Practise Safe Consumption

Cannabis is Common Sense and Safe Consumption involves asking yourself a number of important questions. 

Never Drive High, make alternate arrangements to stay put, designate a driver, or take a  taxi home at the end of the social gathering or night.

Going Skiing? Snowmobiling? An afternoon in the boat? Are you or will you be responsible for Children and Minors? Cannabis Use increases the likelihood of accident and injury in Activity, Recreation & Sport. Manage Your Use and Save it for when the day is done.

Always Speak to Your doctor about your cannabis use, especially if you have a pre-existing health condition or take medication. Cannabis Use leads to an increase in Heart Rates and a Decrease in Blood Pressure, and can present a greater risk of Heart Episodes and Stroke.

Cannabis affects your mental health, especially with regular use, even if you do take it medicinally or are engaged in self-directed care, Speak to your doctor about anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and psychosis and make informed and safe decisions about your use.

Indica for the body, Sativa for mindful effects, be sure your cannabis use if directed at the effects, health, and care you desire, and choose a method of safe consumption when the demands of work or life are involved. Have to drive in the morning? Skip the edibles the night before. On your way to enjoy recreation and activity? Leave the joint for the end of the day when injury or accident won't present itself as a possibility.  Inform your employer of your use and the demands of your health, and always speak to your doctor about your health and living with medicinal or recreational cannabis use. 

Safe Consumption demands meeting the challenges of responsibility and harm, injury, and accident prevention in your cannabis use, Never Drive or Operate Machinery under the effects of Cannabis, and always make a plan for your social, recreational, and/or medicinal use. Remember that Cannabis Use increases the likelihood of accident and injury when combined with many activities and the demands of daily life, not only for yourself but for others, and plan for and Practise Safe Consumption.