Vlad shares how he guides patients toward vaporization rather than smoking, explores terpene-based strain selection, and explains the importance of activating the body’s endocannabinoid system through lifestyle changes alongside cannabis therapy.
This episode offers rare insight into the rapidly evolving global landscape of medical cannabis policy, patient care, and cannabinoid science.
Listen now to learn how cannabis medicine is being practiced in Germany—and what Canadian clinicians and patients can learn from it.
Dr. Vlad Gavril - LinkedIn
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Can a massive data project finally answer the biggest questions about medical cannabis?
In Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Johannes Thrul, we explore the National Cannabis Study, an ambitious effort to build a global repository of cannabis research and real-world patient data. From standardized tools like the Cannabis Use Questionnaire to combining datasets from multiple studies, this project aims to uncover how cannabis truly impacts conditions like chronic pain, anxiety, PTSD, and insomnia.
With AI analysis, collaborative research, and a goal of 10,000 participants, the team hopes to transform fragmented cannabis studies into one powerful evidence base.
Listen now to learn how this groundbreaking cannabis database could reshape the future of cannabis medicine.
Johannes Thrul - LinkedIn
Cannabis & Health Research Initiative - website
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What truth can big data unlock about medical cannabis?
Dr. Johannes Thrul from Johns Hopkins talks about cannabis use disorder, psychiatric risks, THC intoxication, and the groundbreaking Cannabis Health Research Initiative.
The ambitious Cannabis Health Research Initiative is a groundbreaking effort to build a national medical cannabis registry and research database. Dr. Thrul shares how the National Cannabis Study will track new medical cannabis users over time, analyze biomarkers and electronic health records, and use AI to identify if medicinal cannabis is helping or not. The goal: generate real-world evidence about the benefits, risks, and clinical applications of cannabinoids—helping researchers design better clinical trials and improve patient care.
Listen now to learn how real-world data may reshape the science of cannabis medicine.
Johannes Thrul - LinkedIn
Cannabis & Health Research Initiative - website
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What will it take for cannabis and natural compounds to truly enter the mainstream—from toothpaste to energy drinks?
In Part 2 of Trevor and Kirk’s conversation with biotech financier and cannabis strategist David Traylor, they discuss how major corporations might explore integrating cannabinoids like CBN and CBD and other natural products into everyday consumer products.
David explains how his Skunk Works Nature AI advisory group connects global companies with world-class experts in pharmacology, biotechnology, and regulatory strategy to develop cannabinoid and other natural product based innovations. From potential sleep-supporting CBN toothpaste, to the role of pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, this episode explores how science, investment, and product development intersect in the cannabis, psychedelic and natural product sectors.
Trevor and Kirk also unpack the broader forces shaping the cannabis industry—stigma, regulatory barriers, banking challenges, and the tension between single-molecule pharmaceutical approaches vs. whole-plant medicine. Could big brands like PepsiCo or Red Bull be the catalyst that finally normalizes cannabinoid ingredients in consumer products? And what role does fear, policy, and economics play in slowing cannabis acceptance?
Listen now to learn how cannabis science, biotech innovation, and big-industry investment could reshape the future of medicine, consumer products, and natural compounds.
David Traylor - LinkedIn
Skunk Works Nature AI - website
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Can big brands explore cannabis, & psychedelics without saying it out loud?
What happens when cannabis and natural compounds expertise, a global network, and AI-driven product strategy collide? David Traylor of Golden Eagle Partners introduces Skunk Works Nature AI. This new venture helps major consumer brands quietly explore cannabinoids and other natural compounds. Does a large beverage company want a CBG infused drink to help University Students get over their exam anxiety? Does a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Brand want a toothpaste with CBN to help people sleep? Does a cosmetics company want a micro-dosed psychedelic lipstick for when an artist or CEO needs some creativity on demand? Large companies may be canna-curious but stigma still slows innovation. The confidential advice and expertise of Skunk Works Nature AI should bring serious players into the space. The future belongs to evidence-based product development built around cannabinoids, alkaloids, terpenes, and other natural compounds.
David also discusses the capital crunch in cannabis, why so many firms have exited the sector, and a fascinating discussion about cannabis language and policy, including David’s clearer framework of THC-plus and THC-minus.
Listen now to learn how investors, scientists, and global brands are preparing for the next phase of cannabis, psychedelics, and functional natural products.
David Traylor - LinkedIn
Skunk Works Nature AI - website
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What if the fastest way to feel cannabis effects isn’t through your lungs… but through your nose?
Trevor and Kirk explore the science behind a unique cannabis accessory: the Nozzr, a nasal inhalation device designed to deliver vaporized cannabis through the nose rather than the mouth.
Inventor and respiratory therapist Yvette Webb shares how the idea emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic while researching terpene interactions with respiratory viruses. Drawing on respiratory therapy, aerosol physics, and cannabis pharmacology, she explains how nasal inhalation may deliver cannabinoids and terpenes faster, potentially improving onset time, reducing coughing, and enhancing terpene perception through the olfactory system.
Trevor and Kirk discuss whether nasal inhalation could offer benefits for medical cannabis patients, including people with chronic pain, migraines, spasticity, or mobility challenges.
Is nasal cannabis inhalation the next evolution in cannabis consumption—or just a fascinating experiment in delivery science?
Listen now to learn how terpene science, respiratory therapy, and cannabis innovation collide in this unusual but thought-provoking conversation.
Yvette Web - LinkedIn
Nozzr - Instagram
Cream of the Crop - website
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How terpenes, cannabinoids, and topical cannabis science helped an MS patient create a cannabis wellness brand. A deep dive into terpene-based cannabis medicine.
What are future pharmacists really being taught about cannabis—and is the stigma finally disappearing?
In this episode of Reefer MEDness, Trevor and Kirk sit down with a University of Manitoba pharmacy student Ariana to explore how cannabis is being taught in modern healthcare education. From cannabinoid receptors (CB1/CB2) to drug interactions via CYP3A4, this conversation breaks down how cannabis is shifting from stigma to legitimate therapy.
You’ll learn about routes of administration, medical uses like pain and chemotherapy-induced nausea, and why healthcare providers must consider cannabis in patient care. Perhaps most importantly, Ariana provides insight into a cultural shift: cannabis is no longer viewed solely as a “drug of abuse,” but is starting to be seen as a legitimate therapeutic option within healthcare education.
Listen now to learn how cannabis education is reshaping pharmacy, patient care, and clinical decision-making.
College of Pharmacy - University of Manitoba - Website
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Join us on this exciting reunion with our friends at High on Homegrown! It has been five long years since our first appearance on High on Homegrown found in our early days of Episode 60. Macky interviews Kirk and Trevor. They dive deep into the fascinating world of medical cannabis, podcasting, and a bunch of entertaining, random topics you will find most fascinating. Can dog poop get you high? Why is medical cannabis so expensive and hard to get in the UK? Why Kirk disagrees with the entire world as to the definition of a cannabis "overdose"? Whether you're a long-time listener or new to the community, this episode brings you a casual conversation from three people who understand cannabis.
HOH Reefer MEDness Episode - link
High on Homegrown - Website
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Does gamma irradiation destroy THC? We explore cannabis mold, mycotoxins, safety standards, and whether irradiation protects or harms medical cannabis.
Does irradiated cannabis still contain mold spores?
In this deep-dive episode, Trevor and Kirk explore the science behind cannabis irradiation, fungal contamination, and the hidden risks of mycotoxins. Dr. Saji George and Mamta Rani from McGill University break down how gamma irradiation is used to sterilize cannabis—and why even this industry-standard sterilization may not eliminate all harmful fungal spores or toxins. They reveal that while irradiation significantly reduces fungal contamination, advanced testing still detected viable spores and residual mycotoxins in some cannabis legal products.
For immunocompromised patients, even minimal exposure to spores or toxins can matter. We explore testing gaps, regulatory limits, workplace risks, and new biocontrol solutions to prevent contamination at the source.
Listen now to understand how cannabis irradiation works — and where the cracks in the system may be.
Detection of Mycotoxigenic Fungi and Residual Mycotoxins in Cannabis Buds Following Gamma Irradiation - Paper
Saji George - LinkedIn
Mamta Rani - LinkedIn
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Can a centuries-old cannabis culture survive legalization?
In this exclusive episode, Reefer MEDness shares a rare anonymous interview with a SOMACAN quality manager inside Morocco’s emerging legal cannabis industry. Kirk and Mr. Anonymous share a car ride through the Rif Mountains and Mr. Anonymous reveals how local farmers are transitioning from black-market hash production into regulated medical cannabis cooperatives producing hundreds of tons of biomass annually.
Discover how Morocco’s ancient Beldia landrace strain—grown for centuries—is now facing threats from modernization, imported genetics, and pharmaceutical regulation. Learn how CBD and limited THC legalization is reshaping cannabis exports, farmer livelihoods, and global supply chains.
From secrecy and stigma to pharmaceutical extraction and international markets, this episode reveals the real human and scientific story behind cannabis legalization in Morocco.
Listen now to understand how one of the world’s oldest cannabis traditions is adapting to the future of medicine.
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Can Morocco’s famous hash industry survive pharmaceutical regulation?
In Part 2 of Episode 166, Trevor and Kirk continue their conversation with Jan van Weenen, a European cannabis veteran helping transform Morocco’s ancient hash market into a GMP-compliant pharmaceutical industry. From heavy metals in Rif Mountain soil to pricing battles between farmers, co-ops, and manufacturers, this episode reveals the real-world challenges of global cannabis regulation.
Jan shares his strategy to build a pharmaceutical cannabis brand now — and pivot into recreational markets later — while navigating European standards, extract distribution, and international licensing.
Listen now to explore the birth of Morocco’s legal cannabis industry and what it means for Europe and beyond.
Jan van Ween - LinkedIn
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Inside Morocco’s cannabis industry: pharmaceutical standards, heavy metals, GACP/GMP hurdles, and why legal cannabis isn’t always legitimate.
Dr. Dror Robinson’s five-year longitudinal Israeli study goal was to evaluate inhaled cannabis use for diabetic neuropathy. He found it works and he now believes all diabetics should be inhaling cannabis flower. The study can be faulted for the lack of diversity with the 52 individuals sampled, however the study presents a 97% sample retention, and the evidence suggests every participant benefitted from the in-haled cannabis therapy. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor discuss the real-world application of cannabis medicine found to reduce pain, positively modulates the A1C, and decreases the pharmaceutical costs for people with diabetes. This is a must listen for those who are affected by diabetes.
Dr. Robinson - LinkedIn
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What does medical cannabis look like when a King gets involved?
Morocco, a country historically known for exporting outstanding Hashish, must import medicinal cannabis from aboard because its local crop doesn't meet the quality standards of Europe.
The King of Morocco wants to bring Moroccan cannabis up to Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP) so it can be used locally and be exported.
Trevor and Kirk speak with Moroccan cannabis insider Dr. Redouane Rabii about Morocco’s push into medical cannabis. From GACP standards and farmer training to cancer pain management and international exports, we explore how medicine, policy, and culture collide in one of the world’s most famous cannabis regions.
Dr. Rabii, a professor, an MD PhD, and a practicing Uro-Andrologist shares frontline clinical experience using cannabis for pain and cancer care—and why Morocco’s medical system should follow Israel to succeed. Dr. Rabii has traveled the world and lends the King his expertise to help farmers, pharmaceutical companies, and laboratories fulfill the King's medical cannabis ambitions.
Listen now to explore the future of medical cannabis in Morocco.
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What if most cannabis extracts are missing the point?
In our last episode from Spain, Kirk visits with hemp innovator Peter Vermeul to explore stabilized, full-spectrum extracts that preserve cannabinoids like CBDA, THCA, terpenes, cannflavins and flavonoids—without heat or harsh solvents. Peter's road from developing hemp strains and his proprietary extraction technique for cannabis medicine was inspired by a family member with cancer, conversations with the legendary Professor Raphael Mechoulam and his extensive plant knowledge from his less than legal days. Now his extracts help people with Tourette's Syndrome, Parkinson’s, epilepsy and many other conditions.
Peter explains why cannabinoid acids matter, how legality shapes innovation, and why inconsistency with Spanish regulations is driving him to relocate to Suriname to build his dream cannabis-based medical clinic.
Listen now to discover why the real power of cannabis may lie in what extraction usually destroys.
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In the past century, a gardener named Peter Vermeul became known for growing top shelf cannabis in Holland. He grew organic black market weed from clones supplying Britain for premium prices. In the early 2000s, Peter's perspective on cannabis changed due to family illness. About this time, he acquired seeds for the Charlotte's Web strain from the Stanley Brothers which started his journey of creating CBD rich cultivars. Today, his proprietary strains are used throughout the world as medicine by more than just family. In this episode we start to tell the story of how this marijuana gardener becomes a cannabis chemist and how he learned to put the essence of a plant into the bottle.
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What if cannabis education focused on benefits, not fear?
Daniel Bear, PhD returns to break down the cannabis industry THC obsession, Canada’s cannabis tax imbalance, and why mindful consumption—not prohibition—is the future of cannabis policy.
Daniel tackles falling prices, rising taxes, disappearing profit margins, and the ongoing threat of the illicit market. He explores how high-THC marketing pressures, youth protection, and consumer education can seem to be in conflict. Everyone, except governments, hat taxes, but Daniel believes smarter tax policies could stabilize the market without compromising safety.
Daniel also unveils an exciting new 'project: HERBy, the Helpful Education for Responsible Benefit-maximization tool. AI can be your therapist, or your research assistant, so why not a mindful cannabis consumption chatbot. This tool is built on groundbreaking research from his recent peer-reviewed study, "Harm reduction isn't enough: Introducing the concept of Mindful Consumption and Benefit Maximization (MCBM)," published in the International Journal of Drug Policy.
Listen now to learn whether Canada is still on the right path—and what industry, government, and consumers must do next to ensure legalization succeeds for everyone.
HERBy Chatbot - website
Daniel Bear PhD - LinkedIn
-responsum.ca
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What if cannabis education focused on benefits, not fear?
Cannabis researcher Daniel Bear, PhD returns to Reefer Medness to introduce Mindful Consumption & Benefit Maximization (MCBM). MCDM is a framework that helps people understand why they use cannabis, what they want from the experience, and how to reduce risks while improving outcomes.
We explore why prohibition-era messaging failed, the problems with today’s ultra-high-THC products, and how balanced cannabinoids may offer safer, more enjoyable experiences. The conversation also dives into Canada’s legal cannabis market—from retail oversaturation to the tension between public health and commercialization—plus what other countries are doing differently.
Listen now to learn how mindful cannabis consumption could reshape education, policy, and personal use.
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In this episode, Trevor and Kirk review the latest road stories from Spain which starts a broader discussion about global cannabis legalization and regulation. To better understand Cannabis in Spain, they speak with Peter Vermeul, a future guest, who works within the European hemp industry. Peter provides insights into a common practice of spraying CBD flowers with synthetic cannabinoids like THCP and THCO to create intoxicating effects; he warns this is very dangerous. Trevor argues full legalization of Cannabis would eliminate the need for these dangerous synthetic products, while Kirk expresses concern about the commercialization of cannabis and the potential for profit-driven motives to undermine the industry. Kirk also shares a personal anecdote about growing cannabis in his backyard, highlighting the differences in regulations between recreational and medical cannabis.
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Kirk continues his road stories from Spain. In the previous series, we learned how Cannabis cultivation is legal, public consumption is illegal, and personal use is decriminalized. In this series, Kirk and Trevor discuss the hemp products sold in resale Cannabis Shops found throughout Spain. The nuanced laws of Spain has allowed a proliferation of stores, found in many tourist areas, to sell various cannabis-derived products that contain less than 0.3% THC Delta9. These products are sold in bright packages labeled by the cannabinoids found within. Some of which, like THCX or THCP, produce psychoactive effects. Is buying cannabis in Spain as a tourist a good idea? Have a listen
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As part of a series of episodes, Kirk and Trevor continue to explore the legal status of Cannabis in Spain. As a decriminalized substance, Cannabis is pretty much accepted by the Spanish public and authorities with some caveats about how and where Cannabis is consumed and purchased. However, the laws regarding hemp cultivation, hemp processing, homegrown marijuana, consuming and processing marijuana are complex and nuanced. In Part Two of this series, Kirk visits another Cannabis Social Club in Barcelona and then moves on to Madrid. He continues to meet multinationals enjoying the good vibes of Cannabis in Spain while marveling at the unique approach this ancient country has with this ancient substance.
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In a series of episodes, Kirk and Trevor explore the legal status of Cannabis in Spain. As a decriminalized substance, Cannabis is pretty much accepted. However, the laws regarding hemp cultivation, hemp processing, homegrown marijuana, consuming and processing marijuana are complex and nuanced.
In Part One of this series, Kirk visits Cannabis clubs in Barcelona. He discovers how these organizations operate within a legal gray zone. Members are allowed to consume cannabis on-site but cannot openly pay for it. Kirk speaks with cannabis club members and employees, who explain their personal and medical uses for cannabis. Listen to the whole series and hear how both locals and tourists navigate Spain's cannabis regulations.
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With a film credits in Dr. Strangelove, Conan the Barbarian, Coming to America, Field of Dreams and The Hunt for Red October and off-screen credits in many Shakespearean stage roles, two Tony awards, military service, Ranger School and his Ranger Tab, there would be so many conversations to have with James Earl Jones. But over and over, fans just clamored for the catch phrase, “Luke. I am your Father.” Peter Su’s “catch phrase” is writing for Rolling Stone. He loves the gig. But as a banker with over 24 years experience, who can paper a wall with his credentials, he is occasionally annoyed that is all people want to talk to him is the Rolling Stone. So, of course, we ask him about writing for Rolling Stone.
Also listen for why Trevor’s fictitious New York State licensed, legal cannabis dispensary could be laundering money, how your Mandarin speaking parents have a literal language barrier to understanding why you want to start that cannabis business and the Asian Cannabis Roundtable.
Peter Su - LinkedIn
Rolling Stone
Asian Cannabis Roundtable
Music by:
Taiwan MC - Let the Weed Bun - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Imagine you are a 75 years old male and you have a few medical conditions like well controlled prostate cancer, diabetes, high cholesterol and your knees hurt from arthritis. Your friend says you should try cannabis for your sore knees. You also live in a small rural Manitoba town that leans religious and conservative. Where do you go to find out if cannabis for your knees is a good idea?
In Ste Anne's, Manitoba, retail cannabis store owner of Supercraft, Sean Stewart and pharmacist and co-founder of Apothecare, Ajay Chahal have you covered. Sean and his knowledgeable budtenders can help you with general and non-medical cannabis questions. If your questions start swinging medical, like asking about if cannabis interactions with the prescription drugs your on, they can virtually hand you off to the pharmacists at Apothecare, based out of Ontario.
The medical cannabis system in Canada isn't perfect. Physicians and other prescribers have been known to tell patients to just go to their local retail cannabis outlet and buy cannabis there. Budtenders in retail outlets are legally prohibited from giving out medical advice to their customers, and they really don't have the medical background to do so. Supercraft and Apothecare are filling that gap by providing access to a medical professional at the place where people are already going with cannabis questions.
Supercraft website
Sean Stewart LinkedIn
Apothecare website
Ajay Chahal LinkedIn
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One sunny evening in the summer of 2020, Kirk and Trevor had a meeting on Kirk's driveway. Even though all indoor meetings were taboo, they met someone bursting with excitement. Eric Greening's face lit up as he described the cannabis growing facility he envisioned building north east of Dauphin.
Four years, a pandemic, spiraling inflation and all the other unknown unknowns of building a facility and starting a business are now behind the persistent Mr. Greening. As proud Dauphinites, we are excited to say Greencraft Cannabis is now selling product! And.... after much pestering, we got a peek inside!
Come with us on an audio tour of the facility. There is a cannabis "tree" whose trunk Trevor can't wrap his hand around, a sunset room with alien-looking golden light, the secrets of how you control tiny invaders when you can't use any pesticides, and so much more!
Greencraft Cannabis - website
Music by:
Reggae Cowboys - Tell the Truth -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Recreational cannabis legalization means tons more teenagers will start using the drug right? That prevailing myth and other interesting trends were examined by Luis Segura, Silva Martins and their team from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
In the USA, cannabis legalization happens state by state, and not all at the same time. That provided the perfect environment for the researchers to see what happened after a state legalized and use the states that didn't legalize as a control.
Our intrepid team found cannabis use didn't increase among teens, it did increase amongst women and the rate of cannabis use disorder didn't change post legalization. Come have a listen to these and other myth-busting revelations from their analysis.
Luis E. Segura -LinkedIn
Silvia Martins - LinkedIn
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Here's a blast from the past! In honor of the 7th Anniversary of cannabis legalization in Canada, we are going to replay a dinner party we had.
Back in October 2018, Kirk and Trevor cooked with cannabis for a bunch of guests to celebrate cannabis legalization.
Let's have a listen!
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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David Traylor has 2 undergrad degrees in Bio-Chemistry and Molecular Biology. He is a former pro lacrosse player. He got involved in BioTech in the 1990's and dealt with the difficulties of getting molecules like erythropoietin to market at scale. From there he got into investment banking. Obviously, with that background, the next step is to do cannabis deals on 6 of the 7 continents!
Golden Eagle Partners was the first investment banking firm to jump into cannabis, which they did in 2013. In addition to doing international cannabis deals, David's experience has led him to be involved with financial and cannabis related conferences around the world. In fact, David is the reason our co-host Trevor was at CannMed 23 in Florida.
Listen as Trevor and David discuss: What is THC+ and THC-? Where is the cannabis industry going in the next three years? Did Canada blow it on the business side of cannabis when all that money poured in post national legalization in 2018? Why is it so hard to scale a biological product like cannabinoids?
David wraps up with talking about the importance of humility when dealing with cannabis. Whether that is dealing with patients, growing the plant or navigating the cannabis business world, we think a reminder to be humble is a wonderful mantra!
Golden Eagle Partners- website
David Traylor - LinkedIn
Music by:
Hearty Har -Scream and Shout - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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It's a beautiful late summer day. Let's do something different.
Kirk and Trevor take a stroll around their hometown of Dauphin, Manitoba. They talk cannabis, Kirk's European travel plans and greet people on the street.
Our co-hosts duck into a local cannabis shop, Payson's Joint. They record stories from staff and customers. Unrehearsed, person-on-the-street stories are the best! They always go in directions you didn't expect. We hear about sex and glass pipes and if "big cannabis" is mixing different strains into one bottle. Come for a stroll.
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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It’s like having a trial lawyer try to explain how cannabinoids interact with endogenous cannabinoid receptors! You know what that is like? It’s, it’s, it’s… actually pretty great. Come hear how a trial lawyer got into the cannabis space, how he thinks the acidic versions of cannabinoids are bursting with medical promise and just come listen to one of our new favorite characters!
Robert “Bob” Hill - LinkedIn
Life Research Co
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Cab Calloway-Reefer Man -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Working as a professional musician means long journeys between gigs, sleeping in different beds, setting up on new stages, and partying with other creative folk. Although substance use among musicians happens, and might even be stereotypical, we found a more interesting and insightful story. Desiree Dorion’s band finds that cannabis plays well with their lifestyle and hits all the positive notes. We learn how each band member consumes cannabis in their own way. Some share a reefer back stage with famous people, while others chew a gummy in the hotel room to assist with a getting a better sleep. Cannabis is basically a member of this traveling band.
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Additional Music:
Marc Clement - Facebook
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More than 200,000 Canadians are registered Medical Cannabis patients. Due to a cumbersome national system, many of these individuals discover the benefits of Cannabis alone, with little therapeutic expertise to guide them. Learning about your medicine or just trying to access your medicine, these tasks are made easier when engaged with a business like Tantus Health; a Medical Cannabis Dispensary. Their consultants design natural wellness plans to educate individuals and provide personal guides to alleviate those frustrating unknowns that come when using Cannabis as medicine. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor discover a Canadian licensed medical cannabis company who: provides quality medicine consistently, forms strong relationships with their patients, and helps west coast first responders suffering from PTSD. With Tantus Health, you are not alone with your prescribed cannabis.
