Dr. Jason Joseph Bowman, RTMP (Hon.) is a legal, treaty and governance scholar and herbalist who, in 2017, became recognized as a natural treatment specialist and Honorary Traditional Medical Practitioner under Zimbabwe’s Traditional Medical Practitioners Act—the first law enacted after independence affirming the nation’s right to safeguard and regulate its own indigenous medical knowledge.
In 2025, Jason established UK as an institution dedicated to justice, indigenous epistemology, scientific inquiry, and global innovation and as a means by which to ensure his work continues to advance truth, justice, and cross-cultural integrative medicine.
Dr. Bowman was born and raised in Alliston, Ontario where he attended St. Paul’s Roman Catholic School and Sir Fredrick Banting Memorial Secondary School. Jason went on to study at the Hans-Purrmann Gymnasium in Speyer, Germany, University of Toronto, and at Harvard University. He is cofounder of Manica Healing Society (MHS), and led Zimbabwe’s first successful cannabinoid-based oncology treatment study in 2017. His team’s work was recognized by Dr. Robert Melamede, Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School’s May 2019 Global Catalyst Health Summit where it was cited as an extreme example that demonstrates the utility of a cannabinoid-driven approach to restorative health. Dr. Bowman and his team’s work have paved the way for further advances in ECS research and increased patient access to cannabinoid-based therapies worldwide.
Dr. Bowman has served as Special Counsel to the Mohawk Workers, the Grand River Mohawk Fiduciaries and the Office of Ohrerek:owa since 2012. He continues to proudly represent and assist the Grand River Mohawks with respect to matters of both legal and diplomatic natures as called upon.
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