Shawna Vreeke, PhD is Head of Research at True Terpenes, where she is instrumental in developing and maintaining the rigorous safety and quality protocols the brand is known for. Shawna is an active advocate for science-based safety parameters to protect consumer health and has worked with policymakers to implement sensible regulations to protect public health and maintain access to regulated cannabis products. She has multiple peer-reviewed papers on vape safety, and most recently, her work has been adopted into two ASTM global standards.

At CannMed 25 Shawna will present Toxicological Risk in Cannabis Vapes: Exogenous Additives and Their Implications for Consumer Safety. It will highlight specific higher-risk ingredients and identify how prevalent they are in vaporization products currently in the cannabis market. 

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