Canada Vancouver pot shop Evergreen Cannabis sells big bongs to support a Downtown Eastside charity Evergreen Cannabis has raised over $40,000 as of April Rheanna NeilApril 29, 2022
Canada Landmark project looks at cannabis harm reduction in Indigenous communities A 5-year project led by university researchers will study pot as a treatment for opioid use and dependency on methadone or suboxone Nick LabaAugust 27, 2021
Data Cannabis significantly reduces prescription opioid use: Tilray patient study In the first substitution study to track individual use over time, researchers found stark drops in use of opioids and other medications Nick LabaJanuary 22, 2021
Enforcement Illicit ‘life-saving’ Vancouver dispensary at risk of shutdown The Serious Hope Society is asking Ottawa for an exemption from federal cannabis law. Its landlord and city staff might shutter it before one... Michelle GamageOctober 8, 2020
Analysis Daily cannabis users 26% more likely to stop injecting opioids: study Results should be used by policy makers to save lives during the overdose crisis, says cannabis and addiction scientist M-J Milloy Michelle GamageSeptember 16, 2020
The weed wire Want to get your cannabis research funded? Focus on harms Funding goes disproportionately towards researching vice over virtue, study shows Michelle GamageSeptember 11, 2020
Canada Can cannabis help reduce heroin use? Can cannabis ... is a new series where Mugglehead journalists investigate controversial claims about the uses of weed, in an effort to inform our... Michelle GamageNovember 29, 2019
Canada Cannabis is the overdose prevention tool we don’t use: symposium The Cannabis Science Symposium explored how weed could be used for harm reduction in the overdose crisis Michelle GamageNovember 25, 2019
Canada Daily cannabis use could help battle overdose crisis: study A bong rip a day keeps frequent opioid use at bay for people self-medicating their chronic pain, according to the latest research from the... Michelle GamageNovember 20, 2019
Canada Pot Professor Studies Cannabis for Opioid Addiction as Major Drugmakers Face Lawsuits Mugglehead talks to University of British Columbia's M-J Milloy who is studying how cannabis might help with opioid addiction while big pharma is being... Jared GnamSeptember 9, 2019