Cultivating Community and Consciousness

0:03BubblemanAll right, we're about to go live. It's just preparing the live stream.

0:10SpeakerOh my gosh. There you go. We're live.

0:16SpeakerHey, everyone. Welcome to Hash Church. We're super excited to be on today with an all-women's panel. And we were on about 10 minutes before and talking about all of the places that we're from. And we're pretty much all over North America representing today a bunch of us Dempeer farmers and a lot of us awesome conscious educators in the world of cannabis. And I think that today we met a couple of times and just thought we could really easily just talk about, you know, cultivation and our practices, but it seemed to go a lot deeper with the time and space that we're all in as a global community.

0:58SpeakerA lot of people, you know, are dealing with Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here.

1:27SpeakerIt's really amazing to sit there and share it with them and all of a sudden your community. And I thought that maybe we could take that beautiful togetherness that cannabis gives us and the cannabis culture and try to be able to emanate that all over the world. So how can we learn from cannabis? She is here in legalization. She's here being talked about in every household all over the world.

1:59SpeakerI really don't believe that it's a coincidence that this incredible master plant is making her way into every home all over the globe. So how is it that we can give her a rightful voice in this time of need, in this time of great awakening and also confusion? How can we emanate her words to be able to help us and maybe bring a lot of that togetherness cannabis culture?

2:33SpeakerSo we're all here today. We got Davida here from Maryland area, cooking with Aleve. Thank you so much for being on. Patricia, Sun Roots Farm, girl, love you so much. Thanks so much for being on. Meredith, Snodgrass Family Genetics, Southern Oregon. Nikki, Swami Select. So beautiful to have the elder historian culture woman in the house today. And Carla, Flower Days. Just seeing you makes my heart melt.

3:07SpeakerGot Season from Five Sisters Farm. Love you and all that you've been doing. Liz, we got our pollinator, amazing woman in the cannabis community, knowing everybody and making all of those connections. Tamara from Heal Thyself Gardens, Mendocino area. Thanks. And we got the Duchess. Thank you so much for coming on, girl. It's really nice to have you, wonderful leader and educator in this community. We got Tina from Moonmade Farms.

3:38SpeakerAwesome, Tina. Love you, girl. Delfina from One Heart Hub, representing Hawaii, the islands today. And Wendy is coming on, Wendy Kornberg from Cenevis. And then Valerie Corral should be on here in just a minute, and she's from WAM. So she's trying to get on right now. And Marcus. Thank you so much for having all of us here and hosting all of us today and creating a beautiful platform that we can all be together and share this voice.

4:10SpeakerAnd the picture that Marcus has in front of him instead of his face is Django. Big love to Django on his next journey. All of those who knew him, loved him. And a lot of the genetics that he's been putting out for his whole adult life. So many of us are running in our gardens. So, you know, may his energy and efforts and vibrations through the cannabis plant continue in our own hearts and gardens.

4:40SpeakerYes. I'm going to turn it over to you because you're so amazing.

4:49SpeakerThanks, Kelly. Incredible introductions. I've been thinking a lot about this amazing panel and every incredible woman on here and really this profound shift that I think that we all feel that's really palpable in the air, in our lives and everyone's lives right now. And part of what's happening during this time when there's this amazing kind of paradigm shift that's happening. And it really feels like people are starting to consider not only what they can gain or attain or how much they can amass, but what they can contribute.

5:44SpeakerAnd I think that that truly defines regenerative. That's what regenerative is. And asking not only ourselves, like, well, what can we contribute? What can we give? And in our own small ways, if each one of us does that together, you know, combined, it's an incredible force. And as this is happening, cannabis is becoming available to more people globally than ever before in history. And this is arguably the most powerful plant that exists on the planet and it expresses in the female form.

6:23SpeakerSo what we all love and worship, what gets us high, what binds us, what we're all obsessed with is the feminine essence in this plant. And that feminine essence is about to reach people everywhere. It's already happening. It's already starting. And how can this contribute to the shift in consciousness that we're all engaging in and with, and you are all leaders in. It's really incredible to be here.

6:52SpeakerI'm honored to be among this stellar group of people. It's beautiful. And so to hear these personal stories and how each one of you got here and where you're going and what you're individually contributing in your own unique And beautiful way. What I would love to do is just take a couple of breaths with everyone. And this is a cleansing breath. And the idea is to pull that breath in through, in through your nose and across all of your senses.

7:28SpeakerAnd so everything you've smelled and tasted and heard and thought and seen and breathed into your body, breathe it all in. And then exhale it all out. And we're just going to do that a couple of times together. So let that air across through all of your senses and just do a cleansing of every sense that you have. Okay, let's go.

8:25SpeakerThank you. And with that, folks, can't wait to hear what everyone has to say. And I'm so excited for this day in the next three hours. And thank you all so much. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here on Hash Church.

8:49SpeakerTina, thank you so much to see all of your shining faces and to sort of take that moment to group and think about us all on the planet and how we're still all connected and crazy through a Zoom online meeting. I don't know about you all, but I think that Zoom has really brought us together in such a crazy time. So we're going to really utilize this online platform to reach all of you all too, who are out there and who are listening.

9:26SpeakerAnd I thought that maybe we could do some introductions. And Nikki, I know that you're going to be getting off first. So maybe a little introduction, take some time, like what's going on with you in your world right now and where are you at and, you know, what kind of things are you working on? Thanks so much, Kelly. And thank you so much for having us on here, Marcus.

9:51SpeakerIt's really wonderful and an honor and an honor to be with all these amazing women this morning. And My name is Nikki Lestretto and I'm the CEO of Swami Select Cannabis brand flowers, which is probably one of the oldest brands that's actually been a brand. And that was just sort of by accident. We had a lot of fun coming up with the brand and there we were prepared for it.

10:15SpeakerAnd I do have it come from a journalist kind of background. I worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for many years. So understanding the marketing and the Um, getting the word out to the people. I, we're a lot about the education and how important that is. So, you know, it's important that we provide the best cannabis and flowers in the purest way we can. And also to really help break down this stigma.

10:42SpeakerAnd that's a lot of what I'm trying to do in my personal, um, work with cannabis is to really help the world recognize that this is a healing plant that's not Not evil and scary like we were taught when we were kids and especially me because I do go way back. I started smoking weed in 1969. I sold my first ounce or lid back in 1969. So I do go way back with this plant and I love her and she's been a major part of my life, my entire life.

11:11SpeakerAnd I just I feel very connected to her. She's my sister. She's my mother. She's my guide in many ways. And now she's really my lifestyle as well. And I think we can all kind of agree on that, that we have tuned into her as being the one who we've devoted our lives to. Really, and that's an honor to be able to do that. So I live in Mendocino County, the heart of the Emerald Triangle here in Northern California, where we grow the best cannabis in the world.

11:44SpeakerAnd there's a reason for that. It's about where we're located. We're close enough to the ocean that we get that nice, fresh, clean air. We have some of the cleanest water in the world. It's just the perfect soil, everything about it. So it's, I'll talk a little bit later about the history of cannabis in this area, but just wanted to say that that's who I am and born and raised in San Francisco, a pure California girl since the gold rush, my family came and glad to be the new pioneer in this new, new field that we're all forging.

12:17SpeakerThanks. Thank you so much, Nikki. Carla. Hi. Nice to see you. What's going on? Hi. It's so nice to see all these beautiful faces this morning. Oh my gosh, that moon last night, I was up late watching it, staring at it, thinking about how incredible it is and profound it is that we're having Hash Church during this full buck moon that's also a lunar eclipse. And there's just so much pivotal, amazing energy in the cosmos right now.

12:54SpeakerThere's really a lot happening, as you said, in the world. And I'm so grateful to be sharing this moment with such inspiring women. I really look forward to our conversations today. My name is Carla Avila. I am the co-owner and operator of Flower Days Farm. We're located in Trinity County on the border of Trinity and Humboldt counties in the Emerald Triangle. And my husband and I run a family farm in Homestead.

13:21SpeakerWe're growing all our own food. We live about two and a half hours from any major highways or points of any sort of like town of any reasonable size. And so we're really, really out here in a very remote, isolated community. But it is a community. And we've learned a lot about resilience and what it takes for a community to thrive And so really our focus has been on how to build a sustainable way of life and go beyond that to really give back to the earth more than we're taking and to really build food and medicine sovereignty where we have control over the food we're eating and over our own nutrition, our wellness, our health, our medicine.

14:06SpeakerIt's been a lifelong journey for us, and it's one that now we're taking a step further and really working hard to educate other people about how they can take their food and medicine sovereignty into their own hands. And regardless of whether you're in the city or out in the boonies like we are, I actually spent a lot of years in San Francisco before I moved out here and was urban homesteading before we I took to the land again and I'm from an agricultural family, a homesteading tradition and an herbal medicine tradition and I just felt like my life's work was all coming down to what this plant cannabis that's been so critical in my life was pushing me towards and that was to really seek real solutions for change because My life before, it just wasn't working.

15:01SpeakerWe weren't feeling well. The food we were able to find was not nourishing us in the way that we really believed that the life energy should be nourishing all of us. And it became a matter of really making a lot of really hard choices. And in the end, cannabis led us to a regenerative lifestyle. And we're so grateful for that. Happy to be here with all these women to talk about that today and just about how this amazing plant can bring us together.

15:33SpeakerThanks for having me on.

15:37SpeakerCarla, you're so beautiful. And I also wanted to say a many time winner for their flower at the Emerald Cup. And those of you who don't know the incredible amount to flowers that go in and for Flower Days Farm to be chosen over and over again as in the top 10 winner, even in the top three. So Carla, so wonderful to have you. Season, you're shining there.

16:04SpeakerIntroduce yourself. What's going on? Can you hear me okay? I'm kind of out in the garden, so I want to make sure. Yeah, okay. So my name is Season. I'm owner, operator of Five Sisters Farm. It's located on the iconic 101 Humboldt County Mindo County line. And I'm in a unique position here right on the highway, really small, little 3000 square foot garden to make this plant accessible to the people who flock to this county for just to get back to nature and the redwoods on the rivers.

16:42SpeakerAnd now they can experience cannabis, you know, up close and personal. And it's pretty amazing. I'm 20. I've been a horticulturist for 20 years. I have a background in community gardens. I worked for the Damayan Garden Project in south of Tallahassee, Florida from 2004 to 2009. And that really taught me a lot about food disparity. You know, I was putting in vegetable gardens in an urban setting, just engaging with children.

17:17SpeakerAll of those people that I've been working with for a long time. I've been working with for a long time. I've been working with for a long time. I've been working with for a long time. I've been working with for a long time.

17:44SpeakerThank you so much for joining us.

18:03SpeakerBecause I'm so saturated in this culture at how people are nearly afraid to touch the plant or they don't know that it's so natural and that it's okay to look at it, touch it, be close to it. And it doesn't have to be this mystified thing anymore. And it's not a scary culture at all. So I really feel honored to be in the position to just have a space to share and just simply just invite people in a gentle way and make this plant accessible to those who have just wondered about it.

18:43SpeakerYou know, it's really interesting to engage with so many people who are not in the cannabis industry and hear their stories about what they have thought or how it's affected them. So I just feel really honored to be able to make her accessible to the masses.

19:04SpeakerSusan, you're always shining. When I think of community, I think of you. This woman is at every community event in her local area. She's nonstop. She's such an amazing conduit for people in the cannabis industry and people outside of the cannabis industry to come into the cannabis industry and cannabis culture. And really, thank you so much for being on today. Liz, Liz is in the house. So wonderful to have you.

19:32SpeakerLiz, introduce yourself. Hey, y'all. My name is Liz Blaze. I am coming in from Portland, Oregon. Sorry if I seem a little nervous. For those of you that know me might not think that I get nervous and anxious, but I do. It's one of the main reasons that I that I value cannabis so much. But my story, my story really starts with sisterhood. And I just want to say I'm so grateful for for all the women here that I've spent time with, that I've All of these people have dreamt of meeting.

20:06SpeakerSo even just to be with you on this screen is incredible, but cannabis is sisterhood for me. And it really honestly stems from that. I'm one of four sisters And my desire to be around amazing women really came from that, from my sisters, from just honestly wanting to be, again, I don't, you'll see in this next couple hours, I'm not brief. I talk a lot, but I learned that to hang around with cool women and to hang around and again, what Tina said, add value to, not take from.

20:40SpeakerThank you so much for joining us today.

20:48SpeakerThat's, I bring that up because what led me to cannabis, my real last name is Blaze. So my whole life, I played soccer. They, you know, everybody always tried to get me for, we're going to drug test you. I actually didn't smoke cannabis until I was 20 years old. I had dealt with a lot of head injuries, a lot of health problems, and the stigmatization for me hit hard.

21:13SpeakerSo I have crossed completely out of that right after college. I moved out to Colorado. One of my sisters, who's now down in Southern Oregon farming and has been for years, was opening a dispensary. We were the smallest women-run dispensary in the town that we were in. And in a town of 5,000 people, there were five dispensaries. And it was our duty as a 22-year-old and a 25-year-old woman, women, to make people feel comfortable with this thing.

21:42SpeakerSo that's really where my journey in a lot of this starts. I'm a little bit more on the consumer side of things. But through meeting all of these women, this group, women that have connected me to women in this group, shout out Toki Farms, I'm so grateful for this and everything that you guys I think that's where my name of a pollinator comes in. I used to call myself a connector, but I think pollinator fits the regenerative scene a little bit more.

22:09SpeakerAnd mostly because somebody laid out, hey Valerie,

22:30SpeakerI had somebody lay it out to me when they watched me at an event once. And they said it was just kind of like a little bee going up, seeing a new flower, doing a little dance, going back to my hive, telling everyone about it, showing them where to go. And that's just really stuck with me a lot through that. So I love to pollinate ideas. I call myself a hype girl as well.

22:54SpeakerJust because I love to brag about people and things and get so excited literally to the point of buzzing and bursting. So I'm so grateful to be here to share in this with all of you to be a part of this greater thing and really to learn from you and be able to. I am just so grateful for the connection and to see everybody here is a dream.

23:15SpeakerIt's As I mentioned, my head injuries, it's this is what my head looks like all the time. I'm talking to you all. I'm connected with you all. So thank you for making it a reality and for all the work that you all do. And I'm so grateful to be here.

23:31SpeakerThank you so much, Liz. You are such a powerful connector to this community and you do so much for the plant. You have such a good voice. Beautiful work. Tamara, beautiful herbalist. Let's hear what you have going on. Thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for having me on. I'm very honored to be here. I'm Tamara Thorn. I'm the owner and founder of Heal Thyself Gardens.

24:03SpeakerAnd we are a woman run and owned farm in Lake County, California. And we're also business and farm. And see, we cultivate cannabis and other herbs alongside of it with our, my main focus right now is on Different ratios of cannabinoids like 1 to 1s, 2 to 1s, 1 to 2s, different terpene profiles in high like indicas. And we can grow really nice sativas out here in Lake County.

24:38SpeakerThat's one of my favorite things about this county is our weather. And so I've been here for 10 years growing cannabis. And my second year growing, I had a lot of family and friends reach out to me going, oh, I heard cannabis can fix this, or I heard it can do this, can do that. And then my grandma fell and hurt herself. And so I started making salves.

25:02SpeakerAnd then I started making tinctures. And then I started making ourselves. I just started making things as people started coming to me. And that just has developed over this last eight years. And I've studied master herbalism. And I've studied all kinds of different alternative modalities. That's kind of my background is an alternative health and massage instructor, a yoga instructor. I've studied A lot of different energy modalities.

25:31SpeakerAnd how I got into cannabis is I kind of left Babylon about like 12 years ago. I took off on a school bus and just started traveling. I realized I didn't want to be stuck where I was. Thank you for joining us today.

26:02SpeakerThank you so much for joining us.

26:25SpeakerIt's like in teaching others how to do that. And so I got into cannabis after I was traveling and I was even in a horse caravan for a little bit down in Mexico and we were teaching environmental science or environmental education and, um, Then me and my son, my son, he was like five years old at the time. I was like, you know, I think it's time for us to ground and be still for a while.

26:49SpeakerAnd he was like, yeah, yeah, let's do that, you know. And so I had a friend tell me to come out to Northern California. I was, I ended up in a community in Texas and realized it's not really where I wanted to be. And a friend just kept pushing me, come to California. You're going to love it. It's right where you need to be. So I came out to trim.

27:09SpeakerI made my money coming out to California, bacon, chocolate chip cookies, made my gas money. And on my way out here, I was like, wait a minute. I know what I'm going to do. I'm not going to just trim. I'm going to actually grow cannabis because that's exact. That makes sense for me. It makes so much sense as a healer and as someone who just loves being with plants and the earth.

27:31SpeakerAnd so it just made sense. And so every place I went and trimmed that first season, I would just sit and question the growers like nonstop. Many times, as long as they would answer my questions. And then I found someone, I ended up in Lake County, And I found a friend who really took me serious and kind of took me under his wing. And then he was like, okay, she's really interested.