Tantus Health Co - tantushealthco.com
Music by:
Powder Blues Band - Boppin’ with the Blues -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Picture Miami. What do you see in your mind's eye? Beautiful photos of beautiful people? Instagram worthy food pics? A culture more Caribbean than American? Now imagine you meet a Chef from Miami. What does he teach you to cook? The perfect Cuban Sandwich? What is his secret ingredient? What if it is cannabis?
Meet Tarik Sparks. Photographer. Chef. Cook Book writer. Listen to how he weaves serious culinary chops and precise cannabis dosing to create meals to elevate mind, body and soul.
The Hidden Creation - website
The Hidden Creation Recipe Book - Amazon
The Hidden Creation Instagram - Instagram
Tarik Sparks - LinkedIn
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The team gathers in the studio for the first time since pandemic restrictions were lifted. Rene interviews Kirk and Trevor, and gains insights into the creation and growth of this Passion Project. With 100 episodes in the library, the team has lots to review. From suppositories to driving, seizures to criminal records, Parkinson’s to David Crosby, current fans will enjoy reminiscing with the team. If you are new to our podcast looking for new cannabis knowledge, then "It's Okay to be Medicated While Getting Educated" is a great introduction to Reefer Medness – The Podcast. You’ve just found your new binge worthy ear candy.
Music by:
Desiree Dorion – Soul Back Jack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQjzGqZ_Fng
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
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"Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the face." - Mike Tyson
Imagine getting engaged, and within 6 months your finance gets diagnosed with cancer. Mickey from and High Society Hemp Co. doesn't have to imagine. Mickey is from Texas where cannabis is still illegal. Her husband was going through chemotherapy, surgeries and even had some ribs removed. He was in pain. The opioid pain killers sedated him too much for him to participate in his life and the lives of their children.
Mickey started cooking with hemp derived cannabinoids. Her creations helped her husband's pain. Then she turned her knowledge into a business, High Society Hemp Co. The business helped with the medical bills and other expenses. Mickey continues to battle labyrinthian cannabis regulations and banal day to day challenges with love and passion.
Listen to how Mickey bobs and weaves and throws punches in bunches at every obstacle that comes her way.
High Society Hemp Co
- website
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Potheads are too, well, stoned to succeed in tech, right? A medicinal cannabis user couldn’t be a successful serial tech entrepreneur, could they? Well, meet Brian. He is a US Marine Vet who became a successful tech entrepreneur several times over. However, Brian’s military service also left him with PTSD. Brian tried all the standard PTSD treatments and none of them worked for him. Then an ex-military friend of his suggested Brian try cannabis. Now Brian’s PTSD is under control, his tech business is snapping along and the myth that cannabis holds people back is a stigma that needs to be thrown away.
Brian Rayner - LinkedIn
JTB Online
Music by:
A Forest by The Cure - https://youtu.be/QhpmhZxMp9k
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
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We first met Janna Champagne as a cannabis nurse. Since we last spoke, she has transitioned to being a Board-Certified Master Herbalist, a Professor of Integrative Medicine, a prolific academic author, and a founder of an autism non-profit. As the discussion develops, Kirk and Trevor learn the height of Janna's expertise and the depth of her passion for educating healthcare providers about the therapeutic potential of medical cannabis. Professor Champagne’s influence with the clinical application of cannabis, within academic environments, is extremely rare as less than 2% of American universities are teaching the Endocannabinoid System. In this episode our guest tells her cannabis story; a personal journey which is growing to be an international saga of a life being lived.
Janna Champagne- LinkedIn
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Bernardo Carreira the owner, and founder of 8000 Kicks believes hemp is the past and future of textile manufacturing. His business goal is to leave a legacy. In this legacy, hemp becomes mainstream and the most ubiquitous fiber available in the textile industry. This small European company creates shoes using the strongest canvas fiber available, with soles made of algal blooms. While continuously monitoring international sustainable manufacturing processes, 8000 Kicks produces shoes that are both waterproof and breathable guaranteeing no toxic substances are used. His business, started with his 77-year-old grandmother, builds running shoes, casual shoes, Chelsea Boots, back packs, belts, socks, and accessaries. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor learn how a small business created a durable Chelsea boot Kirk now wears as his casual winter shoe.
8000 Kicks - 8000kicks.com
Ambassador Program (Deal for you, Support for us) - Here
Music by:
Portugal.The Man - Feel It Still- YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Ponce de León never found the Fountain of Youth. Andras Bilkei-Gorzo from the University of Bonn in Germany thinks Ponce should have looked at low dose THC. Andras and his team have been giving mice low dose THC and finding some interesting results. Listen to how to get an older mouse to swim to an invisible platform faster, how THC can flip a metabolic switch called mTOR on and off at the same time, and why low dose THC might be better for older people than younger ones.
Bidirectional Effect of Long-Term Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Treatment on mTOR Activity and Metabolome
- paper
A chronic low dose of ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
restores cognitive function in old mice
- abstract
Andras Bilkei-Gorzo - LinkedIn
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Akeem Gardner and his team at Canurta are delving deep into the hidden corners of the cannabis plant. They want to know if we extract this cannflavin, this terpene, this cannabinoid, or one of the other thousands of molecules in the cannabis plant, can it treat a disease? Last year at CannMed 23, he talked to us about how cannflavins could be used to treat a particularly nasty brain tumour called glioblastoma. Since then, Akeem has hit the road and brought the gospel of cannabis plant medicine to conferences and other canna-curious folks across North America, Europe, and as far away as the United Arab Emirates.
This year Team Canurta is looking at neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and even aging itself. They are using artificial intelligence to help screen where in the cannabis plant to focus their research. They are partnering with Universities to get academic papers turned into potential treatments. Akeem is one of the featured speakers at CannMed 24 again this year. We’d love to see you in Florida at CannMed 24 in person, and here is a preview of Akeem’s presentation!
Canurta - canurta.com
Akeem Gardner - LinkedIn
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Dead Bob - White Stone Eyes -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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In Canada, older adults represent a fast-growing demographic of cannabis users. As part of her graduate program, PhD student Madison Maynard did a national enquiry, within the USA, on how cannabis modulates the chronic pain, mental health symptoms, and sleep concerns of people between the ages of 55 and 74 years old. Although the evidence leaves questions of efficacy unanswered, the goals of the study were to examine the hypothesis that medical cannabis use will, at the daily level, predict lower pain, depression, anxiety, and improved sleep. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor discuss how her findings.
Madison Maynard - Abstract
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Yes we are going waaaayyy back in the archives today. Pre-legalization back. But the discussion about taxes and addiction are still very relevant.
Are we addicted to taxes? Trevor and Kirk talk to Dr. Jason Childs. He is an economist who says whether you want to reduce harm from cannabis or increase government coffers then keep taxes on cannabis low. In fact, having the government subsidize licensed producers might be a brilliant idea. In part 2 we have Dr. Jonathon Stea. He is a psychologist who has studied and treated cannabis addiction. Surprisingly, cannabis is probably going to be both worse and better than you imagine post legalization.
Jason Childs - LinkedIn
Jonathon Stea - LinkedIn
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Do you know anyone with dementia? If you don’t, you will. We humans are living longer and healthier lives. There are more healthy 75 year old people alive now than there ever have been. However, the number of people with dementia is sky rocketing as well. Enter Dr. Mechtler…
Dr. Lazslo Mechtler is the Medical Director of Dent Neurologic Institute, the Chief of Neuro-Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and is also the Director of the DENT Headache Center, Neuro-Oncology Center, and Cannabis Clinic.
Dr. Mechtler gives us a fantastic review of dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Then he talks about the work they are doing at the DENT Institute to treat dementia with cannabinoids.
DENT Neurologic Institute - Cannabis Clinic - Website
Lazlo Mechtler - LinkedIn
Lazlo Mechtler - DENT-website profile
Music by:
Christopher Cros - Sailing -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Once again, VanHoot is traveling northern prairie highways and Kirk is stopping to make cold calls to recreational stores along the way.
In this episode, he revisits some of the shops he visited in past trips to ask specific questions about how people are using Rec Shops to obtain their medicine. Have a listen as he also discovers what budtenders are selling in the 2025.
Saskabuds Cannabis - Humbolt - website
Tokyo Smoke - Meadow Lake - website
Equilibrium Cannabis - Lac La Biche - website -
Canna Cabana- Cold Lake - website
Payson’s Joint Dauphin - Facebook
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Ryan Kocot was the in-house legal counsel and director of compliance for a multinational cannabis company. He now has his own practice in California, Massachusetts and New York. He helps operators scale into multiple States, do joint ventures, trademark, and other intellectual property license agreements.
Listen as Trevor and Ryan discuss the weird and counter-intuitive land of multi-states operations, trade marks when cannabis products aren't federally legal, and how Trevor's pipe dream of being a cannabis gummy mogul is way more complicated than he thought.
Kocot Law- website
Ryan Kocot - LinkedIn
Forbes.com Contributor - Forbes
Music by:
Lawyers In Love by Jackson Browne - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Ontario entrepreneurs are solving a problem that Trevor confronts on a weekly basis. People going to recreational cannabis stores with health questions like, "Are these gummies okay with my seizure meds?"
We know that a large percentage of customers at recreational cannabis stores are using their cannabis for health and wellness purposes. Yet, budtenders are limited in the health information that they can provide. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor learn how two businesses owners are filling in the gaps left by governments’ lack of attention within the Medical Cannabis program.
Lisa Bigioni is the Co-Founder and CEO at Stok'd, a retail cannabis store. Anushya Vijayaraghevan is a pharmacist and Co-Founder of Apothecare. Their niche filling collaboration is that Stok'd, an experiential cannabis retail shop, gives customers access to Apothecare, a pharmacist-led virtual consultation service. Together, these businesses provide a pathway for those searching to learn how to use cannabis for their health and wellness. This is another example of how the Cannabis Industry is meeting the needs of those looking to learn the health benefits of using cannabis.
Stok'd website
Lisa Bigioni LinkedIn
Apothecare website
Anushya Vijayaraghevan LinkedIn
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It is safe to say, Mr. Clayton Moore is a growing concern within the hemp industry of Southwestern United States. As an undergraduate within the Texas A&M Agricultural Soil and Crop Science Department, he has his fingers, hands, and mind buried deeply in growing a better understanding of hemp and cannabis. He is: a leader within a student lead initiative called CHIL, an advocate for decriminalization of cannabis convictions, the lead researcher within the university Hemp Conversion Program, plus he writes for the local industry focused newspaper. He is a busy young fellow following the passions of generations within his family of agronomists. The future of Hemp is in good hands with this student of hemp.
Cannabis Hemp Innovation League Website - CHIL
Clayton Moore LinkedIn - LinkedIn
Music by:
Aggie War Hymn -J.V. “Pinky” Wilson Texas A&M Class of 1920 - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Newton Zheng is a good Canadian guy. (That seems important to mention, lately). Listen to his rise in athletics (we're calling him the Rocky of Badminton now), to Newton taking a different career path than Elon Musk, to Newton becoming a digital marketing entrepreneur.
Newton and his team at ePropel Digital has found a niche helping cannabis dispensaries and other cannabis businesses. Cannabis businesses have many, many rules and regulations about how or if they can advertise. And if you can't let potential customers know that your business exists, how are they going to buy from you?
ePropel Digital helps cannabis businesses increase their sales using an organic digital marketing system. It doesn't break any restrictions. ePropel helps businesses to be found at the top of Google when their potential customers search for their products or services.
After you listen to the episode, Newton has one more surprise for you. Click the referral link below to get a deal on marketing your business from Newton and the folks at ePropel!
Referral Link
ePropel - Website
Newton Zheng - LinkedIn
ePropel - LinkedIn
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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In this episode, Kirk and Trevor review “The Cannabis Cancer Connection” by Dr. Joe D. Goldstrich. Dr. Joe is a cardiologist who, in his retirement, became a self-descripted “cannabis oncologist”. He now applies pre-clinical cannabis research and his years of expertise and patient experience to his clinical cannabis practice. In his book, Dr. Joe discusses the “Art” of practicing medicine within an evidence-based system. He discusses the limitations of the available science behind medicinal cannabis, while at the same time challenging the medical system to recognize the plant’s potential. He has had successes and failures using cannabis as a therapeutic in cancer care and offers a balanced view of both. This book offers a good introduction to both cannabis and cancer, and will help individuals and families to better understand how cannabis can help those suffering from the disease. Dr. Joe also takes the reader deeper by applying the available knowledge and connecting it to his clinical practice making this a valuable resource to those practicing in the field of oncology.
Dr. Joe Goldstrich - The Cannabis Cancer Connection Amazon
And although it had nothing to do with our discussion, but it is immensely cool that Dr. Joe was in the hospital when JFK was being treated post-Dealey Plaza. He is even in a documentary about that! - JFK: What the Doctors Saw (Amazon)
Music by:
John Lennon - Imagine - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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We continue our discussion with Dr. Genester Wilson-King about the use of cannabis during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The episode starts with a discussion on the various routes of administration for cannabis, including inhalation, tinctures, edibles, and topicals. She discusses the use of cannabis for hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness, and the potential risks and benefits.
Dr. Wilson-King also addresses the transfer of cannabinoids into breast milk and recommends oral forms over inhalation for breastfeeding mothers. Overall, the discussion emphasizes the importance of consulting with knowledgeable healthcare providers when considering cannabis use during pregnancy and postpartum.
Victory Rejuvenation Center - Website
Dr. Genester Wilson-King - LinkedIn
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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In 2018, the Federal Cannabis Act was proclaimed. This federal act gave the provinces many of the responsibilities of managing the recreational use of cannabis. Although the recreational consumption of cannabis became legal throughout Canada, the Manitoba conservative government of 2018 placed several restrictions on cannabis, including not allowing Manitobans to grow cannabis at home. This despite our neighbors in Saskatchewan and Ontario being allow to grow their 4 plants at home as laid out in the federal act.
As of May 1, 2025 the New Democratic Party government, made some changes to the Manitoban cannabis regulations. In this episode Amanda Creasy, MBA, a Director within the Liquor Gaming and Cannabis Authority (LGCA), discusses the new Manitoba regulations. She explains the rational for the changes that were made and also why other changes were not made. Have a listen to discover how Manitobans can now grow four indoor plants and why the prohibition of public consumption of cannabis remains.
LGCA Cannabis Site - Website
Amanda Creasy, MBA - LinkedIn
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Dr. Genester Wilson-King is an experienced OB-GYN and cannabis specialist practicing in Florida. In the first part of this two-part episode, Dr. Wislon-King explains how the endocannabinoid system (ECS) is present throughout the female reproductive system. The ECS plays a surprisingly large role in women's health.
All health professions, including Dr. Wilson-King and Kirk & Trevor, agree that the best pregnancy requires a good diet, regular sleep, daily exercise, and most importantly, no drugs. However, some pregnant people use cannabis. In consultation with their pregnant patients, some health care professionals use cannabis for conditions like anxiety, pain, nausea/vomiting, and seizures. This is the episode for those who want to better understand how cannabis works in the field of prenatal care.
Dr. Genester Wilson-King - LinkedIn
Victory Rejuvention Center - Website
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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There are very few, if any, reliable methods of measuring cannabis impairment. Road-side sobriety tests done by trained Drug Recognition Experts are very subjective and workplaces are limited with how they assess employees with safety sensitive jobs. Back by video evidence, Gaize offers real-time impairment screening within 6 minutes. This portable AV device is considered accurate, providing objective eye behaviours when deciding when an individual is impaired on Cannabis. Considered the first impairment detection platform released to the marketplace, Gaize will search for answers by finding the six ways your eyes give you away.
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Desiree Dorion
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Marc Clement
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Sharing stories is how we learn and connect. Kirk travels westward from Dauphin along North American’s most northern provincially connected highway system. Listen to the quirky, cool Bud Tenders stories he brought back from the road.
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Kirk and Trevor once again chat with Owen Smith, a key figure in the Canadian Cannabis movement. Owen has recently written a book chronicling his Cannabis experiences and is also on social media advocating for a "Buy Canadian" movement within the Cannabis industry. This episode is a catch up with both Owen and the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club exploring their collective legal battles establishing medical Cannabis access. The discussion touches on the challenges of navigating the medical and recreational Cannabis frameworks in Canada, as well as the potential for Cannabis as a harm reduction tool compared to more dangerous substances.
420 Elbows Up - Website
Legalizing Cannabis Extracts Book
Owen Smith - LinkedIn
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Don't kink-shame the promiscuous CBD. It's okay that in a world of orthosteric normative binding, CBD is into allosteric binding. In fact, CBD is not just into any allosteric binding. CBD is into negative allosteric binding.
If none of that makes any sense to you, don't worry. We are going to take a deep dive into how the famous cannabinoid, CBD, interacts with the cannabinoid receptor CB1. And it doesn't bind like a key into a lock, which is how pharmacy school told Trevor that all ligands bind to their receptors. Like all things cannabis, things are weirder, more complicated and more nuanced than our co-host, Trevor, thought. Put your science toques on and let's skate into some CB1 receptor research.
Dr. Robert Laprairie Bio
Determination of the Negative Allosteric Binding Site of Cannabidiol at the CB1 Receptor A Combined Computational and Site Directed Mutagenesis Study Paper
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GameChops – Zelda and Chill 2(specifically at the 08:44 mark- Kass’s theme)-YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Kirk and Owen continued discussion moves into a more personal realm as they share their views of the current state of Medical Cannabis industry. Kirk sees a disconnect with federal verses provincial government system management whereas Owen wants more services for individuals needing cannabis as medicine. As he continues his advocacy of medical cannabis, Owen also speaks to current projects to help society be a better place to live. Tune into the second part of a conversion with Canada’s Godfather of Cannabis Two point Oh!
Owen Smith LinkedIn
UTNDR - https://utndr.com/
Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club-Instagram - @vcbcig
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Peter Tosh – Glass House - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3j_KXufPE
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
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In this episode, Kirk learns how the law was on the side of righteousness when Owen Smith found himself in front of the Supreme Court of Canada defending a desire to help the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, a longstanding compassion club. In the first part of a longer discussion, listeners gain insights to his six-year legal journey which ends with him becoming a medical cannabis industry advocate and influencer. His cannabis story started with family, but it was a faulty exhaust fan and loud music which moved the Victoria Police Department to deliver, “rock star treatment” during his arrest for creating cannabis edibles. He explains how a legal technicality brought him to the Supreme Court, while the Canadian court system actually supported his efforts creating cookies for medical cannabis patients.
Owen Smith LinkedIn
UTNDR - https://utndr.com/
R. v. Smith, 2015 SCC 34, [2015] 2 S.C.R. 602 https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/15403/index.do?q=Cannabis
Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club-Instagram - @vcbcig
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Peter Tosh - Reggaemylitis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAsAaNmHGSU
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
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Kirk and Trevor meet Sean Boyd, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and discuss the operations of Little Beach Harvest, a cannabis dispensary owned and operated by the Shinnecock tribe. The key to this episode is the community leverages its sovereign status to create its own cannabis regulations, allowing for indoor cultivation and a more customer-centric approach. The community has created a welcoming, community-oriented experience and supports Shinnecock entrepreneurs and businesses. The episode touches upon the history of economic development challenges and the ongoing fight for sovereignty. Little Beach Harvest is in a unique position as a tribally-owned cannabis business operating on sovereign land.
Little Beach Harvest website
Little Beach Harvest LinkedIn
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Liquid Culture – Sunshine on Your Tongue-YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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At the beginning of the Pandemic, we met Eric Greening. He wanted to start a craft cannabis operation just outside our hometown of Dauphin. We check in with Eric and see how pandemic construction has been going, and as a preview for our eventual facility tour! Trevor and Kirk also discuss what Trevor is and is not allowed to tell patients about cannabis as a pharmacist.
Our My Cannabis story is HiND. They make special jars for your cannabis and other fashion items.
Greencraft Cannabis - Website
Eric Greening- LinkedIn
HiND - Website
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Emma Peterson - Hurt Like Hell - YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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How do we define “Craft Cannabis” in Canada? Greencraft Cannabis, a local Manitoba grow operation, is out to answer this question. Eric Greening discusses the process of obtaining his Health Canada micro cultivation licence and how his new company will grow smaller batches putting the plant first. Not only has Health Canada created opportunity for smaller craft growers to finally legally enter the cannabis space, these new licences have also fashioned economic development opportunities for rural communities. Kirk and Trevor question whether the path craft cannabis businesses follow will be similar to the craft beer industry? They ponder how large growers will compete with this new craft market place. This episode marks the start of a planned series exploring the question above…
Greencraft Cannabis - Website
Eric Greening- LinkedIn
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David Crosby - Glory - YouTube
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Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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The conversation with BioSource Botanicals continues. In Part 2 Kirk and Trevor look deeper into the use of cannabis and cannabis-derived products offered by BioSource Botanicals. The expert panel discuss the differences in absorption and bioavailability between topical, sublingual, and edible cannabis products. They emphasize the importance of using whole plant extracts rather than isolated compounds, as well as the potential benefits of targeting mitochondrial health. The discussion also touches on the challenges of regulating the cannabis industry and the need for more scientific research to ensure quality and consistency in cannabis products.
BioSource Botanicals - Website
Brent Ristow PhD (Chemistry), JD- LinkedIn
Dr. Abraham Benavides,MD- LinkedIn
Daniel Gana, MSc- LinkedIn
Music by:
Un Leon No Se Rinde by Jahricio - YouTube
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Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Bald, gloved, masked up and looking for drug dealer in New York. This is not a recent COVID-19 story. This is a story of former pro soccer player Ethan Zohn. Ethan didn’t do drugs in his youth because he was an elite athlete. Now in his thirties, Ethan had cancer, and cannabis helped his symptoms. As a chemotherapy patient, he had to go to the illegal market to get his cannabis. Ethan Zohn is a world traveller, sports commentator, public speaker and, oh yeah, he won Survivor Africa in 2001. Ethan is back in the 40th Season of Survivor: Winners at War.
Join Kirk and Trevor to find out how older brothers kicking balls at your head can be a career path. Listen about how Ethan’s Grassroots Soccer helps with HIV in Africa, a quick dip into his run ins with Donald Trump and his new venture with Montkush Farms.
Ethan Zohn - Website
Grassroots Soccer- Website
Montkush - Website
Safe Roots Foundation- Website
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Oliver Mtukudzi (Tuku)
Wikepedia
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Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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This episode of Reefer Medness - The Podcast features a discussion with a team of experts from BioSource Botanicals, including a pharmaceutical microbiologist, a cannabis clinician, and a pre-clinical research chemist. Kirk and Trevor discuss the importance of mitochondrial health and how the endocannabinoid system plays a crucial role in maintaining it. The experts explain the benefits of using whole raw plant extracts, including the “ensemble effect” where different compounds work synergistically, and how this can be more effective than isolated cannabinoids. Kirk brings a My Cannabis Story from local budtenders and how they provide guidance to customers seeking cannabis-based wellness products.
BioSource Botanicals - Website
Brent Ristow PhD (Chemistry), JD- LinkedIn
Dr. Abraham Benavides,MD- LinkedIn
Daniel Gana, MSc- LinkedIn
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We Are The World- Nigerian Celebrities Edition YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Dr. Rob Sealey returns to the podcast. Back in S3E7 he talked about Cannabis For Kids. Today we drive down the road to the other end of the age spectrum, Cannabis and Seniors. Dr. Sealey is super knowledgeable, but also pithy comment machine! Within this episode he says "you wouldn't go into your local liquor store and say, which bottle of Marlow should I use for my arthritis." He also figures "if we're at all related to mice and some people are more related to rats, then you know, you got a pretty good shot as this could actually potentially help." When filling your medicine cabinet there is "the great substitution effect of using cannabis because of its multi-modal aspects." Applying his knowledge he shares "I always am a booster of the endocannabinoid system." We can’t entice you any better that these quotes. Go Listen!
