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Michelle Kendall's Legacy - Bruce Kendall & Hinanit Koltai

Cannabis Voices - December 19, 2022 19:00 - 49 minutes
This episode is to honour and celebrate the legacy of previous guest Michelle Kendall who died last year from ovarian cancer. In her words: "I think the universe gave me lemons. And I didn't just make lemonade. I feel like I've made lemon meringue pie." Michelle is referring to her unwaverin...

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Michelle Kendall's Legacy - Bruce Kendall & Professor Hinanit Koltai

Cannabis Voices - December 19, 2022 19:00 - 49 minutes
This episode is to honour and celebrate the legacy of previous guest Michelle Kendall who died last year from ovarian cancer. In her words: "I think the universe gave me lemons. And I didn't just make lemonade. I feel like I've made lemon meringue pie." Michelle is referring to her unwaverin...

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Treating cancer with cannabis and psilocybin - Nicole DiMonda & Jaime Brambila

Cannabis Voices - November 28, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour
Many of us have heard about how the anti-tumoral effects of cannabis and anecdotal accounts abound of patients who've successfully treated their cancer with cannabis oil. But combining cannabis and psilocybin is a potentially exciting combination using a two pronged approach: targeting the canc...

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Treating cancer with cannabis and psilocybin - Nicole DiMonda & Jaime Brambila

Cannabis Voices - November 28, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour
Many of us have heard about how the anti-tumoral effects of cannabis and anecdotal accounts abound of patients who've successfully treated their cancer with cannabis oil. But combining cannabis and psilocybin is a potentially exciting combination using a two pronged approach: targeting the canc...

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Rebekah Shaman - Cacao - A Plant Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit

Cannabis Voices - October 06, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour
Today sees the return of Rebekah Shaman and in what might feel like a rather off topic episode for a Cannabis podcast, we will be talking about the benefits of cacao to our mind, body and spirit. I've been enjoying ceremonial grade cacao every morning as a hot chocolate drink for the  last thr...

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Rebekah Shaman - Cacao - A Plant Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit

Cannabis Voices - October 06, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour
Today sees the return of Rebekah Shaman and in what might feel like a rather off topic episode for a Cannabis podcast, we will be talking about the benefits of cacao to our mind, body and spirit. I've been enjoying ceremonial grade cacao every morning as a hot chocolate drink for the  last thr...

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Jane Hinchliffe - How cannabis saved my life

Cannabis Voices - August 16, 2022 18:00 - 48 minutes
Jane Hinchliffe has a complex collection of illnesses which include complex regional pain syndrome, anxiety, ASD and functional neurological disorder which has meant since being a teen she has been prescribed a host of prescribed medications including strong opiates. For many years Jane sourced...

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Becca Allen-Tapp - Cannabis, cancer and embracing the suck

Cannabis Voices - August 08, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes
In 2018 Rebecca was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine cancer which resulted in a sudden removal of her left lung. At that time, she was Director of Business Development with a prominent laboratory equipment supplier serving the cannabis industry in North America. From chronic fatigue or men...

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Becca Allen-Tapp - Cannabis, cancer and embracing the suck

Cannabis Voices - August 08, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes
In 2018 Rebecca was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine cancer which resulted in a sudden removal of her left lung. At that time, she was Director of Business Development with a prominent laboratory equipment supplier serving the cannabis industry in North America. From chronic fatigue or men...

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Alvaro Torres - Khiron Life Sciences & the Colombian Experience

Cannabis Voices - May 25, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour
There's no romantic  origin story of how Alvaro Torres, CEO and Co-founder of Khiron Life Sciences,  a Colombian medical cannabis company, got into the sector. And for this reason, it would be tempting to assume the company was started to make the most of the worldwide cannabis green rush with ...

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Nikki Lawley - Cannabis & Traumatic Brain Injury

Cannabis Voices - April 19, 2022 17:00 - 46 minutes
Nikki Lawley is a patient advocate, speaker, and founder of Nikki and the Plant. She personally discovered cannabis as medicine after suffering a life-changing injury while working as a pediatric nurse.   In October of 2016, Nikki was a 46-year-old woman whose life changed in literally a second....

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Bonni Goldstein MD - a pioneer in pediatric cannabis medicine

Cannabis Voices - April 05, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour
 Dr. Bonni Goldstein is one of the most well-respected and long-established cannabis doctors in the United States. Prior to cannabis, she worked for fourteen years in pediatric emergency medicine, developed a passion for cannabis when she witnessed how helpful it had been in treating a friend’s ...

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Eloise Theisen - cannabis nurse and educator

Cannabis Voices - March 03, 2022 16:00 - 35 minutes
Eloise Theisen is a board certified Adult Geriatric Nurse Practitioner and nurse for over twenty years, who since 2014 has been specialising in treating patients with medical cannabis.  Eloise is current President of the American Cannabis Nurses Association, CEO of Radicle Health, which offers ...

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Dr. Dani Gordon - cannabis and integrative medicine

Cannabis Voices - March 02, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes
Dr. Gordon is double board certified in family medicine and integrative medicine and author of 'The CBD Bible'. Having started her medical career practising in Canada, she is now located in the United Kingdom.  As an integrative medicine practitioner in Canada, cannabis was just one treatment o...

