Prescribing Cannabis Responsibly w/ Dr Shu Ng (Astrid Clinic)

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03/03/24 • 61 min

Dr. Shu Ng is a cannabis prescribing General Practitioner and Chief Medical Officer and Managing Director of Astrid Clinic. Dr Shu approaches her patients with kindness, compassion and holistic care. She is passionate about helping patients undergoing cancer treatment or experiencing cancer-related symptoms, as well as managing symptoms in palliative care. She has broad interests within medicinal cannabis including managing chronic pain, mental health, women's health, neurodegenerative and seizure disorders and autism spectrum disorders. Dr Shu is an Authorised Prescriber and to date has managed over 2000 patients and their journey with medicinal cannabis. In addition to medicinal cannabis, Dr Shu is also passionate about tobacco harm reduction, and is an Authorised Prescriber of nicotine vaping products. In this episode: Dr Shu’s Journey Through Medicine (3:00) Cannabis Stigma in Singapore (7:00) Cannabis as Medicine (12:00) THC, CBD and Other Cannabinoids (13:50) Working with Patients (16:00) Being a Cannabis Doctor in Australia (24:30) Cannabis and Driving (29:15) Astrid Clinic (33:45) Nicotine Vaping and Health (42:00) Changes to Vaping Laws (50:30) Pauls of Wisdom (59:00) Visit astrid.health Follow Dr Shu on Instagram @dr.shu.ng Follow Give and Toke on Instagram @giveandtoke Email [email protected]

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Canadian Legalisation: From Prohibition to Progress w/ Jennawae Cavion (NORML Canada, Calyx + Trichomes)

Jennawae Cavion is the founder of Calyx + Trichomes - a licensed cannabis retailer based in Kingston, Ontario. She is also the Executive Director of NORML Canada - the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. After fighting for decades, there is finally legal cannabis in Canada but there is still a lot of work to be done. Despite Federal legalisation, NORML is still necessary to fight stigma, missing and incomplete information and research, bureaucracy and to clean up the fall out of prohibition. With a decade and a half working with cannabis, Jennawae possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of cannabis and has experience in both legal and legacy markets. Jennawae’s passion is converting others from the unregulated market over to the regulated market in which she and so many others fought hard to establish. In this episode: Cannabis in Ontario (3:50) The Ontario Lottery (12:00) The Ontario Cannabis Store (19:00) Calyx + Trichomes (29:00) Hotbox Quiz (33:30) blkmkt/Cultiva (35:00) NORML Canada (36:30) Lessons to learn from Canada (51:00) Follow @jennawae on Instagram Follow @jennawae on Twitter/X Visit www.calyxandtrichomes.com Follow @NORMLCanada on Twitter/X Visit www.norml-canada.org Follow @giveandtoke on Instagram Email Us [email protected]

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Travis Petersen aka The Nomad Cook was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. After a brief appearance on Masterchef Canada, Travis would leave the oil and gas industry to start The Nomad Cook, focusing on pop-up cannabis-infused dinners and in-home private dining.

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