Dr. Rob Sealey – Medical Cannabis Lecture on Vimeo – Video
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Desiree Dorion
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Marc Clement
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There is an app specifically designed to sell more weed. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor hear the story of a serial entrepreneur who has curated a comprehensive marketing platform empowering dispensaries and other cannabis companies to promote their products within the law. This is yet another game changing idea from Carl Sailing, the creator of “High Day” his all-in-one marketing command centre. He shares his cannabis story, business successes, and how his new project will thrust cannabis businesses into the digital spotlight. This episode is a must listen for those working within restricted industries facing regulatory challenges and regulatory misconceptions.
High Day - Website
Carl Saling- LinkedIn
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Panama - Van Halen - YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Here is yet another story of how individuals found cannabis to be beneficial for their own personal medical needs. The difference in this story? These people went on to grow a grassroots organization called EduCanNation, a non-profit association of Certified Cannabis Educators. While many traditional healthcare professions remain hesitant or outright dismissive of cannabis medicine, EduCanNation is stepping up to bridge the gap between scientific understanding, consumer needs, and the ever-changing legal landscape. The leaders within EduCanNation aim to set the national standards for all Cannabis Coaches and Educators. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor continue their discussion on the emergence of Cannabis Coaches and Educators—an unregulated, but increasingly necessary role—seems to be a natural response to the gaps in education and access that exist in the heavily regulated cannabis space.
EduCanNation - Website
Jay Jay O’Brien- LinkedIn
Shawna Dunbar- LinkedIn
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Pass It On - Bob Marley & the Wailers - YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Rather than measure the wing span of mosquitoes, Dr. Lynda Balneaves RN became a nurse. Her story begins with recognizing a love for people and for travel. Her academic journey, of supporting people and health care providers with engaging in shared decision-making related to complementary and integrative health care, includes some of Canada’s earliest cannabis research. The scholastic chronicles, of this Doctor Nurse, speaks to how we can never truly plan our life path, but we do have the power to be properly prepared for opportunity. This episode will guide care givers in their practice responsibilities with cannabis, while increasing the expectations of those who receive care through it.
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Dr. Ethan Russo has made immense contributions to the understanding of cannabis. 2024 was particularly productive as Dr. Russo’s name kept popping up in some very interesting papers. We got him to chat with us about two of them.
First there is the entourage effect paper. The entourage effect is the idea that different cannabinoids, terpenes and other components of the cannabis plant work together synergistically to give a desired effect. Professor Raphael Mechoulam and colleagues first talked about the entourage effect amongst endogenous cannabinoids in the human body. Dr. Ethan Russo and others have expanded the idea to phytocannabinoids and other cannabis plant components. But it is still just an idea. Now there is a trial that looks at if inhaled limonene makes THC cause less anxiety in people. This could be the beginning of the evidence to validate the entourage effect.
Second, we chatted about a CBG paper. We have a lovely sound bite that describes CBG as a “bubble bath for your brain”. This study gives us some early evidence of the clinical effects of CBG, and whether it actually reduces anxiety.
Let’s do some learning!
Ethan Russo.org - Website
Ethan Russo- LinkedIn
CReDO Science - Website
Vaporized D-limonene selectively mitigates the acute anxiogenic effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol in healthy adults who intermittently use cannabis. - Paper
Acute effects of cannabigerol on anxiety, stress, and mood: a double‑blind, placebo‑controlled, crossover, field trial. - Paper
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Dark Star by The Grateful Dead - YouTube
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Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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What were you doing during the start of the pandemic lock down in 2020? Did you build a puzzle for the first time in year? Did you get reacquainted with how stupid and long and frustrating monopoly is? How about sour dough bread? Did you make your first sour dough? Dr. Igor Kovalchuk and his wife, Dr. Olga Kovalchuk from the University of Lethbridge were locked out of their labs too. Their lock down side project was a little more ambitious. They had been researching hundreds of cannabis extracts to see if these extracts reduced inflammation and might help treat conditions like multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. During this forced pause in their research, they wondered in CBD rich cannabis extracts might be useful against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. You want to hear what they found out.
Dr. Kovalchuk’s preprint article we discussed - In Search of Preventative Strategies: Novel Anti-Inflammatory High-CBD Cannabis Sativa Extracts Modulate ACE2 Expression in COVID-19 Gateway Tissues - Website
Dr. Matthew Elmes critique of Dr. Kovalchuk’s paper - Cannabis & COVID-19: Breaking News or Bogus Science? - Website
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Nelson Rudiak - Facebook
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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The Canadian Medical Cannabis Program has been available for more than two decades, yet the process of obtaining cannabis as medicine remains very cumbersome. In comparison, Recreational Cannabis, seen as a substance of misuse, is easy to acquire. When people express an interest in trying cannabis as a medicine to their health care team, many health practitioners simply direct their patients toward the Rec market knowing (or maybe not) the restrictions the Cannabis Act places on budtenders. Budtenders cannot discuss health conditions with customers.
While many health professionals continue to ignore the highly regulated medicinal cannabis system, a group of entrepreneurs calling themselves Cannabis Coaches, are filling the need. In this episode we learn how certified Cannabis Coach Terese Bowors started a small business educating people about medicinal cannabis. We come to understand how a group of non-regulated health educators are developing their own Standards of Practice.
Terese Bowors - Cannabis Wellness Coach - Website
Terese Bowors- LinkedIn
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Falling Through by Prophet - Spotify
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Tarris Baptiste was athletically gifted. Tarris was driven. Tarris was on the brink of breaking into the National Football League. And then, it didn’t happen. Ten thousand hours plus spent on becoming an elite football player didn’t matter anymore. Now what? Tarris had a shadow pursuit that paralleled his football career. Sometimes it helped him succeed. Sometimes it got in the way. But now, he shifted his considerable focus to learn more about cannabis. He needed to know the light and the dark of this plant. Tarris sought out experts. He merged their insights with his own lived experience. That was the genesis of his book, Don’t Let it Smoke You. Listen to Tarris talk about how cannabis got in his way, how he overcame his misuse of cannabis, but how he didn’t abandon the plant. Tarris found a way to balance his cannabis use with living a productive life. And now he wants to share that with you.
Tarris Baptiste- LinkedIn
Tarris Baptiste- Instagram
Don’t Let It Smoke You- Book
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Dave Brubeck – Take Five - YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Dr. Suzy Pinnick, a family physician specializing in palliative medicine and remote northern medicine, shares her cannabis story with Kirk. In this episode, the two health professionals sit in a casual masked conversation within the warmth of the NIC’s office of a northern nursing station during a deep Covid19 Canadian winter evening. She is quick to say she has very little knowledge of cannabis, yet believes it is important to learn. When she was asked by parents to prescribe cannabis for one of her pediatric palliative care patients, Dr. Pinnick quickly recognized how little she knew. Kirk brings the story to Trevor, how this experienced doctor is willing to learn as she practices; how she learns the art of medicine while applying the formal duties of a doctor.
Dr. Suzy Pinnick- LinkedIn
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Dinah Washington - What a Difference a Day Makes - YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Regular users of cannabis will – often self-consciously – admit to having a spiritual relationship with cannabis. Will Johnson, a teacher of Buddhist Dharma since 1972, explains how he is ‘something of an anomaly and outlier when it comes to the use of cannabis.’ In his book “Cannabis in Spiritual Practice: The Ecstasy of Shiva, The Calm of Buddha,” Will applies his understandings with living by The Buddhist’s precepts, as an adult. He believes his positive pathways toward full Embodiment is better achieved when he weaves his dance with Shiva, while enjoying the fruits of Buddha’s Garden. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor conclude Will may be onto something. What if everyone in the world simply took a few deep breathes, passed the chillum, and spontaneously started to dance?
What if…
Will Johnson - Website
Cannabis in Spiritual Practice: The Ecstasy of Shiva, the Calm of Buddha.- Will Johnson - Book
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Grateful Dead - Dark Star - YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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What is the evidence? Where are the studies? There is no proof that cannabis can treat anything! Well…What if I told you there are lots of studies showing that cannabis has medical benefits? What if there was a study going on right now in Sarnia looking at Cannabis and Dementia in Long Term Care (LTC) homes? Dr. Blake Pearson and his partners in Lambton County are the epitome of “Think Global, Act Local”. They are tackling the pervasive problem of dementia in all LTC homes by seeing if cannabis can improve it in their local LTC system. Their study also measures if cannabis use in Dementia patients can help reduce Care Giver Burnout. This exciting research on the shores of Lake Huron is adding to the growing mountain of cannabis as medicine. We also take a left turn into “Green Washing”, but it is not what you think. Come have a listen.
Pearson Health: pearsonhealth.org
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Journey
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Desiree Dorion
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If you suffer from headaches, Dr. Carrie Cuttler, Assistant Professor at Washington State University, may offer some insights. This episode explores how migraine sufferers may benefit from cannabis. In her study, this cannabis researcher, uses Strainprint data to track people who use inhale cannabis to treat their migraines. Kirk and Trevor explore her research and also discuss how diminished anandamide levels, an important endocannabinoid, may also contribute to the headache pain. A deficiency in the bliss molecular causes a pain in the …head?
Carrie Cuttler - LinkedIn
Carrie Cuttler - Website
Dr. Cuttler’s Strainprint/Migraine Study
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Jimmy Zee - website
Jimmy Zee - Facebook
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA. It’s too bad we at Reefer MEDness don’t know anything about microRNA. But wait…We do! Hilal Kalkan, a post-doc at Laval University, talks to us about how microRNA and cannabinoid receptors are involved in the side effect of a common cholesterol medication. Come dive deep into the molecular workings of the endocannabinoid system with us!
Hilal Kalkan - LinkedIn
Dysfunctional endocannabinoid CB1 receptor expression and signaling contribute to skeletal muscle cell toxicity induced by simvastatin, Hilal Kalkan et al. - Paper in Cell Death and Disease
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Tuğba Yurt - Benim O -YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Kirk and Trevor discuss PTSD with Dr. Mike Hart founder of ReadyToGo Clinic. Dr. Hart talks about how PTSD, migraines, IBS and some other conditions are due at least in part to an endocannabinoid deficiency. That means cannabis is an obvious treatment for PTSD. Also hear how cannabis can also be used in sports medicine and about Kirk’s Runners’ High on the Columbia Ice Fields.
Dr. Mike Hart’s Joe Rogan Interview (Episode 1246) - YouTube
Scientific American “The Case of a Woman Who Feels Almost No Pain Leads Scientists to a New Gene Mutation” - March 30/19 - Jacquelyn Corley - Article
Readytogo Clinic - Website
Mike Hart Book - Friendly Fire: Why Vets Are Ditching Pills and Lighting Up to Treat PTSD - Amazon
Benzodiazepines for PTSD: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis. Guina et al. Journal of Psychiatric Practice. July 2015- Article
Reductions in Circulating Endocannabinoid Levels in Individuals with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Following Exposure to the World Trade Center Attacks. Matthew N. Hill et al. Psychoneuroendocrinology. Sept 2013. - Article
Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency Reconsidered: Current Research Supports the Theory in Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel, and Other Treatment-Resistant Syndromes. Ethan Russo. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. July 2016. - Article
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Bif Naked - Santa Claus is Coming to Town -YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Pop quiz! Name a condition that costs $2.5 Billion to the Canadian health care system per year, that causes 1 in 5 sufferers to lose or quit a job at some point during their life because of the disease and that 8 in 10 people with the disease were initially told their pain was normal before diagnosis? Welcome to the under-appreciated suffering of those people who have endometriosis.
Dr. Genester Wilson-King MD FACOG, founder and Medical Director of Victory Rejuvenation Center, is a Board-Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist with over 25 years of Clinical experience. We would have loved to pick her brain on Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement, Premenstrual Syndrome, breast-feeding and cannabis and so many other topics, but we don’t have a 14 hour podcast. We had Dr. Wilson-King review for us the causes and symptoms of endometriosis, how it is treated and how cannabis fits into the picture. She dropped bomb-shells on us like: Did you know endometriosis can affect such disparate tissues as the lung and the brain? Our brains are still spinning and you should strap in and listen.
Dr. Genester Wilson-King - LinkedIn
Dr. Genester Wilson-King - Website
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Earth Wind and Fire - Fantasy -YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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Is it the future? Kirk and Trevor delve into the craft cannabis market, again. In this episode, they gather a unique panel of Cannabis enthusiasts, willing to share their views on growing small batches of their best. A British Columbia computer geek turned owner, an Alberta legacy grower gone legit, and a Manitoba seed archivist waiting on a license for his genetics, each speak to what makes their cannabis strains and techniques important to creating a craft cannabis market place. The panel agrees the best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener and any licensed producer can grow good weed. But, what is their collective agreement, what is the definitive determination of craft cannabis? It may depend on how they treat their flowers at harvest, or possibly the hang-to-dry or lay-to-dry technique. How long do they leave their flower to cure? What if the flower is traveling in plastic to market? Defining craft cannabis may actually mean buying straight from the farmer but, this is not possible yet. Have a listen to how these growers define craft while creating niche markets for their small businesses.
Kieley Beudry - Parkland Flower Website - Twitter
Earl Oliver - Gnomestar Craft Cannabis Twitter-Earl Oliver - Twitter - Gnome Star
Paul Martin - CannaCraft Producers Instagram - Cannacraft
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Sublime - Smoke Two Joints -YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
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VanHoot is now traveling the roads of northern British Columbia. While Michelle is off filling their cupboards and cooler, Kirk and River explore the resale cannabis market in those small communities they visit. Kirk records some of the discussions collecting cannabis stories to better understand cannabis from the budtenders’ perspective. In this episode, we learn: how cannabis is marketed day-to-day, is a part time job for busy people, and is also positively affecting smaller community. At one point Kirk sniffs resale cannabis from Mason Jars envisioning the future farmgate access. When you listen to a Road Story episode, you are transported into the continuing adventures of VanHoot and its occupants.
Five Corners Cannabis - website
Hive Cannaibs - website
Cannabis Corner - website
Happy Trails Cannabis - website
Haida Haze - Instagram
Music by:
Dead Bob - No Tomorrows -YouTube
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Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
On July 23, 1983 at an altitude of 41,000 feet, Air Canada Flight 143 travelling between Montreal and Edmonton ran out of fuel because of confusion between metric and imperial measurements. However, the crew of the Boeing 767 successfully landed the passenger jet in Manitoba’s Interlake in what is now known as the Gimli Glider. That intrepid flight crew applied their years of training and experience to an unprecedented situation to become heroes. Much like when a PhD with international training in biochemistry, genetics and pharmaceutical manufacturing successfully glides into the cannabis space. Meet Dr. Brent Guppy and BioScision Pharma. This wide-ranging conversation covers sexing plants, topicals with microbial contamination, testing cannabis for heavy metals and our new favorite word to try to say five times fast “nanoemulsions”. Did we mention BioScision’s retail line, Hwy 59 Cannabis, has a vape cart named after the famous unpowered Boeing 767 that landed in a certain Icelandic town?
BioScision Pharma: bioscisionpharma.com
BioScison Labs: bioscisionlabs.com
Gimli Glider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Mayday Episode: A Powerless Boeing Falls From The Sky! - Gimli Glider:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y8JBAr8dZ4
Music by:
Lorn – Acid Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg4C365LbQ
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this
song all legal and
proper like)
Once again, Kirk is on the road collecting stories, and never knowing where a story will take him. This road trip is in British Columbia where infused pre-rolls are the hottest summer blitz. Join Kirk and his dog River as they collect stories from cannabis stores, a vape shop, and while standing in a parking lot. We learn how bud tenders gain knowledge of cannabis: being an exit drug, assisting pregnant women, curing cancer, or just chilling at a town council meeting. You just never know what a Road Story will teach you about cannabis use.
Unity Cannabis - website
Marlee’s Den - website
100% Cannabis - website
EZ Vape Campbell River - website
Music by:
Dead Bob - Party of One -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
You’ve said the word concussion. You might even have had one. But do you really understand them? Did you know a concussion is a minor traumatic brain injury? Dr. Patrick Neary and his team got a grant from the NFL to study if cannabis can help prevent or treat concussions! Dr. Neary explains, you don’t have to actually bang your head to get a concussion. We’ve often said you don’t have to like cannabis to enjoy this podcast. But, if you listen to this episode while rhythmically shaking your mullet forwards and back, we think you’ll elevate your knowledge about both.
Patrick Neary
Website
Website
Website
The Team of NFL Funded Research Collaborators - Google Doc
Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT5) - Website
Music by:
Rod Stewart - Maggie May -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Kirk catches up with Ted Smith from the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club and his organization’s ill-defined existence within a country of legalized cannabis. We hear how Ted’s dreams, for this timeworn cannabis compassion club, are close to fruition yet there lingers potential for a new set of fines and a visit from the Public Health Authority impeding the full potential of this caring organization. In this episode we learn how the clouds preventing Ted from flying high are not simply from his new smoking lounge but rather the various levels of bureaucracy he must manage when putting compassion into action.
The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club - website
To Support the People of Jasper after the Fire - website
Music by:
Dead Bob - Just Breathe -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Most certainly, we have learned Cannabis has benefits but it is not benign. With all medications it is important to understand the risk and benefits. In this episode Trevor and Kirk discuss the cardiovascular effects of chronic cannabis inhalation with an accomplished student of medicine, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam. Although, he admits limited studies are available, his literature review suggests those who start smoking cannabis at a young age, making it a daily indulgence, are at risk of developing cardiovascular disease. He makes it easy by comparing cannabis to donuts; reminding us we must consume in moderation.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam’s Paper -Website
Cannanaskis -Website
Music by:
OneRepublic - Counting Stars -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
You’ve got a PhD with lots of lab and testing experience. It should be easy to start a cannabis testing lab, right? Well, not really. Aldwin Anterola found cannabis growers weren’t always interested in finding the accurate amount of cannabinoids like THC in their products, among other problems. So, Aldwin went back to school. The NIH (National Institutes of Health) have an entrepreneurship program to help scientists learn how to bring their skills and products to market. Along the way, Aldwin learned a lot about Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS) and even interviewed our co-host Trevor as part of his NIH entrepreneurship program project.
Aldwin Anterola - LinkedIn
Music by:
Chicago - Feelin’ Stronger Every Day -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Ross Rebagliati, Michael Phelps, and Sha’Carri Richardson. Different athletes, different sports, and different eras. Tremendous athletic ability and years of arduous training aren’t all they have in common. Their sporting careers have all been touched by cannabis. Dr. Mark Ware and his colleagues examined cannabis and elite athletes. What they found was captivating and thought provoking. Join Kirk and Trevor in the discussion ranging from WADA to Lausanne, Switzerland to the para-Olympic movement and how cannabis can and should fit into athletics.
Mark Ware - LinkedIn
Music by:
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Coming in From the Cold -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Brent Alarie is informed he has COPD, then it was multiple sclerosis. No wait, he receives another diagnosis of blood cancer. These were just a few of the catastrophic verdicts given to describe how his body was betraying him. He needed to create change and prepare for his enviable death. With a new bucket list he started living his best life under the circumstances. A six-year painful journey, of the most insane symptoms and being bounced from one diagnosis to another, finally comes to an end. Brent is told he has chronic Lyme Disease. A new journey begins with learning to live with the on-going symptoms of Lyme and regular pharmaceuticals do not help with the chronic nerve-pain. He was never a drug-guy, but after a friend gave him Cannabis, he finds therapeutic relief. Brent shares how he now balances his life with nutrition and Cannabis. Kirk and Trevor bring their second story on how Cannabis brings relief to people suffering from this Monster sickness in which we call Lyme Disease.
Human Cannabinoid Pharmacokinetics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689518/pdf/nihms-118643.pdf
The Monster Inside Me - Lyme Disease Documentary - https://www.themonsterinsideme.com/
Music by:
Wreckin So -https://www.wreckinso.com/
Still Smokin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VRz0jbjy8s
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. That is what we learned in high school biology. But what if it is more? What if the mitochondria has receptors on it for cannabinoids? What if mitochondria move around the cell? What if mitochondria help produce chemical signals for the cell? What if mitochondria are involved in such diverse processes as epilepsy, mental health and aging itself?
Hunter Land, PhD walks us through mitochondria and cannabinoids and so much more. Our preconceived notions about the powerhouse of the cell were blown out of the water. Let's see if yours are too!
Biopharmaceutical Research Company - Website
Hunter Land, PhD - LinkedIn
Music by:
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
In this episode we explore a series of unfortunate events started when a Registered Nurse decided to illegally grow cannabis as medicine. Society may consider nurses one of our most trustworthy groups however, employers and professional colleges have policies and procedures suggesting otherwise because the profession is plagued with addiction issues. This episode explores what happens when a nurse self-medicates using cannabis and is seen as having an addiction issue. There is a mismatch in understanding needs and medicine. Kirk and Trevor wonder if this is one of those stories where Cannabis is misunderstood and due to this lack of understanding, we are left with one less nurse.
Music by:
Music by: The Doors - Peace Frog -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Do you know anyone with dementia? If you don’t, you will. We humans are living longer and healthier lives. There are more healthy 75 year old people alive now than there ever have been. However, the number of people with dementia is sky rocketing as well. Enter Dr. Mechtler…
Dr. Lazslo Mechtler is the Medical Director of Dent Neurologic Institute, the Chief of Neuro-Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and is also the Director of the DENT Headache Center, Neuro-Oncology Center, and Cannabis Clinic.
Dr. Mechtler gives us a fantastic review of dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Then he talks about the work they are doing at the DENT Institute to treat dementia with cannabinoids.
DENT Neurologic Institute - Cannabis Clinic - Website
Lazlo Mechtler - LinkedIn
Lazlo Mechtler - DENT-website profile
Music by:
Christopher Cros - Sailing -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
In this episode, Kirk and Trevor bring forward the importance of Cannabis advocacy. With the legalization of recreational cannabis, some may see the need for Cannabis Advocacy as being dispensable. Stephen Stairs, a medical cannabis consumer is a leader within the Winnipeg green culture. He explains how the many interpretations of regulations, from all level of governments, requires his continuous attention. Self described as Manitoba’s Loud Advocate, Stairs shares his back story, passion for the cannabis industry, and confronts the controversy he faced as the leader of Winnipeg 420 movement. The My Cannabis Story for this episode is from Neil Linton at the Calgary Cannabis Club adding further insights to the need for Cannabis advocacy.
Steven Stairs - Instagram
Calgary Cannabis Club - Facebook
Music by:
Music by: Damian Marley - Medication -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
One sunny evening in the summer of 2020, Kirk and Trevor had a meeting on Kirk's driveway. Even though all all indoor meetings were taboo, they met someone bursting with excitement. Eric Greening's face lit up as he described the cannabis growing facility he envisioned building north east of Dauphin.
Four years, a pandemic, spiraling inflation and all the other unknown unknowns of building a facility and starting a business are now behind the persistent Mr. Greening. As proud Dauphinites, we are excited to say Greencraft Cannabis is now selling product! And.... after much pestering, we got a peek inside!
Come with us on an audio tour of the facility. There is a cannabis "tree" whose trunk Trevor can't wrap his hand around, a sunset room with alien-looking golden light, the secrets of how you control tiny invaders when you can't use any pesticides, and so much more!
Greencraft Cannabis - website
Music by:
Reggae Cowboys - Tell the Truth -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Trevor and Kirk continue their CBD exploration with a Canadian Icon. Bif Naked, one of Canada’s best selling musicians shares her “my Cannabis story” sharing how she watched CBD help various members of her family, peer group, and eventually how she too benefited from daily dosing. Bif Naked discusses her formative years in Dauphin, her experiences with cancer, volunteerism, and how she hopes to change the world with her new ethically centred CBD business called Mona Lisa Healing. Settle back and enjoy this wonderful women’s exploits and wait for the surprise ending to this epic episode.
