The Conversation, Cannabis & Christianity podcast

The Conversation, Cannabis & Christianity podcast

By Miguel TorrezSociety & Culture
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The Conversation, Cannabis & Christianity podcast episodes

  • S2 E41: Let's Talk Cannabis with Sherry Bennett & Dr. Barbara Mainville

    Dr. Barbara Mainville has been working full time with medical cannabis in Canada since early 2016. Prior to that, she worked in an Emergency Department for 30 years, and also served as a Coroner for the Province of Ontario for 30 years, conducting both investigations and coroners’ inquests. She is a member of both the Canadian Special Operations Medical Association and the Western Trauma Association, and retains a special interest in all aspects of trauma. Sherry Bennett is the Founder of Let's Talk Cannabis and Bayview Concierge Inc and has been a cannabis advocate in Canada since marijuana provided a way for her to be, "Friendly with life again" after decades of traumatic familial, societal and personal happenings.

    1 hr 22 min
  • S3 E29: Nelson Mandela Administration's Minister of Trade Unions, Jayaseelan "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
  • S2 E7: Co-Founder & CEO of Aqualitas, Myrna Gillis

    Myrna Gillis, QC is the CEO and co-founder of Aqualitas, a vertically integrated multi-cannabis license holder and producer of organically grown cannabis and value-added products distributed domestically and internationally. She is a disabilities advocate, and practiced law in the vulnerable services sector for 25 years before joining the cannabis industry in 2014. Motivated by a desire to promote access to medical cannabis, through research, innovation and sustainability she has led her team to highlights including Grow Up’s 2021 Innovation Technology Award, Canada’s 2020 Grower of the Year, a Spark Innovation Award, and Clean Tech Energy Award for cultivation, as well 16 Canadian provincial and federal research grants. Myrna received her Queens Counsel designation for excellence and integrity in the practice of law and was a business leader bronze award winner in 2019. She is a board member on the Cannabis Council of Canada, and a board advisor for the Council for Federal Cannabis Regulation and has volunteered for various disabilities and social justice organizations over the last 30 years.

    1 hr 55 min
  • S3 E28: Change, part I: The Present

    This Life Is Far More Amazing & Supernatural than it is advertised to be. The Door Is Open. People suffer for lack of knowledge. Keep Moving Forward. Everything Changes, including you. Love One Another.

    31 min
  • S3 E27: Canadian Cannabis Freedom Fighter, Owen Smith

    Owen Smith possesses a wide range of cannabis industry subject matter expertise based on two decades of working with patients, advocates, dispensaries, non-profits, producers and processors as well as one of the worlds largest cannabis corporations. In 2009 Owen raised a constitutional challenge called R v Smith that is the most successful cannabis case in Canadian history, legalizing the process of cannabis extraction so that people and companies could make extracts, edibles and oils. Owen is a storyteller, multi-media artist, videographer, writer, juggler and musician.


    1 hr 5 min
  • S1 E35: Multiple Stage 4 Cancer Survivor & Founder/Director of Global Cannabinoid Research Center, Mike Robinson

    Mike Robinson is the Founder & Director of the Global Cannabinoid Research Center in Santa Barbara, California. He is also a multiple stage four cancer survivor who used cannabis oils and CBD extensively for not only his cancer treatment but also the severe epilepsy that developed from a race car accident when he hit a concrete wall going 180 miles per hour. Over the last decade, Mike has shared his journey and analytics on cannabinoid medicine research globally, while assisting patients and teaching medical professionals. Mike is also known for adopting a severely disabled child, Genevieve, from the compassion program he once ran. And this doesn't begin to cover all Mike and Miguel discuss in this episode, it is a unique conversation!

    1 hr 28 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 E25: The Bread & The Wine, part II: The New Covenant

    People Suffer for Lack of Knowledge. Acceptance, Forgiveness, & Life given by Love are remembered in The Bread & The Wine. Receive them as often as you think of them. This is the New Covenant.

    Earth Ingredients

    Everything Changes

    The Door Is Open

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

    30 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…