Cannabis Culture There for Healing

This was not your ordinary cooking class.

Barb Mahy was making her basic “canna chocolates,” a simple mix of semi-sweet chocolate, coconut butter and a cannabis tincture mix with glycerine and water which she melted and poured into moulds.

About a dozen people sat at tables and chairs to watch the demonstration Saturday upstairs in The Barn, a wellness co-operative in a refurbished barn along Highway 26 between Meaford and Thornbury. Along with 20 vendors and five practitioners, the co-op has an education mandate fulfilled with events like this.

Barb's husband Rob, a tall cannabis evangelical with long grey hair and his own story of how the cannabis worked wonders on his broken back, told the group he and others aim to help suffering through “education and respect,” not smoking up and getting high.

“And remember this, there's a big difference between healers and dealers.”

The Mahys are among the...

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