“What do you mean I can’t send medicinal cannabis to a care home patient? It’s legal!”  Trevor has been a pharmacist in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada since 1997, but this 2017 question bloomed into Reefer Medness the Podcast (reefermed.ca). Trevor and nurse Kirk Nyquist have interviewed cannabis researchers, physicians, pharmacists, nurses, nurse practitioners, naturopathic doctors and most importantly patients about how cannabis has improved their anxiety, pain, sleep, PTSD and more. Every time Trevor and Kirk learn something new about cannabis, they discover three more cannabis topics to explore.

As a pharmacist, Trevor is an Asthma, COPD and Respiratory Educator.  He is injection and self-limiting conditions and teaches smoking cessation. Trevor has two decades of experience compounding medications for patients that aren’t commercially available, like taking an oral medication and changing it into one that can be absorbed through the skin. He supervised the medications in five Long Term Care (LTC) Homes for about 20 years, including training new LTC nurses on the pharmacology of mental health and dementia drugs.  Trevor helped design and implement Pharmacist’s Manitoba’s Smoking Cessation Pilot Project from 2012-2014 and has written various articles and continuing education units published in pharmacy trade magazines. Trevor wrote a weekly newspaper and radio column about solutions to common health complaints for a couple decades, and is now focused on podcasting about cannabis as his mass medium of choice.