Mona Lisa Healing - Webpage
Music by:
Music by: Bif Naked- Jim -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
So many amazing Canna-people, so little time. CannMed 24 was sublime! Here are the another batch of clips we got!
Ben Cameransi – Mingowood Pharmacal, LLC - Dr. Benjamin Cameransi, MD, DABA is a a Board-Certified Anesthesiologist, with a entensive background in pain management. He has started four BioTech Companies. He was involved in the development of development,Ryanodex™, a treatment for Malignant Hyperthermia. But wait, there’s more… Acidic cannabinoids aren’t very stable when they are extracted and purified. Dr. Camersani’s team at Mingowood Pharmacal has a way to fix that.
Taz Turner -CordovaCann Corp - Taz has the top three attributes we look for in a guest. He knows where Manitoba is located. He’s a finance guy who spoke intelligently during his Capital Markets Panel. He is fun to chat to at a breakfast information session. Taz tells us how it is surprisingly difficult to get investment into the cannabis space in 2024. But, numbers and valuation guys like him (who also speak cannabis) are slowly convincing others that opportunities abound.
Melissa Moore - Professor, Cannabis Horticulture & Biology, SUNY Niagra Community College. Melissa Moore developed some of her horticultural chops in Northern California, but now passes on her knowledge in Buffalo, NY. She was very helpful getting pics of Trevor during his Capital Markets Panel and then she sparked some intense Aspergillus discussions. Professor Moore tells us why cleanliness is next to godliness in your grow room and, hear why Kirk is frothing at the mouth to pick her brain about how to grow plants better.
Ben Cameransi - LinkedIn
Mingowood Pharmacal, LLC - Website
Taz Turner -LinkedIn
CordovaCann Corp. - website
Melissa Moore - LinkedIn
SUNY Niagra Horticultural Cannabis Classes - website
Music by:
Music by: Stills-Young Band- Midnight on the Bay -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Our co-host, Trevor has an unhealthy obsession with suppositories. You know that guy you never ask, “Hey, what is an NFT?” lest he talk your ear off? Well never ask Trevor, “Hey, what is a Rectal Rocket?” With that background, imagine our delight when we stumbled across Sarah Roberts and her company Cicatrix Labs. They make vaginal and rectal suppositories with cannabinoids in them! People have used these products to treat endometriosis, inflammatory bowel disease, hemorrhoids, pain during sex, and more. Even if you think suppositories are icky, after this conversation, you will find them obsession worthy too. Our My Cannabis Story is Dave Dormer of Cannanaskis, a cannabis tourism company.
Cicatrix Labs - Web Site
Sarah Roberts - LinkedIn
Cannanaskis - Web Site
Music by:
Light - Up We Go YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
So many fantastic Canna-people to meet and talk to at CannMed 24! Here are the first batch of clips we got!
Ariane Williams & Megan Mbengue – Trusted Canna Nurse - There were so many nurses at CannMed 24! Our slightly biased co-host Kirk was ecstatic. He thinks more nurses makes every conference and everything else better! Ariane is the Director of Patient Services and “The Kind Nurse”. She’ll listen to your needs as a patient and guide you to personalized care. Megan is the Founder and CEO. She is a Social Media Content Queen with all things cannabis and runs the back end of Trusted Canna Nurse.
Jeff Smith -Professor, Strategic Partnership and Outreach Specialist at the Institute of Cannabis Research- Colorado State University Pueblo. The ICR is like the NIH (National Institutes of Health) of cannabis research in Colorado. The ICR funds research related to cannabis such as clinical research, biotechnologies, and economic development associated with cannabis in Colorado. Once the research is done, they publicly disseminate the results.
Clay W. Moore - Drug Discovery Scientist at Rare Earth Genomics. We first met Clay at CannMed 23. He now a PhD student at Texas A&M. Clay needs bigger goals in life, because he is only trying to cure cancer with hemp extracts. He is also a part of Rare Earth Genomics (REG). REG wants to be your Swiss Army knife of hemp research projects. We talk to Clay about how REG could help Kirk with his potential Hemp-Crete dreams
Ariane Williams - LinkedIn
Megan Mbengue - LinkedIn
Trusted Canna Nurse - Website
Jeff Smith - LinkedIn
Institute of Cannabis Research Colorado State University Pueblo - website
Clayton Moore -LinkedIn
Rare Earth Genomics - website
Music by: Stills-Young Band & NASH - Fontainebleau -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Ian Mitchell is an emergency physician, the Site Scholar for the Kamloops Family Medicine Residency Program and is occasionally photographed teaching whole rooms full of people to stick their fingers in their ears while opening their mouths really wide like they are in a silent scream. He caught our interest with an article and talk he did about gabapentin vs cannabis. Gabapentin was originally developed as a seizure medication, but it wasn’t really good at that. Now it is routinely used for migraines, back pain, diabetic nerve pain and a variety of other conditions. There isn’t great evidence for gabapentin and all its uses. Cannabis is just gaining the evidence it needs to show it is good for all different types of pain and other conditions. But it is still shunned by mainly clinicians. Is it fair the gabapentin is commonly used and cannabis is not? Plus we go down a cool rabbit hole into some novel uses of ketamine.
Links:
A Tale of Two Therapies - Ian Mitchell on Medium
Ian Mitchell’s Talk - YouTube
Music by:
The Ramones - Pinhead (Gabba Gabba Hey) YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Do you have a favourite craft cannabis flower? Are you getting what you think you ordered? Think again. While attending the Calgary Hempfest, Kirk and Trevor gathered five Micro Cultivation License holders (plus a surprise cameo contributor!) to discuss the recreational cannabis retail space. The conversation revealed a complicated system of regulations, policies, and red tape which affect their ability to build brand loyalty. Although these passionate growers produce excellent weed, it is surprisingly difficult for their high quality, small batch, hand trimmed product to reach you, the consumer. Packaging, sale by lottery, and ambiguously named SKU’s are some of the many convoluted rules of the game. Kirk and Trevor ponder whether the current recreational cannabis system actually prevents us from properly understanding the cannabis product we are purchasing, and how small cannabis producers might eventually break even.
Mark Corrigan, President of Distinkt Cannabis - distinktcannabis.com - @DistinktC on Twitter
Tim Mallett CEO of Alberta Bud - www.albertabud.com - @alberta.bud.official on Instagram
Rob Wilcox President of Indigro Organics - www.indigro.ca
Devon Davidson President of Canalief - www.canalief.ca
Kieley Beaudry CEO Parkland Flower - parklandflower.com - @Kieley_ on Twitter
Cameo by - Jacqui Childs - @JacquiChilds on Twitter and @Childs.jacqui on Instagram
Music by:
Bon Iver - Calgary- YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Let us start by saying, we encourage pregnant women toward balanced diets, proper exercise, and we discourage unnecessary drug and alcohol use. But, what if a mother consumes cannabis during pregnancy? In this episode Kirk and Trevor begin to explore prenatal cannabis exposure and are joined by Dr. Ciara Torres, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. This neuroscientists near six-year meta-analysis found prenatal use of cannabis does not lead to cognitive impairment of children. Dr. Torres discusses how her study, published May 2020, offers policy makers a better understanding of how cannabis affects newborns. Often babies are removed from a family when it is discovered a mother used cannabis during the pregnancy; this action may actually be more harmful than the exposure. Proper prenatal care is paramount when predicting the future success of an unborn child. This episode is designed to start the debate, so have a listen and offer your feedback by sending us a note to podcast@reefermed.ca
Music by:
Hector Lavoe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz650EkJFKc&feature=youtu.be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Lavoe
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Dr. Ciara Torres Vargas - https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/ciara-torres-vargas
Totality of the Evidence Suggests Prenatal Cannabis Exposure Does Not Lead to Cognitive Impairments: A Systematic and Critical Review - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kVeXlDGj9PbYrnRBM49rG336ihJbxAFt/view?usp=sharing
It’s like having a trial lawyer try to explain how cannabinoids interact with endogenous cannabinoid receptors! You know what that is like? It’s, it’s, it’s… actually pretty great. Come hear how a trial lawyer got into the cannabis space, how he thinks the acidic versions of cannabinoids are bursting with medical promise and just come listen to one of our new favorite characters!
Robert “Bob” Hill - LinkedIn
website
Cab Calloway-Reefer Man -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club (VCBC) is no stranger to defending the services that a compassion club can deliver. For decades, the VCBC has supported individuals with chronic and or life-threatening diseases by providing aid not available from government health systems. Kirk once again visits this west coast healing community. He examines how this celebrated organization is now fighting a $6.4 million fine levied against them as an unlicensed dispensary. Founder Ted Smith, a tenacious defender of human rights, explains this current challenge, the club’s relationships with growers, and the help his staff provides the medical cannabis community.
Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club Website is currently down - Article
VCBC Twitter - @VCBCtweets
Music by: Bob Marley - Satisfy My Soul
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Apparently, that isn’t really a Mahatma Gandhi quote. But it is a great sentiment. How we are teaching people about cannabis isn't great or sometimes it isn't happening at all. But, you can be part of the change and help shape the future!
Listen to Lisa Bishop PharmD, a Professor and Pharmacist at School of Pharmacy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Daniel Bear PhD, is the Director, Humber College Centre for Social Innovation. a Drugs Policy Researcher, and a Cannabis Policy Consultant, discuss a survey their team has developed.
Along with their team, they’ve actually developed two surveys. And you really need to take at least one. Are you over 18 and have used or thought of using cannabis? They have a survey for you. Are you a pharmacist? They have a survey for you. Why should you take one of their surveys? Because they are going to use the info from these surveys to help pharmacists do a better job of teaching people about cannabis!
THE SURVEY YOU SHOULD TAKE!!! Click here! - website
Other Info:
Weed Out Misinformation - website
Daniel Bear -LinkedIn
Lisa Bishop - LinkedIn
Music by:
- Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
FYI - the actual quote is:
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” – Mahatma Gandhi
When you take a prescription medication, it goes into your body, does what it is supposed to and then leaves. Part of leaving the body often involves the medication getting broken down or metabolized by enzymes in the liver. One of the biggest medication metabolizing enzyme systems in the liver is called the Cytochrome P450 enzymes. Why should you care? Because cannabis can effect the Cytochrome P450 enzymes. That could cause there to be too much or too little of a prescription medication in your body to do its job properly. Dr. Lyndsey Anderson and her colleagues at the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics in Sydney, Australia have looked at how cannabis and the Cytochrome P450 enzymes interact. Let’s have a listen!
Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics - web site
Lyndsey Anderson - LinkedIn
Music by:
Emre Cords-Before We Decided to Fall -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Akeem Gardner and his team at Canurta are delving deep into the hidden corners of the cannabis plant. They want to know if we extract this cannflavin, this terpene, this cannabinoid, or one of the other thousands of molecules in the cannabis plant, can it treat a disease? Last year at CannMed 23, he talked to us about how cannflavins could be used to treat a particularly nasty brain tumour called glioblastoma. Since then, Akeem has hit the road and brought the gospel of cannabis plant medicine to conferences and other canna-curious folks across North America, Europe, and as far away as the United Arab Emirates.
This year Team Canurta is looking at neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and even aging itself. They are using artificial intelligence to help screen where in the cannabis plant to focus their research. They are partnering with Universities to get academic papers turned into potential treatments. Akeem is one of the featured speakers at CannMed 24 again this year. We’d love to see you in Florida at CannMed 24 in person, and here is a preview of Akeem’s presentation!
Canurta - canurta.com
Akeem Gardner - LinkedIn
Music by:
Dead Bob - White Stone Eyes -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
More than 200,000 Canadians are registered Medical Cannabis patients. Due to a cumbersome national system, many of these individuals discover the benefits of Cannabis alone, with little therapeutic expertise to guide them. Learning about your medicine or just trying to access your medicine, these tasks are made easier when engaged with a business like Tantus Health; a Medical Cannabis Dispensary. Their consultants design natural wellness plans to educate individuals and provide personal guides to alleviate those frustrating unknowns that come when using Cannabis as medicine. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor discover a Canadian licensed medical cannabis company who: provides quality medicine consistently, forms strong relationships with their patients, and helps west coast first responders suffering from PTSD. With Tantus Health, you are not alone with your prescribed cannabis.
Tantus Health Co - tantushealthco.com
Music by:
Powder Blues Band - Boppin’ with the Blues -YouTube
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
We’ve got another amazing group of attendees from CannMed 23!
Joe Thompson
One evening they said dinner was on Lanai Beach. In Manitoba, if you are at a conference and someone says dinner is on Lanai Beach, then Lanai Beach is the name of a room. But in Florida, they actually meant dinner was on a beach. That sounds like a lovely idea, unless it is over 30 C and there is no shade. Thankfully, I brought a ball cap for my bald head and I met Dr. Joe Thompson also looking for some shade beside a pole.
Dr. Thompson trained is a pediatrician, but now is the President & CEO of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. They have a program where they are going to analyze the data of people who got medical cannabis in Arkansas and see what happened to Health Outcomes. You want to hear about how that study will be done.
Leah Johnson
Dr. Leah Johnson Pharm D is a pharmacist and we met her in the Poster Hallway. Her Poster was about palliative care patients in California. Her group believes that if patients have access to cannabinoid medicine during palliative care, that will promote a better quality of life for the patients. Dr. Leah helps patients with their cannabis therapy and is a Cannabis Speaker and Educator across the US. She is on the Executive of the Pharmacist Cannabis Coalition of California (PCCC).
Akeem Gardner
I met Akeem during the opening reception of CannMed 23. I didn’t know anyone at the conference yet, so thankfully, he came up to me, read my name tag and introduced himself. Soon we discovered we were both from Canada, and we laughed over the fact the sliders were taken away too quickly. He told me he was nervous about a main stage talk he was giving. Now I understand why. He was giving a very technical, science heavy talk to a room full of cannabis doctors and researchers. But he killed it during his talk. He even handled challenges from the audience. I got to collect some audio from Akeem right after his talk. He’s from Mississauga. He’s a huge basketball fan. He has a nephew who Uncle Akeem really wants to become the next Lebron James. But for our story, Akeem is a Canadian lawyer turned hemp farmer turned CEO of the BioTech company Canurta Inc.
His talk was about cannaflavins and their potential to treat glioblastoma, a common and aggressive form of brain cancer.
Bruce Mackler
Was involved with Prairie Plant Systems in Flin Flon when all “legal” Canadian Government Cannabis was grown in a mine in 2000. That became Cannimed in Saskatoon. And that got bought out by Aurora. Former lawyer that fought cases against the FDA. Former immunologist. His company, Ethicann, is developing a sublingual tablet for Multiple Sclerosis as a competitor to Stativex.
Joe Thompson -LinkedIn
Leah Johnson - LinkedIn
Akeem Gardener LinkedIn
Akeem’s CannMed23 Talk
Bruce Mackler - LinkedIn
Music by: The Tragically Hip - So Hard Done By
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Philippe Lucas, formerly of Tilray, comes on the discuss the TOPS study. It looked at around 2000 medical cannabis patients across Canada prospectively and gather tons of data. Some of the most interesting findings include medicating with cannabis seems to reduce opioid use and the use of prescription medications in general. Plus, there was no signal that the study participants wanted more and more cannabis which implies limited drug seeking and addition behaviors from medical cannabis. Numbers, data, cannabis, a great chat with Philippe, are you as excited as Trevor about this one? Have a listen.
Philippe Lucas,PhD - LinkedIn
SABI Mind - sabimind.com
Tilray Observational Patient Study (TOPS) - article
Music by:
Emma Peterson - Hurt Like Hell -YouTube
FYI - Emma is also a nurse. Kirk just wants to point out nurses really do rule the world!
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Imagine being so good at your job that everyone knows you, but not by your face nor by your name. Jorge Cervantes (an alias) put on a disguise in 1983 and started sharing his plant knowledge with all people. In these forty years he has published more than 50 gardening books; many of which focus on growing that Schedule One drug we call cannabis. This is why he lived in the closest. During the DEA’s “War on Drug” years, many of Cervante’s friends were arrested while he kept on teaching. In 2010, George F. Van Patten dropped the pseudonym and disguise to travel the world openly exploring the cannabis plant. In this episode, we learn his back story and Jorge shares his preference with growing cannabis outside; in soil. He has also recently published a free online resource called the Cannabis Encyclopedia.
Jorge Cervantes - jorges-cervantes.com
Music by:
Cypress Hill -Yo Quiero Fumar- YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
We are in an opioid crisis. Wouldn’t it be great if we had another tool to taper people to a lower opioid dose or off their opioids altogether? A group of almost 20 experts got together and drew up consensus guidelines on how to taper opioids with cannabis. We got Aaron Sihota - Pharmacist, Dr. Brennan K. Smith, PhD, and Dr. Colleen O’Connell MD from the consensus guidelines group together virtually to discuss how the guidelines were drawn up and how cannabis can help fight the opioid crisis
Music by:
Desiree Dorion - Sometimes I Drink -YouTube
Watch the Video! You get to see Dauphin and a favorite local watering hole!
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement -Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Ahmed Labied – Morocco - At the opening reception of CannMed 23, there were all these people with green t-shirts that said Morocco. Trevor introduced himself and was told he had to talk to Ahmed Labied. Ahmed explained that in August 2023 there should be the first legal crop of cannabis coming off the field in Morocco and that they’re organizing a cannabis conference in Morocco in November 2023.
Texas A&M - Everything is bigger in Texas. These tall gentlemen from Texas A&M are all about hemp. Russell Jessup is an Associate Professor Texas A&M. Clayton Moore is a Student Researcher at Texas A&M in AgriLife Soil & Crop Sciences. David Baltensperger is a Professor and the Head of Soil & Crop Sciences at Texas A&M. Listen to hear what Texas A&M has been doing with hemp.
Cathie Hiegel - Hear Cathie’s winding road from cytotechnologist to writing the textbook, “A Microscopic View of Medicinal Cannabis”. It really is a very well referenced, easy to read text on Cannabis.
Markus Roggen - Our Germany, American, Canadian chemist. Markus runs Delic labs at UBC in Vancouver, BC. Although it really has nothing to do with the high-powered chemistry his company does every day, Markus is a little obsessed with cannabis names. He found that every year when he gets new students, he has to re-explain cannabis nomenclature. He wondered if he could develop a new classification system for cannabis. Long time cannabis aficionados may hate this, but the rest of us might really like it.
Ahmed Labied - LinkedIn
Clayton Moore -LinkedIn
David Baltensperger - LinkedIn
Russell Jessup - LinkedIn -his talk at CannMed 23 - YouTube
Cathie Hiegel - website
Markus Roggen - LinkedIn - -his talk at CannMed 23 - YouTube
Music by: CROSBY, STILLS & NASH - Marrakesh Express -YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Terry O'Regan has spent his career in the pharmaceutical industry. He has worked for several Big Pharma companies including ones that have developed important treatments for neurological diseases like Multiple Sclerosis.
Terry had heard there was a class of therapeutics for neurological conditions that pharmaceutical companies weren't working on, cannabinoids. Terry kept hearing from neurologists that cannabinoids held great promise for neurological conditions.
Enter Brains Bioceutical. Brains is involved in trials around the world looking at phytochemicals including cannabinoids. Trevor and Terry discuss how cannabis medicine is moving into the pharmaceutical space and how all our "Brains" could be better with the right cannabinoids. Come have a listen.
Brains Bioceutical - brainsbioceutical.com
Terry O'Regan - LinkedIn
Music by:
The Sean Taylor Band - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Bernardo Carreira the owner, and founder of 8000 Kicks believes hemp is the past and future of textile manufacturing. His business goal is to leave a legacy. In this legacy, hemp becomes mainstream and the most ubiquitous fiber available in the textile industry. This small European company creates shoes using the strongest canvas fiber available, with soles made of algal blooms. While continuously monitoring international sustainable manufacturing processes, 8000 Kicks produces shoes that are both waterproof and breathable guaranteeing no toxic substances are used. His business, started with his 77-year-old grandmother, builds running shoes, casual shoes, Chelsea Boots, back packs, belts, socks, and accessaries. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor learn how a small business created a durable Chelsea boot Kirk now wears as his casual winter shoe.
8000 Kicks - 8000kicks.com
Ambassador Program (Deal for you, Support for us) - Here
Music by:
Portugal.The Man - Feel It Still- YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Canadians are changing their perspective of cannabis. People are using it as medicine and access has never been easier. Why is this bad? Why should anyone care how we access our medicinal cannabis? Canada is one of the few countries with federally legal cannabis. However, Canadians are not all benefiting from the creation of the Cannabis Act. There are barriers doing cannabis clinical research. Many prescribers and provincial health systems still refuse to help patients safely access medicinal cannabis despite legalization. This is just not good health care according to Dr. Lynda Balneaves. Her team set out to quantify patients’ hurdles with the Medical Cannabis Access and Experiences in Canada Study. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor explore how medical cannabis is different from recreational cannabis and how the status quo of lumping them together is just not good for patient care…
Lynda Balneaves - LinkedIn
Music by:
Kid by The Revivalists - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion - desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Living without alcohol contamination may be an oxymoronic assertion for a licensed producer, specializing in cannabinoids extraction, to make. Typically, alcohol is a common solvent used to extract cannabinoids from cannabis plants. Trevor and Kirk are introduced to a new business in Dauphin. It partners with local hemp farmers to create a cannabis oil. Master Extractor Richard Spatola shares his origin story while sharing a meal in a restaurant. Afterwards, he takes the listeners into his processing plant to explain how he pulls out individual cannabinoids from hemp and cannabis plants to make alcohol-free oils. He and his team believe their process is the future of medical cannabis oils. This episode goes deep into how time, pressure, and temperature are the key components to producing solventless cannabis oils for those consumers preferring products without residual solvents in their medicine.
Music by:
Cake - I Will Survive - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
“David Crosby, I read your chart man” is how Kirk starts his long-awaited chat with one of pop-culture’s most notorious Cannabis influencers. In 50-years, David Crosby has had a very public relationship with cannabis, addictions, incarceration, and relationships, which he willingly discusses. With thoughtful understanding that these past behaviours are well reported elsewhere, Kirk digs into current events asking his guest to speak to his new relationship with legal and medicinal cannabis. They discuss his involvement with NORML, his “Mighty Croz” branding, focusing mostly on his medical uses of cannabis; they even exchange their wives’ cookie recipe and how cannabis has become a very calculated element of David Crosby’s day-to-day creative life-style.
David Crosby - Wikipedia
Mighty Croz
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
A short intro for the eminent Dr. Ethan Russo is challenging. Ethan Russo is a neurologist who explored the Amazon rain forest in the 90's to explore medicinal plants with aboriginal tribes. He returned to the USA and became interested in medicinal cannabis. He quickly became an expert in the field, and worked as a consultant for GW Pharmaceuticals. Later, as a Senior Medical Advisor for GW, he was involved with the development of Sativex and Epidiolex.
Dr. Russo founded CReDO Science, who create innovative products and services related to cannabis and the endocannabinoid system.
Trevor and Dr. Russo discuss Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS). It is a relatively rare, but very unpleasant condition that causes some heavy users of cannabis to be very nauseous and vomit a lot. Dr. Russo and collaborators have developed a genetic test that may be able to predict who will get CHS and thus who might want to avoid THC containing cannabis altogether.
Then Trevor and Dr. Russo discuss THCV. Come hear about all the potential indications for this lesser known cannabinoid.
Make sure you listen to the very, very end of this episode for a hidden my cannabis story.
