*This episode contains explicit material from the start* Welcome back to the second season of the Cannabis Health podcast - What's Your Why? Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them Join Hannah and Mike as they discover how cannabis has changed their guest’s lives, what makes them tick, why they do what they do and what they think needs to improve for patients. Forget graphs and commercial outlooks and expect open, honest conversations with those at the he ..read more

Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with their guests to find out why cannabis matters to them. --- Peter Reynolds is a writer, consultant and lifelong cannabis campaigner.  An expert in the science, medicine, law and politics of cannabis, he has been fighting for legalisation for more than 30 years since his first experience of the plant as a teenager.  However, it was meeting patients, for whom cannabis was a life-saving medicine, that really fired his determination.   In 2011 he was elected leader of the Legalise Ca ..read more

Welcome back to the second season of the Cannabis Health podcast - What's Your Why? Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them Join Hannah and Mike as they discover how cannabis has changed their guest’s lives, what makes them tick, why they do what they do and what they think needs to improve for patients. Forget graphs and commercial outlooks and expect open, honest conversations with those at the heart of the issue. --- Like most of us, Guy Coxall first discov ..read more

Welcome back to the second season of the Cannabis Health podcast - What's Your Why? Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them Join Hannah and Mike as they discover how cannabis has changed their guest’s lives, what makes them tick, why they do what they do and what they think needs to improve for patients. Forget graphs and commercial outlooks and expect open, honest conversations with those at the heart of the issue. --- Jamie Bartley, aka 'Mr Hemp', had a sho ..read more

*This episode contains strong language from the beginning* Welcome back to the second season of the Cannabis Health podcast - What's Your Why? Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them Join Hannah and Mike as they discover how cannabis has changed their guest’s lives, what makes them tick, why they do what they do and what they think needs to improve for patients. Forget graphs and commercial outlooks and expect open, honest conversations with those at the heart ..read more

*This episode contains some strong language from the beginning* Welcome back to the second season of the Cannabis Health podcast - What's Your Why? Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them Join Hannah and Mike as they discover how cannabis has changed their guest’s lives, what makes them tick, why they do what they do and what they think needs to improve for patients. Forget graphs and commercial outlooks and expect open, honest conversations with those at the ..read more

Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with their guests to find out why cannabis matters to them. --- After studying biomedical science in Belfast, Ryan McCreanor worked as a toxicology scientist  on one of the first commercially available testing kits for synthetic cannabis, which at the time was being sold as legal highs known as "Spice". After quitting his job for a stint of travelling he landed in Canada around the time of the legalisation of cannabis for adult-use.  Ryan got a job working for the Government on British Columbi ..read more

Welcome back to the second season of the Cannabis Health podcast - What's Your Why? Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them Join Hannah and Mike as they discover how cannabis has changed their guest’s lives, what makes them tick, why they do what they do and what they think needs to improve for patients. Forget graphs and commercial outlooks and expect open, honest conversations with those at the heart of the issue. --- Our first guest, Peter Carroll, is an aw ..read more

Medical cannabis experts and advocates, Hannah Deacon and Professor Mike Barnes, sit down with some of those at the forefront of cannabis to find out why it matters to them --- Our first guest, the Labour MP for Gower, Tonia Antoniazzi, has made it her mission to advocate for medical cannabis in the UK since she was elected in 2017.  As well as lobbying her colleagues and playing an influential part in the legalisation of medical cannabis in 2018, she has twice travelled to Holland with the parents of severely epileptic children, to see first hand the lengths they have been forced to go ..read more

Medical cannabis experts, Professor Mike Barnes and campaigner Hannah Deacon sit down with their guests to find out why cannabis matters to them. ---- In the final episode of the series, Hannah interviews Professor Mike Barnes for a rare insight into how he ended up as one of the UK's leading cannabis experts. Now known to many as the UK's 'cannabis doctor' Mike spent most of his career as a leading neurologist at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne. He set up the  World Federation For Neurorehabilitation and travelled to countries across the globe to improve neuro-rehab ..read more