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Ever since she and her husband met some Rastafarians while traveling, Melanie Stephan says she's been intrigued with the cannabis plant, but not for the giggle or a reason to munch Doritos.
"Up until that point I was like the rest of the civilized world where I thought the cannabis was just something you smoked, made you hungry and go to sleep," explained Melanie, co-founder of Med Marijuana, a medicinal gel capsule filled with the oils of the green, leafy plant. "I really didn't realize it could virtually save the planet, it has so many uses."
In 1998, when the federal government passed legislation allowing people to grow cannabis as long as it was less than 10 parts per million THC, the psychoactive ingredient, which isn?t enough to get you high, then Stephan's saw the possibility of forming their own company and began developing their natural food supplement. In 2001 they became federally incorporated and Melanie says they 'haven't looked back since.'
The Stephan's have begun the distribution of their boxes of capsules throughout most of Canada, and Albertan's should be seeing the white containers with the marijuana leaf emblem on health food and pharmacy shelves any day now.
Bob Hedley, owner of Hedley Enterprises, which has a retail health store and is a distributor of natural products across Canada, said that this is a wonderful natural food supplement.
"We've had customers asking for the product and saying what the product had been doing for them," said Hedley adding that because the product is so new he hasn't had the opportunity to distribute it to the more than 1,700 retail outlets he deals with and he's just getting started sending to the hundreds of stores in Alberta.
He said the pills are very rich in Omega three, six and nine oils, "which are very important supplements for many things, which is a reason we've received positive feedback."
Melanie explains they have three scientific labs under contract where the harvest of the cannabis goes as soon as their grower receives authorization from Health Canada that the product is a sufficiently low level of THC.
"At that juncture it is legal to distribute the product throughout Canada without further regulations required and at that point the stock material goes directly to the lab where they do up the analysis of the oil and they extract the oil," said Melanie.
The seed pressings are extracted in what they call an inner environment where there is no light and no oxygen and there's a cool temperature so the oil won't have any chance to metabolize. It is then placed in a soft biodegradable gel cap so the product can be orally digested. There are 90 gel caps to a bottle, or about a month's supply, which will retail at about $40 to $45.
Stephan Pyne, owner of Rainbow Vitamins health store in Calgary, said he doesn't believe in the product because of how it's marketed.
"We're reluctant to endorse it," said Pyne, "They are taking what is essentially hemp oil and pitching it as medical marijuana and that's sheer marketing gall."
Pyne said it's a source of essential fatty acids.
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in North America and there is a direct correlation between that and low level essential fatty acids in our diet.
Payne explained people use hemp oils for brain function and cardiovascular health and the capsules have the capacity to regulate blood lipids as a dietary source, but using the marijuana-marketing hook doesn't bode well with him.
"We were introduced to this product and we did bring it into the store and there always was the possibility that this was somewhat different from hemp oils," he explained, "I don't believe in the product ( as anything other than a hemp oil )."
The same 90 capsule bottle of hemp oil sells for about $14 at Rainbow Vitamins.
Melanie agrees that this pill does not have a cure for anything.
"It's not a magic bullet, it is a maintenance system, it slowly works to enhance the immune system," explained Melanie, adding it assists people with auto-immune disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple scleroses etc.
Melanie said that she and her husband, who reside in Halifax, are not wealthy but they've worked incredibly hard to make this business a success.
"We literally begged and borrowed from family and friends, we put every cent we could muster into product development," she said, adding, "We knew if we were going to do this we wanted to be the Heinz ketchup of the industry." Shirley Martin is a licensed dealer for Alberta. She initially became involved with the supplement as a natural health alternative for her arthritis.
"I can tell you personally how much it works, I've never had anything help me like this product," she said, adding it is certified organic natural with no psychoactive products, so you won't get high or the munchies, or overdose.
Shirley said the product will be available in all 19 Super Drug Mart locations in Calgary later this week.