Ethan Russo Website - ethanrusso.org
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome Survey and Genomic Investigation - article
CHS DNA test - what-is-chs.com
Music by:
Nelson Little - High Road - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
The fact marijuana heightens the musical experience is no secret. We know both listeners and players have enhanced their musical experiences through the use of this plant for over 100 years. This episode links cannabis to music through the stories told by acclaimed musicologist John Einarson. We follow a path of early jazz players influencing Canadian singer-song-writer Ian Tyson, who in turn influenced Bob Dylan, who in turn influenced The Beatles, to produce their iconic cannabis inspired album Rubber Soul. Einarson, author of 14 biographies of various musicians, tells stories with weed-inspired songs weaving through his deep narrative, as we learn how musicians created some of our most iconic songs under the influence of cannabis. Some very important pot smoking entertainers are discussed, such as Barbara Streisand sharing reefer with Peter Sellers and Neil Young testifying for his brother during a marijuana trial. Although cannabis is a very popular mind-altering substance used by musicians, Einarson believes it may actually pale compared to other psychedelic substances used in the industry. But that is another story for another episode. For now, this is a highly-entertaining episode produced, unlike any other from the ReeferMEDness team.
Music:
Steppenwolf - The Pusher
Links:
John Einarson Remembers Facebook Group
Winnipeg Free Press Bio
Books
Topographic EEG Changes Accompanying Cannabis-Induced Alteration of Music Perception— Cannabis as a Hearing Aid?
The Space between the Notes Research on Cannabis and Music Perception
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Did Jesus die on the cross? Was Moses influenced by cannabis when speaking to the Lord? Are Christian Churches embracing Cannabis? First up we meet the founding member of Christian Cannabis, Craig Gross. Once known as the “Porn Pastor,” Gross has a new message for Christian leaders. We learn how cannabis facilitated his personal journey and how he came to a cross roads. Gross once focused on helping porn-addicted Christians kick their habit. Now he is focused on how Christians can be healed by this ancient plant. Next we explore the origins of cannabis. Researcher Chris Bennett connects cannabis to world religion and how it spread from one culture to another. He speaks to how biblical Prophets, Knights Templars, and the Messiah himself, were connected to cannabis by reframing our trusted biblical stories. Bennett says cannabis has been part of human history from the beginning. The legalization of cannabis demands philosophical discussions and these two guests bring a deep conversion to what may be our most controversial episode yet.
Music:
The Drifting Cossacks
https://www.facebook.com/thedriftingcossacks/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Links:
Craig Gross - Christian Cannabis - www.christiancannabis.com
Instagram - @christian.cannabis
Chris Bennet - Urban Shaman - www.urbanshaman.net
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
In this episode, Kirk and Trevor review “The Cannabis Cancer Connection” by Dr. Joe D. Goldstrich. Dr. Joe is a cardiologist who, in his retirement, became a self-descripted “cannabis oncologist”. He now applies pre-clinical cannabis research and his years of expertise and patient experience to his clinical cannabis practice. In his book, Dr. Joe discusses the “Art” of practicing medicine within an evidence-based system. He discusses the limitations of the available science behind medicinal cannabis, while at the same time challenging the medical system to recognize the plant’s potential. He has had successes and failures using cannabis as a therapeutic in cancer care and offers a balanced view of both. This book offers a good introduction to both cannabis and cancer, and will help individuals and families to better understand how cannabis can help those suffering from the disease. Dr. Joe also takes the reader deeper by applying the available knowledge and connecting it to his clinical practice making this a valuable resource to those practicing in the field of oncology.
Dr. Joe Goldstrich - The Cannabis Cancer Connection Amazon
And although it had nothing to do with our discussion, but it is immensely cool that Dr. Joe was in the hospital when JFK was being treated post-Dealey Plaza. He is even in a documentary about that! - JFK: What the Doctors Saw (Amazon)
Music by:
John Lennon - Imagine - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
With a film credits in Dr. Strangelove, Conan the Barbarian, Coming to America, Field of Dreams and The Hunt for Red October and off-screen credits in many Shakespearean stage roles, two Tony awards, military service, Ranger School and his Ranger Tab, there would be so many conversations to have with James Earl Jones. But over and over, fans just clamored for the catch phrase, “Luke. I am your Father.” Peter Su’s “catch phrase” is writing for Rolling Stone. He loves the gig. But as a banker with over 24 years experience, who can paper a wall with his credentials, he is occasionally annoyed that is all people want to talk to him is the Rolling Stone. So, of course, we ask him about writing for Rolling Stone.
Also listen for why Trevor’s fictitious New York State licensed, legal cannabis dispensary could be laundering money, how your Mandarin speaking parents have a literal language barrier to understanding why you want to start that cannabis business and the Asian Cannabis Roundtable.
Peter Su - LinkedIn
Rolling Stone
Asian Cannabis Roundtable
Music by:
Taiwan MC - Let the Weed Bun - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
A quick overview of this most excellent educational podcast hosted by Health Professionals. Check us out!
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
While traveling the Saskatchewan highways, Kirk sees a sign in the ditch directing him to a unique recreational cannabis shop. He takes a hard left to visit a First Nations Reserve looking for a simple and short Road Story. Instead, he finds Montana, a caring individual who manages his reserve’s recreational cannabis store with a harm reductionist approach. This simple short Road Story became an entire episode. Listen to how one individual can help a community with cannabis.
Music by:
Aerosmith - Dream On - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Kirk brings Trevor another batch of Summer Road Stories. Kirk spent time traveling through Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba learning from Bud Tenders. We hear how CBG, the Cannabinoid of the summer, is “a bubble bath for the brain”. Kirk and guests discuss the strategies Bud Tenders use to help people buy their medical cannabis. While sitting in one small town, a long boarder stopped to talk about the cool van Kirk is travelling in and leaves a cannabis story behind that teases the Manitoba Government. Summers are short in Canada but the stories about cannabis are never ending. Tune in to this episode for some grass roots My Cannabis Stories from Prairie people
The Vault Cannabis
Canna Cabana
Preeceville Cannabis
Music by:
Tom Cochrane - LIfe is a Highway - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
It is safe to say, Mr. Clayton Moore is a growing concern within the hemp industry of Southwestern United States. As an undergraduate within the Texas A&M Agricultural Soil and Crop Science Department, he has his fingers, hands, and mind buried deeply in growing a better understanding of hemp and cannabis. He is: a leader within a student lead initiative called CHIL, an advocate for decriminalization of cannabis convictions, the lead researcher within the university Hemp Conversion Program, plus he writes for the local industry focused newspaper. He is a busy young fellow following the passions of generations within his family of agronomists. The future of Hemp is in good hands with this student of hemp.
Cannabis Hemp Innovation League Website - CHIL
Clayton Moore LinkedIn - LinkedIn
Music by:
Aggie War Hymn -J.V. “Pinky” Wilson Texas A&M Class of 1920 - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
We first met Spencer Payson in Episode 75 - Road Stories. When he opened a new store in our hometown of Dauphin Manitoba, Kirk went to say hello. Talking to an owner of a Recreation Cannabis store provides practical insights to how society is changing it perception on cannabis. Sitting in the staff room of his new store, Spencer shares personal and professional stories about his cannabis experiences. We also learn how he trains his staff to assist those customers looking to buy their medical cannabis from his recreational store.
Payson’s Joint Dauphin- Facebook
Music by:
The Arrogant Worms -Rocks and Trees - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
David Traylor has 2 undergrad degrees in Bio-Chemistry and Molecular Biology. He is a former pro lacrosse player. He got involved in BioTech in the 1990's and dealt with the difficulties of getting molecules like erythropoietin to market at scale. From there he got into investment banking. Obviously, with that background, the next step is to do cannabis deals on 6 of the 7 continents!
Golden Eagle Partners was the first investment banking firm to jump into cannabis, which they did in 2013. In addition to doing international cannabis deals, David's experience has led him to be involved with financial and cannabis related conferences around the world. In fact, David is the reason our co-host Trevor was at CannMed 23 in Florida.
Listen as Trevor and David discuss: What is THC+ and THC-? Where is the cannabis industry going in the next three years? Did Canada blow it on the business side of cannabis when all that money poured in post national legalization in 2018? Why is it so hard to scale a biological product like cannabinoids?
David wraps up with talking about the importance of humility when dealing with cannabis. Whether that is dealing with patients, growing the plant or navigating the cannabis business world, we think a reminder to be humble is a wonderful mantra!
Golden Eagle Partners- website
David Traylor - LinkedIn
Music by:
Hearty Har -Scream and Shout - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Ryan Kocot was the in-house legal counsel and director of compliance for a multinational cannabis company. He now has his own practice in California, Massachusetts and New York. He help operators scale into multiple States, do joint ventures, trademark and other intellectual property license agreements.
Listen as Trevor and Ryan discuss the weird and counter-intuitive land of multi-states operations, trade marks when cannabis products aren't federally legal and how Trevor's pipe dream of being a cannabis gummy mogul is way more complicated than he thought.
Kocot Law- website
Ryan Kocot - LinkedIn
Forbes.com Contributor - Forbes
Music by:
Lawyers In Love by Jackson Browne - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Terry O'Regan has spent his career in the pharmaceutical industry. He has worked for several Big Pharma companies including ones that have developed important treatments for neurological diseases like Multiple Sclerosis.
Terry had heard there was a class of therapeutics for neurological conditions that pharmaceutical companies weren't working on, cannabinoids. Terry kept hearing from neurologists that cannabinoids held great promise for neurological conditions.
Enter Brains Bioceutical. Brains is involved in trials around the world looking at phytochemicals including cannabinoids. Trevor and Terry discuss how cannabis medicine is moving into the pharmaceutical space and how all our "Brains" could be better with the right cannabinoids. Come have a listen.
Brains Bioceutical - website
Terry O'Regan - LinkedIn
CHS DNA test - what-is-chs.com
Music by:
The Sean Taylor Band - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
A short intro for the eminent Dr. Ethan Russo is challenging. Ethan Russo is a neurologist who explored the Amazon rainforest 90's to explore medicinal plants with aboriginal tribes. He returned to the USA and became interested in medicinal cannabis. He quickly became an expert in the field, and worked as a consultant for GW Pharmaceuticals. Later, as a Senior Medical Advisor for GW, he was involved with the development of Sativex and Epidiolex.
Dr. Russo founded CReDO Science, who create innovative products and services related to cannabis and the endocannabinoid system.
Trevor and Dr. Russo discuss Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS). It is a relatively rare, but very unpleasant condition that causes some heavy users of cannabis to be very nauseous and vomit a lot. Dr. Russo and collaborators have developed a genetic test that may be able to predict who will get CHS and thus who might want to avoid THC containing cannabis altogether.
Then Trevor and Dr. Russo discuss THCV. Come hear about all the potential indications for this lesser known cannabinoid.
Make sure you listen to the very, very end of this episode for a hidden my cannabis story.
Ethan Russo Website - ethanrusso.org
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome Survey and Genomic Investigation - article
CHS DNA test - what-is-chs.com
Music by:
Nelson Little - High Road - YouTube
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Facebook
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
We've got another amazing group of attendees from CannMed 23!
Joe Thompson
One evening they said dinner was on Lanai Beach. In Manitoba, if you are at a conference and someone says dinner is on Lanai Beach, then Lanai Beach is the name of a room. But in Florida, they actually meant dinner was on a beach. That sounds like a lovely idea, unless it is over 30 C and there is no shade. Thankfully, I brought a ball cap for my bald head and I met Dr. Joe Thompson also looking for some shade beside a pole.
Dr. Thompson trained as a pediatrician, but now is the President & CEO of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. They have a program where they are going to analyze the data of people who got medical cannabis in Arkansas and see what happened to Health Outcomes. You want to hear about how that study will be done.
Leah Johnson
Dr. Leah Johnson Pharm D is a pharmacist and we met her in the Poster Hallway. Her Poster was about palliative care patients in California. Her group believes that if patients have access to cannabinoid medicine during palliative care, that will promote a better quality of life for the patients. Dr. Leah helps patients with their cannabis therapy and is a Cannabis Speaker and Educator across the US. She is on the Executive of the Pharmacist Cannabis Coalition of California (PCCC).
Akeem Gardner
I met Akeem during the opening reception of CannMed 23. I didn't know anyone at the conference yet, so thankfully, he came up to me, read my name tag and introduced himself. Soon we discovered we were both from Canada, and we laughed over the fact the sliders were taken away too quickly. He told me he was nervous about a main stage talk he was giving. Now I understand why. He was giving a very technical, science heavy talk to a room full of cannabis doctors and researchers. But he killed it during his talk. He even handled challenges from the audience. I got to collect some audio from Akeem right after his talk. He’s from Mississauga. He’s a huge basketball fan. He has a nephew who Uncle Akeem really wants to become the next Lebron James. But for our story, Akeem is a Canadian lawyer turned hemp farmer turned CEO of the BioTech company Canurta Inc.
His talk was about cannaflavins and their potential to treat glioblastoma, a common and aggressive form of brain cancer.
Bruce Mackler
Was involved with Prairie Plant Systems in Flin Flon when all “legal” Canadian Government Cannabis was grown in a mine in 2000. That became Cannimed in Saskatoon. And that got bought out by Aurora. Former lawyer that fought cases against the FDA. Former immunologist. His company, Ethicann, is developing a sublingual tablet for Multiple Sclerosis as a competitor to Stativex.
Joe Thompson -LinkedIn
Leah Johnson - LinkedIn
Akeem Gardener LinkedIn
Akeem's Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZQnIp2ILQ
Bruce Mackler - Ethicann
Music by: The Tragically Hip - So Hard Done By
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion desireedorion.com
Marc Clement - Marc Clement Music on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MarcClementMusic
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Ahmed Labied – Morocco
At the opening reception of CannMed 23, there were all these people with green
t-shirts that said Morocco. Trevor introduced himself and was told he had
to talk to Ahmed Labied. Ahmed explained that in August 2023 there should
be the first legal crop of cannabis coming off the field in Morocco and that
they’re organizing a cannabis conference in Morocco in November 2023.
Texas A&M
Everything is bigger in Texas. These tall gentlemen from Texas A&M are all about
hemp. Russell Jessup is an Associate Professor Texas A&M. Clayton
Moore is a Student Researcher at Texas A&M in AgriLife Soil & Crop
Sciences. David Baltensperger is a Professor and the Head of Soil & Crop
Sciences at Texas A&M. Listen to hear what Texas A&M has been doing
with hemp.
Cathie Hiegel
Hear Cathie’s winding road from cytotechnologist to writing the textbook, “A Microscopic View of Medicinal Cannabis”. It really is a very well referenced, easy to read text on Cannabis.
Markus Roggen
Our Germany, American, Canadian chemist. Markus runs Delic labs at UBC in
Vancouver, BC. Although it really has nothing to do with the high-powered
chemistry his company does every day, Markus is a little obsessed with cannabis
names. He found that every year when he gets new students, he has to
re-explain cannabis nomenclature. He wondered if he could develop a new
classification system for cannabis. Long time cannabis aficionados may
hate this, but the rest of us might really like it.
Ahmed
Labied -
Clayton
Moore -LinkedIn
David
Baltensperger - LinkedIn
Russell
Jessup - LinkedIn
-his
talk at CannMed 23 - YouTube
Cathie
Hiegel - website
Markus
Roggen - LinkedIn
-his
talk at CannMed 23 - YouTube
Music
by:
CROSBY,
STILLS & NASH - Marrakesh Express - https://bit.ly/3CBZnFE
Additional
Music:
Desiree
Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts,
papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Canadians are changing their perspective of cannabis. People are using it as medicine and access has never been easier. Why is this bad? Why should anyone care how we access our medicinal cannabis? Canada is one of the few countries with federally legal cannabis. However, Canadians are not all benefiting from the creation of the Cannabis Act. There are barriers doing cannabis clinical research. Many prescribers and provincial health systems still refuse to help patients safely access medicinal cannabis despite legalization. This is just not good health care according to Dr. Lynda Balneaves. Her team set out to quantify patients’ hurdles with the Medical Cannabis Access and Experiences in Canada Study. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor explore how medical cannabis is different from recreational cannabis and how the status quo of lumping them together is just not good for patient care.
Lynda Balneaves - LinkedIn
Music by:
Kid by The Revivalists - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kEMY3cf5w
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Potheads are too, well, stoned to succeed in tech, right? A medicinal cannabis user couldn’t be a successful serial tech entrepreneur, could they? Well, meet Brian. He is a US Marine Vet who became a successful tech entrepreneur several times over. However, Brian’s military service also left him with PTSD. Brian tried all the standard PTSD treatments and none of them worked for him. Then an ex-military friend of his suggested Brian try cannabis. Now Brian’s PTSD is under control, his tech business is snapping along and the myth that cannabis holds people back is a stigma that needs to be thrown away.
Brian Rayner - LinkedIn
JTB Online
Music by:
A Forest by The Cure - https://youtu.be/QhpmhZxMp9k
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Kieley is in the lead as our most interviewed guest. Kirk still teases Trevor how he blushed back on E34 when Trevor and Kieley talked about cannabis and sexual dysfunction. We talked to her on the Craft Cannabis Panel on E63 and during our trip to Calgary Hemfest in E78. Today we catch up with this cannabis entrepreneur and force of nature. The company she founded, Parkland Flower, is winning awards and she is pursuing new ventures with Hyde Advisory and Investments. Come listen to the evolution of a entrepreneur and where Kieley thinks the cannabis space is headed!
Kieley Beaudry - LinkedIn
Hyde Advisory and Investments
Music by:
Smoke Two Joints by Sublime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0i62GnQoo0
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
There are very few, if any, reliable methods of measuring cannabis impairment. Road-side sobriety tests done by trained Drug Recognition Experts are very subjective and workplaces are limited with how they assess employees with safety sensitive jobs. Back by video evidence, Gaize offers real-time impairment screening within 6 minutes. This portable AV device is considered accurate, providing objective eye behaviours when deciding when an individual is impaired on Cannabis. Considered the first impairment detection platform released to the marketplace, Gaize will search for answers by finding the six ways your eyes give you away.
Music by:
Almadura– Tu Rumba- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTzL-G2kIA8
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
The team gathers in the studio for the first time since pandemic restrictions were lifted. Rene interviews Kirk and Trevor, and gains insights into the creation and growth of this Passion Project. With 100 episodes in the library, the team has lots to review. From suppositories to driving, seizures to criminal records, Parkinson’s to David Crosby, current fans will enjoy reminiscing with the team. If you are new to our podcast looking for new cannabis knowledge, then "It's Okay to be Medicated While Getting Educated" is a great introduction to Reefer Medness – The Podcast. You’ve just found your new binge worthy ear candy.
Music by:
Desiree Dorion – Soul Back Jack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQjzGqZ_Fng
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Dr. Rob Sealey returns to the podcast. Back in S3E7 he talked about Cannabis For Kids. Today we drive down the road to the other end of the age spectrum, Cannabis and Seniors. Dr. Sealey is super knowledgeable, but also pithy comment machine! We’ve got “You don’t go the wine store and ask the clerk if this Merlot is good for my arthritis.” “When it comes to medical trials, how closely are we related to mice? Well of us are close to mice and others might be more closely related to rats.” “Cannabis might be best for the great substitution effect to clean up the medicine cabinet” “I should get paid anytime I say endocannabinoid system”. We can’t entice you any better that these quotes can. Go Listen!.
Dr. Rob Sealey – Medical Cannabis Lecture on Vimeo – Video
Music by:
Bahamas – Lost in the Light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJNt1eTVNY
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts,
papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Kirk and Owen continued discussion moves into a more personal realm as they share their views of the current state of Medical Cannabis industry. Kirk sees a disconnect with federal verses provincial government system management whereas Owen wants more services for individuals needing cannabis as medicine. As he continues his advocacy of medical cannabis, Owen also speaks to current projects to help society be a better place to live. Tune into the second part of a conversion with Canada’s Godfather of Cannabis Two point Oh!
Owen Smith LinkedIn
UTNDR - https://utndr.com/
Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club-Instagram - @vcbcig
Music by:
Peter Tosh – Glass House - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3j_KXufPE
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts,
papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
In this episode, Kirk learns how the law was on the side of righteousness when Owen Smith found himself in front of the Supreme Court of Canada defending a desire to help the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, a longstanding compassion club. In the first part of a longer discussion, listeners gain insights to his six-year legal journey which ends with him becoming a medical cannabis industry advocate and influencer. His cannabis story started with family, but it was a faulty exhaust fan and loud music which moved the Victoria Police Department to deliver, “rock star treatment” during his arrest for creating cannabis edibles. He explains how a legal technicality brought him to the Supreme Court, while the Canadian court system actually supported his efforts creating cookies for medical cannabis patients.
Owen Smith LinkedIn
UTNDR - https://utndr.com/
R. v. Smith, 2015 SCC 34, [2015] 2 S.C.R. 602 https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/15403/index.do?q=Cannabis
Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club-Instagram - @vcbcig
Music by:
Peter Tosh - Reggaemylitis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAsAaNmHGSU
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts,
papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Why not pick up your medicine on the way home from work? Buying your cannabis from a recreational store is certainly more convenient, especially when there is a store in pretty much every neighbourhood. In this episode, we learn the advantages of following the Health Canada Medical Cannabis pathway. Justyna Johnson is a Medical Cannabis Educator employed by The Clinic Network. The enthusiasm for her job comes from spending her workday helping people navigate the medical cannabis system. Unlike the recreational store budtenders, Justyna’s job is to address your medical questions and guide her patients through the paperwork, discussing the programs offered by License Producers. This is where there is a difference between medical and recreational cannabis systems. Justyna shares her knowledge and understanding, demonstrating how those who use cannabis as medicine will benefit by not using the recreational system to buy their medicine.
The Clinic Network – theclinicnetwork.ca
Music by:
Ben Stofel – Winter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3aZ-MyUgmU
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts,
papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Tarris Baptiste was athletically gifted. Tarris was driven. Tarris was on the brink of breaking into the National Football League. And then, it didn’t happen. Ten thousand hours plus spent on becoming an elite football player didn’t matter anymore. Now what? Tarris had a shadow pursuit that paralleled his football career. Sometimes it helped him succeed. Sometimes it got in the way. But now, he shifted his considerable focus to learn more about cannabis. He needed to know the light and the dark of this plant. Tarris sought out experts. He merged their insights with his own lived experience. That was the genesis of his book, Don’t Let it Smoke You. Listen to Tarris talk about how cannabis got in his way, how he overcame his misuse of cannabis, but how he didn’t abandon the plant. Tarris found a way to balance his cannabis use with living a productive life. And now he wants to share that with you.
Tarris Baptiste – LinkedIn
Clever Chief - https://cleverchief.org/
Don’t Let It Smoke You - Amazon
Music by:
Dave Brubeck – Take Five - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts,
papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
I bet you are on drugs right now! Don’t believe me? How long has it been since your last caffeinated beverage? Over 90% of us use caffeine daily. Most of us use alcohol at least weekly. Many of us use prescription medications to treat everything from ADHD to high blood pressure. Now thanks to cannabis legalization, more and more of us also use cannabis. If we use cannabis, it is likely that we are going to have cannabis and other drugs in our system at the same time. Are those combinations bad? Good? Unknown? Listen to Dr. Codi Peterson, pediatric pharmacist and cannabis science expert, walk us through what you need to know.
The Cannigma - cannigma.com
How does cannabis interact with other drugs – Emma Stone – Leafly
Codi Peterson - LinkedIn
Music by:
Rebelution - Lay My Claim - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j__u4YOg7BM
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts,
papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Pre-legalization, policing of was disproportionally excessive and punitive to BIPOC and poor folk of Canada. While Cannabis is now legal, thousands are still saddled with cannabis convictions preventing them from employment opportunities, international travel, and or joining volunteer groups. Although federal legislation “Bill-93 - No-fee, Expedited Pardons for Simple Possession of Cannabis” has received royal assent, the complicated process of applying to have a criminal record removed remains prohibitive. In this episode, Aisha Abawajy explains how her organization, Cannabis Amnesty, is fighting for this community. When many people with a cannabis record hope to obtain a Pardon, Ms. Abawajy explains why Expungement should be the ultimate goal. During discussions with Trevor, Kirk reflects on how “white privilege” may have influenced his own past recreational cannabis use.
