The Conversation, Cannabis & Christianity podcast

The Conversation, Cannabis & Christianity podcast

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The Conversation, Cannabis & Christianity podcast episodes

  • S3 E5: Founder of Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, Ted Smith

    Ted Smith founded the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club in January of 1996, the oldest medical cannabis dispensary in Canada, now with over 8,500 members. Ted has successfully advocated human rights for decades and he played a large role in Canada's legalization of marijuana. He is the author of HEMPOLOGY 101: THE HISTORY AND USES OF CANNABIS SATIVA and he was the publisher of The Cannabis Digest newspaper, Canada’s largest publication on the subject for almost 10 years. Seen in the movie, Kid Cannabis, he has organized cannabis conventions across the country, coordinating or participating in approximately 3,800 rallies, meetings, press conferences and other events.

    People suffer for lack of knowledge

    Love One Another


    56 min
  • S3 E26: International Journalist, Author & Speaker, Lucie Pagé

    Lucie Pagé is a French Canadian journalist, writer and speaker sharing her life between Canada and South Africa since 1990. When Nelson Mandela was released from a South African prison, she went to South Africa and did 10 television documentaries, interviewed a host of political actors including Nelson Mandela and her now husband, Jayaseelan "Jay" Naidoo, who was the General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and became Minister in Mandela’s cabinet. Lucie wrote eight books, published hundreds of articles and did many radio and television documentaries. Jay and Lucie have three children and three grandchildren and they reside in the mountains of South Africa.

    1 hr 12 min
  • S3 E55: Founder & CEO of Watson-Favaro Cannabis Consultant, Bridget Watson-Favaro

    Bridget Watson-Favaro is a Nurse Practitioner who works with patients from all walks of life, from pediatric care to geriatric care. Bridget has worked in clinical areas specializing in geriatric  assessments, aboriginal centers and advanced wound care. Over the last decade, Bridget has focused on cannabinoid-based medicine. In 2020, she founded, Watson-Favaro Cannabis Consultant where she provides specialized consults for patients with a complex picture of health, specifically pediatric-focused and medically

    complex patients (MS, Fibromyalgia Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, and  trigeminal neuralgia). Bridget also provides educational material and speaks publicly about whole plant marijuana with hopes that the stigma around marijuana fades and is replaced with an understanding that marijuana is truly medicine.


    54 min
  • S3 E54: Talisman, with Miguel Torrez

    Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.

    This Life Is Far More Amazing & Supernatural than it is advertised to be


    41 min
  • S3 E53: International Cannabis Physician & Founder/CEO of Global Health & Hygiene Solutions LLC. & Uplifting Health & Wellness, Dr. Uma Dhanabalan

    Dr. Uma Dhanabalan is a highly respected, Harvard trained physician known to most

    as Dr. Uma. She is the Founder/CEO of Global Health & Hygiene Solutions, LLC established in 2006 with a mission to “promote wellness and prevent illness”™ and Uplifting Health & Wellness, an Independent Medical Concierge Practice.

    Dr. Uma’s mission is to change the stigma regarding Cannabis and for the world to know about the Endocannabinoid system through education. She is an educator,

    advocate, activist and speaks locally & 
    globally about cannabis as a plant medicine and a global solution.

    She created the model TotalHealthCareTHC™ where she “Educates, Embraces and Empowers” her patients, the public and policymakers, etc. and promotes cannabis as a treatment option.

    She has received awards from the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine for her research project: “Occupational & Environmental Exposure to Lead in South India”, from The 7th World Ayurveda Conference & Arogya Expo for her presentation “Cannabis & The Therapeutic Uses", The Educational Achievement Award presented by Clover Leaf at Cannabis Business Award 2017, Award from High Times Inaugural Female 50, The International Cannabis Activist Award at The 10th Anniversary Cannabis Business Awards 2022 , Cannabis Philanthropist Award

    2022-2023, “Blood, Sweat & Tears” from the Crohn’s Charity Service Foundation and most recently, the 2023 Warrior Women Award presented by Etain and The JUSTUS Foundation.

    She received her Bachelor of Arts with High Honors from Rutgers University; her Medical Degree from the University of Medicine & Dentistry; her Family Practice Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina; her Masters in Public Health, Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency, and

    Fellowship in Heavy Metals at the Harvard School of Public Health.

    She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Diplomat of the American Academy of Cannabinoid Medicine as a Cannabinoid Medicine Specialist and Certified by the Medical Review Officer Certification Council as a Medical Review Officer.

    1 hr 9 min
  • S3 E52: Medical Cannabis Educator, Martina Bill

    In 2016, Martina Bill transferred her professional skills into the medical cannabis industry. She began with a position at a medical clinic as an Administrative Assistant. Martina's role quickly developed into educating patients to understand how to use cannabis as medicine. Training in Canada was very limited at the time, so she chose to pursue online training to help solidify her foundational knowledge from personally medicating earning a Master of Marijuana

    Certificate from Cannabis Training University. She has since joined the amazing team at Lyte Clinic in Ontario, Canada as a
    Patient Educator. Martina educates and supports patients with a myriad of conditions, and ranging in all ages.


    1 hr 23 min
  • S3 E29: Nelson Mandela Administration, Minister of Trade Unions, Jay Naidoo

    Jay Naidoo is a Grandfather and an Elder of South Africa, but he is primarily a freedom fighter who was invited to serve in the inaugural cabinet of South African President, Nelson Mandela. Jay was the founding General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, launched in 1985 which became a backbone of the struggle for workers' rights and a key part of the liberation movement fighting apartheid. He served three terms and then was elected to lead the efforts on co-creating a post-apartheid framework of action to address the socio-economic legacy of apartheid. Jay was then appointed by President Nelson Mandela as the Minister Without Portfolio, responsible for the Reconstruction and Development Program, in the Office of the President. In 1996, he was appointed as the Minister of Communications. Jay Naidoo is dedicated to human rights and leaving behind a better world for his grand children.

    1 hr 9 min

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Helping people to better understand Christ and the cannabis plant. The Christian scriptures record Jesus telling a crowd of religious hypocrites that it is not what one puts into their body that…