For distributors and retailers · a new circle

Your handoff, on the same record as everyone else’s.

Licensed wholesale distributors and retailers of Vijaya-based products are a new part of the VVF network, being defined with the first members who join — not yet a settled circle.

Apply to join Register

Applying costs nothing. VVF does not sell cannabis and does not take a cut.

Who this is for

Licensed, not informal — and new.

VVF admits to the supply side only cultivators, manufacturers, distributors/retailers and practitioners who hold the licence their work requires. The Distribution Circle is the newest of these.

Eligible
Licensed wholesale distributors and retailers — for example, a licensed bhang shop or an AYUSH-licensed Ayurvedic pharmacy stocking Vijaya-based formulations
Not eligible
Unlicensed sellers, or anyone seeking to buy or sell outside a licence
What is new here
This circle is not yet on VVF’s published site; its exact rules are still being written with early members

What you get

An application, written with you.

  1. Say what you distribute or stock

    Your organisation, your licence, and what moves through you.

  2. The coach writes the brief

    The same shape of fields as the network’s other circles.

  3. A person reviews it

    VVF’s team reads every application and replies by email.

The coach does the writing

Answer a few questions and download your application as a file.

Talk to the coach

About VVF

Owned by its community. Led by the practitioner, for the patient, the producer and the plant.

Vishva Vijayaa Foundation is a not-for-profit company dedicated to a research-based understanding of cannabis, known in Indian texts as Vijaya.

  • Connect

    One network for small manufacturers, doctors and the people they serve.

  • Trace

    AI-led traceability for every batch, from the farm to the consumer.

  • Understand

    Research that brings Indian knowledge systems and modern science to the same table.

We are rooted in the traditional knowledge and practices of Bharat and apply scientific methods to them. We do not sell cannabis. We build the shared infrastructure that lets a fragmented industry work together and earn trust, with the medical practitioner at its centre.

The practitioner at the centre

Both poison and medicine. The practitioner decides which.

Ayurveda’s texts class Vijaya as an upavisha, a lesser poison: a medicine only when purified and correctly prescribed. Indian drug law takes the same view.

  1. Shodhana before use

    The classical texts require Vijaya to be purified before it becomes medicine — boiled in a decoction of babbula bark and processed with cow’s milk or ghee to reduce its toxic effects.

  2. The person before the plant

    The practitioner establishes the patient’s body type, the balance of Vata, Pitta and Kapha, along with their condition and what they need.

  3. The right form and measure

    Only then is Vijaya prescribed: the preparation, the dose and the duration chosen for that patient, not for patients in general.

  4. Follow the patient

    The practitioner watches the response and adjusts. What is learned goes back, with consent, into the network’s shared knowledge.

Unsupervised or uneducated use of the plant does not give the desired results.

Cannabis sold illegally is not medicine. It is unpurified, untested and of unknown origin. Where illicit cannabis has been tested, laboratories have found pesticides, heavy metals, moulds and added adulterants, and published Indian research notes that no systematic testing of the illicit supply exists at all. Unsupervised or uneducated use of the plant does not give the desired results.

The network

Circles that need each other, with the practitioner in the middle.

In NEST Networks terms, any group that works under shared rules is a Circle.

The circles, farm to patient

Each hands off to the next in order — a visible chain, not a loose set of members.

  1. Farm Circle

    Licensed cultivators in a district

    Governs: Cultivation practice, harvest batches.

  2. Processing Circle

    Extraction and processing units

    Governs: Handling and extraction records.

  3. Lab Circle

    Testing laboratories

    Governs: Test methods and reports.

  4. Manufacturer Circle

    Licensed makers of formulations

    Governs: Formulation, packaging, labelling.

  5. Distribution Circle · new

    Licensed wholesale distributors and retailers

    Governs: Storage, transport and retail handoff of a licensed product.

  6. Practitioner Circle

    Doctors of Ayurveda and Western medicine

    Governs: Prescribing and observation.

  7. Patient community

    People who use the products

    Governs: Their own data and consent.

Who vouches for whom

Each claim is backed by the authority already competent to vouch for it — a Trust Provider. VVF invents none of these.

  • This farm may cultivate

    Vouched for by: The state authority that issued the cultivation licence.

  • This unit may manufacture

    Vouched for by: The drug-licensing authority that issued the manufacturing licence.

  • New

    This party may distribute or retail

    Vouched for by: The authority that issued its wholesale/retail drug licence or state excise (bhang) licence.

  • This test report is valid

    Vouched for by: The body that accredited the laboratory.

  • This person may prescribe

    Vouched for by: The medical council that holds the practitioner's registration.

  • This party is a network member in good standing

    Vouched for by: VVF, under rules set by its members.