Source: Didsbury Review, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2005 The Didsbury Review
Contact: myreview@airenet.com
Website: https://didsburyreview.awna.com/
"Up until that point I was like the rest of the civilized world where I thought the cannabis was just something you smoked, made you hungry and go to sleep," explained Melanie, co-founder of Med Marijuana, a medicinal gel capsule filled with the oils of the green, leafy plant. "I really didn't realize it could virtually save the planet, it has so many uses."
In 1998, when the federal government passed legislation allowing people to grow cannabis as long as it was less than 10 parts per million THC, the psychoactive ingredient, which isn?t enough to get you high, then Stephan's saw the possibility of forming their own company and began developing their natural food supplement. In 2001 they became federally incorporated and Melanie says they 'haven't looked back since.'
The Stephan's have begun the distribution of their boxes of capsules throughout most of Canada, and Albertan's should be seeing the white containers with the marijuana leaf emblem on health food and pharmacy shelves any day now.
Bob Hedley, owner of Hedley Enterprises, which has a retail health store and is a distributor of natural products across Canada, said that this is a wonderful natural food supplement.
"We've had customers asking for the product and saying what the product had been doing for them," said Hedley adding that because the product is so new he hasn't had the opportunity to distribute it to the more than 1,700 retail outlets he deals with and he's just getting started sending to the hundreds of stores in Alberta.
He said the pills are very rich in Omega three, six and nine oils, "which are very important supplements for many things, which is a reason we've received positive feedback."
Melanie explains they have three scientific labs under contract where the harvest of the cannabis goes as soon as their grower receives authorization from Health Canada that the product is a sufficiently low level of THC.
"At that juncture it is legal to distribute the product throughout Canada without further regulations required and at that point the stock material goes directly to the lab where they do up the analysis of the oil and they extract the oil," said Melanie.
The seed pressings are extracted in what they call an inner environment where there is no light and no oxygen and there's a cool temperature so the oil won't have any chance to metabolize. It is then placed in a soft biodegradable gel cap so the product can be orally digested. There are 90 gel caps to a bottle, or about a month's supply, which will retail at about $40 to $45.
Stephan Pyne, owner of Rainbow Vitamins health store in Calgary, said he doesn't believe in the product because of how it's marketed.
"We're reluctant to endorse it," said Pyne, "They are taking what is essentially hemp oil and pitching it as medical marijuana and that's sheer marketing gall."
Pyne said it's a source of essential fatty acids.
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in North America and there is a direct correlation between that and low level essential fatty acids in our diet.
Payne explained people use hemp oils for brain function and cardiovascular health and the capsules have the capacity to regulate blood lipids as a dietary source, but using the marijuana-marketing hook doesn't bode well with him.
"We were introduced to this product and we did bring it into the store and there always was the possibility that this was somewhat different from hemp oils," he explained, "I don't believe in the product ( as anything other than a hemp oil )."
The same 90 capsule bottle of hemp oil sells for about $14 at Rainbow Vitamins.
Melanie agrees that this pill does not have a cure for anything.
"It's not a magic bullet, it is a maintenance system, it slowly works to enhance the immune system," explained Melanie, adding it assists people with auto-immune disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple scleroses etc.
Melanie said that she and her husband, who reside in Halifax, are not wealthy but they've worked incredibly hard to make this business a success.
"We literally begged and borrowed from family and friends, we put every cent we could muster into product development," she said, adding, "We knew if we were going to do this we wanted to be the Heinz ketchup of the industry." Shirley Martin is a licensed dealer for Alberta. She initially became involved with the supplement as a natural health alternative for her arthritis.
"I can tell you personally how much it works, I've never had anything help me like this product," she said, adding it is certified organic natural with no psychoactive products, so you won't get high or the munchies, or overdose.
Shirley said the product will be available in all 19 Super Drug Mart locations in Calgary later this week.
Source: Didsbury Review, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2005 The Didsbury Review
Contact: myreview@airenet.com
Website: https://didsburyreview.awna.com/