27:54SpeakerAnd so he taught me a lot about growing the plants. And I just kind of took off from there. And I took my first permaculture class the same year I first started growing cannabis. And I've held two properties over the last like eight years. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with one of them. But the one I have where I'm at right now, We are, like I said, we're cultivating, we're making medicine and we're working on our licenses still.

28:22SpeakerLike it's been a, it's been a journey. And one of our main missions is really has been to not only cultivate and make medicine, but get it directly to people and like how that is to take place. And so that is been one of our It's one of the challenges in this industry. And so that's where we are. And that's about me. Thank you. Thanks, Mara. And she always has such amazing medicines, always carrying a bag with these beautiful little concoctions of anything that you've got going on.

28:58SpeakerI really love you and the journey that you've brought forward and put it into your medicine and then shared it with the people. Duchess, it's so lovely to have you. Amazing educator, community leader, beautiful hash maker. Thank you for having such a strong and powerful voice in this industry. The women of this industry, you know, connect with you. And I'm just really honored to have you. What's going on?

29:29SpeakerIntroduce yourself. Thank you. Thank you very much for being here, for having me here. I'm really happy to be here with everybody. I'm Dutchess, aka The Dank Dutchess. I'm a hash maker based out of Oakland, California. I am also a grower. I've grown for the last 17 years. I am not a licensed hash maker. I operate as a consultant because, well, for a couple of reasons. For one, getting licensed was very expensive, but education has been my push for a long time.

30:01SpeakerI came over here to California almost six years ago specifically to grow more cannabis. I was growing in Florida illegally, but once I figured out that cannabis was where my life needed to be, I was willing to take those risks. But coming to California, I felt I could expand myself and expand my awareness about cannabis. So I kind of fell into the hash. I've been in the industry meeting Frenchy Cannoli quite fortuitously.

30:28SpeakerAnd from my first bit of learning from him, it has been, for me, big about pushing that education out. I became the hash maker I am now because I have learned from all the hash makers whom I've written articles about for the last five and a half years. So every single person has a different way of doing things. And from that, I have collected information. In turn, I felt that technology is an ideal place for us to do our activism in various ways.

30:58SpeakerAnd for me, it's an empowered mass, an educated mass is an empowered mass. So everything that I've learned, whether they're the mistakes, I come back to the group and say, hey, look, this is what I learned this time, we should share it. And although I operate as a consultant, you know, I get paid to go teach people how to make cash. I feel like it's important to get people feeling like they can do it themselves.

31:19SpeakerSo through YouTube or I've put out like thousands of hours of education in that way because I feel like that's how I give back. I used to be completely anti-cannabis and I'm always talking about like letting go of the veil that we have in front of us because I think my life would have been very different if I came to cannabis a lot earlier than I did.

31:40SpeakerI was 23 when I got to cannabis and I really completely believed in the say no to drugs. I mean I super Drank that Kool-Aid. And now I find it important to really give people that power of it doesn't matter what I've been taught. I can make a 180 and change at any time. And cannabis can be quite the catalyst for that. So whether you're growing your own or making your own, once we take agency of our wellness and of our health, we are on the path of greatness and we're on the path of having our spirit fly.

32:12SpeakerSo that has been my focus. And that's why I see my focus being for the next 50 years. You know, on education, I will always love making hash. I will always love growing cannabis, but really giving people that, that knowledge behind why do you not, why do you feel that you cannot? And once you let go of that, how big can you grow? So thank you for having me.

32:37SpeakerThank you so much. Awesome. And I just really want to honor you so much since George Floyd's passing and the unbelievable awakening that's happening among the world and the words that you brought a deep reflection within my own self and how is it that I can make changes with my own self and reflect that. Thank you so much for coming out into the world and so many of us have a platform and many people listen to our platform and I know that we want to put out the right words and the right intention and also be using cannabis as maybe a deeper more connected voice to nature.

33:29SpeakerAnd then how are we going to then take all of the powerful words that have been surrounding Black Lives Matter? And what I really want to get to is I just want to honor you so deeply for being powerful and telling the truth. It's been incredibly poignant to me. Thank you so much for being here today. I really, really appreciate you. Tina, beautiful woman. What's going on?

34:03SpeakerIntroduce yourself. Thanks, Kelly. And thanks, Duchess. Agency, having personal agency for your own health and well-being. Thank you. Such an important message to get out there into the world. I am Tina Gordon. I'm the founder and owner of Moonmade Farms in the southeast corner of Humboldt County, where I never thought I would find myself. It's really been a trip to end up here. So I'm from San Francisco originally.

34:34SpeakerI grew up in a really wild time in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s when it was a very different place than it is now. And I had I grew up in a really, you know, urban lifestyle, went to public school. I was raised low income. I had I had ambitions in my heart and soul That I didn't feel I had access to in reality. And it took me a really long time, really into my adulthood until I realized that I could create my own path and that I could create my own path, my own experience, myself, and that I could share that with others.

35:24SpeakerAnd so I think that one of the most important things for me and what cultivation has taught me in the end is that transition is possible. It's possible to transition. It's possible to evolve. It's possible to grow. It's possible to have many lives. And so this is my 14th year. Now in Humboldt County. And it's incredible to consider that when I came here, I came here to visit and at the time I didn't have house plants.

36:09SpeakerLike I had absolutely no connection, no interest in growing anything. And it wasn't until I saw cannabis grown and then started digging into helping grow cannabis that I started really, truly realizing the, like really the world that we're living in. It was like this amazing awakening and really understanding how important the elements are, the elements of things like water and light And what happens when you have water and light and air and soil and planting a seed and watching that grow and how incredible that was.

36:59SpeakerAnd I became completely I'm obsessed with this plant and that hasn't stopped. And so really, it's cannabis that I'm completely devoted to and in love with for this reason, because it's been that life changing to be that awakening, you know, to Really embrace this plant, not only as a teacher and as a guide, but what it has afforded me and empowered me to do for others now.

37:37SpeakerAnd so Moonmade Farms is really about awakening, and it's really about learning what I didn't know before. It's about the understanding that, for instance, The nightlight and the moonlight is as crucial as the sunlight and the daylight. And just that realization did not happen until I was in Humboldt County, until I was in the country and I had access to this place. So I'm honoring the natural forces and specifically the lesser known natural forces And I would also say the feminine power.

38:24SpeakerIt really is the feminine power and the lesser known power that I think that this plant is, its intelligence, it's availing its intelligence upon us. And that's what we have to share. Thank you so much. I'm just thrilled to be here. Can't wait to hear what everyone else has to say. Thank you so much, Tina. You are such a powerful voice for the cannabis plant and your journey is so empowering.

38:55SpeakerIt's such a beautiful story. Thank you so much for sharing. Meredith Snodgrass, Peach Orchard Team, Snodgrass Family Genetics. How's it going in Southern Oregon, Mom? I love you. What's going on today? Hi. Hi, all you beautiful, amazing women. It's so great to be here. I'm really honored to be a part of this group. I wish we could all be together in the sunshine, sharing this moment, maybe in the shade of a big oak tree.

39:27SpeakerMy name is Meredith Snodgrass. Sierra is my daughter there. I first came to cannabis, or I should say cannabis first came to me before high school. And after I had a taste and felt how it opened up my mind to nature, I honestly felt that nature was embracing me. The leaves on the trees would wave. The sun would make everything sparkle. And it made me want to have it in my life forever after that.

40:11SpeakerI've always sought ways to either find connections with people, to find a way to it, to the plant, to the herb. At first, I didn't really know about growing it for a long time, but my passion quickly turned to agriculture after college. And as a young adult, I was trying to find my way, where to go, where to be, where to plant my roots. I was looking for, honestly, where was the best place to go where you wouldn't be persecuted for enjoying a plant.

40:47SpeakerAnd I found my way to Oregon because it had the most relaxed rules at the time in my mind. And first California, honestly, born in California but raised in North Carolina. Found my way to Oregon in 1992 and immediately started finding

41:08SpeakerAll of those connections, either to try to find some really good weed to smoke and share with my friends, or then try to plant some seeds and grow them in a little indoor room somewhere discreetly. And until we were, until Oregon opened up finally to allow medical marijuana, and that was when I was finally able to feel like I could really be more open about it. Honestly was very paranoid young woman raising my children.

41:42SpeakerWe were growing medical marijuana. I was still afraid to talk to people about it. I didn't want any other parents except for in my inner circle, which again, talking about the connection about cannabis and how it brings people together, it just provided me with a wonderful community of women and All of these families raising children all in the same mindset. So at least I had that safe space to talk about the plan.

42:14SpeakerBut once we were able to have medical marijuana in Oregon and California and Washington all started opening up to the more legal pathways, I felt like I could really come out

42:31SpeakerWe have a small family farm here in Southern Oregon. We started growing medical here over

43:00Speaker10 years ago and we've had our number one passion with growing is to share the very best quality plant with our community that we can and our patients ranged from paraplegic to

43:27SpeakerPTSD, several Vietnam vets, even

43:37SpeakerPeople with eating disorders, we found that our medicine really helped people and we've always been passionate about what we put into the earth so that what we can harvest from it will be of the highest quality and with the most love put into it that we can bestow upon it.

44:08Speakersharing the our herb with our patients became such a passion that once we have the opportunity to grow legal uh so legal recreational which is not our true passion our true passion is to provide medicine to people

44:33SpeakerBut we felt like entering into the recreational market was the best way for us to be able to continue to do this and to spread our love and passion out into the world a bit more.

44:48SpeakerWe have a lot of hope for the future. We really feel that connections like this through Dragonfly Earth Medicine, growing this hive, this beautiful group of farmers and people is the key to spreading the word about the passion that cannabis can bring to people to help make the world a better place. And I'm rambling, so I'm going to pass it on to the next person. Again, I'm so thankful to be here.

45:19SpeakerMeredith, thank you so much. To know Meredith is to love her. You've upheld such a connection of community. The Snodgrass family, you think of community, your house, your family, your flowers, your genetics. You all, you and Bobby have been so open and sharing your genetics, beautiful, unbelievable, outdoor, gorgeous genetics. So everybody check out Snodgrass Family Genetics and their seeds. Just so, so amazing. I want to turn it over to Tara Lee, talk about an incredible voice for the cannabis and giving a voice to many people who, you know, are marginalized and have not had a voice in the cannabis industry and being community together.

46:11SpeakerTara Lee, I'm turning it over to you. Oh, crap. Good thing I just took a dab, y'all. Okay, super nervous today. This has really been a journey for me and I'm super honored and I'm trying to try not to cry here. I'm super honored to be with these amazing, proud, these women. These women are so powerful and they mean so much in my life. But not only do all these women mean so much in my life, everybody in that chat out there means a lot to me.

46:46SpeakerEverybody on YouTube means a lot to me. This has really come full circle to me. I came to cannabis because I was recovering from cancer. I was on so much medication and I knew that there was another answer out there.

47:16SpeakerAnd luckily I had a girlfriend of mine that was a grower. I was one of these dare childs too. I grew up in the eighties and I believed all of that crap. All of it. I believed I was born and raised Mormon. I mean, I was, I played sports just like, you know, blaze, you know, I didn't do any of that stuff and oh man, I was so wrong.

47:41SpeakerAnd, and so,

47:45SpeakerMy journey is to come out of the closet and tell everybody how good cancer is and what it can do for you and how it can heal you and what it's done for me. And I know everybody's story is so powerful and it can change someone's way. You just don't know and you just need to share it. And back to my girlfriend.

48:15SpeakerThank God she grew this plant. Because I had been offered it before. I just turned it down. You know, it was not something I needed in my life. And I went to my girlfriend's house and she grows it. She had a medical card and I just want to see the plant. I grew tomatoes. You know, I grew a garden. I didn't know about cannabis, but I was really intrigued.

48:39SpeakerI wanted to grow a flower. Cool. You know, so I saw this plant and she says, now it's going to stink in there. I'm warning you, it's going to stink. And I kept going, where's the stink? Finally asked her, where's the stink? And she says, this is it. It doesn't stink. And I'm like, this is beautiful. Like, I was in love with this plant. I was in love with this plant before I even wanted to try it, you know, medically.

49:04SpeakerAnd so then come back to my medical journey. And after being on chemotherapy and just everything, I was screwed up. I mean, I just really was. And I checked myself in a mental hospital. And I mean, my husband didn't even know how messed up I was. At that mental hospital, what did they do? They took me off a cannabis. I was just getting on the cannabis. They told, they told, they was here in Washington State even, and they didn't want me on cannabis.

49:38SpeakerAnd I called my husband. I said, my husband, I said, honey, I got to leave. This isn't the place for me. And my husband's like, no, honey, honey, you just want out. They're telling you that this is what, I'm like, no, you got to listen to me. And I convinced him, thank gosh, to come up and get me. And bring me a vape pen. Oh my God, I needed the vape pen because, oh man, I need some cannabis because they wanted to put me on eight meds at that hospital.

50:03SpeakerSo for anybody else out there, listen to your heart. Don't listen to someone else. Don't think that they know better than you or know better than your body. Listen to your heart. And thank you, Bubble Man, Johnny B, Dragonfire Earth Medicine, you guys, 70s Mama in chat, thank you for welcoming me to Hash Church. For the first time when I come into that chat, it was 70s Mama welcoming me in there.

50:31SpeakerThank you. Thank you for that. Because I had no one to learn from cannabis, guys. This is it. I learned from YouTube. So this is full circle, closed loop. Dragonfly Earth Medicine. Thank you. I had Kelly up there at that regenerative conference in BC and I knew I had met my tribe. So thank you.

51:01SpeakerYeah. Love you, Tarly, so much. Yeah. And this plant Thank you so much for joining us.

51:29SpeakerAnd to me, that's every key to our intuition, every key to our connection with nature. We are human beings that come from the earth. This plant comes from the earth. And hearing you talk is like, A complete full circle connection to who we are and what we need to do and what we need to be. And I believe that we're here on a soul path. We're here because we made some type of an agreement to be here.

52:00SpeakerWe're here because we chose to be here. We need to all follow our own path, be intuitive to what it is that we need to do, not listen to Other distractions, but to follow our own path and cannabis continues to give people that. What an incredible alliance. And thank you so much, Tarly. Delfina, aloha. Thank you for your work and all that you do. Beautiful, unbelievable woman.

52:38SpeakerWhat's going on this early, early morning as the sun was rising over that beautiful ocean? Introduce yourself, please. Mahalo, Kelly. And so awesome to see all the women. And thank you, Marcus, holding it down as usual so beautifully. And yeah, the alarm was a little loud this morning. Waking up, I'm still having my Dem Coco. So good morning and welcome everybody. E komo mai and aloha. I am sitting on the top of the Hawaii Islands, northern tip.

53:17SpeakerAnd we overlook the ocean to Maui. We have five mountains here that I feel like we sit in the little palm of. And I help run an organization here that's now called One Heart Hub, which is now overseeing several of the projects that my husband and I have started over 16 years. And one of them is also over in California, which is where I've gotten to be with many of you beautiful women.

53:52SpeakerSo Heartwood Institute is now called Heartwood Mountain Sanctuary. And I think I'll start my story there. I'll try to be a little brief, but I arrived there after graduating college on the East Coast. I'm born and raised on the East Coast, so super conservative, like rolled out suburbia land. Yeah, I think I probably... Had a taste of cannabis in high school and a little more in college.

54:28SpeakerAnd though it was moving to Heartwood, I actually was on work exchange at Heartwood. After I graduated college from studying music and dance, I wanted to go into the healing arts. And where in the world was I going to do that? And I found Heartwood in the back of a magazine for approved accredited massage schools. I had no more money. My parents weren't going to put me through any more college and certainly not massage where you could get AIDS or you're touching people like, oh my gosh, that was just totally, totally non, So, you know, not an option.

55:13SpeakerSo anyway, but I took it as an option. I moved all the way from Maryland to California, arrived on the parking lot of Hartwood after I had signed all the paperwork, you know, to say what we're going to do and not do. And of course, you're not going to smoke pot. But I was like, oh, I'm in the heart of the Emerald Triangle. I've heard about this place.

55:34SpeakerThis place, there must be some, there must be weed around here. So, so over two and a half years, I did get to live there and be immersed in this, this lifestyle. I call it the wild, wild west. And y'all that live there, it's like some of the best people in the whole entire world. So I found that out fast and it was wild growing times. This is 1998 and there was choppers overhead.

56:02SpeakerThere's plants and trees and under other bushes. And I mean, I got to play with it. I got to trim. I got to grow a few plants and have that smell and see them outside and but hidden and the community at the time, you know, very secretive for having to be a lot of fear. You know, spread with the times that it was. So then flash forward, oh gosh, 2006, I've already moved to Hawaii, found out Heartwood was for sale, came back and we ended up becoming the owners of Heartwood.

56:43SpeakerAnd I think trying to take that through, you know, post post massage school zone where the Cora Bennett , You know the market crashed in 2008 and there was there were massage schools everywhere by then, so we had to kind of put it put it to rest turn it down a little and start we rebooted it more with permaculture. Cora Bennett , As the. Cora Bennett , As the main platform, I say we're still building building that part back up which seems perfect.

