Surprising positive and negative CBD drug interactions. The potential harms of cannabis have been overstated and drilled into youth by the medical establishment. For some people, cannabis can have negative impacts but for the most part it is one of the safest, most effective medicines on the planet. Ironically, some potential harms from using the […]
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Grassroots Harm Reduction Uprooted By Legalization
By Ted Smith Research acknowledging the benefits of compassion clubs over the legal medical cannabis program and the stark, negative consequences of legalization have been recently published in the Harm Reduction Journal. In the study, Marilou Gagnon and Heather Hobbs explain how compassion clubs have practiced harm reduction for decades, yet they have been left […]
What does ChatGPT AI say about Cannabis?
I interview the new AI chat bot from OpenAI, “ChatGPT” about cannabis and cannabis prohibition. ChatGPT is the latest machine learning creation released by OpenAI, a group responsible for the new image generator technology that has begun transforming your friends in their social media photos into slick looking movie extras. Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Dall-E […]
New Survey on The Box!
We are very excited to be working with Marilou Gagnon of the Canadian Institute of Substance Use. VCBC is collaborating with UVic researcher Marilou Gagnon to study your experience using the Box and how the temporary closure of the Box is affecting you. If you are a VCBC member who smokes cannabis and used the […]