Vishva Vijayaa Foundation · Community-owned non-profit
A shared foundation for India’s medical cannabis industry.
VVF uses technology to connect small manufacturers, doctors of Ayurveda and Western medicine, and people around the world seeking personalised wellness and healthcare, with every product traceable from farm to consumer and every use guided by a qualified practitioner.
विजया ददाति विजयम्Vijaya bestows victory
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.
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.
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.
Whitepaper · Draft for consultation
Distributed Ownership and Traceability for Medical Cannabis
How VVF is using blockchain to create a network its members own and a record that follows every product from farm to consumer.
The application form is open to manufacturers and physicians. Cultivators, laboratories, researchers and technology partners can write to namaste@thevvf.org.
The practitioner at the centre
Both poison and medicine. The practitioner decides which.
The Atharvaveda names bhanga among five sacred plants. Ayurveda’s later texts also class it as an upavisha, a lesser poison: a medicine only when it has been purified and correctly prescribed.
Indian drug law takes the same view. Bhang is listed among the poisonous substances of the Ayurvedic system, to be taken under medical supervision.
Shodhana before use
The classical texts require Vijaya to be purified before it becomes medicine. The Rasatarangini describes boiling it in a decoction of babbula bark and processing it with cow’s milk or ghee to reduce its toxic effects.
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.
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.
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.
A warning
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. In India, published research notes that no systematic testing of the illicit supply exists at all. Treat it as injurious to health.
This is why the medical practitioner, the Vaidya or the physician, is the key person in the VVF community. Manufacturers make for the practitioner’s prescription. Traceability exists so the practitioner knows exactly what is being prescribed. Patients reach Vijaya through a practitioner, never around one.
Sources: Atharvaveda 11.6.15 (five kingdoms of plants); Rasatarangini, Ayurvedaprakasha and Yogaratnakara on purification, as collected at Wisdom Library; Schedule E(1), Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945; Montoya et al., “Cannabis contaminants limit pharmacological use of cannabidiol”, Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020; Riyaz, “A user-informed perspective of the toxicological data gap in India’s cannabis landscape”, Frontiers in Toxicology, 2026.
The network
Three groups that need each other, with the practitioner in the middle.
Ayurveda and Western medicine
Vaidyas and physicians assess the patient and prescribe. They get products they can trace, the evidence behind them, and a place to share what they see in practice.
Reach and credibility
Licensed makers of Vijaya-based formulations get a route to practitioners, and a verifiable record of quality that a small brand cannot build alone.
Personalised care they can trust
People seeking wellness and healthcare are connected first to a qualified practitioner, and through them to products whose origin they can check.
Why a non-profit: the network is a commons. No single manufacturer, clinic or platform owns it, so every member can rely on it.
Apply to join the network
Manufacturers and physicians can apply here. We review every application and reply by email.
Traceability
From farm to consumer, every step on record.
In a regulated industry, trust depends on being able to show where a product came from and what happened to it. VVF is building that record with AI.
- FarmLicensed cultivation, strain and harvest batch.
- ProcessingExtraction and handling, batch by batch.
- LabTest reports for potency and purity.
- ManufacturerFormulation, licence and packaging.
- Practitioner and patientPrescribed after assessment, dispensed, and checked by the person who uses it.
Reads the record so people don’t have to
AI organises batch documents and lab reports, flags gaps and inconsistencies, and finds patterns across cultivation, formulation and outcomes.
Keeps the record honest
A tamper-evident ledger for supply chains, ethical sourcing and data, with each individual in control of their own information.
How we do it
The design behind the record: independent circles, the institutions that vouch for them, and the Community Digital Infrastructure architecture underneath.
Standards and compliance
What VVF does, and what it does not do.
VVF works with a regulated plant. These are the lines we hold, and that we ask every member to hold.
- Admit to the supply side only cultivators, manufacturers 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.
- Sell, supply or facilitate access to cannabis or cannabis products.
- Promote or endorse any product or brand.
- 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 we work within
VVF and its members operate under Indian law, including:
- 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.
Independence
VVF is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. It has no shareholders and pays no dividends; any surplus goes back into the network and its research.
Its standards are set with its members: farmers, manufacturers, doctors and patients.
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.
- FirstPlant Intelligence
The genesis. Plants sense, respond, defend and communicate, and they make the chemistry that the rest of life depends on.
- ThenAnimal and Human Intelligence
Sentient beings: our collective knowledge, wisdom and consciousness.
- NowMachine Intelligence
Artificial intelligence, the latest entry, built by humans from what they have learned.
Plant Intelligence is the basis of traditional medicine across the world, and one of the least researched subjects in modern science.
VVF wants to shine a light on Plant Intelligence as the genesis of all intelligence on Earth. Vijaya is where we begin, because few plants have been studied as closely by a traditional system of medicine.
Our approach: Integrated Intelligence
We do not set one kind of intelligence against another. We bring the three together.
What the plant knows
The natural intelligence embedded in plants, with Vijaya as our starting point.
What people have learned
Classical texts, the practitioner’s judgement and clinical observation.
What machines can find
AI to process data and find patterns; blockchain for transparency, security and each individual’s control of their own information.
- Ayurvedic medicine: ancient remedies with data-driven insight
- Sustainable agriculture: better cultivation practice
- Consciousness studies: perception and cognition
Our vision: a future of integrated intelligence
Ancient wisdom, modern tools
Harmonising traditional knowledge with current technology.
Supervised, informed use
Use of Vijaya that begins with a practitioner’s assessment of the individual patient.
A healthier society
Contributing to a healthier, more conscious society.
Publications
Read our work.
From Farm to Consumer, Every Step on Record
How VVF builds traceability on Community Digital Infrastructure.
December 2025WhitepaperDistributed Ownership and Traceability for Medical Cannabis
How blockchain gives the network to its members and a record to every batch.
EssayIndian knowledgeGanja and Bhang: An Unusual Chapter
Vijaya in Indian tradition, medicine and law, adapted from the founder’s writing.
Team VVF
The people building it.
Sachin Awasthi
Founder
Sanatan Dharma advocate and writer.
Anup Pai
Co-founder
Tech and Finance
Dr. Pawan Sharma
Co-founder
Ayurveda
Vinod Ojha
Co-founder
Indian Knowledge Systems Research
Join the VVF team
We are looking for people who want to do this work.
VVF is community-owned, and the community starts with the people who build it. If your work touches any part of this, write to us.