57:16SpeakerPerfect timing for the world. So Heartwood always being kind of ahead of its time with teaching yoga, teaching massage and teaching permaculture. So trying to continue those those legacies and super honored to to be part of that. In 2015, I held a stakeholders meeting for quite a few people involved with Heartwood for having the first level conversations of Bethany Collins, Coming out of the closet at Heartwood in the heart of the Emerald Triangle with cannabis.

57:51SpeakerLike, why can't we start? Why shouldn't we start Bethany Collins, Considering, you know, our position in the world there. So I'd say five years now we've been really working up to, you know, it's becoming legal. So here's what we can do and Just really starting to open those doors, but it's very much a process, right? A lot of conversation, a lot of, yeah, just buy-in, a lot of careful navigating to enter.

58:23SpeakerSo that's been a nice learning and growing process. And 2019, the end of the year there, got to meet Kelly. She brought a lot of you all and many more mind blowing, heart opening, killer, fabulous people to Heartwood to discuss the future of the Dem Collective, which I thought I was just going to some little local I don't know what was going to happen, but I was super excited to be there and then realize it's, oh no, this is this nice new little like international web that's being woven.

58:57SpeakerAnd Kelly and I are like instances and I'm just so, so thrilled for the journey that we've been on since December and with many of you women here and, and some of you else I saw for my first time at Emerald Cup this past year. So just, yeah, just big ups to all of you for. Spread in the good word and through the plant. Really happy to be part of its coming out.

59:21SpeakerWe got plants in the ground this year finally at Heartwood and at my farm here in Hawaii, which is called Dragon Heart Farm. So just starting really small, just some personal plants in the garden. I just, I really love what Season has said, how much she's seen that change We've got a couple more questions here. We've got a couple more questions here. We've got a couple more questions here.

1:00:03SpeakerAnd really melt this down so that we can free the body, we can free the mind, we can free our cultural conditions. Thank God it is time, people. I'll talk about that more later, but super stoked to be on this journey with you all. I'm really nervous too and humbled and super proud of everyone here and their stories and their contribution and I think that's a good start for now.

1:00:35SpeakerThank you so much for having me, Kel. Aloha. Thank you so much, Delphina. Your spirit shines bright and you're always wanting to dig really deep even when you're absolutely exhausted. I see you, girl. I see you wanting to change the world and it's really overwhelmingly beautiful and you're such a conduit for making that happen. And I just keep hearing about everybody's gardens. And this isn't just about all of our gardens.

1:01:07SpeakerThis is about education that all of our gardens and all of the medicine that we're all making is creating gardens and making your own medicine all over the world. That we are women telling you that you can do this. Thank you so much for joining us.

1:01:45SpeakerSo that's why we were talking about from seed to soil to soul. And I just keep hearing that thread through all of you. And that's what I heard so much of with you, Delphina, from, you know, the seed all the way to to the soul. So. Thank you so much. Wendy, so beautiful to have you in the house, girl. You know, I just love it whenever I get to see you.

1:02:13SpeakerHilarious, beautiful, smart, savvy woman here. Introduce yourself.

1:02:22SpeakerHi, can everybody hear me? Yes. I'm never sure. Yes. Okay. My name is Wendy Kornberg and I run a small farm in Southern Humboldt County. It's Cinnabis is our brand. Humboldt's Full Sun Farms is the farm. And I am, my story is a little bit different than a lot of people's and As I go through life and go to different places, I realize how actually very, very different it has been for me.

1:02:51SpeakerI'm a second generation cannabis cultivator here in Southern Humboldt County. My family moved here in early 1977. So I grew up with weed.

1:03:03SpeakerBack then, it was obviously still very, very stigmatized, even up through the 90s, even up through today, actually, right? Still tons of stigma about it. I go places and talk with people and eventually they say, what do you do? And I say, oh, I grow cannabis. And they, oh, you sound so educated. Like, wow, this is still really something that so many people out there think is this dumb pot grower, right?

1:03:26SpeakerAnd yet when we work with this plant, we learn so much. And anyway, yeah, so basically my parents moved here. And even though we knew you didn't talk about it, like nobody, everybody grew weed. Everybody grew weed. The rednecks grew weed. The hippies grew weed. The loggers grew weed. The store owners grew weed. Everybody grew weed back in the day, but nobody talked about it. So it was something that you really like you had to get deep into cultivating and into being with the plant to learn how to do it because there was no Instagram out there.

1:04:03SpeakerI mean, there were some forums and things, but it was mostly focused on indoor grows. And that was even later. That was more in the 90s, right? Maybe late 80s. So You know, in Humboldt County, it was just kind of the norm, even though everybody knew, but nobody said. So my family, you know, we always cultivated. It was never anything that I really thought You know I had second thoughts about my first grow was when I was 13 years old and uh I love the story because I think it's like it's just it's just exactly kind of my lifestyle like I just decided to do things and go do it so I found some seeds in our drawer and I was like I'm just gonna like plant these seeds this I haven't even smoked weed yet I don't think but I knew that I loved growing stuff and this looked like a fun thing to grow and I knew it was weed but I didn't really know what to expect so I had little four-inch pots and grew, I think, 36 little tiny plants on my back deck.

1:05:01SpeakerI planted them in August and they harvested, you know, this big. I totally seeded out. I didn't know males. I didn't know females. But it was the first thing where I was like, wow, this is actually like kind of the coolest plant ever because it's so different. I expected a tomato plant that looked exactly like the other plants and every single one of them was very, very different.

1:05:18SpeakerSo that was where my real... Passion for growing cannabis started. I was just like, this is way too, way too fun. And yeah, and then I have a background in science. So I took off from Humboldt County for quite a few years. I went to UC Santa Barbara and studied chemistry and environmental science. I decided I did not like institutional learning at that point in life. And so I moved to Maui for four years.

1:05:45SpeakerThose were three and a half years, I guess. Those are the only three years in my life that I haven't really grown much of anything. I did have a patio, so I tried to grow like tomatoes and basil, which Stelfina will tell you don't grow exceptionally well in Hawaii. And at that point had some medical things that brought me back to California and brought me back into cannabis pretty full on at that point.

1:06:10SpeakerWe've been running our farm now for

1:06:14SpeakerWow, I don't actually even know if 14, 15 years, something like that in the same location. And my mother is on our team. So basically I have my 71 year old mother and myself are the primary cultivator.

1:06:28SpeakerUm, my partner Doug is the kind of site manager, fertilizer man. He's also in charge of the drying and curing. So we're a team of three, uh, which is why I'm sorry. I can't like stop working for three hours because, uh, it's just, it's a lot of work for three people to keep up on. So we're transplanting right now, getting ready for our replant of our light deprivation.

1:06:48SpeakerAnd, um, Yeah, I mean, that's that's basically the gist of my story. I know we're going to have a lot more time later on, so I'm going to try and pass it on to the next person. I think there are people that have to leave a little bit early today, so I'll let people get their get their five cents in before they got to run off.

1:07:09SpeakerThank you so much, Wendy. For upholding the history there, Northern Cali, and doing it in a way that's so stewarding the land, making the environment and your area better, not only through educating others to do it regeneratively, but even just your own piece of land to be this wonderful stopping point for pollinators. And I know your gardens are so, so beautiful. Davida. So wonderful to have you.

1:07:42SpeakerI mean, I have been so impressed by your Instagram, by your powerful voice, by your marketing. You're really cooking up some beautiful olive oil elixirs and introduce yourself. It's really wonderful to have you here on Hash Church with us today. Well, first, thank you so much for inviting me. I'm so blessed to even be here in the presence of all you wonderful women and powerful. So thank you.

1:08:13SpeakerYou know, and of course, I'm all the way on the other side. I'm in the Maryland, D.C. area. So as you all know, in Maryland and Virginia, it's mostly it's just medicinal where it's legal. In D.C., it's kind of weird. It's medicinal and it's recreational. DeRionne Pollard- The laws, they're really it doesn't even make sense, but I don't even try to go into that but um I you know, just like everyone I experimented with cannabis when I was in college.

1:08:43SpeakerDidn't really see the benefit. And of course, when you mention it to your parents, that's the first thing they say, oh my God, what are you doing? They compare it to cocaine, crack, whatever else illegal that's out there. They try to put that on the same platform. And now as I'm older, I am actually 44. About in my forties, I started to have some issues, health issues.

1:09:07SpeakerIt got to a point where I got up to 256 pounds Chay, I couldn't move. I could barely get out of bed. Um, I ended up having to call out of work quite a bit. Um, I couldn't even stand up to wash dishes, let alone, you know, cook a meal, brush my teeth. So, um, and then on top of that, finding out that I had depression and anxiety.

1:09:29SpeakerSo going to the doctors, um, just not understanding what's going on with myself, being pumped up with medicines they're giving you that Chay, Cherry Blossom, Cherry Blossom, Cherry Blossom, Cherry Blossom, Cherry Blossom

1:10:00SpeakerWhen it became legal, as far as medicinal, my husband's a police officer. And he said, I think you need to look into this. And I wasn't even thinking about it. And I looked at him like, are you sure? He said, you need to look into this. So I got my medical card, started looking into it. Of course, you know, I wasn't a big smoker, but I'll do the vape pens and everything else.

1:10:19SpeakerAs you see now, I'll smoke, you know, cannabis. But having a definitely different spin and a different appreciation for the plant. And then since I love to cook, I tell everyone I'm not a chef, but I love to cook. And my grandmother was a chef, had her own restaurant. So now just doing what I do in the kitchen. And that's how I show my love to my family, my friends.

1:10:47SpeakerI just started to infuse cannabis. Of course, you always do the treats, you know, the sweets. And of course, after a while, I can't keep eating snacks or, you know, the cookies and And everything else every day. So I started to infuse my food and then making my own oil. Then, you know, you can look on anything, YouTube. And then the cannabis community on social media was so welcoming.

1:11:10SpeakerI met so many people and they were just a wealth of knowledge. And I tell everyone, do not judge a book by its cover. Like this is, there are so many people that are walking around that They're just like an encyclopedia with just the knowledge of anything from cannabis. And I'm just so grateful to know them. I've come across some good chefs that I've invited to my house and we cooked and everything.

1:11:38SpeakerThis has helped me. I really believe that it saved my life. I've lost over 60 pounds. I'm able to move around. I have energy. I really feel like my life has DeRionne Pollard- Expanded I I didn't even think that was going to be here that long just how I was feeling and then of course you're dealing with high blood pressure diabetes and then just doing a little I went to.

1:12:00SpeakerDeRionne Pollard- Prince George's Community College and took a class through leafy pros and learned about the history of cannabis and you know how to be a bud tender and all that stuff. DeRionne Pollard- But it's amazing like. I sell my oil and some people will go and they'll come to my tastings because I have tastings in DC. Of course, with this, the virus, we had to stop that.

1:12:24SpeakerBut I make my oil. I have people that come that this one woman, she had a car accident. She only can use my oil. She cannot take the medicine that they're prescribing. This one gentleman, he purchased my oil for his father who has Parkinson's. He cooks with it and it helps his father stop his shakes. I mean, just for me, I mean, from depression to anxiety, to my pain, my anti-inflammatory, as far as my body, it has really helped me.

1:12:56SpeakerIt's a shame that this plant has so many qualities, so many benefits that can literally help so many people. And you think about how many people have really died, not including the people that are still in jail that for cannabis that really should be released. And here we all are, you know, being able to experience or smoke cannabis and I guess experience the benefits. But it's, I'm just blessed to be here.

1:13:25SpeakerThank you so much, ladies. I can't express my gratitude. And I know I'm going to learn so much from all of you. And thank you very much. Happy to be here. DeVita, beautiful. And, you know, so much information that you've been putting out on your Instagram since, you know, Black Lives Matter has really risen since George Floyd's passing. I've just really been able to look it up and then go to other people's pages and find out like the truth of the matter, what's going on.

1:14:00SpeakerIt's been really awesome to connect through you. I really... Really want to thank you and what an amazing, beautiful connection and story to cannabis. I'm just so, so honored to have you today. Thank you so much. We are all so blessed and honored to have you. Thank you for coming on. It's really, really beautiful to hear your story. Patricia. What's going on, sister? Beautiful woman, amazing plants.

1:14:29SpeakerOne of my favorite strains of all time, velvet perps. It's grown there, bred there on your farm. What's going on today? Hey, y'all. My name is Patricia. I am currently in Round Valley, Covalo, California. I always like to give thanks to the indigenous peoples who are here. That is a Concow, Pomo, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

1:15:22SpeakerAll of our African ancestors and to all our people of color who have not had the same kind of privilege and access that we all have. Cannabis in my life is a real blessing. I originally got to this place because I bought a one way to California. I had very little money in my pocket. I knew that cannabis was my soul sister. I've been with her as a plant ally for since I was like 14 years old.

1:16:01SpeakerAnd my mother, the same as DeVito, it's kind of just like, oh, my God, the worst of the worst, you know, like you're basically doing heroin. And we know now that's really not true. Cannabis is just a medicinal herb. And as a woman that comes from a lineage of herbalists and curanderas, it seemed so nonsensical to me that my mother wanted to pull me out of the campo of the country and bring me to a city where we lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut for my growing up.

1:16:34SpeakerSo I was removed from nature in a lot of ways. So of course cannabis found me and I couldn't ignore how passionate and like Tina was saying, I'm just so in love with this plant. For her to bring her presence into my life, for me to have come flown out to California with a one way with very little money in my pocket from my waitressing job and to met my partner who has had the privilege to own land.

1:17:09SpeakerThe first thing she said to me when I got here is like, this is your chance. This is your abundance. This is your medicine. You're here for a reason.

1:17:23SpeakerIt's not easy lifestyle. There's no protection out here and you really need to be there All of those people who have been with us for a long time and who have been with us for a long time and who have been with us for a long time and who have been with us for a long time and who have been with us for a long time and who have been with us for a long time and who have been with us for a long time and who have

1:17:59SpeakerWhere we are now is time to rewrite our new future. And I'm so excited to continue the conversation. Thanks for having me.

1:18:09SpeakerPatricia, beautiful, amazing woman. Clarity, you've been such a solid voice. What an honor the cannabis plant has to have you as one of her spokeswomen. I know that she is so honored and honored. Full of why she's here with us together because of women like all of you. Valerie Corral, Yes. Amazing woman. It's such an honor to have you here. I have learned so much from you.

1:18:56SpeakerThe tonality that you have set, this path that you have set for this community to be able to follow in the right direction that this plant wants us all to go against all odds, many times in jail. Thank you, Kelly. Thanks. Hi, ladies. Hi, women. So, such

1:19:43SpeakerReally so great to be amidst this tribe and this remarkable group of women. I'm sitting here with my friend Marina and who'll probably have to leave soon as my mom calls and I jump up and run. It's because I'm her sole carer right now. And yeah, so we take, you know, the caring, the care, the giving and the being a carer goes on. It's cyclic and, you know, someday I always imagined being, living rurally for 47 years that I'd be digging a hole to plant a tree or to plant a plant and digging, digging, and then just sort of flow right in.

1:20:25SpeakerAnd that would be, be my grave, you know? So we'll see. It looks like toward the end of your life, your energy wanes to quite a bit. So digging may not be the thing I'm doing, but digging something for sure. So what, what a pleasure. And to listen, to hear these remarkable stories The differences, the subtleties, the great differences and the similarities, the things that are similar between beings, between human beings.

1:20:58SpeakerThe wisdom gained is from the experiences and we've earned our stripes, our scars through our own suffering and the things that have dealt us The challenges marked a path for us all. And everybody's been on one, all the, you know, six and a half billion people that have died and the seven that are here. Everybody trying to figure this path out to be at peace and to join one another in that, you know, we're very tribal and in that sense of community.

1:21:40SpeakerIt's interesting right now because, right, it's always interesting. That's what makes life rich. But this, this is particularly a wild time where because of our ancestry and the presence in our own ways that we have not recognized our racism and our separatism and the ways we've allowed such harm to occur. And this uprising, which is

1:22:15SpeakerIt's the new uprising of the same cry against injustice and in civil liberties. And so I know that there's so much to gain and so much experience that I have to hold. I have to hold the space, but to have more experience, to take a seat back and to get in the back of the bus, me, Taking that spot and to listen to this, to these messages that say enough, it's time to do the work and not to ask how to do it, but to get in and do it.

1:23:02SpeakerAnd the same, these parallels with COVID. So with among people, among humanity, causing suffering to humanity and humanity causing suffering to the planet that we live in. And so there's this little sort of micro terrorist COVID, you know, it's like, yeah, we will come, we will come and wreak havoc on humanity. It's, you know, kind of this payback time where what is through destruction born and the rebirth, the new, the new age that's coming and it's up to us and I take great Diane Goldenberg- I'm honored in being in this group of women in forming that language and speaking that speaking to Diane Goldenberg- our work and the ways that we can carry on Diane Goldenberg- and carry forward justice and inclusivity and human kindness.