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Steve Barron - from Michael Jackson to growing a house from hemp

Cannabis Voices - November 15, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour
Filmmaker Steve Barron has directed some of the most iconic music videos of the 1980s including Michael Jackson's Billie Jean (which we discuss in the podcast), Aha's Take on Me, Human League Don't You Want Me Baby, and The Jam's Going Underground (to name but a few). Steve's also been a pretty...

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Alicia Maher - my life as a medical cannabis refugee

Cannabis Voices - October 25, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes
In November 2019, months before the pandemic struck, Irish chronic pain patient Alicia Maher decided she'd had enough of getting cannabis off the street in order to treat the chronic pain she'd endured for many years.  She decided to move to Alicante in Spain, where she could access cannabis se...

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Alisia Ratliff - why more diversity is needed in the cannabis industry

Cannabis Voices - October 13, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour
In one of the most inspiring interviews of the series so far, I speak to Alisia Ratliff, CEO of Victus Capital Ventures and until very recently Chief Scientific Officer at Jersey Hemp in the UK.  We cover many topics including:  her lonely journey as a woman of colour into a career in science ...

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Sam Cannon - Beyond The Green at Cop26

Cannabis Voices - October 07, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour
Today we speak to Sam Cannon, who didn't take no for an answer when his hemp-focussed applications to the upcoming Cop26 UN Climate Summit were turned down. Instead he decided to put his passion for hemp and background in music and events to good use, organising an exciting new fringe festival...

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Sam Cannon - Beyond The Green at Cop26

Cannabis Voices - October 07, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour
Today we speak to Sam Cannon, who didn't take no for an answer when his hemp-focussed applications to the upcoming Cop26 UN Climate Summit were turned down. Instead he decided to put his passion for hemp and background in music and events to good use, organising an exciting new fringe festival...

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Phil Monk - a sovereign human right to cannabis

Cannabis Voices - September 16, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes
Today's episode features Phil Monk, founder of We The Undersigned, a community group  a "united in the shared belief in the most ancient, traditional and fundamental human right to be free to sow the seeds of the highly nutritious herb of the cannabis family, to care for and nurture, then harves...

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Melissa Sturgess - from mining to medical cannabis

Cannabis Voices - August 19, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour
After more than 20 years  as a director of UK and Australian Stock Exchange quoted companies,  mainly focused on the acquisition, structuring and financing of natural resources deals across Africa, in 2018 Melissa Sturgess turned her attention to medical cannabis. Following a deep dive into the...

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Melissa Sturgess - from mining to medical cannabis

Cannabis Voices - August 19, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour
After more than 20 years  as a director of UK and Australian Stock Exchange quoted companies,  mainly focused on the acquisition, structuring and financing of natural resources deals across Africa, in 2018 Melissa Sturgess turned her attention to medical cannabis. Following a deep dive into the...

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Dr Vincent Maida - cannabis for the treatment of wounds and ulcers

Cannabis Voices - July 29, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes
Healing leg ulcers and wounds is one of those unsexy areas that rarely get spoken about possibly because most people that have them are elderly and immobile. But as Dr Vincent Maida, a Canadian palliative care physician explains, right now current protocols do for treating these painful and deb...

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Project Twenty 21 - medical cannabis real world evidence

Cannabis Voices - July 22, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour
This week's episode is dedicated to Project Twenty21, the UK medical cannabis registry collecting data on safety and efficacy, while offering the participants subsidised medical cannabis prescriptions. I speak to Anne Katrin Schlag, Head of Research at Drug Science, and overseeing the research ...

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Kyle Esplin - the trials and tribulations of the UK CBD industry

Cannabis Voices - July 07, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour
Kyle Esplin, a professional musician by trade, discovered CBD and hemp after becoming severely debilitated by post viral fatigue. Where conventional medicine failed, CBD and hemp extracts gradually brought Kyle back to health, so he decided to harness his new found passion and create his own CB...

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Professor Javier Fernández Ruiz - cannabis research in neurodegenerative diseases

Cannabis Voices - June 17, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour
Professor Javier Fernández-Ruiz is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the “Cannabinoids and Neurological Disorders” research group at the Complutense Univers...

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Sarah Russo - cannabis and other herbs for the apocalypse

Cannabis Voices - June 04, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes
Some of us come to the power of plant medicine relatively late in life (me for example), while others are practically born into an appreciation of their medicinal benefits. Sarah Russo falls into the latter category. As the daughter of respected cannabinoid researcher and neurologist Dr Ethan ...

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Sarah Russo - cannabis and other herbs for the apocalypse

Cannabis Voices - June 04, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes
Some of us come to the power of plant medicine relatively late in life (me for example), while others are practically born into an appreciation of their medicinal benefits. Sarah Russo falls into the latter category. As the daughter of respected cannabinoid researcher and neurologist Dr Ethan ...

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Dr Evan Lewis - cannabis, the endocannabinoid system and epilepsy

Cannabis Voices - May 26, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour
Dr Evan  Lewis is a Pediatric Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist with expertise in epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, and medical cannabis for the treatment of neurologic disorders. He is the director of the Neurology Centre of Toronto (NCT) which he established in January 2017. At NCT, Evan t...

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Justin Kander - educating the world about cannabis & cancer

Cannabis Voices - May 17, 2021 16:00 - 52 minutes
Justin Kander is the founder of the Cannabis for Cancer Declaration, an initiative that lists medical professionals who support the use of cannabis to treat cancer. He is also the author of Cannabis for the Treatment of Cancer, a free book that deeply analyses the scientific and human evidence s...

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