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Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction | Review
Read more: Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction | ReviewMaia Szalavitz is an author and journalist focused on neuroscience, addiction and drug policy. She has written for the likes of High Times, VICE, The New York Times and The Guardian. Her newest book, Undoing Drugs, provides a comprehensive history of North American harm reduction movements, which arose as a response to the frightening AIDS…
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Laura | 15.06.2021
Read more: Laura | 15.06.2021Laura suffers with chronic depression, anxiety, insomnia and back pain, which she was prescribed Valium for ten years ago. She says she hasn’t ‘popped’ a Valium since a few years ago, when she lived in Canada and had access to medical cannabis. Twitter / Instagram: @ucancallmelola Can you please outline your relationship with alcohol in…
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Milly Gilbert | 20.05.2021
Read more: Milly Gilbert | 20.05.2021Milly Gilbert lives in the UK. She suffers with mental health and physical conditions including depression, generalised anxiety, C-PTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder), 1dissociative seizures, 2hEDS (Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) and 3fibromyalgia. She has a private medical cannabis prescription for thirty grams of indica flower a month and 50mls of oil (CBD 10:THC 5),…
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Carolyn Barry | Nottingham, UK | 13.05.2021
Read more: Carolyn Barry | Nottingham, UK | 13.05.2021Carolyn Barry is an Irish journalist based in Nottingham, England. She writes for 1The Cannavist and 2Vapouround magazines on vaping, CBD and cannabis. With over 13 years of experience as a journalist, she has worked in radio and written for publications across the UK, Ireland and the US. She has written about LGBT+ rights, culture,…
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Emily – Part II | 26.03.21
Read more: Emily – Part II | 26.03.21Emily describes herself as an Irish goth who loves makeup. She has Asperger’s Syndrome and suffers from other physical and mental health conditions which greatly affect her quality of life. Here, she speaks in more depth about the kinds of medications she has been prescribed and how she takes them, while also looking at their…
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Emily | 23.03.21
Read more: Emily | 23.03.21Emily describes herself as a goth who loves makeup. She has Asperger’s Syndrome and suffers from other physical and mental health conditions which greatly affect her quality of life. Here, she speaks of how she has tackled these conditions and how the Irish system has failed her on many occasions by not providing her with…
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Adrienne Lynch | 09.01.2021
Read more: Adrienne Lynch | 09.01.2021Richard speaks to Adrienne Lynch. Despite long-term mental health issues and related physical conditions, she was able to come off debilitating prescription medications and go on to live a full, purposeful life, thanks in no small part to cannabis. Twitter: @adriennevlynch How was your experience of cannabis in Amsterdam when you were in your 20s…
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Cannabis Saved My Life
Read more: Cannabis Saved My LifeGuest writer Adrienne Lynch bravely tells us about her life to date and how, despite ongoing mental health issues and related physical conditions, she was able to come off of debilitating prescription medications and to live a full, purposeful life, thanks to cannabis. It is a written testament to the potential for cannabis to completely…
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