Pharmacists don’t usually sit at the centre of conversations about plant medicine, but maybe they should.

Jen and Nick Ravenswood are a husband-and-wife team with deep roots in community pharmacy, and the founders of Rays Wellness, a medicinal cannabis dispensary built on patient care, education, and professional standards.

Their journey into cannabis didn’t start with hype. It started with a prescription and a system that didn’t work the way it should. What followed was a hands-on effort to improve access, raise the bar on patient care, and bring a pharmacist-led perspective into a space that often moves faster than its foundations.

With experience across prescribing, education, clinic support, and regulatory navigation, Jen and Nick offer a grounded view of where medicinal cannabis sits today and where it’s heading.

This is a conversation about partnership, progress, and what happens when healthcare professionals step forward to shape the future, rather than wait for it.

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Tanner Stewart is focused on one of the most challenging and consequential areas in health: how we understand and manage pain. Through Stewart Farms, he’s working to develop plant-powered alternatives that sit alongside conventional approaches, offering people more options in a space long dominated by pharmaceuticals.

At the centre of that work is Arctic Heat, a topical wellness line designed with restraint, intention, and respect for both science and lived experience. Rather than chasing hype, Tanner speaks candidly about responsibility in wellness, the limits of what products can promise, and the importance of trust when people are seeking relief.

In this episode:

Thousands of Canadians supported each month (0:30)

Prioritising integrity (4:20)

Maintaining medicinal integrity (7:40)

Cannabis, pain, PTSD and veterans (13:45)

The safety profile of cannabis and opioid addiction (18:30)

Taking on big pharma (24:15)

Topicals 101 (31:40)

Stewart Farms: From startup to scale (36:00)

Hotbox Quiz (44:00)

Pauls of Wisdom (49:00)

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The Catch-Up is a collaboration between Give and Toke and AusCannaReviews with Paul and Christina coming together occasionally to explore what’s happening in Cannabis in Australia and around the world.

In this episode:

• Unmissable talks: Gabriel Younes on aroma, and Chad Walkaden on Indigenous healthcare (2:30)

• The TGA Presentation: cautious optimism and takeaways (7:00)

• Community leading the way (12:00)

• Good vibes prevailing in a volatile time (14:30)

• Key takeaways - memories, challenged perspectives, finding common ground, breaking stigma (17:00)

• Improving UIC for patients (22:00)

• UIC is Cannabis School Camp (26:00)

  
  

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