1:24:03SpeakerDiane Goldenberg- And Diane Goldenberg- in our small spot, Diane Goldenberg- our moment on the planet, Diane Goldenberg- the Work that we do, the ways that we're enriched, the cultural and social and conscious ways and consciousness and to become, you know, learning to become masters, not of anyone else, again, just of ourselves, which is a big trip, a big journey, and preparing for the moment of death. So, you know, I don't know if I'm going to have my story.

1:24:41SpeakerAnd I don't know if I can't really see all of you guys on YouTube saying no, don't, but you know, so I'll make it quick. And like, la, la, la, la, I can't hear you. Right, so in the 70s, in 1973, I was in Nevada and we used to go out to Pyramid Lake, it's a reservation, a Paiute reservation, and we would trip and we would get in the hot springs.

1:25:09SpeakerAnd the Paiutes allowed us to do this. They were very generous. Um, and we, as long as we cleaned and hung, you know, hung and we, so we had, my friend and I were there and reading poetry and playing music and being in the hot tub all day and burned and under the beautiful sun and the icy waters of Lake Pyramid or Pyramid Lake. And, um, then, uh, on the way back, I was in a, a plane was fooling around and it buzzed the car, our car.

1:25:40SpeakerAnd so I always say I got hit in the head. By an airplane in the desert. And it was quite and my life changed. I was in university and then in a moment, everything was different. And I had tried, you know, I smoked cannabis in high school because I tried drinking twice and it didn't work for me. I thought it was an awful experience. I drank too much, obviously, but it wasn't wasn't my thing.

1:26:05SpeakerSo after getting in the car accident and I met my husband, my I've really felt like I was 1993 and I felt like I had to get away from urban living and moved actually from Squaw Valley, which was somewhat urban because there were a lot of people there in the winter, even though it's in the mountains, it's just packed with humans and moved to A little place in, um, up on the summit in Santa Cruz, uh, mountains and no electricity and no running water.

1:26:49SpeakerWe got it all together, but it was quite something and spent, uh, spent the next 47 years in the woods in 1970. At the end of 1973, my then husband, Mike, uh, read in a medical journal, he read an abstract. I'm one of my many visits to the hospital. I had a brain trauma, sometimes as many as five grandmas a day. And the epilepsy brain trauma story that many people face, it's a very remarkable place and remarkable things can happen in the mind.

1:27:28SpeakerBut at the time, it was believed that the brain did not heal. So, you know, science is a movable feast. Questions, questions, questions. That's That's what opens the door so that we don't know the answers, but that we're always looking for more. But, you know, I was 20 years old and I was, well, I don't, you know, I didn't really believe anyone. That's a good thing of getting a brain trauma at 20 rather than much later in life where things close.

1:28:00SpeakerSo he read that cannabis could be used to treat laboratory induced seizures in mice and It was nothing to lose. We were living in the woods and I was smoking pot, but much less than, but never thought of it as a medicinal application specifically. And within three weeks of creating this protocol and following it very strictly, my seizure started to diminish. Now I was on, I think, eight different medications.

1:28:33SpeakerAnd it's like, if Sharon Meers, M.D. : Living underwater. And one of the things I always ask parents to do if they're worried about giving their children cannabis, treating their children with cannabis because it's a cannabis is complex and CBD is the touted it's it's over overrated not it's not to say that it isn't valuable, but it should not be rated over other aspects THC included the plant, in my opinion, and Sharon Meers, M.D.

1:29:03Speaker: So, I just say to them, try a half a dose of your child's medicine that you give your child. Try one time, try one half of that dose. And that usually changes their minds because it's profoundly, you know, you can't do a half a dose of chemo, but you certainly can do a half a dose of an anti-epileptic drug. And it has profound impact. It helps us to see that what we are willing to give because we've been We've bought that story.

1:29:45SpeakerIt will give us an insight into what is perhaps the most important piece of news. Important piece of news being that what you think is an answer is often

1:30:05SpeakerMaybe not misguided, perhaps misguided. So in any case, I started using cannabis. We lived off the land and started growing it. Well, we were growing it anyway, but we started growing it specifically with medicine in mind and sensimia in, I think, 1974. And we, you know, the story,

1:30:33SpeakerHere's where I think we share the similarity. Growing, being the tender of plants as they grow themselves is being in service to nature, gives a kind of awakening so that we watch what we are participating in. And plants, unlike lots of people, are very forgiving. So you can make mistakes. Thank you for joining us today.

1:31:34SpeakerWith them, that was really my healing. That was really what helped me to heal. And it was just a couple of years before I was having no seizures, some neurological issues, but not seizure disorder. And that's like coming, it's like living underwater and being freed from that constriction, the restriction. And the fears that come around, you know, could I take a bath by myself? Not for... Could I go to town and not fall in my suit?

1:32:05SpeakerCould I be in public? So I stayed isolated a great deal. And we ran into cops. We got busted five times before we ever actually got arrested in 1992. But the years before that, it wasn't until the 80s in zero tolerance when even we were able to talk ourselves out of a couple of those arrests because I think that it was easy to see that What we were doing was, and I was in Santa Cruz, of course, but that it was medicinal application.

1:32:38SpeakerAnd so the cops that just happened to come those days were ones that were understanding. As a matter of fact, in the last one in the 80s, when we were arrested before 1992, when we were properly arrested, the cop's father happened to be an epileptic. They, he quizzed us and we must have passed the muster. And then that led us, 1992, being arrested, I realized, and this is something that Mike was very supportive of as well, was to say, you know, this is our chance.

1:33:20SpeakerLike you get a chance to do something. It doesn't come along again. I mean, you can always, every day you can live a life heroically and powerfully. But you don't get a chance to really stand for your conviction and do what you believe in the face of injustice often. And there's already a movement, mind you. It was 1991, San Francisco had passed their medical marijuana initiative. It wasn't an initiative.

1:33:49SpeakerIt was to make medical marijuana the least priority for police and arresting officers.

1:33:58SpeakerSo with, so that's with camp and all, all the, uh, the, uh, enforcement agencies against cannabis. And, um, they, uh, that's when, uh, I called on Lester Gridspoon and many friends, luminary cannabis, luminaries, um, for some help and got a lot of support. And I was the first patient in the state of California to win a medic medical necessity defense. But then our DA, our sheriff decided to come the next year in 93 and arrest us again.

1:34:34SpeakerSo I took the plants, but at that time it was more damaging because we didn't have much hidden. So that was the unfolding of this part. It happened to be the perfect timing. There was a medical cannabis movement afoot in the state of California. And I got to step into a really honored Very, I mean, I'm completely honored to be able to represent a plant that saved my life.

1:34:59SpeakerI mean, it's hard to say much more about it than that because it's deeply moving and a great, a life-changing experience. You know, you get made to do something, then you get the opportunity. It doesn't mean that you can, that everything will fall into place in the right way, but it was, it was a perfect, a perfect storm, perfect moment. And so that's, you know, it unfolded from there.

1:35:29SpeakerThat year, 1993, we started by, when we got arrested the second time, folks in the community had reached out and said, hey, kid, can you help me? It works. We'd already been working with other people since about the maybe 77 or 78 with people with HIV and cancers in our family. And we had quite a bit of experience In providing strains, we had a few strains that we, sativa from a Malawi strain and Panama Red and Acapulco Gold.

1:36:08SpeakerSo we had these three basic strains that we had, indicas and sativas, that we were able to work with and provide for our friends and keep those strains pretty true over the years.

1:36:23SpeakerWe started to watch the, the, um, all school way of growing change with the movement, uh, since the media movement and the marketing behind that and the, um, the production of, uh, bigger, greater, stronger, beefier, more powerful plants for a marketplace that actually ended up ruining a lot of the genetics, ruining, um, uh, destroying the pure avenues of, uh, of genetics. Um, because you know, people in community weren't in those pot growing communities, which we pretty much, I don't know if we knew everybody because you don't know who you didn't know, but we knew pretty much everyone.

1:37:06SpeakerAnd, um, and, um, once we moved into the medical place, recognizing it as medical and in the, um, nineties and we started WAM and that was And so, you know, it was really my friends weren't even members of WHAM. It was really to reach people who were marginalized by their illnesses and therefore financially marginalized. And so WHAM in 1993 became a public organization, a collective based on the premise from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.

1:37:46SpeakerAnd it's a Marxist principle, which Actually gives life to the balance, much like nature does, each to its ability, each to its need. Living in that sort of connected biome, living in a connected way, the way that information travels between trees and the mycorrhizae and the way that our information within us travels and the way that we're connected to each other in that web. And WHAM grew from the back of my car with a basket and going to people's houses.

1:38:26SpeakerAnd then we were at the AIDS Center in town. Santa Cruz AIDS Project gave us a room. And then it was people's houses. And it just kept growing until we were a few hundred strong. And about 500 people were WHAM members in 2020. No, this is 2020, 2002. Sharon Meers, M.D. : When we were arrested by the DEA. Sharon Meers, M.D. : And that set off a really a great national, maybe even international response, but a national Sharon Meers, M.D.

1:39:01Speaker: effort to really push back against the feds. So we sued the DEA and the Department of Justice and we won and they back down and we have a settlement with the federal government where they said something very vague, which is sort of government to Isn't it? As long as we continue to do what they think we're doing, they won't bother us. So we continue to do what they, I guess what they think we're doing.

1:39:31SpeakerI don't know who knows what government thinks, but I think that I feel that the most important part of this work, that's sort of the mosh pit of that strength to the power of people to demand Sharon Meers, M.D. : Their rights to demand to be served to demand that have backing down from the P of the police or the state is much Sharon Meers, M.D. : more difficult to do when you've already been faced death or watched your family members die or face suffering or know that the an oppression and oppressive government is what creates revolutionaries is what creates the pushback that governments Sharon Meers, M.D.

1:40:21Speaker: In justice is is. Sharon Meers, M.D. : What makes riots in the street. Sharon Meers, M.D. : When there's no option, then you do what you have to do you're driven to the next action. Sharon Meers, M.D. : So with with That said, our work continued we've been at the bedside of.

1:40:47SpeakerWell over 200 people when they've died and worked in that process with many others as they were dying. I wasn't present for all, for every death, but for more than 200 and use cannabis in palliative care, as well as in treatment for a myriad of illnesses, recognizing that different properties of cannabis, and this is something we knew early on, we noticed early on, That different types of cannabis, different strains or profiles would result in different outcomes for folks.

1:41:26SpeakerAnd that's a really incredibly great thing to know and to understand that you have in your hand an opportunity. And no two people will respond to the same protocol in the same way because we're a myriad of systems different. In makeup and different in, um, ability to, um, uh, utilize, um, the properties of, of any plant. And, um, you know, I, uh, so we, we sort of, we say here from seed to death bed, because we hope that that's something that we have available, whatever it is that a person needs at their death bed or what they, whatever they need to relieve their pain and suffering.

1:42:17SpeakerWhat's the problem? The problem is, if there is a problem, it's cultural or social. And really we have no right to stand between or make judgment of what other people do, cause no harm. And who's to say what harm is when people are making judgments about their own lives and their own deaths. I wanted to just say, I've listened this morning and in a few of our meetings, And just, I'm so moved and deeply touched by the amount of, I want to, I want to say first kindness and acceptance, the lack of competitive nature that exists in this tribe of women, the inclusivity, the loving kindness, you know, it's, it's fucking beautiful.

1:43:11SpeakerAnd, um, or bleep, sorry, it's beautiful. And it's, uh, And it's, you know, it's really the way to hang out in the garden, the kitchen and with each other that it's rare in the world, in the cannabis world and being here for so many years, like almost 50 years using it medically, but publicly to almost 30. And, you know, it's our nature. Like we want to do our best and we want to do good and we want to be the kind, do the kind.

1:43:55SpeakerAnd, and it, competition's fine. It's, it's fine to be, but it does, it can separate us. And I just don't witness that within this tribe. What I'm witnessing is a great love for nature. A great love of this plant and its teachings, the way that it's shifted and altered our consciousness that touches our hearts and helps us to share and to help each other. And for me, you know, I dig being alone.

1:44:38SpeakerI like that. Not that I'm alone as much. I'm with my mom all the time. But I mean, I have, I respond to the Being sequestered at home in a way that is fortunate for me. And at the same time, I long for the tribe and I long for this type of communion because I have the opportunity to learn so much. It's what's missing when we don't collect, when we don't gather, when we don't Thank you, Kelly, for, you know, reeling us in and weaving us all together.

1:45:19SpeakerAnd thanks to each one of you ladies and women here that have

1:45:41SpeakerOpened your hearts and your minds and share your wisdom and stories because it's sublime. I just want to say that I think that I know that what kept WAM buoyant and the way that we could fight the state Was that it's awfully hard for a government. I mean, a government just looks like the bully that it is when it goes against people that are sick and dying.

1:46:21SpeakerAnd that is a symptom. There is a symptom of sick and dying cultures as we crush the culture or as the state tries to crush the culture as we don't recognize how one another suffers and we hold the space only for our own. And so that's why I'm really thrilled for any of you who are still listening or are listening that tuned in with a group of women this morning on the Hash Church.

1:46:54SpeakerAnd I'm thrilled to be able to be a party to this emergence. And that recognizes the mother, the feminine, And that recognizes that we have a responsibility to preserve, to regenerate, to provide for, to honor and to respect one another and nature which serves us and nurtures us. I was several years ago in Mexico, in Yalapa, doing a peyote journey there. And there's teacher. And, and I got the clear message.

1:47:47SpeakerI mean, which, you know, when you get those messages, they're shattering and they're altering. And it was, you know, you must save the plant. I must save the plant. And then I, and so then, okay. And then Dive deep. And you must save nature and all sacred plants in nature. Okay, I must save all sacred plants in nature. Right. And then everything in nature is sacred. And we're calling out part of it because it's touched our lives so deeply.

1:48:23SpeakerAnd we know and connect to that sacred aspect, that which has really saved my life and opened my mind and my heart. So, we've broken open that portal. As it's done with many people who are facing death, it opens the portal, making death more acceptable. At least that's what they tell me. Never died, so I don't know that part of it. But I do know that it can open us.

1:48:49SpeakerAnd that since and as everything in nature is precious, that our sense of responsibility has to open, that we accept The harm caused and that we atone for that harm that we've caused and has been caused by our ancestors and that we bring about the forces of change, staunchly, rigidly, whatever it takes, with gentle, unending force, the one that moves the mountain, the one that you can lean on a redwood tree and you can actually move it.

1:49:31SpeakerThat kind of force that's so powerful, that's alive within this group. And I really have to thank you. And I'm being a chattery. So I want to step back and give room for others. And I just want to say thank you so much. Thank you so much for inviting me in and allowing me to be here.

1:50:03SpeakerAnd yeah, there's some questions going on, so go ahead and tend to those. And thank you. Appreciate it. And ladies and women, and thanks, Marcus, too. We're moving them out. I'm going to book out here. Thanks, Valerie. I'm not sure if our audio changed or if that was just Valerie. Am I coming in the same as Valerie was just ending? It was just Valerie's mic, I think.

1:50:35SpeakerI think you're good, Kelly. Okay. Valerie, you always get to the heart of the matter. Yet again, I have to commend you because you always seem to have the real root of the message of what cannabis has to offer. She has chosen so well. By choosing you, sister, as her voice in this time period, she has chosen so fucking well. I am so thankful your words always come through so clearly.

1:51:15SpeakerMedicine, consciousness, togetherness, power, unity, and fucking resilience. Thank you. And I see that Alice has just joined us. I forgot to send you the link. I don't always have it together. You know, cannabis really gives us community, but she, you know, doesn't always give us having all of our shit together all at the same time. But creativity, she does so. Alice, thank you so much for being on here.

1:51:50SpeakerWhat a beautiful, amazing woman that is reaching so many Portuguese speaking women of the world in Brazil, you and other places in the world. You are really have a huge audience and the education that you're putting forward is so commendable. Please introduce yourself. Hey, for me, first of all, it's a blessing to be here. Thank you for sending me the link. I appreciate a lot being here.

1:52:24SpeakerAnd well, my name is Alice. I am actually a psychologist and very passionate about nature and nowadays also growing cannabis. And I'm part of a project that is called Grows in Green. And we focus on giving free information about cannabis, cultivation, hash making, drug policy, mental health, and sustainability, even now, like regenerative farming, because I've been learning a lot about it. So since I learned, I like to teach too.

1:52:55SpeakerAnd definitely in a very prohibitionist setting. So my first approach to the drug world, and I have no problem of saying the drug world because I think that drugs or medicine is just our misconception and our stigma associated to the word too, was with activism and also caring for people in situations of drug abuse and invulnerable situations. And with the time and experience, I started seeing how much this plant is Thank you so much for joining us.

1:53:43SpeakerThere's a huge lack of information about cannabis. There's a huge misconception about this amazing plant. And I had just started understanding it as a medicine and how it could be used to heal. So my background is definitely different than what I experienced today because I'm from Brazil and now I'm speaking from Humboldt County. It's a huge shift, huge change.