Cannabis Amnesty: cannabisamnesty.ca
Music by:
Teyana Taylor – We Got
Love featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP3PZrr-iOg
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
On July 23, 1983 at an altitude of 41,000 feet, Air Canada Flight 143 travelling between Montreal and Edmonton ran out of fuel because of confusion between metric and imperial measurements. However, the crew of the Boeing 767 successfully landed the passenger jet in Manitoba’s Interlake in what is now known as the Gimli Glider. That intrepid flight crew applied their years of training and experience to an unprecedented situation to become heroes. Much like when a PhD with international training in biochemistry, genetics and pharmaceutical manufacturing successfully glides into the cannabis space. Meet Dr. Brent Guppy and BioScision Pharma. This wide-ranging conversation covers sexing plants, topicals with microbial contamination, testing cannabis for heavy metals and our new favorite word to try to say five times fast “nanoemulsions”. Did we mention BioScision’s retail line, Hwy 59 Cannabis, has a vape cart named after the famous unpowered Boeing 767 that landed in a certain Icelandic town?
BioScision Pharma: bioscisionpharma.com
BioScison Labs: bioscisionlabs.com
Gimli Glider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Mayday Episode: A Powerless Boeing Falls From The Sky! - Gimli Glider:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y8JBAr8dZ4
Music by:
Lorn – Acid Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg4C365LbQ
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this
song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
What is the evidence? Where are the studies? There is no proof that cannabis can treat anything! Well…What if I told you there are lots of studies showing that cannabis has medical benefits? What if there was a study going on right now in Sarnia looking at Cannabis and Dementia in Long Term Care (LTC) homes? Dr. Blake Pearson and his partners in Lambton County are the epitome of “Think Global, Act Local”. They are tackling the pervasive problem of dementia in all LTC homes by seeing if cannabis can improve it in their local LTC system. Their study also measures if cannabis use in Dementia patients can help reduce Care Giver Burnout. This exciting research on the shores of Lake Huron is adding to the growing mountain of cannabis as medicine. We also take a left turn into “Green Washing”, but it is not what you think. Come have a listen.
Pearson Health: pearsonhealth.org
Music by:
Don’t Stop Believin’ –
Journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this
song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
We had a plan.
Back in March 2020, Kirk and Trevor were going to host an event that served cannabis infused food in a restaurant in Dauphin. Then, the world shut down with the pandemic. As we're coming out of the pandemic, we thought we'd revive the plan, but the Manitoba Government gave us a hard no. Now we're talking to Nathan Mison, from Diplomat Consulting, for a brief history of cannabis legalization in Canada, what regulations are different in which provinces and maybe a way to resurrect our dream to throw a cannabis consumption event, properly.
Diplomat Consulting: https://www.diplomatconsulting.com/
Music by:
Life Is A Happy Song –
Jason Segel and the Muppets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2GrJ7xfA0
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this
song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Brent Alarie is informed he has COPD, then it was multiple sclerosis. No wait, he receives another diagnosis of blood cancer. These were just a few of the catastrophic verdicts given to describe how his body was betraying him. He needed to create change and prepare for his enviable death. With a new bucket list he started living his best life under the circumstances. A six-year painful journey, of the most insane symptoms and being bounced from one diagnosis to another, finally comes to an end. Brent is told he has chronic Lyme disease. A new journey begins with learning to live with the on-going symptoms of Lyme and regular pharmaceuticals do not help with the chronic nerve-pain. He was never a drug-guy, but after a friend gave him Cannabis, he finds therapeutic relief. Brent shares how he now balances his life with nutrition and Cannabis. Kirk and Trevor bring their second story on how Cannabis brings relief to people suffering from this Monster sickness in which we call Lyme Disease.
Human Cannabinoid Pharmacokinetics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689518/pdf/nihms-118643.pdf
The Monster Inside Me - Lyme Disease Documentary - https://www.themonsterinsideme.com/
Music by:
Wreckin So -https://www.wreckinso.com/
Still Smokin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VRz0jbjy8s
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this
song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Kirk and Trevor bring you a Road Story that they didn’t need to leave home to find. A Mobile Cannabis Shop parked at Dauphin’s Countryfest, Canada’s longest running country music festival. Delta 9, Manitoba’s own Licensed Producer, made history as this was the first Mobile Cannabis store in Canada! The Delta 9 Mobile Cannabis Store was licensed by the Liquor Gaming and Cannabis Authority of Manitoba to sell cannabis at the 2022 Dauphin’s Countryfest site and again the 2022 Rockin’ the Fields of Minnedosa site later in the summer. Marshall Posner, Chief Marketing Officer for Delta 9, explained the nuances of selling cannabis at an outdoor summer music festival and how this was a history making event. Did Cannabis bring a new “chill” to Canada’s hottest country music festival? Have a listen and discover Cannabis is on the Go in Manitoba.
Music by:
Johnny Reid – Let’s Go
Higher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w81oH7H7WQM
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this
song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Dr. Jen Anderson wasn’t very interested in cannabis. As a newly minted family physician, it just wasn’t on her radar. She wasn’t against it. But cannabis just wasn’t going to be a tool in her tool box, professionally. She became a mom, and one of her children started having seizures. Lots of seizures. After exhausting all the regular anti-seizure medications, she tried cannabis on her child. It helped. The cannabis helped a lot. But some of her colleagues in neurology were not happy she was giving her child cannabis. Without the cannabis, Dr. Anderson believed her son could die. Then the neurologist said words no parent wants to hear, “Well, yes he could…” You’ll just have to listen to hear how the twists and turns play out.
Dr. Jennifer Anderson,
MD – My Health My Way - https://cannabisdoc.ca/
Anything Can Happen
Trailer
https://cannabisdoc.ca/anything-can-happen-documentary/
Music by:
Dr. Feelgood – Milk and
Alcohol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4IjrjMbmC4
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this
song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club (VCBC) is no stranger to defending the services that a compassion club can deliver. For decades, the VCBC has supported individuals with chronic and or life-threatening diseases by providing aid not available from government health systems. Kirk once again visits this west coast healing community. He examines how this celebrated organization is now fighting a $6.4 million fine levied against them as an unlicensed dispensary. Founder Ted Smith, a tenacious defender of human rights, explains this current challenge, the club’s relationships with growers, and the help his staff provides the medical cannabis community.
Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club Website is currently down - Article
VCBC Twitter - @VCBCtweets
Music by:
Bob Marley – Satisfy My Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8GCc8OhTz8
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this
song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
You've said the word concussion. You might even have had one. But do you really understand them? Did you know a concussion is a minor traumatic brain injury? Dr. Patrick Neary and his team got a grant from the NFL to study if cannabis can help prevent or treat concussions! Dr. Neary explains, you don't have to actually bang your head to get a concussion. We've often said you don't have to like cannabis to enjoy this podcast. But, if you listen to this episode while rhythmically shaking your mullet forwards and back, we think you'll elevate your knowledge about both.
Patrick Neary - uregina.ca/kinesiology/faculty-staff/faculty/neary-patrick.html
The Team of NFL Funded Research Collaborators - Link to Team
Barry Davidson (#FindTheBarry)- @Bdavidson911
Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT5) - https://cattonline.com/scat/
Music by:
Rod Stewart - Maggie May -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOl7dh7a-6g
(Yes we got a SOCAN
membership to use this song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
desireedorion.com
Marc Clement
marcclementmusic.com
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Our co-host, Trevor has an unhealthy obsession with suppositories. You know that guy you never ask, "Hey, what is an NFT?" lest he talk your ear off? Well never ask Trevor, "Hey, what is a Rectal Rocket?" With that background, imagine our delight when we stumbled across Sarah Roberts and her company Cicatrix Labs. They make vaginal and rectal suppositories with cannabinoids in them! People have used these products to treat endometriosis, inflammatory bowel disease, hemorrhoids, pain during sex, and more. Even if you think suppositories are icky, after this conversation, you will find them obsession worthy too. Our My Cannabis Story is Dave Dormer of Cannanaskis, a cannabis tourism company.
Cicatrix Labs - cicatrixlabs.ca
Sarah Roberts - LinkedIn
Cannanaskis - https://www.cannanaskis.com/
Music by:
Light - Up We Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFl7DhdGGzo
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and
proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
Transcripts, papers and so much more at: reefermed.ca
Most certainly, we have learned Cannabis has benefits but it is not benign. With all medications it is important to understand the risk and benefits. In this episode Trevor and Kirk discuss the cardiovascular effects of chronic cannabis inhalation with an accomplished student of medicine, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam. Although, he admits limited studies are available, his literature review suggests those who start smoking cannabis at a young age, making it a daily indulgence, are at risk of developing cardiovascular disease. He makes it easy by comparing cannabis to donuts; reminding us we must consume in moderation.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam - LinkedIn
Cannanaskis - https://www.cannanaskis.com/
Music by:
One Republic - Shooting Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this
song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
Transcripts, papers and so much more at:
reefemed.ca
In this episode, Kirk and Trevor bring forward the importance of Cannabis advocacy. With the legalization of recreational cannabis, some may see the need for Cannabis Advocacy as being dispensable. Stephen Stairs, a medical cannabis consumer is a leader within the Winnipeg green culture. He explains how the many interpretations of regulations, from all level of governments, requires his continuous attention. Self described as Manitoba’s Loud Advocate, Stairs shares his back story, passion for the cannabis industry, and confronts the controversy he faced as the leader of Winnipeg 420 movement. The My Cannabis Story for this episode is from Neil Linton at the Calgary Cannabis Club adding further insights to the need for Cannabis advocacy.
Steven Stairs -
@steven.stairs - Instagram
@steven.stairs - Facebook
Calgary Cannabis Club - calgarycannabisclub.org
Music by:
Damian Marley - Medication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b17TJolR3U
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this
song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
At the beginning of the Pandemic, we met Eric Greening. He wanted to start a craft cannabis operation just outside our hometown of Dauphin. We check in with Eric and see how pandemic construction has been going, and as a preview for our eventual facility tour! Trevor and Kirk also discuss what Trevor is and is not allowed to tell patients about cannabis as a pharmacist. Our My Cannabis story is HiND. They make special jars for your cannabis and other fashion items.
Greencraft Cannabis - https://greencraftcannabis.ca/
HiND - https://hindlifestyle.com/
Music by:
Emma Peterson - Hurt Like Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1eyLX7Mjys
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this
song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
When you take a prescription medication, it goes into your body, does what it is supposed to and then leaves. Part of leaving the body often involves the medication getting broken down or metabolized by enzymes in the liver. One of the biggest medication metabolizing enzyme systems in the liver is called the Cytochrome P450 enzymes. Why should you care? Because cannabis can effect the Cytochrome P450 enzymes. That could cause there to be too much or too little of a prescription medication in your body to do its job properly. Dr. Lyndsey Anderson and her colleagues at the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics in Sydney, Australia have looked at how cannabis and the Cytochrome P450 enzymes interact. Let's have a listen!
Music by:
Emre Cords-Before We Decided to Fall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orekXjikSG8
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this
song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
Traveling the Yellowhead Highway eastward, Kirk leaves Alberta behind. Visiting local Cannabis Stores, he collects and shares more Road Stories from the Bud Tenders he meets along his way back home to Manitoba
Music by:
Paul Brandt -Alberta Bound- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx4EkjJw5xk
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this
song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
Do you have a favourite craft cannabis flower? Are you getting what you think you ordered? Think again. While attending the Calgary Hempfest, Kirk and Trevor gathered five Micro Cultivation License holders (plus a surprise cameo contributor!) to discuss the recreational cannabis retail space. The conversation revealed a complicated system of regulations, policies, and red tape which affect their ability to build brand loyalty. Although these passionate growers produce excellent weed, it is surprisingly difficult for their high quality, small batch, hand trimmed product to reach you, the consumer. Packaging, sale by lottery, and ambiguously named SKU's are some of the many convoluted rules of the game. Kirk and Trevor ponder whether the current recreational cannabis system actually prevents us from properly understanding the cannabis product we are purchasing, and how small cannabis producers might eventually break even.
Mark Corrigan, President of Distinkt Cannabis - distinktcannabis.com - @DistinktC on Twitter
Tim Mallett CEO of Alberta Bud - www.albertabud.com - @alberta.bud.official on Instagram
Rob Wilcox President of Indigro Organics - www.indigro.ca
Devon Davidson President of Canalief - www.canalief.ca
Kieley Beaudry CEO Parkland Flower - parklandflower.com - @parkland_flower on Instagram - @Kieley_ on Twitter
Cameo by - Jacqui Childs - @JacquiChilds on Twitter and @Childs.jacqui on Instagram
Music by:
Bon Iver - Calgary- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KrmxavLIRM
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
Imagine an affordable home that will not burn or grow mould, while it also cleans the air within. Christiana Goodvin, a self-described “Envelop and Building Science Engineer”, gathers locally sourced materials to build fire resistant homes that interact with the environments we live in. She uses hempcrete. Her hydrothermal designs will manage the indoor humidity, inhibit the transmission of bacteria, viruses, and fungi all at comparable prices to the construction costs of a conventional home. Kirk and Trevor marvel at how one small business uses cannabis to make our world a better place.
Music by:
Aaron Goodvin - Lonely Drum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFL762qpB_w
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
Ross Rebagliati, Michael Phelps, and Sha'Carri Richardson. Different athletes, different sports, and different eras. Tremendous athletic ability and years of arduous training aren't all they have in common. Their sporting careers have all been touched by cannabis. Dr. Mark Ware and his colleagues examined cannabis and elite athletes. What they found was captivating and thought provoking. Join Kirk and Trevor in the discussion.
Music by:
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Coming in From the Cold - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR5lR7BqPIg
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
Sharing stories is how we learn and connect. Kirk travels westward from Dauphin along North American’s most northern provincially connected highway system. Listen to the quirky, cool Bud Tenders stories he brought back from the road.
Has Covid-19 affected your day-to-day? “Ah, yes!” We have all been touched; this virus has influenced behaviours within all of our communities and our condolences are extended to those who have lost love ones. This episode tells a story of an individual who recovered from Covid-19, only to suffer from debilitating symptoms long after the acute nature of the illness had passed. These are people referred to as “Long-Haulers.” Brittany (Peg City Hippie) explains how cannabis assists her with the long-term effects from the SARS-COV-2 virus. This is another extended My Cannabis Story from an individual willing to share with Kirk and Trevor.
Music by:
JD Edwards Band - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlqQPeeEbK0
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music:
Desiree Dorion
www.desireedorion.com/
Marc Clement
http://marcclementmusic.com/
We are in an opioid crisis. Wouldn't it be great if we had another tool to taper people to a lower opioid dose or off their opioids altogether? A group of almost 20 experts got together and drew up consensus guidelines on how to taper opioids with cannabis. We got Aaron Sihota - Pharmacist, Dr. Brennan K. Smith, PhD, and Dr. Colleen O'Connell MD from the consensus guidelines group together virtually to discuss how the guidelines were drawn up and how cannabis can help fight the opioid crisis
Music by:Desiree Dorion - Sometimes I Drink - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu2ZXwfZK9gWatch the Video! You get to see Dauphin and a favorite local watering hole!(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Dr. Suzy Pinnick, a family physician specializing in palliative medicine and remote northern medicine, shares her cannabis story with Kirk. In this episode, the two health professionals sit in a casual masked conversation within the warmth of the NIC’s office of a northern nursing station during a deep Covid19 Canadian winter evening. She is quick to say she has very little knowledge of cannabis, yet believes it is important to learn. When she was asked by parents to prescribe cannabis for one of her pediatric palliative care patients, Dr. Pinnick quickly recognized how little she knew. Kirk brings the story to Trevor, how this experienced doctor is willing to learn as she practices; how she learns the art of medicine while applying the formal duties of a doctor.
Music by:Dinah Washington - What a Difference a Day Makes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBxVfQTuvI(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Therapeutic cannabis use is to cancer, as salt and pepper is to the dinner table; ubiquitous yet individualized. In the past 20 years, oncologist Paul Daeninck, MD, MSc, MSc., FRCPC has not only seen cannabis slowly infiltrate personalized cancer care treatment plans, but also how it eventually changed a country’s relationship with an illegal drug. Although we trust the chef to properly season our food, we know why people should not use salt and some people simply will not like pepper. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor sit at the table, feeding on the knowledge of Winnipeg’s Top Pot Doc learning how cannabis seasons his practise. Kirk and Trevor quickly come to understand how this unassuming man is so admired for his leadership, compassion, and research within Cancer Care Manitoba network, which is the provincially mandated cancer agency providing clinical services to both children and adults.
Music by:
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zROGY_nH5BU
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
One of a series of episodes focusing on cannabis use in opioid harm reduction, Kirk brings a story of one man’s experience. The episode follows a discussion Kirk has with Mr. Mark Heinrich who is “a craft cannabis farmer in Manitoba, Canada and pretty much a lifelong junkie and addict.” The episode follows Heinrich’s years of problematic substance use, leads us into his experiences with Methadone and how he self-medicates with cannabis. This episode is a very personal journey presented as information on how one man uses his medicine in harm reduction. Kirk and Trevor then discuss their personal views of Mark’s story; each approaching it through their individual professional lens. Do you want to hear an unvarnished account of substance use disorder and get a glimpse of why it is so hard to "just say no"? You gotta listen!
Philippe Lucas from Tilray comes on the discuss the TOPS study. It looked at around 2000 medical cannabis patients across Canada prospectively and gather tons of data. Some of the most interesting findings include medicating with cannabis seems to reduce opioid use and the use of prescription medications in general. Plus, there was no signal that the study participants wanted more and more cannabis which implies limited drug seeking and addition behaviors from medical cannabis. Numbers, data, cannabis, a great chat with Philippe, are you as excited as Trevor about this one? Have a listen.
Every home grower is proud of their harvest, yet many can only guess at the THC strength and Terpene profiles of their crop. In this episode, Trevor and Kirk explore how to unlock the mysteries of homegrown cannabis by having it analysed by Key Box, a business offering discreet opportunities to know our cannabis better. Certainly, medicinal and recreational growers will like knowing the strength of their THC and CBD concentrations but at the same time, they will become better farmers by understanding the strength of other cannabinoids such as CBG and CBN. In another panel discussion, Trevor and Kirk consider how a mail order business provides home growers a better understanding of their beloved plants. (Go to www.reefermed.ca to learn about discount pricing)
By legalizing recreational use of cannabis in 2018, Canada became the world’s largest cannabis friendly country. The Cannabis Act allows provinces to individualized their approach to legalizing the various components of this federal legislation. The Manitoba government rejected the component allowing citizens to grow four plants at home making our province the only non-homegrown jurisdiction. Jesse Lavoie is challenging the Manitoba government’s position suggesting their decisions were made using an outdated understanding of the plant’s threat to homes, children, and those who want to grow. Trevor and Kirk compare the Manitoba government’s current move to make alcohol more available to citizens while at the same time fighting Jesse’s petition to allow homegrown cannabis cultivation. In their discussions, Trevor and Kirk point out the contradictions in Premier Pallister’s approach to Harm Reduction.
Remember when we could sit next to people on a plane? Imagine sitting next to a guy who said he was a Havard trained doc, who has pictures of himself learning to read on Carl Sagan's lap, who wrote a book on overcoming his own opioid addiction and who happens to think cannabis is a great medicine for treating many conditions. Wouldn't that be the best plane conversation ever? Well, buckle in, put up your tray table and return your seat to the upright and locked position. We are about the take off with Dr. Peter Grinspoon.
Music by: Nicole Yunker - https://www.nicoleyunkermusic.ca/ https://nicoleyunker.hearnow.com/?fbclid=IwAR2kLwSO7JloI-sn06ugKckinYe4jzIbGBZ_foGGcixd0m_bVyjkBRx6BDw
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Dr. Peter Grinspoon - https://www.petergrinspoon.com/ on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Peter_Grinspoon
Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction - https://www.amazon.com/Free-Refills-Doctor-Confronts-Addiction/dp/0316382701/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588307975&sr=8-1
Friend of the show Sue Letwin uses cannabis to treat her Lyme Disease. She cooks with cannabis. She teaches people to cook with cannabis. She is really getting into cannabis education, in general. But she had never grown her own. She was really curious about the plant and wanted to know everything about it. So she tried. And along the way she found help, encouragement and mentors. One of those mentors is Chase. Have you ever thought about growing your own? Come listen to Sue's journey and Chase's advice and we can all learn together.
Music by: Sound of da Police - KRS-One - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrAYxWPN6c
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Indicapable (Sue's website) - https://www.indicapable.ca/ Sue on Twitter - @indicapable - https://twitter.com/indicapable
Chase on Twitter - @TempleGrower - https://twitter.com/TempleGrower High On Homegrown (Podcast Chase is on) - https://highonhomegrown.podbean.com/
Percy's Grow Room (place for growers to learn that Chase is a part of) - https://percysgrowroom.com/
Vaporize Cannabis. Get behind the wheel of a car. Pull out onto the highway. This is not the beginning of an accident report. This is a study Dr. Tom Arkell and team ran on an actual highway in the Netherlands. Dr. Arkell is from Australia, his research is partially supported by the Lambert Iniative and the driving was done near Maastricht University. The study looked at CBD vs THC vs a combo of THC/CBD vs placebo. You definitely want to listen to this multinational study if just to hear what "placebo cannabis" is. Driving and cannabis and Kirk and Trevor! What more do you need?
Music by: Kraftwerk Autobahn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukUMRlaBBE
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Effect of Cannabidiol and Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol on Driving PerformanceA Randomized Clinical Trial - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2773562
Cannabis and Driving Webinar - https://youtu.be/GlDikWOshbc Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics - https://www.sydney.edu.au/lambert/
Is it the future? Kirk and Trevor delve into the craft cannabis market, again. In this episode, they gather a unique panel of Cannabis enthusiasts, willing to share their views on growing small batches of their best. A British Columbia computer geek turned owner, an Alberta legacy grower gone legit, and a Manitoba seed archivist waiting on a license for his genetics, each speak to what makes their cannabis strains and techniques important to creating a craft cannabis market place. The panel agrees the best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener and any licenced producer can grow good weed. But, what is their collective agreement, what is the definitive determination of craft cannabis? It may depend on how they treat their flowers at harvest, or possibly the hang-to-dry or lay-to-dry technique. How long do they leave their flower to cure? What if the flower is traveling in plastic to market? Defining craft cannabis may actually mean buying straight from the farmer but, this is not possible yet. Have a listen to how these growers define craft while creating niche markets for their small businesses.
Music by:
Sublime - Smoke Two Joints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0i62GnQoo0
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Kieley Beudry - Parkland Flower https://www.parklandflower.com/ https://twitter.com/Kieley_
Earl Oliver - Gnomestar Craft Cannabis https://twitter.com/eaoliver https://twitter.com/gnomestarcraft https://vodis.ca/
Paul Martin - CannaCraft Producers https://cannacraftproducers.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/cannacraftproducersinc/?hl=en
One of the reason Reefer MEDness started was becasuse Trevor couldn't understand why medicinal cannabis wasn't in pharmacies. Well, all the barriers aren't down yet but meet Rahim Dhalla. We've talked to Rahim before, but this time we dive into the workings of his pharmacy, Hybrid Pharm. Hybrid Pharm is a regular pharmacy where you can pick up your diabetes meds, get your flu shot and lately they are even doing COVID-19 testing. But Hybrid Pharm is special for many reasons. Not the least of which is, if all the paperwork is in place, you can walk into Hybrid Pharm and pick up your medicinal cannabis. Welcome to the future, as Kirk and Trevor talk with Rahim about how this all works.
Music by:
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ywicffOj4
Skateboarding with Nathan Apodaca - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKTY0nK6I4A (Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Hybrid Pharm https://hybridpharm.com/
In this episode we explore a series of unfortunate events started when a Registered Nurse decided to illegally grow cannabis as medicine. Society may consider nurses one of our most trustworthy groups however, employers and professional colleges have policies and procedures suggesting otherwise because the profession is plagued with addiction issues. This episode explores what happens when a nurse self-medicates using cannabis and is seen as having an addiction issue. There is a mismatch in understanding needs and medicine. Kirk and Trevor wonder if this is one of those stories where Cannabis is misunderstood and due to this lack of understanding, we are left with one less nurse. Music by:
The Doors - Peace Frog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22GEvDupWGo
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
This is our Christmas Day episode. Although it has nothing to do with trees, reindeer, Kris Kringle, elves or baby Jesus, it is as much fun to open as a present on Christmas morning! The guys from the High On Home Grown podcast were a delight to talk you. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.
