Cannabis Digest Summer Issue 49 – Cover Art

Preparing Cannabis Tinctures

By Owen Smith In the late nineteenth century, cannabis tinctures were widely prescribed for analgesic, sedative, and narcotic purposes and by some accounts it was used as the primary pain reliever until the invention of aspirin[i]. Sativex is a modern version of this approach, a sublingual cannabis tincture spray (nabiximols) produced in England by GW […]

Cannabis and Drugs – VCBC Excerpt

Introduction   Cannabis produces a fantastically wide array of different compounds, containing at least 489 distinct types. Over 70 of these are produced exclusively within the cannabis plant . Each specific species has different proportions of these compounds, which are also effected by environmental factors during production and processing. There is currently little available data […]

Cookie Give-Away at the Empress Hotel

The Story of the Great Cookie Give-Away at the Empress Hotel By Ted Smith With over 20 years of activism under my belt, I have many great stories to tell.  This month I will be sharing a few of my favourites to mark the 20th anniversary of Hempology 101 in Victoria.  Though many of these events […]