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Disclaimer & Editorial Standards

Last updated: January 2025

1. What Cannabis Portrait is

Cannabis Portrait is an independent documentary media publication. We make video portraits and written Stories about people whose lives intersect with cannabis. We are a journalism project. We are not a cannabis retailer, dispensary, clinic, laboratory, law firm or advisory service, and we do not sell, supply or broker cannabis or any other controlled substance.

Subjects speak for themselves. Their views are their own. Nothing here is medical or legal advice.

2. Subjects speak for themselves

Every portrait is built from what a subject said on the record. We publish their words as they said them. We remove filler and transcription errors; we do not change grammar, vocabulary or meaning.

It follows that a view expressed by a subject is that subject's view and not ours. Publishing a person is not endorsing them. We do not editorialise, we do not argue, and the presence of a claim in a portrait is not a statement by Cannabis Portrait that the claim is true.

Where a subject makes a factual claim that we could verify independently, we say so in the piece. Where we could not, we attribute it to them and leave it attributed.

3. No medical advice

Cannabis Portrait publishes interviews with scientists, clinicians, patients and others who discuss cannabis, cannabinoids and health. None of it is medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and none of it is a substitute for consulting a qualified healthcare professional.

Do not start, stop or change any treatment on the basis of something you read or watch here. Cannabis and cannabinoid products interact with prescription medicines and are not appropriate for everyone.

4. No legal advice

Cannabis Portrait publishes interviews with lawyers, regulators and business operators who discuss cannabis law. None of it is legal advice. Cannabis law differs sharply between countries, and within countries between states and regions, and it changes often.

Nothing here should be relied on to determine what is lawful where you are. Consult a qualified lawyer in your own jurisdiction.

5. Jurisdiction and legality

We publish globally. Cannabis is legal in some of the places we work, tolerated in others, and prohibited in others. Nothing in a portrait is an encouragement to break the law where you live.

Subjects sometimes describe activity that was unlawful at the time or in the place it happened, including their own past. We publish those accounts as documentary record, not as instruction or endorsement.

6. Age

This publication is intended for adults. Cannabis is restricted to adults in every jurisdiction where it is lawful at all. If you are under the legal age for cannabis where you live, this material is not intended for you.

7. Accuracy, corrections and right of reply

We check what we publish. When we get something wrong we correct it on the page and add a dated note saying what was wrong. We do not make corrections silently.

A subject who disputes how they have been characterised may respond, and we will publish their response with the piece. This does not extend to approving copy before publication.

To request a correction or exercise a right of reply, write to info@cannabisportrait.com.

8. Independence and conflicts

Cannabis Portrait is editorially independent. We do not accept editorial direction from sponsors, commercial partners or subjects, and we do not publish sponsored editorial.

Where a portrait touches a company or project connected to Cannabis Portrait or to its parent, we disclose the connection in the piece or we cut the passage. We do not publish it undisclosed.

9. Third-party content

Portraits embed video hosted by YouTube and Vimeo, and may link to third-party sites. We do not control that content and are not responsible for it. See our Cookie Policy / Disclaimer for how embeds are handled.

10. Contact

Questions about anything on this page: info@cannabisportrait.com

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This publication is for adults

Cannabis Portrait is documentary journalism about people whose lives intersect with cannabis. Subjects speak for themselves and describe their own use.

Please confirm you are of legal age for cannabis where you live.

Nothing here is medical or legal advice. See our Disclaimer & Editorial Standards.