1:54:08SpeakerDefinitely being here brought a lot of knowledge and a broad of like amazing people to my side. So I could like get it all together in words and like try to teach the people that need the most, which are the people in countries that are way underprivileged in information, in drug policy, in access to cannabis. And definitely education is a way to empower people so they can produce their own medicine.

1:54:38SpeakerAnd empowering people to do what's possible for them, you know, because it's what we were talking when we were doing our meeting. Not everyone has like the privilege of the land of being able to grow somewhere that has like fertile land and good soil. And some people have their own inner apartments with just like one tiny little wall and they really want to grow a plant or a tomato.

1:55:02SpeakerAnd I think that it's very important for all of us to share information towards that and being here and having so much diversity Thank you so much for being here.

1:55:40SpeakerAnd well, coming from South America, I can't deny a few challenges of being here in the United States. There's definitely a different experience of being a Latina woman in a country like this and in an industry like that in the cannabis world. There's not a legality to work and things like this. But nowadays, like I actually, I shifted a bunch of my life and I So that's like a blessing too and a good approach to understand how you can work with the land or how you can work with what you have, how you can make How we can make compost in your own house with like worm bins and stuff like this in a tiny little apartment and you can fertilize your tomato and your wheat plants too.

1:56:30SpeakerSo it's been very good to learn this information and share it in a platform like what Kelly said is Girls in Green.

1:56:39SpeakerI think that teaching people about cannabis cultivation is also a way to reduce risks and harms of the war on drugs and also lead to a more sustainable world and better ways of living here. And I think that it's a blessing to be here in HESH Church with all these beautiful sister ladies, because I think that is a way to make it, to represent women and also empower all the women there are in their houses, like wanting to approach this life too.

1:57:11SpeakerI wanted to say also that my relationship with cannabis started when I was quite young too, with 14. I feel like I started smoking cannabis and it teach me so much about the appreciation of life and music and nature. I think it was the The thing that opened me the gate for nature and for more to wanting to live a more sustainable life. But also it was a medicine for me.

1:57:35SpeakerI thought I only use it recreationally and I do it like this because definitely I don't even believe in this world anymore. But the last year I got also diagnosed with a disease that is autoimmune and degenerative that is called spondylitis ankylosis. It's kind of a very weird name. And I kind of understood also my past and the relationship I had with the sacred plant that I thought it was recreationally that I was approaching to it, but it was helping me out so much with inflammation and pain since my early stages in life.

1:58:08SpeakerAnd now I feel like it's a different experience also to approach that as a medicine, as something you need, as something that if someone takes it from you, it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt somehow. And I feel like this is a beautiful mission that we all have here to give information and empower people through the way so they can make their own medicine.

1:58:34SpeakerI have started watching actually Bubble Man's World when I was 18 years old and I remember doing my first hash in Brazil that looked like shits. It was all green because it was so warm and I didn't use enough ice and then I grinded all the weed and I extracted that Amazing green hash at the time. And from all those years, like being here today, being able to extract full melt, I just can look back in time and also thank for being here once more because that's it.

1:59:06SpeakerWe can't count on and we can't measure education because education and information just goes and goes and goes and multiplies. And that's The most beautiful thing we can all do. So thank you so much for letting me be here and for representing South America, for letting me advocate for this beautiful plants among you all. And I'm very thankful for this mother plant that showed me many ways to embrace life and saved me in many ways too.

1:59:35SpeakerSo thank you so much.

1:59:40SpeakerAlice, so beautiful, so heartfelt, so powerful. Your words just ring so clear and true. Just so honored to have you here today. Thank you. And next, I actually wanted to, you know, Sierra, she's... One of the most hard working, amazing, and when I say unbelievable, fucking bad ass cultivators sitting next to me here, she never stops. She's up early in the morning. She's doing her yoga. She's in full Thank you so much for your incredible service to the soil and to the plant.

2:00:24SpeakerAnd I'm just so honored to call her my daughter in love. Many of you all know her. She is an unbelievable representation of the next generation, her connection to the youth. In this, never have we had the ears of the youth as farmers, as wanting to become cultivators, as wanting to be connected to an herb as we have of the youth right now. They're listening. They're paying attention.

2:00:57SpeakerIt's such an honor to be able to have a platform and Sierra be able to have a platform to be able to reach the youth. Thanks, Sierra. Thank you. I'm going to start it off with I love this community and I love all of you mamas and I wouldn't be like where I am today if it weren't for all of your inspirational journeys like Paving the way for me and like the rest of the youth.

2:01:25SpeakerAnd like Kelly said, there's more of a resurgence to grow gardens and have a connection to soil and to nature and be outdoors and reconnect as a community. Then there really has been many, many generations and. We have the ability with cannabis to into that. It's really, really powerful. A little crazy background on myself. Meredith is my mom and I'm a fourth generation cannabis cultivator cultivator.

2:02:02SpeakerI grew up with my parents having indoor grows to get medicine to people who needed it. And as Oregon became more legal, we had an outdoor recreational farm where my dad would spend his summers. That gave our family a bit of a disconnect. All in all, it showed us that we could create medicine for a wider community and get it out to the people and still be a family and a community.

2:02:34SpeakerAnd I can't think of a better way to have been raised. I can't think of it any other way. And I have been lucky enough to have been growing cannabis And plants. My mom has had a garden forever. We've always had plants everywhere in my life. And I think probably like four years in my life, I wasn't growing gardens. And it's because I was dancing and I was a heavy duty athlete and I was putting all of my attention there.

2:03:04SpeakerBut I first smoked cannabis when I was 13 and I think I waited honestly that long because it oddly enough for me it was available it was everywhere and not like our parents were saying smoke it they were saying don't wait your brain's developing it will help you later in life don't do it now and I think kids were doing it around me younger like 11 and I knew that when I smoked it I wouldn't stop I knew it was going to help me excel in life and move forward in a way that I really never had before.

2:03:43SpeakerAnd that's what it's brought me to today. Like Kelly said, it's hard for me to stop moving sometimes. So that's what cannabis does for me. It helps me think about what the wider picture is, what is going on in our world, and how I can help it be a better place. And I'm so thankful for that opportunity. And I really, really am grateful for all of you women here today.

2:04:10SpeakerAnd all of your wise words. And I don't want to take it up with my time, but I want to give a little bit to Kelly to represent all that she does for the plant. So let's hear a little bit. I just, I felt like I wanted to not tell a story about myself, but tell a story about the cannabis community. And I really love this little bit of data that we're 99% same as human beings with our DNA.

2:04:45SpeakerBut if you check out our microbiome and our flora, we're 99% different. And I just think it's really awesome to know that the living organizms inside of our body are so diverse and that same diversity is found in the soil and that same polyculture is what gives a healthy, living, vibrant soil. And then I think about the microbiome within our own body and then the microbiome within the soil as regenerative cultivators and as medicine makers from plants that are grown in soil that are just totally regenerative and Thank you for joining us today.

2:05:45SpeakerAnd I just wanted to bring it back to that we have our own healthy microbiome. And then with that, we create a healthy microbiome within our own community. And when our own community is diverse, With all different types of people that are all equal and have equity and are able to be brought in to be able to follow their own soul path and bring value added to our community.

2:06:18SpeakerThat's true diversity. And then that beautiful diversity then becomes a larger microbiome of the world. And a microbiome of the world where we're all healthy, where we all thrive, where all of us are equal, where we all are beneficials and our strength and beneficials to the pathogens, which is inequality on our planet, socioeconomic differences, fuck all of that. You know, so the story that I wanted to bring you all today is my background is that I have a background in naturopathic medicine, pediatric care, and midwifery.

2:07:01SpeakerAnd I've been doing international disaster relief since my early adulthood. Whenever there's a disaster on the planet, I've been blessed to ask, been asked to come to a location and build a facility with Josh, who many of you all know, amazing, awesome being. So it's like, When the tsunami happened, there was something that happened within our microbiome of the planet. I felt it like as a beneficial microorganism on the planet, like a super T cell.

2:07:43SpeakerI felt it. I felt like I needed to go there and do something. We built a clinic. It today is serving women every single day. It is... It is in unity with local midwives, local doctors, local hospitals. It's still happening today. And then when that same call happened in Haiti with the earthquake that happened in Haiti, this is where I'm getting to the story. Sorry, it's taking a bit to get there.

2:08:16SpeakerIs that I felt that same call. I couldn't believe that a place on the planet That is our most marginalized location. People that have been swallowed up and put down are having the most incredible disaster. So I went to the top of the mountain, I smoked several doobies, and I said, I fucking gotta go. How am I gonna get there with my group? Who is gonna be my group?

2:08:52SpeakerMy group was 12 cannabis cultivators, enthusiasts because they were doctors, nurses, first responders. We went in illegally through the Dominican Republic. I called out to the entire cannabis community. We funded through the cannabis community for six months in Haiti. Everybody gave five, 2% of their crop, their earnings, their medicine to that. 40 foot dome that was built there. 400 births happened there. 7,000 visits, prenatal visits of women that got health care.

2:09:45SpeakerThey got chickens to bring home with them. They learned about the gardening. They learned about all of their natural plants around them.

2:09:58SpeakerAll, we made an herbal book for that area. We connected with the traditional midwives, doctors, made a connection with all.

2:10:11SpeakerBecause of this cannabis culture.

2:10:28SpeakerAnd community. And that, I just wanted to tell you that's not just the growers. These are urban people who are touched by cannabis, who were reached to us by cannabis, and that continues on. And I just, that's my story. And I just wanted to give it up for the cannabis community. Thank you so much. Thanks, Kel. That was incredible. And it continues to live on. And now I wanted to move over to Nikki because it only makes sense to talk about the history of cannabis and you hold such a valuable place and a bridging gap from the new generation to the beginning generations of the upheaval of cannabis in the U.S. Nikki, talk to us.

2:11:20SpeakerEnlighten us. Thank you. I love you. Thank you, Kelly. Boy, I didn't know all that about the work you did in Haiti. That's amazing. So just hearing about all of you, I'm so impressed and honored to be part of this group of women. And the history of cannabis and women goes back very far. I lived in India for many years. And in India is kind of India and up northern India, I was in the Himalayas.

2:11:47SpeakerAnd that's where a lot of cannabis began, the cannabis use in the Himalayas. And, you know, it's just sort of a way of life up there. And it always has been for probably thousands of years where it grows wild in everybody's garden. The women use the seeds and the cooking very much because It gives protein and then they make their chata. So the hashish out of that for the men, mostly the men to smoke, but the women do smoke it as well because you can imagine they're pretty exhausted at the end of a long day of being an Indian mother and housewife.

2:12:19SpeakerSo the history of it goes way back as far as women's use and women's understanding of cannabis. And here in Mendocino County, where we are in the Emerald Triangle, It goes back to about the late 60s, early 70s when women like me that were hippies in San Francisco decided at a certain point time to get out of the city. The drugs in the city were getting to be the bad ones like speed and other things we didn't want to mess with.

2:12:48SpeakerAnd they came to the country and basically there was cheap land up here in the mountains of Northern California. It's not like anybody even knew that this was such a premier area to be growing in. There was kind of a stroke of luck that this is where it's beautiful. There's cheap land. We can afford this. And while we're up here, let's just throw a few seeds in the ground and see what happens.

2:13:09SpeakerAnd it was a wonderful surprise what happened. And in the beginning years, the women were very involved, equally involved with the men, I would say, in actually really doing the growing and the cultivation and starting that all out, making medicine. We still have a lot of what we call the mountain witches up here that Thank you for joining us today.

2:13:41SpeakerI hate this term, but blow it up as they say, you know, it blew up. The men started getting into it quite a bit and no offense guys, but you know, the vibe did change a little bit and the women were still very involved, but the ones that you heard about were mostly the trimmers or doing more of the side kind of projects, keeping this farm going, but there was still a lot of us that had our hands in the soil out there, but the sort of became more of a men thing as it got into higher, Thank you so much for joining us today.

2:14:40SpeakerAnd the Sensimia is the female plant. So it really makes sense that we as women have this connection to the plants that we're growing, especially now. And I do feel that she is such a psychic plant, an incredibly psychic plant and always has been for thousands of years. I mean, she's probably the oldest medicine on the face of the earth. I have no doubt about that. And she knows where she's needed and how she's needed.

2:15:06SpeakerCarolyn Gallagher, And she comes to the aid of humanity in that way. And I really still feel that it is primarily women now that are maybe not the mountain witches, but the ones that are coming up with these medicinal remedies that are really out there to help heal people. I think we recognize that It's great to get high, but there's so much more to cannabis than just that.

2:15:29SpeakerIt really does have its healing effects. You know, I, I even bought myself back in the early nineties when people started calling it medicine, it was like, what are you talking about? You know, but you know, you really do discover that that is true. When I had my hip replacement, I absolutely use cannabis for curing myself instead, you know, before and after the operation, I couldn't have gotten through it without cannabis.

2:15:52SpeakerAnd it meant I didn't have to take all of those other bad pills. And I didn't want to take. And now recently I've been diagnosed with COPD, a moderate COPD that does not come from cannabis smoking. Although it's just the combustion that's not good. So after 50 plus years of smoking joints, I now am doing mostly edibles actually. And so that's a whole other part to learn.

2:16:14SpeakerAnd I think, you know, as us medicine makers, we have so much to learn about this plant. Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm so happy to be here.

2:16:42SpeakerThank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

2:17:06SpeakerYou know just as much about cannabis as anybody else. And we have a lot to share. So I just say that with lots of love from my heart to everybody out there. Thank you so much, so much, Kelly, for gathering us together. And thank you, Marcus, so much for letting us speak our hearts to everybody out there today. It means a ton. And I'm going to have to sign off now.

2:17:25SpeakerBut I love you all. Om Namah Shivaya. Bom Shankar. Honor that plant. And get high. Thanks. Thanks, Nicky. And it just only makes sense to roll right over to you, Tina. When I think about the word resilience, it's always brought, I can hear it in your words. I hear your voice sometimes in my mind because your words stick with me on such a deep soul level, I think, because you always remind me of what I want to say.

2:18:01SpeakerSo talk to us about resilience in this medicine. Thanks, Kelly. I really appreciate that. And thank you, Nikki, my San Francisco sister. When I think about resilience and I think about this plant, this plant really has Thank you so much for joining us today.

2:18:42SpeakerAnd I watch storms come through. I watch rains come through and like heavy winds and full sun and freezing cold nights. And she just holds on. And through all of it, it's like, oh, is this event going to take her down? And in fact, none of it does because of everything that's happening. She just gets stronger and stronger and stronger and more expressive and more expressive and more expressive.

2:19:06SpeakerIt's because of the hot days and the cool nights because of the winds coming through at four o'clock. It's because of the timing of how we can engage and interact and steward and help this plant, really. My job is to help this plant. I listen to her. Whenever people say, hey, what are we doing? Looking to me as a guide, I'm saying, we're all working for this plant.

2:19:34SpeakerSo plant first. We follow the plant.

2:19:40SpeakerOne of the things that I think is so important is to, by any means, grow this plant and for yourself. And if that means that you're doing that, if you are in a position and in a situation where you're on land and you can do that, great. Backyard, awesome. Windowsill, cool. It can work. Fire escape, you can make it work. Inside next to a window, depending on the situation, do it.

2:20:07SpeakerYou know, if it's a closet, if it's inside, wherever it is in your house, you can do it. You can make it work regardless of the situation. There's always a way. And I think that just through growing this plant, the act of growing this plant and seeing how resilient this plant is, it reinforces our own personal resilience and our ability to continue to grow and learn. And one of the things that seems so crazy right now, like the world seems really seemed is crazy right now.

2:20:41SpeakerThere's so much happening. It seems really fucked up. And if we can trust that this plant's intelligence, if it can reach enough people and through that biofeedback, if we can learn how to serve this plant, the plant will learn how to serve us and it will serve us and it will serve humanity. And so through that resilience and together this biodiversity, you guys, this is all of us together.

2:21:06SpeakerYou know, every one of our voices, every one of our, every one of us being here and present is creating this beautiful diversity. A diverse culture is a healthy culture. And let's keep working towards that.

2:21:25SpeakerYes, Tina. Awesome. Beautiful. So potent. And, you know, talking about reaching other people, Duchess, you've been reaching other people and you've been educating and you've been out there. And I would just love to hear what what important messages that you have for all of us right now to, um, we've been, you know, utilize your cannabis platform, the Black Lives Matter platform, you know, your history with this medicine platform, um, your amazing, uh, connection to hash making just, uh, thank you.

2:22:08SpeakerI'd love to hear from you.

2:22:13SpeakerOkay. Um, Education is, I think, one of the strongest ways that we can all help each other. And we kind of have these conversations over and over about where do we need to go? How do we make these moves? Women are growing within the industry, but how do we get more visibility? And at the end of the day, I feel like true mentorship and not endless conversation.

