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 […]
Judith Stamps Classical liberalism, endemic to North American thinking, is a rights oriented philosophy that blossomed in the 19th century. Its best-known proponent, John Stuart Mill, argued that the good society is one that offers the most extensive personal liberty to all members compatible with everyone having the same. Influential as it was, this outlook […]
Ted Smith This Jan marks 20 years since I first started to deliver cannabis products to people suffering from serious medical problems from the van in which I lived, handing out pamphlets around Victoria with a pager number. Twenty years later, the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club is the oldest medical cannabis dispensary in the entire […]
