Cannabis Digest Summer Issue 49 – Cover Art

A Review of High Times’ Forty-Year Self-Published History

  In 1974, late activist Thomas Forçade invented and began publishing the pro-marijuana magazine, High Times.  This year the magazine turns forty.  In honour of its birthday Forçade’s Trans High Corporation has published the retrospective:  High Times:  A 40-Year History of the World’s Most Infamous Magazine—self-styled both a “visual history” and a “coffee table book.”  […]

Dave Hepburn and Ted Smith: Cannabis Talks Episode #3 – Cannabis & Dementia

In this series we sit down with Ted Smith and Dr. Dave Hepburn to discuss the medical intricacies of cannabis. Ted Smith is the founder and president of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club. Ted has been an advocate for medical cannabis, compassionate access and patients rights for 25 years. Dr. Dave Hepburn is a Canadian […]

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 […]