2:22:37SpeakerEvery single person has something to bring to the table. Every single person on this group can take one or two mentors And start changing, changing the narrative. We, when my, my message within Black Lives Matter, besides the obvious, you know, stop killing us has been open up your eyes. A lot of people have been living with the privilege of not having to have their eyes open. And so George Floyd happened, but George Floyd by no means was no He was no anomaly.

2:23:09SpeakerThat situation was not an anomaly. And right now our industry pretty much lives behind a veil of good intentions. So instead of having good intentions, let's actually do. So we can talk all about unity and everything, but like with any kind of wound, we can't put band-aids on it. We can't put healing sass on it without taking out what's problematic. And within our industry, we have had this idea that we could, I don't want to call it even, Spiritual bypassing at this point yet, but I myself, I did a post about the fact that I had the assumption that because people were involved with cannabis, because people were involved with psychedelics, that they were good people.

2:23:49SpeakerAnd that's just bullshit. Cannabis is only a tool. Cannabis is not our souls. We have to actually do the work of getting past what we've learned, the problems that we find, the quagmire of thought that we find ourselves in, and then actually doing stuff. And not depending on people to tell us what to do. Like Valerie says, it's not about waiting for someone else to tell us.

2:24:11SpeakerWe're all grown women. We can all do our research and we can do the very hands on thing of reaching out to one person and saying, I'm going to help you. I'm going to teach you. Whether it's one person or a thousand people, we all have that ability. So I think mentorship and education from that standpoint is super important. Yes, we all have our proprietary information. Thank you so much for joining us today.

2:24:35SpeakerI'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here.

2:25:02SpeakerI'm so grateful to all of you for being here. I'm so grateful to all of you for being here. I'm so grateful to all of you for being here. I'm so grateful to all of you for being here. I'm so grateful to all of you for being here.

2:25:29SpeakerBlack women in the hash community that are really making moves, but I'm used to being the other, the only, the only woman in the concentrate situation, the only Black woman for sure. And that's not only here. When I'm in Barcelona, I'm usually one of the only, though I do say that there are a lot of women coming up there. And I didn't come from a place, I didn't have a place of like, how do I really say it?

2:25:56SpeakerOften when you're dealing with young males, Also, when you're dealing with young males, young men, you know, they are. There's a mentality within the within the cannabis industry that's so testosterone based and so focused on, like, I'm better or I have my ideas and this is all I'm going with. And in the beginning, I really felt like having that same kind of approach would be helpful. But now I realize that.

2:26:24SpeakerSpeaking about hash in metaphor or speaking about my message in metaphor has helped. It has been a more feminine approach where people can listen more to the message than worry about who's saying it. And of course, there is an inherent concern about sexism and racism. If you have an issue with what I'm saying that any other guy who would be white would have, you'd have no issue what I'm saying, but I understand the system in which we find ourselves and in which we work.

2:26:51SpeakerAgain, education will get us more open. Cannabis will provide the bed on which we lay, but cannabis is not going to save us if we don't want to be saved. Cannabis is not going to be this miracle. No substance is a miracle over our facing our demons and working at it together. So yes, I'm all about the whole, the unity, because it's only together that we're doing stuff.

2:27:17SpeakerIt's not going to be just Black people who are feeling a certain way or brown people. I'm an Afro Latina. My family's from Panama. I'm the first person in my family born in this country. So I see things from all kinds of angles. I'm also queer. So that there's all kinds of things, you know, where this cannabis industry can grow with regard to its inclusivity. But I think not, but, and I think at the bottom of it all is going to be education and education of each other, even when we don't see the benefit.

2:27:46SpeakerThe immediate benefit that helping somebody else is going to bring. Several of my posts where I've talked about education, people will say, oh, I'm not going to take food out of my own mouth. It's only a short-sighted person that thinks that helping others takes food out of their family's mouth. At no point is helping others ever going to do that. And once we realize that, yes, we are all on the same boat that has various holds, so we need to be patching and rowing all together, we're going to be sinking eventually.

2:28:16SpeakerGo Ash.

2:28:21SpeakerAmazing. Wasn't long. I could listen to you forever. So poignant, super educated, amazing way to get your message across. I just, I really love listening to you, Duchess. Thank you so much for your clarity. Really. I really appreciate you. And then also talking about clarity and talking to people who are disadvantaged, marginalized, even in illegal situations, but still people who are needing the medicine. I'd love to hear you talk a bit, Alice, about your plight and the work that you're doing to Thank you so much for joining us today.

2:29:01SpeakerI'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here.

2:29:25SpeakerMaria Capron, Guide on how to how to approach the cannabis cannabis with your parents or if you're a parent, how do you approach the cannabis use or cannabis with your kids and Maria Capron, Well in Brazil, it's definitely different than here because I feel like in United States, and especially in California, you have a lot of information about cannabis in the media, people have understood They went through this process that you are all saying that cannabis became a medicine, right?

2:29:54SpeakerSo before it was a substance that people used to use and then just like to get high and then He got recognized somehow within society as a medicine. And I feel like Brazil is taking its slowly steps towards that. It's like kind of happening right now. We're having like the first medicinal cannabis being approved, but definitely not in a fair way. Very expensive, still being like imported from United States.

2:30:25SpeakerJust a few people can afford. Definitely the access is not easy. So it's it's that we were talking about education and education is the most empowering tool. It's like I think it's one of the most beautiful things we can do and what Flower Days did. And I think it was so beautiful, like that super simple book on how to like do so many things in your own house.

2:30:51SpeakerAnd I think that this is the most beautiful things we can do. And

2:30:56SpeakerI feel like all of us have our own inner missions and our own inner interests to the things that we're passionate about and the things that we fall in love with. And if we can educate people with what we love, That's even more powerful than everything, because everything that you do with love, that you experience with love, and you have this, and you embrace the situations like this, you're going to pass it on with love.

2:31:22SpeakerAnd I feel like love is the language that unites. It's not Portuguese. It's not English. Thank you so much for joining us.

2:31:55SpeakerAnd if there is any way that I can help somehow every woman that is here on just how to make this information more broad so more people could understand, that would be a mission that I'm willing to fulfill and do.

2:32:15SpeakerAnother thing, I feel like it's very nice what Dan, what the Duchess is speaking and I relate to her a lot in that, that I feel like she's, she's one of the only, only, she's finding other black, black women towards the hash industry and making hash too, but it's, I experienced the same thing as her on, on, it is very hard to find someone that it's not from here doing this because definitely it's a, Chayana Kemp, Ph.D.: Huge obstacle like the legislation and definitely the border of United States is another obstacle.

2:32:48SpeakerSo sometimes I show the face. Sometimes I hide because I'm afraid that in the border, they're going to question and find all the cannabis stuff that we're doing all around. But I feel like when you have the mission and when you have the love, hopefully Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

2:33:29SpeakerAnd I think it's really important for us to be able to help each other. And I think it's really important for us to be able to help each other. And I feel like COVID times were very important because people understood the power of internet but people didn't have the the need to you the need as they had like this in in this last months and i am excited to see somehow what will come out of it as an educa as education as a way to for information to be the thing that empowers everyone through the world so i'm excited and i'm excited that all of us are here too and how are we gonna relate to that how are we gonna Work with all this information.

2:34:15SpeakerHow are we going to share what we do and inspire other people to do things that are similar, to do things that work on their own inner reality? If they can make, they're checking out information about hash, but they don't have a bubble bag. But well, I'm sorry to say, sorry Marcos if you're hearing, but these days we did like hash with the coffee filter. I mean, it's not the cream of the crop.

2:34:39SpeakerIt's not the most amazing thing in the world, but it's bubble hash. And then people have the opportunity to do that and get in touch with that. So this is so powerful and this is so good. And so people can work, they can feel this sense of belonging also to the cannabis community, which is a blessing. The cannabis community, sometimes it's more even i can't say that but it's kind of like if as beautiful as the plant as beautiful as the cannabis medicine itself like all these people that are together and are trying to empower other people to be independent and do their own medicine is just a blessing so i'll keep up with the educational talk always so and i and that's it i appreciate being here thank you

2:35:28SpeakerAnd it's a beautiful sort of transition really quickly, Liz. I wanted to hear, we were talking the other day about, you know, medicine and concentration and processing and extraction. And you brought us some really beautiful language and thought processes about, you know, how we take this plant and then transition it. I'd love for you to repeat what you were talking about the other day. Yeah, um, I guess, as somebody who I guess I said, I mentioned to him more started on the consumer side, reaching people through that.

2:36:08SpeakerAnd I just like to second and third, what every woman here has said about education. But just the the language that we use around things and how we perpetuate messages. Sometimes I just want everyone to be really mindful about that. So when we talk about extraction and, you know, a lot of what extracts are, I just think the power of medicine and Tamara, you pinged me about this and I'm so grateful for that too, but just processing and preservation.

2:36:37SpeakerAnd a few women have hit on that and something that I really just want to encourage all the viewers, if you are in a more urban setting, if you're disconnected from source, please find ways to connect back to it. And that can be as simple as going to your, Dispensary, if you're in a legal state, finding ways to help if you're not legal or not. All of these plants that people are putting in the ground right now, start conversations.

2:37:02SpeakerYour own circles, your own intuition, your own communities really have this knowledge. You don't need to just go to the influencers and to those platforms. You can go to the farmer's market and say, hey, can I come out and help you harvest this week? And put your hands in the dirt Amanda Solliday, CEO Alphabet and Google

2:37:41SpeakerDeana Nguyen, Deana Nguyen, Deana Nguyen, Deana Nguyen, Deana Nguyen,

2:38:00SpeakerKelly Cervantes, Thank you so much. Kelly Cervantes, Thank you so much.

2:38:22SpeakerAnybody that feels disconnected on the consumer side or the student side, to please educate yourself by helping and not By thinking you know how to help, listen to what's needed and then make yourself available to act in that way. And that, just again, preservation over extraction. We need the whole picture, not just the parts and pieces that make us comfortable or high or whatever. The whole medicine, the whole plant, the whole picture is what is All of those are really important here.

2:39:01SpeakerSo just wanted to, again, second really quick before I transition off. Alice, thank you so much for bringing up harm reduction, that process of meeting people where they're at and not shaming them, but really just I'm thinking more of the The drug user side coming to that just, it shouldn't be any shame that I don't have land or that these things just encouraging people to feel very comfortable with where they're at so that they can contribute in their way.

2:39:30SpeakerAnd I'm so, thank you all for everything you've said. I love all of you.

2:39:36SpeakerThank you, Liz. Thanks, Liz. Super appreciate it. It's nice to have clarity on language as we move forward. I think that, you know, language often gets in the way. And when we can come to clarity on things that make sense, then it puts us all in the same, you know, space to be able to move forward. And as you're talking about extraction, I wanted to move over to Davida, the work that you've been doing with your business.

2:40:06SpeakerAnd I know that you're serving a lot of community that is needing of this medicine. And when you introduce yourselves, you're absolutely talking about this as a medicine. And I'd love to hear about your extraction and your relationship as medicine, and then to be able to get it Kelly Cervantes, Out to the people and the importance of that. Well, you know, for me, the reason the main reason for me to even dive into cannabis was because of my elements for things that have been going on with me from the, you know, from the degenerative joint disease to my depression, anxiety, even personally, my son, he's autistic.

2:40:52SpeakerUm, and me, um, learning about CBD, things like that, um, that has helped also him, even if it's just to get his thoughts together. Um, and you know, I, I, I believe that this plant is a miracle and it's a shame that for so long, I mean, people don't even realize that cannabis has been around since growing, what, since 10,000 BC. I mean, so cannabis has been here way before we were all here and To know that it has so many benefits and then you go through, whether it be systematic racism, we can go all day and talk about that, but at the end of the day, that's what it is.

2:41:37SpeakerAnd you have many people that could benefit from this, but our government is shooting us up with this, with these pharmaceutical pills and they want you to pop a pill every four to six hours. You know, and it's doing more harm than good. So, you know, for me, I believe it saved my life. I know others that it saved theirs. I swear by it. And the notion is, isn't just, you know, to get high or things like that.

2:42:04SpeakerIt's, it's so much deeper than that. And it could save, it could save so many lives and let alone all the things that it's used for. I mean, hemp alone, you know, so

2:42:17SpeakerFor me, I just feel like in order for us to move forward, we need to really dive into our past because, as we know, with this pandemic and current events, our history is a lot. And that's all the way around. So I think that we need to work together and especially in this industry. And I know that everyone on this panel, for the most part, is on the other side.

2:42:36SpeakerI'm here where it's just now starting to become legal. You know, you have the medicinal, but And I think that's just how it, I think, you know, I always say I always wanted to be in California because it was so liberal. They're so, you know, just free and it's just different versus here. It's still, it's still trial and error and it's still us fighting for just basic rights.

2:43:08SpeakerSo, um, I came across this and I just felt the need to make this. I knew how it benefited myself, how it benefited, you know, my family. And sometimes I even just, I saw a woman in the parking lot of dispensary. I just knocked on her door and she was an older woman and I just knocked on her door and I just gifted her a bottle. I just had a small bottle with me.

2:43:28SpeakerI said, Hey, I just want you to try it. Just tell me how it is. And I have no problem doing that because my thing is if it's benefits you, trust me, you're going to tell someone else. And my thing is it, I am a walking testimony. Trust me. If you see me last year, I was not the same person today. So thank you.

2:43:53SpeakerAmazing. And just so people can understand about what it is that your product is, it's so amazingly easy. It's so useful. It could be used every day. Can you tell people a little bit about it? Because it's talk about just an easy, beautiful way to use cannabis. Absolutely. So this, this is one of my bottles. And this is CBD. I use this because once again, I'm not a chef and I tell everyone and people say chef and I'm not, I've never been to school for chef, but I mean for cooking, but I love culinary.

2:44:28SpeakerI love just the experience of it. And I love the experience that I'm giving someone that's eating my food. So you use this like you do anything else. So pretty much if you have a recipe and it calls for oil or butter, you just substitute it for my oil. That's it. And I tell everyone, if you feel that's a little bit too strong, because a lot of the newbies, you know, someone who's getting into it, I'll tell them, okay, try it, but then you might want to cut it half with my oil and half with butter or another type of oil.

2:44:59SpeakerBut I use olive oil, I use coconut oil, I'll do butter, I do tinctures. But I love it. And at the end of the day, I see the difference with myself, I see the difference with other people, especially their testimonies, their experiences. And I was amazed and my thing is I want to help people because I wish that this was around and all of this unity was when I was a lot younger.

2:45:26SpeakerYou know, in my appreciation for cannabis was not where it is today. The outlook, the mindset is completely different.

2:45:37SpeakerYeah, and it just goes to show you that we've been talking a lot about it being a conscious changer. It also is a basic nutrient. We, again, have this endocannabinoid system where we need these cannabinoids every day to be able to Thank you for joining us today.

2:46:12SpeakerThank you so much for joining us today. I'm so excited to be here with you today. I'm so excited to be here with you today. I'm so excited to be here with you today. I'm so excited to be here with you today.

2:46:38SpeakerThank you so much for joining us today. I'm so happy to be here with you today. I'm so happy to be here with you today. I'm so happy to be here with you today.

2:47:06SpeakerCannabis as a medicine. I mean, that's, it's, it's so profound. It works, you know, on so many different levels. For me, it's worked a lot on an emotional level and helped me deal with really intense situations and kind of make it through PTSD. And then also being like in a situation where you're so like In an acute place where as long as I could smoke a joint, I was able to breathe and release and actually have like your mind actually kind of shifts a little bit, you know, that shift in consciousness.

2:47:48SpeakerAnd that's when I started using it a lot one of my younger years as like when meditation and as my spiritual practice, because it really helps you go deep. And then I feel like just because of the pain that I've suffered in many different ways that it's bled for my compassion as a healer to want to get this medicine out to people as much as possible because I know the benefits of it.

2:48:13SpeakerI know how it can help. I know it can change your life. And then I've witnessed it changing people's lives. One thing we've been doing I've been doing for the last like you know eight years is doing a lot of custom blends where because every body is different and so for somebody that has like brain has cancer right now I really thought these high indicas would work actually it's not it's these high CBDs with a little bit of indica added in with this RSO and this and and it's just like we need more custom ability for customization for people um especially with Dealing with like directly with the medicine makers is what I've seen.

2:48:55SpeakerAnd right now in our legalization, it's made such a disconnection between that. We're completely disconnected where it's like now these patients have to go into a dispensary and some of them can't really walk. Some of them can't go into dispensary. So then they're trying to order delivery and they don't really know what to order. There's not, they're looking for education. And this is what I've come across with a lot of the elders I work with and those that are really sick, like so sick that it's really hard for them to even get out of bed.

2:49:27SpeakerAnd a lot of people with Lyme's, there's just a lot of different dis-eases of the body out there that can really benefit from cannabis. And so I know for us personally, we've had quite a challenge in entering this legalization market. If I wasn't as determined as I am, that I would have quit a long time ago. And I've like said, I'm gonna hop in my school bus again and just take off, but I'm determined.

2:49:54SpeakerAnd I'm also very passionate about like getting medicine to people. Thank you so much for joining us.