Music by: Bob Marley - Three Little Birds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LanCLS_hIo4
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: High on Home Grown - Dec 6/20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=231qK_JR8SE&feature=youtu.be
Although universal health care is considered a Canadian right, ensuring your unique needs are fully met can be a challenge. Kirk and Trevor meet Susan Hagar, from Nurse on Board, your healthcare navigation partner. Working for you and your family, a Nurse “will take the stress out of dealing with medical challenges and will design a plan tailored to your specific needs.” Acting as your personal health care manager, they work collaboratively with the health professionals involved with your care. Are you interested in Cannabis and your doctor is not? Nurse on Board offers Cannabis Competent Nurses, who will accompany you to your doctor appointments and guide you and your doctor, with better understanding how Cannabis can be used in your care plan. In this episode, we learn how self-employed nurses help our current health care system meet needs of individuals. We also learn how health professionals can learn to be Cannabis competent through online education. Music by:
Daniel Nahmod - Get Ready My Soul - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc7Zxu-tkHI (Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Nurse On Board - https://www.nurseonboard.ca/ Cannabis Competent Nurse Course - http://cannabiscompetentnurse.com/
Many family docs spend part of their time looking after patients in long term care homes. Two of the most common conditions in long term care are chronic pain and dementia. We don't have great options in the standard pharmaceutical tool box to treat either of these conditions. What if I told you a family doc in Sarnia, Ontario is having so much success treating both chronic pain and dementia symptoms in long term care that his colleagues are referring patients to him? Dr. Blake Pearson is treating chronic pain, dementia symptoms, autism symptoms and others with cannabis. His expertise is in such demand that he teaches other doctors how to use cannabis successfully in their practice. Come have a listen.
The Grateful Dead - So Many Roads - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PMoM402_7s Music by:
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Greenly Health - https://www.greenlyhealth.com/
Dr. Mohan Cooray is a specialist in internal medicine, gastroenterology, hepatology, and advanced endoscopy. After graduating from the University of Toronto’s Life Sciences program with the highest distinction, he was accepted into the prestigious Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University and was recognized for his achievements with the Outstanding Gastroenterology Resident Award in 2015. Dr. Cooray was quickly recruited for a highly coveted position at the Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto, where he worked with patients undergoing treatment for digestive diseases. Internists are doctor's doctors; they are all about the evidence. And Dr. Cooray did not start out believing cannabis was a reasonable treatment for his patients. What changed his mind so much he helped found a company, Cannalogue, that aims to get cannabis and cannabis education out to medical patients? You gotta listen!
Music by: Leo Moracchioli Covers Hello by Adele - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQUJMBH8uE
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Cannalogue - https://cannalogue.ca/
Is cannabis something to fear when it comes to prenatal health? The easy answer is yes, when we consider the universally acceptable care plan of all pregnancies are best lived following a healthy diet, doing appropriate exercise, and consuming no unnecessary drugs or medications. With cannabis becoming more widely used as a medicine and consumed recreationally by a growing population, it is important to fully understand how cannabis affects human development and family health. In their second episode discussing Prenatal Cannabis Exposure, Kirk and Trevor explore the implications of cannabis use in pregnancies with Virginia Commonwealth University’s Dr. Mishka Terplan of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry. It may surprise you to discover how care giver behaviours and social policy may actually be more harmful to a family’s health and wellbeing than the mother using cannabis during pregnancy. What does current research actually say about the threat of prenatal cannabis exposure to the unborn child? How can understanding the bigger picture of women and family health help change our current policies on prenatal health?
Music by:
Baris Manco - Kol Basti - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xhu3G8YXvg
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Dr. Miska Terplan - https://twitter.com/do_less_harm https://friendsresearch.org/people/mishka-terplan-m-d-m-p-h-facog-dfasam/
How do we define “Craft Cannabis” in Canada? Greencraft Cannabis, a local Manitoba grow operation, is out to answer this question. Eric Greening discusses the process of obtaining his Health Canada micro cultivation licence and how his new company will grow smaller batches putting the plant first. Not only has Health Canada created opportunity for smaller craft growers to finally legally enter the cannabis space, these new licences have also fashioned economic development opportunities for rural communities. Kirk and Trevor question whether the path craft cannabis businesses follow will be similar to the craft beer industry? They ponder how large growers will compete with this new craft market place. This episode marks the start of a planned series exploring the question above.
David Crosby - Glory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnY5WwjCGks https://davidcrosby.com/ Music by:
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Greencraft Cannabis - https://greencraftcannabis.ltd/
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call? If you’re living in a rural community, are over 65 and wonder if cannabis might be a good option for your arthritic knee, but your doctor says she doesn't know anything about it, instead of Ghostbusters, why not call HelloMD? Better yet, listen to Trevor and Kirk talk to Larry Lisser of HelloMD about medical cannabis in general and HelloMD's Senior Care Program in particular. So who you gonna call?
The Jimmy Zee Band - https://www.zeeblues.com/ Music by:
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
HelloMD - https://www.hellomd.ca/
Senior Care at HelloMD - https://seniorcare.hellomd.com/
What were you doing during the start of the pandemic lock down? Did you build a puzzle for the first time in year? Did you get reacquainted with how stupid and long and frustrating monopoly is? How about sour dough bread? Did you make your first sour dough? Dr. Igor Kovalchuk and his wife, Dr. Olga Kovalchuk from the University of Lethbridge were locked out of their labs too. Their lock down side project was a little more ambitious. They had been researching hundreds of cannabis extracts to see if these extracts reduced inflammation and might help treat conditions like multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. During this forced pause in their research, they wondered in CBD rich cannabis extracts might be useful against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. You want to hear what they found out. Music by: Nelson Rudiak - http://nelsonrudiak.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Dr. Kovalchuk's preprint article we discussed - In Search of Preventative Strategies: Novel Anti-Inflammatory High-CBD Cannabis Sativa Extracts Modulate ACE2 Expression in COVID-19 Gateway Tissues - https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0315/v1 Dr. Matthew Elmes critique of Dr. Kovalchuk's paper - Cannabid & COVID-19: Breaking News or Bogus Science? - https://www.projectcbd.org/medicine/cannabis-covid-19-breaking-news-or-bogus-science
Let us start by saying, we encourage pregnant women toward balanced diets, proper exercise, and we discourage unnecessary drug and alcohol use. But, what if a mother consumes cannabis during pregnancy? In this episode Kirk and Trevor begin to explore prenatal cannabis exposure and are joined by Dr. Ciara Torres, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. This neuroscientists near six-year meta-analysis found prenatal use of cannabis does not lead to cognitive impairment of children. Dr. Torres discusses how her study, published May 2020, offers policy makers a better understanding of how cannabis affects newborns. Often babies are removed from a family when it is discovered a mother used cannabis during the pregnancy; this action may actually be more harmful than the exposure. Proper prenatal care is paramount when predicting the future success of an unborn child. This episode is designed to start the debate, so have a listen and offer your feedback by sending us a note to podcast@reefermed.ca
Music by: Hector Lavoe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz650EkJFKc&feature=youtu.be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Lavoe
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Dr. Ciara Torres Vargas - https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/ciara-torres-vargas
Totality of the Evidence Suggests Prenatal Cannabis Exposure Does Not Lead to Cognitive Impairments: A Systematic and Critical Review - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kVeXlDGj9PbYrnRBM49rG336ihJbxAFt/view?usp=sharing
We are looking back on the Summer of 2019. One of Kirk and Trevor's highlites was going to HempFest in Saskatoon. We talked to Jodi McDonald of Keystone Labs. Jodi's company will sell you a "Key Box" to allow you to get lab quality analysis of your home grown cannabis. And Jodi is infectiously animated when she explain HPLC and mass spec. Robert Belanger is a potter whose ceramic pipes are stronger than glass. Robert gets the unusual complaint that his smoking accessories are too beautiful to use. Lane Britnell goes deep on growing media. Lane explains why "Dirt is dead. Soil is alive."
Music by: Wreckin' So https://www.wreckinso.com/ https://www.facebook.com/wreckinsoofficial/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Keystone Labs - https://keystonelabs.ca/ Robert Belanger - passthepipe420 on Instagram - https://instagram.com/passthepipe420?igshid=1vllryt2l5pwi Fextern - https://www.fexterncannabis.com/
Listen as Trevor and Kirk walk through the displays at Hempfest Canada Saskatoon's expo. We hear from a Lawyer, Insurance Broker, Master Grower, and a Horticulturist. Can you refuse a roadside alcohol test? Are you are likely to fail a road-side sobriety test while sober? Should you consider home insurance for your homegrown? A Master Grower and Horticulturist speak to growing different cultivars; plus add information to the Sativa versus Indica debate.
Music:
Jess Moskaluke https://www.jessmoskaluke.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Sarah Leamon Law - https://www.sarahleamonlaw.com/sarah-leamon Boaz - https://www.boazpharm.com/ Mother Labs - https://motherlabs.ca/ Prairie Dispensary Insurance - https://prairiedispensary.ca/
HempFest Canada - http://www.hempfestcanada.com
Kirk and Trevor are live on stage at HempFest Saskatoon for a second time! This time Trevor talks with Sue Letwin(@LetwinSue). Sue has Lyme Disease. She explains how this misunderstood condition effects her life and how cannabis is helping her. In fact she finds the THC helps her more than CBD. And she make her own edibles. Come learn from Sue with us!
Music:
The Sheepdogs https://thesheepdogs.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Sue Letwin - https://www.indicapable.ca/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/LetwinSue Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sue.letwin
HempFest Canada - http://www.hempfestcanada.com
Kirk and Trevor were live on stage at HempFest Canada in Saskatoon June 2019 with Jacqui Childs (@JacquiChilds). Jacqui talks about her journey with Cannabis helping her with Crohn's, anxiety and depression. Now that Cannabis has helped her, Jacqui wants to help others. This savy social media marketer and author tells Kirk how she gets her message about cannabis out to the world.
Music:
Burton Cummings - Runnin' Back to Saskatoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA5PhgwdMM4
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Jacqui Childs - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jacquichildsmodel Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jacquichilds Twitter - https://twitter.com/jacquichilds
HempFest Canada - http://www.hempfestcanada.com
The fact marijuana heightens the musical experience is no secret. We know both listeners and players have enhanced their musical experiences through the use of this plant for over 100 years. This episode links cannabis to music through the stories told by acclaimed musicologist John Einarson. We follow a path of early jazz players influencing Canadian singer-song-writer Ian Tyson, who in turn influenced Bob Dylan, who in turn influenced The Beatles, to produce their iconic cannabis inspired album Rubber Soul. Einarson, author of 14 biographies of various musicians, tells stories with weed-inspired songs weaving through his deep narrative, as we learn how musicians created some of our most iconic songs under the influence of cannabis. Some very important pot smoking entertainers are discussed, such as Barbara Streisand sharing reefer with Peter Sellers and Neil Young testifying for his brother during a marijuana trial. Although cannabis is a very popular mind-altering substance used by musicians, Einarson believes it may actually pale compared to other psychedelic substances used in the industry. But that is another story for another episode. For now, this is a highly-entertaining episode produced, unlike any other from the ReeferMEDness team Music by: Steppenwolf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
John Einarson Remembers Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/135190070149156/ Winnipeg Free Press Bio - https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/biographies/389224892.html Books - https://www.amazon.ca/Books-John-Einarson/s?rh=n%3A916520%2Cp_27%3AJohn+Einarson
Topographic EEG Changes Accompanying Cannabis-Induced Alteration of Music Perception— Cannabis as a Hearing Aid? - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J175v02n02_02
The Space between the NotesResearch on Cannabis and Music Perception - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.467.6346&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Very Important Potheads - https://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/
Lawrence Welk - One Toke Over the Line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRa_gC6y4CY
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Bald, gloved, masked up and looking for drug dealer in New York. This is not a recent COVID-19 story. This is a story of former pro soccer player Ethan Zohn. Ethan didn't do drugs in his youth because he was an elite athlete. Now in his thirties, Ethan had cancer, and cannabis helped his symptoms. As a chemotherapy patient, he had to go to the illegal market to get his cannabis. Ethan Zohn is a world traveller, sports commentator, public speaker and, oh yeah, he won Survivor Africa in 2001. Ethan is back in the 40th Season of Survivor: Winners at War.
Join Kirk and Trevor to find out how older brothers kicking balls at your head can be a career path. Listen about how Ethan's Grassroots Soccer helps with HIV in Africa, a quick dip into his run ins with Donald Trump and his new venture with Montkush Farms. Music by: Oliver Mtukudzi (Tuku) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Mtukudzi
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Ethan Zohn - https://www.ethanzohn.com Grassroot Soccer - https://www.grassrootsoccer.org Montkush - https://www.montkush.com Safe Roots Foundation - https://www.saferootsfoundation.org
Aldofo Gonzalez may be the most interesting man in Canadian Cannabis. His story ranges from Zaptista's in Mexico to Berkley City Council to UBC. He's run a clinical trial to reduce methadone use with cannabis substitution. He helped write the regulations for Vancouver's dispensaries pre-national legalization. He helped medicinal patients feel better and helped recreational users appreciate cannabis like vinophiles appreciate wine. Aldofo's latest venture, CannaReps, aims to up the game in cannabis education. CannaReps courses focus on the human experience and take a hands on approach to Cannabis education for the CEO of an LP and the canna-curious consumer alike. And you won't want to miss the next Collector's Cup. Join Trevor and Kirk to listen to an entrancing life story, a history lesson in Canadian Cannabis and learn a little bit too. Music by: The Mariachi Ghost - http://www.themariachighost.com/home
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
CannaReps - https://www.cannareps.ca Collectors Cup - https://www.collectorscup.com
Rather than measure the wing span of mosquitoes, Dr. Lynda Balneaves RN became a nurse. Her story begins with recognizing a love for people and for travel. Her academic journey, of supporting people and health care providers with engaging in shared decision-making related to complementary and integrative health care, includes some of Canada’s earliest cannabis research. The scholastic chronicles, of this Doctor Nurse, speaks to how we can never truly plan our life path, but we do have the power to be properly prepared for opportunity. This episode will guide care givers in their practice responsibilities with cannabis, while increasing the expectations of those who receive care through it.
Music by: William Prince - https://www.williamprincemusic.com
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Lynda Balneaves - https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/UTdDwlLCvM/fi-11488bf7-7253-4b36-8af7-d8958d8cc4a1/fv-a27a16af-fb2d-4d59-8cc0-b390615c0290/English%202_Vikas_First%20Draft.mp4
“David Crosby, I read your chart man” is how Kirk starts his long-awaited chat with one of pop-culture’s most notorious Cannabis influencers. In 50-years, David Crosby has had a very public relationship with cannabis, addictions, incarceration, and relationships, which he willingly discusses. With thoughtful understanding that these past behaviours are well reported elsewhere, Kirk digs into current events asking his guest to speak to his new relationship with legal and medicinal cannabis. They discuss his involvement with NORML, his “Mighty Croz” branding, focusing mostly on his medical uses of cannabis; they even exchange their wives’ cookie recipe and how cannabis has become a very calculated element of David Crosby’s day-to-day creative life-style. Music by:
David Crosby - https://davidcrosby.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Mighty Croz - https://mightycroz.com/
Trevor and Kirk continue their CBD exploration with a Canadian Icon. Bif Naked, one of Canada’s best selling musicians shares her “my Cannabis story” sharing how she watched CBD help various members of her family, peer group, and eventually how she too benefited from daily dosing. Bif Naked discusses her formative years in Dauphin, her experiences with cancer, volunteerism, and how she hopes to change the world with her new ethically centred CBD business called Mona Lisa Healing. Settle back and enjoy this wonderful women’s exploits and wait for the surprise ending to this epic episode. Music by:
Bif Naked - BIF NAKED - JIM - OFFICIAL VIDEO
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Mona Lisa Healing - https://monalisahealing.com/
Kirk goes for a snowmobile ride and ends up in Gilbert Plains. He drops in on Hemp Sense and Lyall Bates graciously gives him an interview. Learn how Hemp Sense technology is on the cutting edge of getting CBD's out of industrial hemp. And this isn't from a well controlled green house. This is industrial hemp from an open field. And it is harder than you'd think. If you don't immediately get the hemp buds off the field and start drying and curing them in a couple hours, all the CBD is destroyed by composting. Hemp Derived CBD is all the rage. Come listen to an expert on how to get it off the field. Music by:
Jaxon Haldane - https://jaxonhaldane.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jaxon.haldane
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Hemp Sense - https://www.hempsense.net/
Ian Mitchell is an emergency physician, the Site Scholar for the Kamloops Family Medicine Residency Program and is occasionally photographed teaching whole rooms full of people to stick their fingers in their ears while opening their mouths really wide like they are in a silent scream. He caught our interest with an article and talk he did about gabapentin vs cannabis. Gabapentin was originally developed as a seizure medication, but it wasn't really good at that. Now it is routinely used for migraines, back pain, diabetic nerve pain and a variety of other conditions. There isn't great evidence for gabapentin and all its uses. Cannabis is just gaining the evidence it needs to show it is good for all different types of pain and other conditions. But it is still shunned by mainly clinicians. Is it fair the gabapentin is commonly used and cannabis is not? Plus we go down a cool rabbit hole into some novel uses of ketamine.Music by:The Ramones - https://www.ramones.com/(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)Additional Music:Desiree Dorionhttp://www.desireedorion.com/Marc Clementhttp://marcclementmusic.com/Links:A Tale of Two Therapies - Ian Mitchell on Medium - https://medium.com/@drivmitchell/a-tale-of-two-therapies-gabapentin-and-cannabis-5dfd109ada82YouTube of Ian Mitchell's Talk: https://youtu.be/T0lPM8zwTiM
If you suffer from headaches, Dr. Carrie Cuttler, Assistant Professor at Washington State University, may offer some insights. This episode explores how migraine sufferers may benefit from cannabis. In her study, this cannabis researcher, uses Strainprint data to track people who use inhale cannabis to treat their migraines. Kirk and Trevor explore her research and also discuss how diminished anandamide levels, an important endocannabinoid, may also contribute to the headache pain. A deficiency in the bliss molecular causes a pain in the ...head?
Music by:
Jimmy Zee - https://www.zeeblues.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jimmyzeemusic
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Dr. Carrie Cuttler's Page - http://www.carriecuttler.com/
Dr. Cuttler's Strainprint/Migraine Study: https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(19)30848-X/fulltext
Kirk and Trevor discuss PTSD with Dr. Mike Hart founder of ReadyToGo Clinic. Dr. Hart talks about how PTSD, migraines, IBS and some other conditions are due at least in part to an endocannabinoid deficiency. That means cannabis is an obvious treatment for PTSD. Also hear how cannabis can also be used in sports medicine and about Kirk's Runners' High on the Columbia Ice Fields.
Music by:
Bif Naked - Santa Claus is Comin to Town - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8zb5VVydpA - http://www.bifnaked.com/home.html
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Dr. Mike Hart's Joe Rogan Interview (Episode 1246): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHwSmwEwmV4&t=38s
Scientific American "The Case of a Woman Who Feels Almost No Pain Leads Scientists to a New Gene Mutation" - March 30/19 - Jacquelyn Corley - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-case-of-a-woman-who-feels-almost-no-pain-leads-scientists-to-a-new-gene-mutation/
Readytogo Clinic - https://mikehartmd.com/
Mike Hart Book - Friendly Fire: Why Vets Are Ditching Pills and Lighting Up to Treat PTSD - https://www.amazon.ca/Friendly-Fire-Ditching-Pills-Lighting-ebook/dp/B079KY46WG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mike+hart+cannabis+ptsd&qid=1576791702&sr=8-1
Benzodiazepines for PTSD: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis. Guina et al. Journal of Psychiatric Practice. July 2015 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26164054
Reductions in Circulating Endocannabinoid Levels in Individuals with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Following Exposure to the World Trade Center Attacks. Matthew N. Hill et al. Psychoneuroendocrinology. Sept 2013. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870889/
Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency Reconsidered: Current Research Supports the Theory in Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel, and Other Treatment-Resistant Syndromes. Ethan Russo. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. July 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28861491
Kirk and Trevor discuss cannabis-related workplace issues with the world’s largest advocacy group for small businesses. After one year of legalization, the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) surveyed their 110,000 members discovering 10,000 Canadian small business owners have confronted cannabis-related issues. As the discussion digs deep into the survey numbers we learn much of the hype promoted before legalization did not materialize yet, small business owners are still dealing with employees smelling of cannabis, poor government-offered educational opportunities, and defining impairment. Ryan Mallough, the director of Provincial Affairs for Ontario, explains how CFIB normally lobbies government for better taxes, laws, regulations, and how his organization has become the primary source of cannabis education for many of their members.
Music by:
Dauphin Community Jazz Band - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZDmT2VbQns
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
CFIB Cannabis Info - https://www.cfib-fcei.ca/en/cannabis CFIB Cannabis Survey - https://www.cfib-fcei.ca/en/media/employers-still-face-cannabis-related-challenges-year-after-legalization
Episode Description
Kirk and Trevor talk to Janna Champagne. Janna was a critical care cardiac nurse thriving in a high pressure, high stakes, life and death work place. Suddenly her life was derailed by an illness. Janna discovered how cannabis could help her life and has become a Cannabis-Specialty Nurse to help others. Along the way, Janna found another benefit of cannabis to her family. Come listen to how cannabis helped Janna's daughter through an Autism puberty crisis and probably spared her from out of home placement.
Music by:
Eden Myrrh - https://www.bandmix.ca/edenmyrrh/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Janna Champagne - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jannababe Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nursejanna/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/janna-champagne-bsn-rn-95a51a167/ Janna's Daughter's Story - http://www.integratedholisticcare.com/news.html
Join Kirk and Trevor as they reach from the shelf to bring three stories to you. the first two stories come from Nanaimo when Kirk was visiting a pop-up safe injection site; a tent actually set up in the mayor ‘s Parking lot. We meet Danielle Jackson known as Miz D or Dopprah (https://twitter.com/mycannatherapy) as she speaks to her form of cannabis infotainment. Our second story, outside the same tent, is with Anne-Marie Fischer from cannawrite (https://www.instagram.com/cannawrite/?hl=en) who speaks to cannabis headlines. Trevor brings the third story from the laboratory as Kanata Earth (https://www.kanataearth.com/) explains how they collaborate with the Saskatchewan Research Council to help the industry analyze their cannabis . Music by:
Jason Scott - Boots to Fill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4-iaTQNuRo&list=OLAK5uy_nvWAMz1TSD4Ly_ifTiwdYqkjPg4ehzfHE&index=7
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Miz D - https://twitter.com/mycannatherapy Anna Marie - https://www.instagram.com/cannawrite/?hl=en Kanata Earth - https://www.kanataearth.com/
Episode Description
Kirk travels back to familiar territory. The master of the cold-call finds opportunity to bring listeners a couple Cannabis stories while visiting his Alberta family. Canadian listeners will remember how the hamlet of Lac La Biche helped the citizens of Fort McMurry after the great fire of May 2016. During his visit to this beautiful lake side community, Kirk spoke with the owner of Equilibrium, Lac La Biche’s first independent retail cannabis store. He then happened upon the grand opening of Spiritleaf, where he spoke with the happy owners of this franchise store. In this episode we learn from these front-line retailers about the Alberta market place and how a small town Alberta is not going without. Alberta is kicking butt and taking names when it comes to legal Cannabis Retail. Hey Ontario and BC, maybe you need a lesson from Wild Rose Country?