The network is a commons. No single manufacturer, clinic, distributor or platform owns it, so every member can rely on it. VVF has no shareholders and pays no dividends; any surplus goes back into the network and its research.

Traceability

From farm to consumer, every step on record.

Each batch has one record. Every step adds evidence to it, anchored on a blockchain ledger that makes it tamper-evident.

  1. Farm

    Licence, plot, strain, sowing and harvest dates, harvest weight — vouched for by: Cultivation licence.

  2. Processing

    Batch received, method, input and output weights — vouched for by: Processing licence.

  3. Lab

    Sample taken, test report for potency and purity — vouched for by: Lab accreditation.

  4. Manufacturer

    Formulation, product batch number, label and pack — vouched for by: Manufacturing licence.

  5. Distributor/Retailer (new)

    Batch received and stored, quantities moved, who it was handed to next — vouched for by: Wholesale/retail drug licence or state excise (bhang) licence.

  6. Doctor and patient

    Prescription reference and dispensing, with consent — vouched for by: Medical registration.

AI reads the record so people do not have to: it organises batch documents and lab reports and flags gaps. It does not make the decision — a person always does.

Where we are

Honestly: a design in progress, not a live system.

This is a design document, not a system that is live today. Members who join now help define the batch record, the handoff protocol and the rules of each circle.

Not settled yet

  • How distributed ownership (membership tokens) will be legally structured — still being settled with legal counsel and regulators before any token is issued.
  • The exact rollout timeline — the plan is one chain at a time, starting with one farm circle, one lab, one manufacturer and a small group of doctors, with no public date set.
  • The Distribution Circle is new — its licensing checks and batch-record fields are still being defined with the first distributors and retailers who join.
  • VVF's own call-back number and office hours have not been published; only namaste@thevvf.org is given.

Standards and compliance

What VVF does, and what it does not do.

VVF works with a regulated plant. These are the lines it holds, and that every member is asked to hold.

VVF does

  • Admit to the supply side only cultivators, manufacturers, distributors/retailers and practitioners who hold the licence or registration their work requires.
  • Publish research and frameworks with their sources and their limits stated.
  • Keep a product's record open to the person holding it, and a patient's record private.
  • Hold that Vijaya is used only on a qualified practitioner's assessment and prescription.

VVF does not

  • Sell, supply or facilitate access to cannabis or cannabis products.
  • Promote or endorse any product, brand or member.
  • Encourage unsupervised or self-directed use.
  • Make therapeutic claims, or offer medical, legal or financial advice.
  • Issue or sell tokens as an investment.

The law VVF and its members work within

  • The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and state NDPS and excise rules.
  • The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and its rules on licensing Ayurvedic medicines.
  • The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954.
  • The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

The network is a commons. No single manufacturer, clinic, distributor or platform owns it, so every member can rely on it. VVF has no shareholders and pays no dividends; any surplus goes back into the network and its research.

Plant Intelligence

Intelligence on Earth began with plants.

Our thesis is that the Earth itself is a superintelligence, and that its intelligence arrived in stages. Plants came first.

  1. First — Plant Intelligence

    The genesis. Plants sense, respond, defend and communicate, and they make the chemistry the rest of life depends on.

  2. Then — Animal and Human Intelligence

    Sentient beings: our collective knowledge, wisdom and consciousness.

  3. Now — Machine Intelligence

    Artificial intelligence, the latest entry, built by humans from what they have learned.

VVF aims to integrate Plant Intelligence, Human Intelligence and Machine Intelligence.

  • Plant

    The natural intelligence embedded in plants, with Vijaya as our starting point.

  • Human

    Classical texts, the practitioner's judgement and clinical observation.

  • Machine

    AI to process data and find patterns; blockchain for transparency, security and control of information.

Publications

Read our work.

  • May 2026 · Design document

    From Farm to Consumer, Every Step on Record

    How VVF builds traceability on Community Digital Infrastructure.

  • December 2025 · Whitepaper

    Distributed Ownership and Traceability for Medical Cannabis

    How blockchain gives the network to its members and a record to every batch.

  • Essay · Indian knowledge

    Ganja and Bhang: An Unusual Chapter

    Vijaya in Indian tradition, medicine and law, adapted from the founder's writing.

Team VVF

The people building it.

  • Founder

    Sachin Awasthi

    Sanatan Dharma advocate and writer.

  • Co-founder

    Anup Pai

    Tech and Finance.

  • Co-founder

    Dr. Pawan Kumar Sharma

    Ayurveda.

  • Co-founder

    Vinod Ojha

    Indian Knowledge Systems Research.

Join the VVF team

Scientists, doctors, technologists, writers and thinkers in Indian knowledge systems — if your work touches any part of this, write in.

Write to VVF