2:50:16SpeakerRight now, we've been working on a micro business for like three, four years now since I heard about it in like 2016, 2017. And the laws just keep shifting at first. So it's going to be able to do it out here. And I guess I can, but I can't still retail and do delivery. Thank you for joining us today.

2:50:50SpeakerAll of those things. And so, you know, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,

2:51:14SpeakerSo we're kind of going still towards our licensing. But I'm also looking at Heal Thyself Gardens to be a place where people can come. And I developed one of our old cannabis gardens out here because I have three gardens that are for more public garden use. And I have two private gardens. But my public gardens, one of them, I had to move my cannabis garden due to it being too close to a creek.

2:51:42SpeakerThank you so much for joining us today.

2:52:08SpeakerBy taking it internally, it helps you by like meditating with it, just being the vibration of it, being the vibration of nature with all the other medicinals around you, putting your bare feet on the ground. And so these are the other like healing I want to bring in, not just like cannabis is powerful, but so is so many other things that surrounds it. Ashley Stolzmann, And so that's where we're kind of reaching out and also looking to do more other kind of healing modality workshops.

2:52:39SpeakerAshley Stolzmann, But it's it's really for us about the access or about touching, you know, really being with the plant. It's important. And yeah, that's just kind of the the journey we're on and Ashley Stolzmann, What's really nice about having this extra garden that's not the legal gardens is that I'm able to have woofers come in the Ashley Stolzmann, You know about that. Those are like the worldwide organic organization of farmers and I actually did that when I traveled around a lot of that lot.

2:53:09SpeakerAnd that was how I learned about a lot of agriculture and permaculture and I'm able to host people out here and It's really beautiful seeing people work with cannabis for the first time. And it's beautiful because I get diversity that comes into my home with my children. I get all kinds of gender fluid and different colors and cultures. And I feel like that's extremely important. And I love that.

2:53:37SpeakerAnd so I'm really happy to be able to have a garden that has more public access. And but we're still kind of working towards like how we get the access to people and be able to do this in a way that's safe, you know, as a single mom and to be able to offer this because I'm going to, you know, I'm going to regardless of whatever. And so I got to figure out a way, you know, to make that happen.

2:54:03SpeakerAnd I really wish the laws would shift so that we can get it more direct. That's how people can work with their medicine makers. Yeah. Yeah.

2:54:16SpeakerThanks, Tamara. And yeah, it's like I just wanted to just remind everybody like Duchess was saying, you know, you've got to do the work. You've got to get in there. You've got to do The work and it's not like you know everybody out there who's watching us that we're exclusive that we you know that you can't join and and and just jump on these are all of us have met each other through this work of cannabis as a medicine and anyone can jump on you don't have to have a farm to be a part of this Thank you.

2:54:50SpeakerYeah, just to transition into

2:55:19SpeakerTomorrow, what you're saying, expanding the medicine and knowing that there's all types of medicine available, everything around us. And also relating to opportunities for farmers or people who are interested in cannabis cultivation, there are some places that like ourselves on Sunroots Farm, we're opening up the door to BIPOC hires only for our harvest season. So you can get some kind of experience and also moving into land trusts and community owned properties so that we can all have land and share the task of creating Food Haven and Housing Security.

2:56:00SpeakerThank you so much for joining us today.

2:56:30SpeakerAnd we are recreating a new consciousness as we ingest this medicine. So rewriting our story, it's again that self-work that each person needs to understand how much culture has been lost, how much due credit needs to be put in where there's not been due credit, how many of us are inventors as women, as

2:56:58SpeakerYou've never heard and you type of story and it's time to mantle that story that is not real that has been put onto all of us as a society that is weaning us that is bringing us to a place of separation and the truth is we are all healers we are all capable we all have some skill we all have some beauty within us to share to our world and the only way to do that to claim that power back and to All of these things that we can do to create the life that we want to create is again this self work and use cannabis to help you get through this self work because this self work is not easy.

2:57:36SpeakerMost people in their lifetimes don't get it in their entire lives. So now we have this plant and we have tons of other herbs if you're not into using cannabis. There are so many other beautiful plants to work with and energetics in general that you Can open up to the perception that we're all here to uplift one another. We all need to come back to our roots of farming.

2:58:02SpeakerFarming is indigenous. The concepts have originated all over the world, but let's honor these stories. Let's honor the places that don't get heard. Let's honor one another. Let's lift each other up. Let's empower one another. We can do that through cannabis and just self-awareness. So I'm just sending love to everyone right now. I'll keep it short at that. And I'm here for anybody. If you're interested in working on a cannabis farm this year, you have not had the privilege, please write us at sunrootsfarm at gmail.com.

2:58:34SpeakerWe're here for our community and we want to make everyone have the access. So thank you.

2:58:42SpeakerYay, Patricia. And I wanted to add on to that just, you know, that's the same thing that the Dempere Collective and all the Dempere certified folks have been talking about. We've been talking about how it is that we're going to bring in apprentices and how that sort of program can be happening. And for For several years now, we've been talking about just offering that to BIPOC communities, BIPOC people, you know, within maybe inner cities that might not be able to ever have an opportunity to touch earth.

2:59:15SpeakerAlso, youthful people who were left out of the picture as well. I see our youth being left behind. I think that it's time now that we have their attention, that we can grab a hold of them and have them interested in something other than this incredible, horrible, divisive rhetoric that's coming from our media, our politics, even this virus, just to continue to bind us together. And when I think about binding us together, I mean, I just got to move right over to you, Carla.

2:59:44SpeakerEverything that comes out of your mouth is about Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here.

3:00:02Speakernature teaches us such important lessons and the most important lesson i've learned from nature and from the plants is that all the plants are allies in the garden and they really work together in a profound way in fact all living organizms do work together in a profoundly connected way and if we can really Really address our own community in a really grassroots style. And I encourage everybody to go out there and meet the people in the neighborhood where you live and work and really start to talk about how you can Thank you so much for joining us.

3:01:01SpeakerAnd it was the most delicious flower I'd ever smoked. And to grow your own is something that we all really need to start doing in any possible way, but also as communities. And so I've learned so much from the women in my community. They've taught me everything that my ancestral history had lost because we were forced into a different We've been on this path a long time ago.

3:01:27SpeakerAnd to come back to herbal medicine, natural plant medicine, and growing your own food is a really powerful thing for all communities that really needs to be experienced, whether you're urban or rural or suburban. And I really think that if we can all just start grassroots style to connect to each other, again, the way the plants do in the garden, we're going to heal this ecosystem. But we need to just go out there and do that work and that That's the connection.

3:01:54SpeakerThat's the real where it starts is to start talking to each other about how you can all help each other. And there's abundance for everyone when we all actually work together, that cooperation. And as soon as you plant flowers, anywhere you are, the best thing you can do right now is plant flowers because as soon as you plant flowers, then there's pollinators. And as soon as there are pollinators, there are seeds.

3:02:17SpeakerAnd as soon as there are seeds, there is life. And that's our greatest hope. Thanks everybody for listening and thank you to all these incredible women for your inspiration and your work.

3:02:30SpeakerCarla, I don't know if you just had one minute, but I think that we'd love to hear the story about your father and we've been talking about resilience and the person that you are and the community education that you give forward. Could you just give us a minute about your history, your dad?

3:02:52SpeakerSure. Yeah, absolutely. My father was a huge inspiration to me. He was, my family's been in California for a long time. And then at some point they started drawing different lines everywhere and So my dad ended up in a position where he was a migrant worker because he was trying to come back to the United States as a legal resident. And he was working in the fields as a 15 year old kid with his brothers and trying to make money for school for the school year and was getting sprayed by chemicals day and night, you know, and didn't really realize what what was happening to him.

3:03:35SpeakerBut One day was approached by Cesar Chavez, who came to California to really help unite the farm workers. And my father was very young and that was a very pivotal moment in his life as a teenage boy from the barrio trying to figure out how to make it back into the United States, even though our family had been here. And

3:04:02SpeakerIt changed the course of his life. He ended up going to Vietnam, surviving that and getting to go to college on the GI Bill. And which was a huge privilege for him. And he taught me the extreme importance of education, bottom line above all else. And he also taught me about grassroots activism. And he later became involved with the Black Panthers as a young man and just did a lot of work in his community to educate and to make education and knowledge free and accessible to people Thank you.

3:04:38SpeakerThank you. Thank you. Thank you.

3:05:02SpeakerWhen I eventually, I started growing pot, trying to cultivate my own canvas when I was about 14. I had a little gorilla grow in the little creek bed near our house. And when I finally, when my father, of course, caught on to me pretty quickly,

3:05:23SpeakerYou know, he said, he just said to me, well, you're a little young, but I expected this at some point. And he said, you know, the most important thing is, is to be wise and, and to let plant medicines teach you, but, but be wise and let's make sure you're out of, Ripe enough age where your brain is ready to receive that plant medicine. But also, you know, this is this is potentially going to be your your fight is going to be freeing the people and freeing the right to natural plant medicine.

3:05:59SpeakerAnd so that's where my that's where my fight began.

3:06:06SpeakerAwesome. Thank you so much for that story and keeps weaving into community and education and putting it out there and putting it out there even when it's uncomfortable or when you feel like you're, you know, just one in a thousand with these ideas. And I just, I just really encourage people to have that resilience and that power forward to, you know, follow their, their soul path, their life work.

3:06:32SpeakerAnd Carly, you're so beautiful about the, the, Thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate it.

3:07:15SpeakerYou're muted. We can't hear you. Okay, there we go. How about now? This experience of just holding myself accountable by inviting people to come look at what I'm doing and ask me questions. I mean, I never know the questions they're going to ask. I never know how the story they're going to share with me and how it Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

3:07:43SpeakerThank you. Thank you.

3:08:12SpeakerI mean, I've learned so much. I hosted a group of grad students and they pointed out to me how, as I was sharing with them, you know, why I plant so many plants and how they all work together and what hugelkultur is and how it has lessened my labor and I don't have to spray. They were the ones that pointed out that encouraging that diversity decreased the combative practices or the idea of oppressing, you know, Well, you're a little young, but... Are you guys hearing me?

3:08:50SpeakerYeah. Is there a feedback? No, I think you're good. Go now. Okay. So, to me, that really... I just opened my eyes about how that could be applied to society. When we know that we all have a place and we can all work together and how we start unifying and there are less problems and more peace and more abundance. And for me to be able to invite someone and say, oh, you're staying here tonight.

3:09:23SpeakerWould you like to pick a salad from my garden? It's amazing how people come, they look, and they really are like, I'd love to pick a salad, but I don't know how. And it's just as simple as showing people how to engage in the garden and getting people involved. One of the tools I use is a scavenger hunt. And that is a list of plants that they can go find so they feel comfortable roaming around because it's surprising at how nervous These plants make people are maybe they're in awe.

3:09:55SpeakerYou know, it's a different reaction from everybody. And I just feel like that in itself. Thank you so much for joining us today.

3:10:25SpeakerPeople almost feel like outdoors is the only safe place to be right now. And it's their first time really making time or having time to venture out to places they've never been. And most of the people come to this area for the redwoods and for them to be able to add cannabis as a wholesome experience to those, to that like cathedral of trees, you know, it's definitely a church like experience.

3:10:53SpeakerAnd I have learned that I'm less of an educator but more of a facilitator that really just allowing people to engage. It's like when you're sitting in class and you are listening to the teacher teach a lesson. You really don't learn that lesson until you go out there and you practice it or you put it into motion. And for people to be able to see these concepts in front of them in real life I think that from the reaction I get, it spurs a lot inside of them.

3:11:29SpeakerI'll never know what they're taking away from it. I just want them to know what a cover crop is. My big thing. To me, I mean, To be vulnerable, to be welcoming, to put myself on display, to be ready to be at service, to strangers, to make sure things are tidy. It's a whole and beautiful with flowers. I mean, a lot of people are like, wow, I've never seen plants grown like this.

3:11:58SpeakerAnd some of them have never even seen them outside of a warehouse. So it's a big honor for me to have a space to welcome people And just be nurturing and inviting and take the fear away, you know, and, and have a place where they're experiencing something like they've never seen before. So, I mean, and I'm just doing what I love. I'm just a person who loves to garden and I, you know, I've had community gardens in the past.

3:12:28SpeakerUm, and I've seen them build community and I've seen them teach. And all I know is like, I just have to tend the garden and keep that space open. Um, and let the garden teach people what they're ready to learn, you know, what they can see. So, um, I'm just doing that, just tending this garden and trying to keep it open and safe. And, um, it's just been such a joy and so enriching in ways I've never experienced.

3:13:00SpeakerThat's it. Thanks, Susan. That was really awesome. And, you know, we're talking about community and you're really in this beautiful little farm oasis and people can come to you and you're really reaching a ton of community and then they're able to go out further. And then that just like blossoms more. It just is a continuation of your love into the universe. And Oh, I wonder, oh, there's Delphina.

3:13:30SpeakerAnd I'm thinking, Delphina, I wanted to move over to you because that's the work that you're doing. You're sort of taking these small community and then creating a much wider view. Your spectral influence is vast. And talk about it.

3:13:51SpeakerMahalo for that lovely segue. And everybody who said all these super rich things, my heart is just It's just growing as we speak and listen and share. And whoever's tuned in, just way to spend your Sunday. And mahalo again, Marcus. Wow. I have so many things to say. It's hard to try to figure out where to go. I think I'll start kind of, maybe I'll go big, small, big.

3:14:22SpeakerSo just want to, Colleen P. Acknowledge the lands that I'm on here, the lands of the Kanaka Maoli and the lands at Heartwood, which was the Wailaki tribe. So those are the two main Colleen P. Spaces that I get to bop between from paradise to paradise. I want to acknowledge Colleen P. The very hard thing to talk about and is so upright these days, the white privilege thing and Maybe extra privilege on top of that and how we can have conversations about that and be safe and that that's really important right now and to be okay with having these messy, humbling, hard to approach conversations that that's really critical right now and to possibly put some humor in there that can really help these days.

3:15:21SpeakerSo to not take it all Too seriously right to to be able to to play with the energy that's all very up for us right now. And of course, that leads to our more giant grief that we are all needing to process right now. Some of us are able to do that more for others. And I think that's really important right now. And of course, the plant and the plant medicines are Super critical to that at this time, the cannabis and the psychedelics as well that are coming really into also into legality.

3:16:01SpeakerI think the timing is impeccable there. There's going to be so much PTSD, so much trauma coming out of this COVID time. So really looking at this as a curing time. And that's where our connection needs to be right now in our focus as we hold each other in that Just massively vulnerable, precious space together right now. Just acknowledge this is a huge time. This is like the fourth major revolution of humanity.

3:16:34SpeakerAnd we're doing this right now. And we're doing this together. And you guys are, everybody's doing it right. It's freaky. It's scary. We have no idea what's exactly around the corner, but that's what we can create together. So just know that everybody's It's totally weird. It's totally understandable to be going through so much. And the message is you're all beautiful and you're all doing it just right.

3:16:58SpeakerOkay. And everybody is in a different spot right now. So I honor what Liz said and others about just meeting people where they are. So just what that means, I think, is the deep listening, okay, that we can do for each other and with each other. So yeah, I have the honor of being part of these two amazing, I call them hubs. So I have a mountain hub in Humboldt at Heartwood and I have an island hub here in Kohala, which is on the beautiful Northern tip of Hawaii Island.

3:17:34SpeakerI'm looking right now over the ocean to Maui and some of the most pinnacle Pieces on the planet here that are tapping in these big spirit antennas. Yeah, these mountains are some of the biggest mountains in the world that intentionally are trying to expand our consciousness as well, expand our learning. And so I just want to bring in that more even giant picture of this teeny little blue spot that we're on and these spirit antennas that are all over the planet and the cosmos as one giant family.

3:18:13SpeakerAnd so then that that goes down, down, down, down, down. Right. So then the mountains, then the the oceans and the rivers and thank God us and and let's be cleaning those up. And let's let's talk about the fungi and the microbiome and and all of it. So down to the little fractal Yeah, interconnections. It's all dots. We're all connected. There's no difference. It's all a big fat lie if you think there is.

3:18:45SpeakerSo just really important to be tuning into that right now. I love how so many of you spoke this morning so beautifully about our passion as your own person, your own purpose. You have a very important role to play. It might be hard to see right now or you might be totally on it and on fire. And just really important for you to know that that is it's critical and it plays a role and it does matter and you do matter.

3:19:16SpeakerThis preservation, this preservation of The plant preservation of our cultures from, I call it local roots and global shoots. So local is so critical in our new global connected society that we are honoring the traditions, the practices, the languages, the dance, all the arts and cultures that come with your neck of the woods. That's really awesome to be tuning into for your own self, So you're weaving that web really beautifully in your own community while being aware of this new, fabulously connected, international, interplanetary world.

3:20:03SpeakerAnd yes, thank you again, Zoom, for rocking our worlds this past few months, because there's a lot that we can do now that we're seeing. The technology came on top of this industrial revolution system of yes, we have to work nine to five and 40 hours. Yes, we have to stick our kids in these schools, you know, five days a week for We've got a million hours and that's to do this old system.