Music by: Flat Silver https://www.facebook.com/Flat-Silver-21565796900/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Equilibrium https://eqcannabis.com Spiriteaf - https://spiritleaf.ca
Canada is a country that celebrates Cannabis; we can actually win awards. In this episode Kirk and Trevor talk to Lift & Co about the 2019 Canadian Cannabis awards. Lift & Co serves as the trusted authority on cannabis and empowers the cannabis industry to make better-informed decisions through superior information and data. We discuss how giving out award helps build a better cannabis market place. And, it is not too late for listeners to participate by voting for your favorite Cannabis product. You have until Oct 25/19. https://canadiancannabisawards.com/ Or there is always next year. Maybe tell Lift & Co who your favorite cannabis podcast is.......Can you believe there is no category for that yet? And a quick shout out to our friends at the Manitoba Podcast Festival!
Music by:
Prairie Whiskey
https://www.facebook.com/Prairiewhiskey/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Lift & Co https://home.lift.co Manitoba Podcast Festival - https://www.facebook.com/mbpodfest/
Episode Description
We are looking back on the Summer of 2019. One of Kirk and Trevor's highlites was going to HempFest in Saskatoon. We talked to Jodi McDonald of Keystone Labs. Jodi's company will sell you a "Key Box" to allow you to get lab quality analysis of your home grown cannabis. And Jodi is infectiously animated when she explain HPLC and mass spec. Robert Belanger is a potter whose ceramic pipes are stronger than glass. Robert gets the unusual complaint that his smoking accessories are too beautiful to use. Lane Britnell goes deep on growing media. Lane explains why "Dirt is dead. Soil is alive."
Music by: Wreckin' So https://www.wreckinso.com/ https://www.facebook.com/wreckinsoofficial/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Keystone Labs - https://keystonelabs.ca/ Robert Belanger - passthepipe420 on Instagram - https://instagram.com/passthepipe420?igshid=1vllryt2l5pwi Fextern - https://www.fexterncannabis.com/
Do you know any professional athletes using Cannabis? It is difficult finding one willing to talk about it on the record. Phil Gaimon, once within the top fifty world’s best professional road racing cyclists, graciously chats with Kirk on how he uses Cannabis. While cycling as a professional, Phil authored books and pleased his sponsors enough allowing him to start the Worst Retirement Ever in 2016. Listen to why he preferred cannabis over alcohol while racing pro and how, after crashing his bike challenging for the Olympic track team, cannabis helped him sleep better. This episode explores cannabis and sports through the experience of an elite cyclist.
Music:
Desiree Dorion - Pretty Poor Pretty Proud (it's another good one) http://www.desireedorion.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Phil Gaimon - https://philthethrill.net Phil's Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gaimon Phil Gaimon - No Kid Hungry Donation Page - http://join.nokidhungry.org/site/TR?px=3282153&fr_id=1571&pg=personal
Kieley Beaudry has so many facets to her cannabis knowledge, including Co-Founder of Parkland Flower Inc, President of the Alberta Cannabis Micro License Association, and parent of a child with Cystic Fibrosis (who uses cannabis). But Kieley agreed to enlighten Kirk and Trevor on a delicate and often overlooked topic. Kieley talks about cannabis as treatment for sexual dysfunction. Kieley is not a health care professional, but is extremely well read and knowledgeable. Kieley educates Trevor on topicals, suppositories and many other uses of cannabis especially as it pertains to female sexual health. This episode is in no way graphic but it does acknowledge the existence of sex, so if you are listening with people with sensitive ears be aware.
Rahim Dhalla is a pharmacist and CEO of Hybrid Pharm in Ottawa. Trevor constantly whines how he can't bring cannabis into his pharmacy to help patients. Well Rahim has found a way. Come listen to how Rahim helps patients with medical cannabis and he even compounds things like cannabis suppositories. Rahim is dedicated to helping improve his patients' lives and he has found cannabis is an important tool in health care.
Music:
Ryan Keown http://www.ryankeown.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links:
Kieley Beaudry - https://www.parklandflower.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/KieleyBeaudry
Rahim Dhalla - https://hybridpharm.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/DhallaRahim
"Marijuana Study Finds CBD Can Cause Liver Damage". This article in Forbes by Mike Adams blew up on Cannabis Twitter. What is the truth? Does the ubiquitous CBD beat up on the poor defenceless liver? Is this just junk science and hyperbole? Well...we called up the study authors and asked them. Get ready to be schooled by Dr. Igor Koturbash , Dr. Bill J. Gurly and Dr. Mitchell R. McGill. This conversation goes through the basic science involved in toxicology studies for any new medication. Get ready to nerd out on why mice are really livers with legs, acute vs chronic dosing studies and much more. Spoiler alert... these highly educated gentlemen don't hate CBD. They just want there to be more study on what CBD does to the liver and how it might effect other medications a person is taking. Be mindful in your cannabinoid use and have a listen.
Music:
The Jimmy Zee Band https://www.zeeblues.com
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Marijuana Study Finds CBD Can Cause Liver Damage - Mike Adams in Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeadams/2019/06/18/marijuana-study-finds-cbd-can-cause-liver-damage/#2e75033743ff Hepatotoxicity of a Cannabidiol-Rich Cannabis Extract in the Mouse Model - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31052254 CBD and Acetaminophen - https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/24/12/2256 Igor Koturbash, MD, PhD - https://publichealth.uams.edu/team/igor-koturbash-md-phd/ Bill J. Gurly, PhD - https://pharmcollege.uams.edu/aboutus/contact-us/directory/bill-gurley/ Mitchell R. McGill - https://publichealth.uams.edu/team/mitchell-r-mcgill/
Listen as Trevor and Kirk walk through the displays at Hempfest Canada Saskatoon's expo. We hear from a Lawyer, Insurance Broker, Master Grower, and a Horticulturist. Can you refuse a roadside alcohol test? Are you are likely to fail a road-side sobriety test while sober? Should you consider home insurance for your homegrown? A Master Grower and Horticulturist speak to growing different cultivars; plus add information to the Sativa versus Indica debate.
Music:
Jess Moskaluke https://www.jessmoskaluke.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Sarah Leamon Law - https://www.sarahleamonlaw.com/sarah-leamon Boaz - https://www.boazpharm.com/ Mother Labs - https://motherlabs.ca/ Prairie Dispensary Insurance - https://prairiedispensary.ca/
HempFest Canada - http://www.hempfestcanada.com
Episode Description
Kirk and Trevor are live on stage at HempFest Saskatoon for a second time! This time Trevor talks with Sue Letwin(@LetwinSue). Sue has Lyme Disease. She explains how this misunderstood condition effects her life and how cannabis is helping her. In fact she finds the THC helps her more than CBD. And she make her own edibles. Come learn from Sue with us!
Music:
The Sheepdogs https://thesheepdogs.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Sue Letwin - https://www.indicapable.ca/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/LetwinSue Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sue.letwin
HempFest Canada - http://www.hempfestcanada.com
Kirk and Trevor were live on stage at HempFest Canada in Saskatoon in June 2019 with Jacqui Childs (@JacquiChilds). Jacqui talks about her journey with Cannabis helping her with Crohn's, anxiety and depression. Now that Cannabis has helped her, Jacqui wants to help others. This savy social media marketer and author tells Kirk how she gets her message about cannabis out to the world.
Music:
Burton Cummings - Runnin' Back to Saskatoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA5PhgwdMM4
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Jacqui Childs - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jacquichildsmodel Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jacquichilds Twitter - https://twitter.com/jacquichilds
HempFest Canada - http://www.hempfestcanada.com
What should you expect when shopping for cannabis in Manitoba? Do you need your ID? Can you order ahead? Will your Cannabis be delivered? Is the staff educated on product? Kirk visits a friendly place prepared to assist you with discovering Cannabis. We are invited to tour one of the two Winnipeg based “Garden Variety” resale outlets. Garden Variety “strives to elevate the industry and the retail experience with customer service that is anything but ordinary, while offering new products at an affordable price.” Conveniently located near the international airport, both Winnipeggers and visitors to our provincial capital, have access to well-informed “Mood Makers.” One Mood Maker helps Kirk with deciding the best flower for doing yard work. You will be surprised how choosing the proper cannabis product can require some sophisticated thinking. This episode may increase your expectations on customer service; listen with caution.
Music: Sandy Chochinov www.sandychochinov.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Desiree Dorion www.desireedorion.com/ Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Garden Variety- https://gardenvariety.com/
Did Jesus die on the cross? Was Moses influenced by cannabis when speaking to the Lord? Are Christian Churches embracing Cannabis? First up we meet the founding member of Christian Cannabis, Craig Gross. Once known as the “Porn Pastor,” Gross has a new message for Christian leaders. We learn how cannabis facilitated his personal journey and how he came to a cross roads. Gross once focused on helping porn-addicted Christians kick their habit. Now he is focused on how Christians can be healed by this ancient plant. Next we explore the origins of cannabis. Researcher Chris Bennett connects cannabis to world religion and how it spread from one culture to another. He speaks to how biblical Prophets, Knights Templars, and the Messiah himself, were connected to cannabis by reframing our trusted biblical stories. Bennett says cannabis has been part of human history from the beginning. The legalization of cannabis demands philosophical discussions and these two guests bring a deep conversion to what may be our most controversial episode yet.
Music:
The Drifting Cossacks https://www.facebook.com/thedriftingcossacks/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Additional Music: Marc Clement http://marcclementmusic.com/
Links: Craig Gross - Christian Cannabis - www.christiancannabis.com Instagram - @christian.cannabis
Chris Bennet - Urban Shaman - www.urbanshaman.net
You don't give cannabis products to children, right? Or what about that Charolette's Web stuff for seizures? Dr. Robert Sealey is a physician from Victoria with extensive cannabis experience. He see children and has recommended cannabis for some of them. From ADHD, to childhood schizophrenia, to Dravet syndrome this wide ranging conversation covers many pediatric cannabis topics. Come learn with Kirk and Trevor about kids and cannabis. Are three year olds different from thirteen year olds? And don't forget the chocolate milk! It's all about the chocolate milk.
Music: Jerry Sereda http://www.jerrysereda.com/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Did you know medical cannabis is taxed? That is weirder than you might think. All other blood pressure pills, diabetes pills and depression pills that go through a pharmacy are not taxed. Yet medical cannabis, prescribed by a doctor or other health care professional is taxed. Ashleigh Brown (@Ashleigh02112447) is a medical cannabis patient, founder of the self help cannabis group SheCann (@shecannabis) and Community Manager and Patient Liaison at Strainprint. She is also an uber cannabis patient advocate. Listen to Ashleigh talk about how taxes increase her struggles to afford medicinal cannabis and increase the struggles of other patients.
Music: Marc Clement https://www.facebook.com/MarcClementMusic/
(Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
In Part 2 Kirk leaves Vancouver Island and visits Gimli, Manitoba. He discovers how a family doctor becomes a Cannabis consultant. Dr. Shelley Turner (@TheShelleyT) discusses how a deep interest in addictions directed her practice toward Cannabis. Her new clinic, Ekosi, will teach patients and professionals alike to discover the harm reduction benefit of Cannabis. Dr. Turner's journey with her Cree and Settler heritage, her progression from ambulance driver to nurse to doctor is fascinating enough on its own. But her passion for data, evidence and her patients in all things cannabis is something you'll want to hear. From Newleaf Outreach and Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club in Part 1 to Ekosi in Part 2, the common thread in these three stories is how healing communities are people caring for each other. Is Cannabis an exit drug? Should peers and individuals direct their own Health Care? How can western medicine help with creating healing communities? Kirk and Trevor discuss these questions and offer up some canna-curious opinions. Music by Chocolate Bunnies from Hell (@Chocbunnieshell)
Travel with Kirk and Trevor beyond simple harm reduction strategies. Kirk brings us stories from Vancouver Island to Gimli, showing us how the Cannabis Culture helps people be well. In Part 1, we meet Kevin Donnelly from Newleaf Outreach (https://newleafoutreach.org/). This new autonomous peer driven harm reduction group in Nanaimo, British Columbia promotes that drug peoples’ rights are human rights. They also believe cannabis plays a role for people with substance use disorders. Then Kirk goes south to see Julia Veintrop from the Victoria Cannabis Buyers’ Club (https://vcbc.live/). The VCBC is an important historic advocacy agency. They've taken cannabis cases to the Supreme Court, but more importantly they have 23 years of experience assisting people with accessing affordable cannabis as their medicine. From new to established, Vancouver Island shows us the strength of peers helping peers.
We have a My Cannabis Story from Char about a not so positive experience at a Guns N Roses concert.
Come back for Part 2! Gimli has more to offer than Crown Royal and the Icelandic Festival.
What is impairment? What does it mean to drive a car impaired? Kirk and Trevor talk to PJ Barclay CEO of DriveABLE (@DriveABLE). DriveABLE has tools that look a impairment and cognition. But the impairment can be from opioid pain medication, muscle relaxant, lack of sleep, alcohol or cannabis. Legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada changed many things. Let's talk about impairment and how everyone can stay safe on the roads.
Are you CannaCurious? What cannabis strain works best for a 47 year old woman in Manitoba for MS related spasticity? There is an app for that. Kirk and Trevor talk to long time podcast sponsor, Strainprint (www.strainprint.ca) about their app and the many, many places Strainprint has gone lately. David Berg (https://twitter.com/DaveBergSP), the President and Chief Technology Officer of Strainprint Technologies geeks out with Kirk about endometriosis studies, migraine studies, software to help pharmacists find interactions between medications and cannabis, partnerships in Israel, partnerships with Duke University, the new Strainprint Community and frankly so many other cool things I'm getting tired just writing out this description. Go Listen!
Music:
Dust Poets https://www.facebook.com/thedustpoets/ (Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Links: Strainprint - strainprint.ca
Did you know some nurses could write prescriptions? Kirk talks to Nurse Practitioner Erin O'Shaughnessy about her practice. Erin works for Nalanda Health (https://nalanda.ca/) and prescribes cannabis for clients in need of help. Trevor talks to Carl Byrne a pharmacist at Nalanda Health who acts as a cannabis educator for Erin's clients. What does a medical cannabis clinic look like post legalization? How do these health care professional work together?Why shouldn't you just go to a recreational cannabis store and try some cannabis for your medical condition on your own. Listen and hear what Trevor and Kirk find out!
Plus a new My Cannabis Story from Jaqui Childs! - find her on @jacquichilds (https://www.instagram.com/jacquichilds/?hl=en) on Instagram.
What do you think of when you hear, "Discretion, discovery, and delight"? That phrase is what our Marketing Guru, Bridget Hoffer co-founder of Marigold Marketing and PR, thinks customers are looking for in a Cannabis retailer. Our business management consultant, Karen Debroni - Principal at Debroni and Associates, says education is key for people getting into the Cannabis Space. Kirk and Trevor talk to these Boss Ladies about how they got into the Cannabis Space and why it is attracting so many female entrepreneurs. Then they shamelessly pick the brains of these Cannabis Business Experts for pearls on running and marketing a podcast. Hey, where were Kirk and Trevor going to get better caliber coaching for free? You should listen and learn something from the Boss Ladies too.
This episode sponsor is strainprint.ca.
Music: Bif Naked http://www.bifnaked.com/home.html (Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
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What's the difference between hemp and marijuana? What's up with all these "hemp derived CBD's"? Kirk and Trevor talk to hemp pioneer Martin Moravcik, and hemp farmers Don Dewar and Chris Federowich. Martin has been a hemp promoter since the early 1990's. Chris and Don grow hemp on a large scale today and Chris is the Vice-Chair of Parkland Industrial Hemp Growers. Hemp can provide fiber for textiles, food and maybe medicine. There is a lot of interest in getting CBD's from hemp, but it isn't as easy as you would think to scale up to a farm sized plot of hemp. Clare McBride, also a farmer, works at the office of the Parkland Industrial Hemp Growers. She updates us on the latest hemp regulations including what types of plants Health Canada will allow. Kirk likes to say he goes for bike rides south of Dauphin just to smell the hemp fields. Come jump on your bike for a warm summer evening ride. You are passing acres and acres of tall green plants as Kirk and Trevor chat in your ear...
This episode sponsor is strainprint.ca.
Music: Del Barber www.facebook.com/Delbarber/ (Yes we got a SOCAN membership to use this song all legal and proper like)
Links:
Martin Moravcik www.canadashempstory.ca
Parkland Industrial Hemp Growers www.pihg.net
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Did you have that friend of a friend who grew their own in a basement? Kirk goes back to the future. An ACMPR (Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations) legal grower, Paul, shows Kirk how he grows his own medicine! Paul is very environmentally conscious with his worm compost soil, no solvent resins and deep knowledge and respect for the cannabis plant. Plus he is an archivist of different medical strains. Come down the stairs... and learn with Trevor and Kirk. @sustainableorganicsolutions @greenbeaver420
Trevor and Kirk went to the Cannabis and Hemp Expo (cannabishempexpo.com) in Winnipeg Sept 30, 2018. They talked to lots of fascinating people! They brought you 4 stories. Savethedrive.com's CEO Chanel Graham was a home care nurse when she saw a need for getting cannabis to people who couldn't leave their homes. Brad Pattison of Brad Pattison Pet Wellness (www.bradpattisonpetwellness.ca)stops cats from launching aerial attacks on their owners. Dr. Brent Guppy of Synthase Genetics (synthasegenetics.com) can help producers identify the genes to make better cannabis strains. Nathan the VP of Community Outreach with the Winnipeg 420 Group (www.facebook.com/Winnipeg420/) talked about 420 in 2019. Recreational Cannabis is legal, but will everyone at the event at the Leg now be fined?
My cannabis is labeled 17% THC. What dose that mean? Emily Kirkham, an analytical chemist, talks to Kirk and Trevor about cannabis potency testing, cannabinoids and terpenes. She also gets into pesticide testing and micro-contaminants like lead.
Ever wondered about the alphabet soup of regulations like the MMAR, ACMPR and how they came to be? Mike Boivin, pharmacist and designer of cannabis continuing education programs, gives us a great history lesson on the lawsuits that got us from 2001 to 2018. He talks about how proper use of medical cannabis can reduce polypharmacy and clinical pearls like if a medical patient feels high all the time on their cannabis try something different like a new strain or dose.
As an extra bonus, if you live in the Winnipeg area....go see Reefer Madness the Musical Dec 6-16, 2018! They provided us with the music this episode, and it will be a very fun and educational show!
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What is the endocannabinoid system? Did you have that friend in high school with the hemp shirt who told you, "The body was designed to smoke pot, man!" That is not as crazy as it sounds. Trevor and Kirk talk to Dr. Robert Laprairie. He is a pharmacologist who studies the endocannabinoid system. Your body produces its own cannabinoids and has receptors that can accept external cannabinoids like THC and CBD. But just because cannabis is natural doesn't mean it shouldn't be used with caution. Dr. Laprairie also discusses interactions with prescription medications and other thing to watch for. But in general Dr. Laprairie is very positive about cannabis research in a post-legalization Canada!
What did you do to celebrate Oct 17/18? Kirk and Trevor were busy. Kirk interviewed people at the first legal cannabis shop in Manitoba outside of Winnipeg. They also had a party to celebrate a year of podcasting. They called up some chefs, read some cookbooks and cooked with cannabis for their friends! They talked to Joel Carleton-Cannabis Sommelier & Interpener, Chef Matt of Delta-9 Chefs, Chef Alan of Flatlands Infused Pop-up dinner, and relied heavily on "Healing Cannabis Edibles" by Ellen Novak and Pat Crocker.
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Are we addicted to taxes? Trevor and Kirk talk to Dr. Jason Childs. He is an economist who says whether you want to reduce harm from cannabis or increase government coffers then keep taxes on cannabis low. In fact, having the government subsidize licensed producers might be a brilliant idea. In part 2 we have Dr. Jonathon Stea. He is a psychologist who has studied and treated cannabis addiction. Surprisingly, cannabis is probably going to be both worse and better than you imagine post legalization.
The leaves are changing. Fall is here. What do you do if an employee at your job site is coming to work high? How much cannabis should a school bus driver be using? Teachers and students - which one should be allowed to use medicinal cannabis? Are you less fit for work if you are on Tylenol #3's or cannabis? We talk to Floyd Martens, a local and national School Board representative and Wendy Hofford a human resources and safety expert. Our My Cannabis story is about a sports injury.
What is the name of the trophy Governor General of Canada of 1892 had named after him? Need a hint? The winners of the trophy in 1971-72 had their names misspelled on the trophy as the “Bqstqn Bruins.” What does that trophy have to do with Dauphin and the fact recreational Cannabis will be legal October 17/18? Find out, plus learn all sorts of interesting details about legalization from the CEO of Delta-9 John Arbuthnot. Come for the mystery. Stay for the Cannabis legalization education! My Cannabis story is a young woman with pain from cancer treatment... with a happy ending!
Music: Trevor Gordon http://www.trevorgordonmusic.com/
Links: Delta-9 Cannabis http://www.delta9.ca
Kirk goes to Cossack camp at Canada's National Ukrainian Festival and talks to MP's and outlaws about Cannabis. Trevor and Kirk review what they have learned in the first 9 episodes and where they are going next. Plus the inaugural "My Cannabis Story". These are short stories that YOU the listeners submit. This one is on Lyme Disease. We normally keep the identity of "My Cannabis Story" people confidential, but Sue wants us to share. So you can find her on Facebook at "Lemons For Lyme", @suzyjocookshelp or www.facebook.com/suzyjocookshelp. You can email her directly at sueletwin@gmail.com if you want to talk Lyme Disease.
How is cannabis prescribed? Do American prescribers practice differently than on the Canadian side of the border? Kirk goes South to talk to Dr. Karen O'Brien a Naturopathic doctor in Arizona. Trevor stays North to talk to internist Dr. Blair Hrabarchuk. Listen as they explore medicinal cannabis on both sides of the 49th parallel.
Crystal Ball time! What will cannabis stores in Manitoba look like? Kirk goes south to Fort Collins, Colorado and visits a dispensary there. What does a legal cannabis store look like? How do the staff interact with customers? Is it a nice inviting place or a seedy, run down, scary place? I think you need to have a listen!
Why is the recreational cannabis age being set at 19 in Manitoba? Why do four big companies have a monopoly on recreational sales? Did the government look back at prohibition of alcohol to plan for legalization of recreational cannabis? Michael Legary, a spokesperson for the Government of Manitoba update Kirk and Trevor about the Province's plans as legalization approaches
You've decided to try medicinal cannabis. Now what? If only there was some support out there. We talk to Ashleigh Brown, the founder of SheCann, a Facebook Community of medical cannabis advocates. Then, you track your steps and sleep with a FitBit. You track you calories with a diet app. What if you could track your medicinal cannabis use? We talk to Stephanie Karasick the founder of Strainprint. Yup. There is an app for that. And we think it is pretty cool.
What does cannabis do to the brain? What is the "entourage" effect? Does having no receptors in the medulla make cannabinoids safer than opioids? Dr. Mike Namaka schools Trevor and Kirk about the neuroscience behind cannabis. What do we know? What do we not know? Where is the science taking us?
Should cannabis be sold in pharmacies? Is there a difference between recreational and medicinal cannabis? Should an ER Doc have a record if a patient is using medicinal cannabis? Trevor the Pharmacist thinks medicinal cannabis belongs in a pharmacy. What do you think?
Do your old cannabis possession charges go away when pot is legalized in Canada? How will the police know if you are driving while impaired by Cannabis? How will US Border security deal with Canadians after pot is legalized? Kirk and Trevor talk to lawyer Aaron Beddome about the upcoming changes in Canada's Cannabis laws.
Do people take cannabis products for their ailments now? We have three: Kevin, Keijo and Dawn who will share with Trevor and Kirk if and how cannabis has improved their lives.
"First, do no harm." Kirk, a nurse, and Trevor, a pharmacist always make sure the treatments they offer their patients don't make the patient's lives worse. What about cannabis? Will it do more harm than good? Listen to the interview with Dr. Sherry Fandry from the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba.