• VICS Cannamist (includes instructions to convert THCA into THC)
• VICS Cannabis Oil
• VICS Cannabutter

• "Regulating Compassion: An overview of Health Canada's medical cannabis policy and practice" The first comprehensive review of Health Canadas controversial medical cannabis program, as well as the community-based dispensaries that are currently the main source of medical cannabis medicines and access in Canada.
  Lucas, P.G. (2008). Regulating Compassion: an overview of Health Canadas medical cannabis policy and practice. Harm Reduct J. Jan 28;5:5.
• May 2006: Guidelines for the Community-Based Distribution of Medical Cannabis in Canada
• The VICS/BCCCS recommendations to OCMA Stakeholders Advisory Committee [PDF]
• VICS Critique of Health Canada's New Medical Marijuana Policy
• Health Canada's Forms to Apply for Legal Access to Medical Marijuana
• March 20, 2006: Letter from Mayor Lowe to Tony Clement (requesting "an immediate review of current (medical cannabis)policies and regulations to determine where improvements can be made to ensure a better quality of life for those Canadians in need of medical assistance.")
• A Roadmap to Compassion: The Implementation of a Working Medicinal Cannabis Program in Canada [PDF]

  Although Health Canada has taken some progressive policy steps, many improvements are still needed. This document identifies many of the roadblocks Canadians have been facing with the MMAR program, and proposes solutions to overcoming them. These solutions focus on the already existing and successful medical cannabis distribution system in Canada, the compassion societies.

• Evidence to House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-medical Use of Drugs (2003): Philippe Lucas Presentation
• Survey of medicinal cannabis use among childbearing women: Patterns of its use in pregnancy and retroactive self-assessment of its efficacy against 'morning sickness', Rachel E. Westfall, Patricia A. Janssen, Philippe Lucas, Rielle Capler, Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice (2006) 12, 2733
  • VICS participation in a cannabis use, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy survey protocol is reported on and now available as a streaming video

Press Releases

Health Canada 1500% Cannabis Mark-Up Increases Suffering of Critically Ill Canadians, April 16, 2007
- Sample refund letter for PPS cannabis: The following is a draft refund letter for exemptees who ordered the PPS cannabis to use in order to either get a refund or to stop them from sending a collection agency after us