3:20:28SpeakerLet's put that one to rest please now. That is so, yeah, so we never got to see while this technology was developed, while that system was already in place and ingrained and being shoved down onto and into and around all of us. So now, what do we see? How can we free All of those things. And I think it's really important to think about how can we free our new, what are the new systems?

3:20:56SpeakerHow can we be more free now that we know that we can work from home? We can school from home. I have three kids. We had to switch right into, yeah, I'm not really not a homeschooler, but we got to explore that for a couple months at the end of this, you know, the beginning of the quarantine time.

3:21:21SpeakerProbably be creating our own, you know, learning for the keiki, for the youth here that really honors the new, I call it the grand revaluation right now. So in many languages, it's been called the great pause, the grand pause.

3:21:42SpeakerThank you for the breath. This moment of reflection. of what to hospice what the heck to not buy into anymore what the heck do we not need where can we go what are the signposts what are we painting what are we doing together guys this is up and girls and girls the females hold the key guys so it's time we're bringing it all back into the feminine it is the feminine rising thank goddess the plant has been Thank you so much for joining us today.

3:22:33SpeakerThat is that is where we are. And so and so, gentlemen, don't be disturbed. We love you and you are so appreciative, appreciated. And what the feminine perspective means is just being able to see the whole damn shebang. So that's all. And also if it was more up to us, I don't think that we would have had so many wars. I don't think we would have enslaved people.

3:23:00SpeakerI don't think we would have done a lot of the harm that has been done. I hear these stories and I'm like, a woman wouldn't have done that. I don't, I mean, I'm sure there's been a few, but Jesus criminy Christ, like let's go into the light that, you know, And talk about Jesus and Buddha. I can get into all that too. But it is time to put our focus on the whole big picture that everything is connected and everything matters.

3:23:34SpeakerAnd this reverence for nature. So cannabis is the gateway drug. That's the only thing DARE got right. This is the gateway. We are getting doors open to gardening. Everybody here and the whole Dem collective, you guys, this is the new economy. This is how we will build it. We need food. What's essential? Food and water. Why do humans not have access to food and water? Let's start there.

3:24:00SpeakerThat's where you start in your own community. And you don't have to grow the food. You can go connect with your farmer. And you can be starting to support all the food production in your own community. And that is a beautiful way to start. That's where we can create jobs and system and alternative economy, alternative currency around this. Super interested in also leaving that part of the system Behind or evolving that.

3:24:36SpeakerYeah, the responsibility for the resilience right now, the responsibility for just this evolution into that we are all one, we are all connected. So therefore, how do we treat each other? How do we How do we move ahead? I'm just super interested in all that. I got some ideas on it. I won't go into too much more because I know our time is getting there, but I think it's, you know, I think there's something about I just love I just learned about it's not only the triple bottom line that I've been really trying to take our organizations that way.

3:25:22SpeakerIt's, you know, people, planet and purpose. So just purpose driven, values driven at any at any level of of of operating in the in the society right now of having at least those three. But now I'm I'm hip to the four. And it's actually putting the spiritual in the sacred. In there as well. And I think that's the lesson from the, from the plant. I think that's part of this gateway.

3:25:52SpeakerWas it Val who told us in a prep meeting, 4,000 year old altar that was just found had cannabis on it. Like this is not new, you know, a new concept for us as humans. This has been helping us tap in and tune, tune in and plug up, you know, let's up level, let's just do this together and And tuning into the beauty, the beauty of the connectedness, the beauty of nature that leads to reverence, that leads to the respect, that leads to the compassion.

3:26:29SpeakerSo the gateway drug of compassion, that's really how we need to rebuild this new era. We have an opportunity right now. Some of us are calling it new earth. I don't know. We'll keep putting words to that and a real plan, but just everybody's doing it. Doing it so far. I just love, um, I would just want to speak to, to the diversity piece, um, of, of nature and just the biomimicry component of, as we redesign this new future, which of course we have to do within the given systems and everything, but there's a whole way that we can do that kind of off to the side or, or up in and in through.

3:27:11SpeakerSo I just have to give a shout out to waste and to soil building. So wastewater, this is another way of rebuilding the whole economy is there's money, there's such wealth in our waste and we have not figured this out very, very well. So just whoever's inspired to help with from wastewater to You know, compost too. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not going to go too much more into that.

3:27:45SpeakerBut I just know it's been a theme in my life and building these building these spaces for for people, you have to know where that that whole cycle and where everything's going. So and

3:28:00SpeakerI want to speak to that it was yesterday's our birthday for our little country here, who's really going through a lot right now. And it seems kind of gross and sad. And if we just remember our roots there too, and use that inspiration of Lady Liberty and holding holding the light, you know, unveiled standing there welcoming, welcoming everybody. All ages, all cultures, welcoming, welcoming. That's where we get to keep our eyes on the prize here right now.

3:28:36SpeakerYeah. And I think those of you who've heard me talk about, I think, you know, our little, our little company that helps mind our projects right now is called One Heart Hub, but I'm really interested in all of us creating together one heart world. So I will, I think it might be a church. So I love that I get to introduce that at church today. And I won't talk too much more about that.

3:29:04SpeakerMaybe leave it as a little seed planter. But I think we might be have a church to plant a little global one perhaps. So just mahalo mahalo to all the good work from all the good peeps and Yeah, I just love that. I love the idea of, you know, we've been talking about church and just be able to even free that word, which was only defined as, you know, people who would come to worship Christianity.

3:29:34SpeakerYou know, I think church, I like it that it's hash church and we're sort of freeing the word, you know, that it can be accessible to everyone and all religions and all colors and all everything. And You know, the idea of a world church is amazing. And Meredith, I wanted you to come on and tell about, it was actually Meredith Delfina who was telling us about the temple.

3:29:57SpeakerAnd that was just really amazing. And I just wanted to get the specifics on that and anything else that you wanted to share. Yeah, thanks, Meredith. Just find your little... There we go, unmuted. Bethany Collins, Yes, that actually what I wish an article was shared with me in from I think the Jerusalem Post. Bethany Collins, Was talking about a temple. They are uncovering in southern part of Israel and this temple was is they believe it's about 2700 years old.

3:30:42SpeakerI think I previously said maybe 4000 but I'm sure cannabis has been with us that long. And anyways, this temple was built as a replica of the temple in Jerusalem, where in Jerusalem, the holy temple there, that temple cannot be excavated anymore. It is actually a mosque sits upon it and you can only visit it as it stands, but there's this other temple in Southern Israel. So that temple in Jerusalem, I believe is much older Kelly Geer Ripk..., Camille Martínez, This temple in southern Israel, they found two altars there, and they found substances still preserved on the surfaces of the altars, and one altar had frankincense, which we know is historically a medicine to the people.

3:31:29SpeakerThe other altar had signs of cannabis, THC, CBD, and CBG, I believe were all found on this altar. So, and they, you know, in the article they said, well, they believe it was a way of opening people's minds to religion and what they were sharing in the temple. So, yeah. To bring it back around, the plant has been connecting us forever. For as long as people have been here, I believe this plant, as long as people are exploring how plants could help them, the plant has been with us forever through generations and generations and as far back as anyone could probably learn in history.

3:32:13SpeakerAnd it is here with us in the future and it is holding our hands and bringing us forward, opening minds as we speak. I invite you all to learn more about it. Anybody, I guess everybody here at Hash Church is already opening their minds and I hope we can share the word with people beyond this platform. You are all beautiful, amazing people. I thank you so much for being here and I'm going to pass the mic on to the next person.

3:32:47SpeakerYeah, Patricia, I wanted to turn it over to you just to talk to people about maybe how they can get connected or just some ideas. You're always super connected on how people can act now. Um sure I'm gonna do my best because I'm a little stoned now but um I think the best way is like going to a local library and picking up some books. I have a bunch of references like on my um I'll probably make a little list on Instagram soon a bunch of book references that can get you in touch with resources and organizations and cooperations and grassroots programs that um Kelly Nguyen, We'll lean you into the way that you want to be.

3:33:31SpeakerThere are tons of programs out there that Kelly Nguyen, Are meant for all kinds of people. So Kelly Nguyen, I think that'll be best is if I just like put the context out for you guys. But the way that I found that knowledge was just like doing the homework and researching online, you know, Kelly Nguyen, Where

3:33:52SpeakerAnd that leads me down a path of where I can find resources. There's also programs out there like Wolfing and HelpX that you can go stay and work at people's All of these people have been working for me for a long time. I've been working for a long time. I've been working for a long time. I've been working for a long time. I've been working for a long time.

3:34:22SpeakerSo there's all kinds of ways. And you just kind of have to do your research and see what type of willingness you're interested in. Otherwise, there's grants and there's fundraising and there's there's programs specifically for you. All of those that are going to help fund you financially in creating what you want to see. So don't give up. Please reach out if you have any questions. I'm happy to help you get there.

3:34:49SpeakerAnd like Kelly mentioned before, we are looking into city youth programs and just there's something out there for you. And I'm here to help you find it if you need it. Thanks. Awesome. Thanks so much. And Tara Lee, I just wanted to hear from you. Just some thoughts and yeah, thank you so much for being here. Okay.

3:35:21SpeakerAs I've been able to sit here and listen to all you amazing people and hang out and chat with all the awesome chatters out there, it's been awesome. I never ever thought this would be something that happened. And it took me to get uncomfortable to get out there and go visit these people. And I guess this is as I start my new journey and my new life, it's giving back.

3:35:47SpeakerAnd I want to say, if you don't like what's happening out there, get out there and do something about it. And like, I didn't like what was happening around me. So I needed to go find new people. I needed to find a new tribe. I needed to get out there and free my mind. Cannabis has allowed me to open that third eye and Thank you so much for joining us today.

3:36:15SpeakerYouTube has inspired me to do that and this is so important to me that Marcus is here and and that that like you've you've given me this opportunity as I sat there and watched you wake and bake and every morning I was medicating I didn't really know much how to dab you taught me how to dab like seriously that's why I have a clean banger today like I appreciate that like you know saw the list is so you know like Josh and Kelly, they can tell you how clean I keep my banger.

3:36:44SpeakerYeah. So anyways, but like, like, I mean, like, I just, I just, I have so much respect for all of you guys that have taught me so much because I am so new to this industry and I so appreciate all the welcome arms that you've all given me. And I don't want to take any more time away, but please go follow everybody on Instagram and reach out.

3:37:06SpeakerInstagram, I think, has made it the easiest way for people to keep in contact through those DMs. If you're feeling uncomfortable to leave a comment, reach out and DM somebody. And if they don't get back to you, DM again, because those DMs, they get really long and sometimes you get missed in there and people don't mean to miss you in this community. I'm telling you, if you reached out to any one of these women on this panel, they will get back to you.

3:37:31SpeakerI know that with all my heart. And I put all of it on there. So thank you everybody for being here today. And I do have a YouTube channel now. You can follow my journey as I share it with you. Tara Lee Live, also Tara Lee Live on Instagram. Back to you guys. Thank you. Yeah, let's just roll through everybody to tell the audience how they can reach you on Instagram or anything else.

3:38:00SpeakerAnd then Delphina was going to end the whole beautiful So thank you all so much. I'm Kelly at Dragonfly Earth Medicine.

3:38:23SpeakerSierra, and I have a private Instagram account, but I also am co-founder of DEM Pure Athletes, and we help support professional athletes and get medicine to them across the world. So check us out. Just roll right on through. I'm Tina. Our Instagram is at Marm on Instagram.

3:38:53SpeakerPatricia, say it again. We missed you on that one. I'm at Sun Roots Farm. Awesome. Carla.

3:39:04SpeakerI'm Carla and I'm at Flower Days Farm.

3:39:11SpeakerI'm at blazon415 and also just want to plug for everybody for some great endocannabinoid knowledge. Please follow the Knox doctors and also at Rachel Doc Knox for some amazing ECS education and ways to divest in our current system. Thank you. Super important Knox sisters, Knox family. Thank you so much for all of your work and what you do. We value you. Tamara, how do people find you?

3:39:43SpeakerYou can find us at heal underscore thyself gardens. And we also have a website, heal-thyself-gardens.com, which we are updating currently. So yay, check us out. Meredith, how do people find y'all? Meredith, I guess I'm Meredith, at Meredith Snodgrass on Instagram. Also, Snodgrass Fam Genetics on Instagram. And we have a website, snodgrassgenetics.com.

3:40:18SpeakerSweet. Susan, how do people find you? Five Sisters Farm on Instagram are born seasoned and you can check out the Hip Camp thing. It's hipcamp.com. My spot's called the Eel River Lookout. So check that out. Thanks. Davida, how can people find you on Instagram and have a look at what you're saying in your gorgeous products? Thank you. So my email is cookingaleve at gmail.com. Those that are local, my number is 202-643-3443.

3:40:57SpeakerAnd IG, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, I'm on there as well. And it's just cookingaleve. Thank you so much. awesome fantastic thank you and uh marcus i just wanted to give a shout out to you again yet again for holding a amazing space for us um in this time you continue you you had to go all the way down to your mother-in-law's house because the internet wasn't working but yet you continue to Thank you so much for joining us today.

3:41:51SpeakerMahalo, mahalo. Yes, we have a few platforms, everything on Instagram and Facebook. There's One Heart Hub with the number one. There's also a YouTube channel now. One Heart Hub YouTube channel has a series of our regenerative agriculture farming videos from our farm, both here on the island and there in Humboldt. So there's that YouTube channel. There's also Kohala Village Hub and Heartwood Hub. So a lot of hubs.

3:42:23SpeakerWe've been hubbing it. And yeah, are you guys ready for just a little, little finale? So I have this little. Hey, Delphina, super quick. I just wanted to say a couple of people went off. Wendy at Sunnibus. And also you can reach Duchess at The Dank Duchess on IG. She's got some awesome stuff. And also Valerie's work online at WAM, W-A-M-M, which is Women Organization Medical Marijuana.

3:43:00SpeakerSo you can find them as well. Over to you, Delphina. Thank you so much, everybody. Gorgeous. Well, I just have a short song that kind of came through when I was walking through this really special ancient Hawaiian It's hard to explain. It holds a lot of mana in there. It's sort of the birthplace of surfing. There were women, ali'i, royalties that were sort of kept safe there from the men for a while.

3:43:34SpeakerThere's a very healing spot. And as I was walking through the forest to my little mermaid tide pool, splish splash zone, this tune came to me. And then, and I was just humming it and humming it. It's very simple. And then as I got to the mermaid zone, it was low tide and all these tide pools were just, there was just this, I love that smell of that low tide.

3:43:58SpeakerAnd there were surfers out just, I mean, you're right at the, where they, where they catch the break right there. The sun was starting to go down. I picked up not one, not two, they just kept coming up and up and they were in my hands. It was all these little hermit crabs. So all these little literal treasures from Mama Nature. And then the words came because of these little treasures.

3:44:22SpeakerAnd I just want to honor that you all are playing so beautifully with Mother Nature's treasures here. So this goes out to everybody. So see if I can do this.

3:44:36SpeakerHow many treasures can this life hold? Freshest of fresh and the oldest of old. How many treasures can this earth hold? Freshest of fresh and the oldest of old. How many sorrows can this world know? Past and tomorrow's fire up our souls. How many sorrows can this life hold? Past and tomorrow fires up your soul. How much deep love can this life hold? We still do not know as it grows and grows.

3:45:33SpeakerHow much fierce love can this planet hold? We still do not know as it grows and grows. We still do not know as it grows and grows.

3:45:55SpeakerBlessings. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. Thank you. What a beautiful time to share. Happy Sunday. Mahalo, Kelly. You're so beautiful.

3:46:12SpeakerStill full moon baking out there. Wonderful. Yeah. So, Marcus, thank you. Thank you. I think we're ready to go off live. We're still live with Marcus.

3:46:28BubblemanThank you all so much. That was incredible and amazing. And it's been amazing to learn from all of you. I've learned from my grandmothers, from my aunties, from my mother, from my sister, from my wife, from my daughter, and all of you as well. So I really do appreciate the time you spent here with us. And it's definitely going down as the all-time best Hash Church episode ever.

3:46:56BubblemanLadies.

3:46:58SpeakerThank you so much. Thanks so much, Marcus. Thank you, everybody who hung in there with us for almost three, you know, long, long time, almost four hours, four hours here. Well, so much. And that just spreads wide and wide and wide. So, you know, we can all think of each other every time we partake in our dabs, in our joints, in our resin, however we're going to do it.

3:47:26SpeakerJust make sure that you know your farmer and it's regeneratively grown because it matters. It spreads. We need health from the soil all the way up to the very end so we can all be healthy living organizms on this earth to be able to connect in a way that is transitional for the times that we are having now and into the future. And by being beneficial organizms, we can all work to make the world a better place and really create a happier, healthier environment for all of us.

3:48:03SpeakerThank you all for being here. Thanks everyone. Bless. Thank you. Aloha.

3:48:14SpeakerThank you. Have a wonderful Sunday.