For two years, Veronica Lightning Horse Perez led the community-outreach efforts for the Natural Medicine Health Act in Colorado, also known as Prop 122. She traveled the state, talking to residents about plant medicines, engaging with local reporters and politicians, and gathering signatures for the ballot initiative. In November, voters passed the measure by 53.6%, […]
By Brad Dunn — Neil Markey served with the U.S. Army Rangers, the premier light infantry unit and special operations force, in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009 and 2011. After coming home, he enrolled at Columbia University’s Business School in New York City, where he excelled as an MBA student, but began suffering […]
By Brad Dunn — Ariel Clark grew up in Michigan, with Odawa Anishinaabe lineage from her father’s side and French-American lineage from her mother’s. From a young age she was aware of her family’s struggles — with poverty, dislocation, addiction, cultural inequality — and she felt the only way to fix a broken system is from […]
By reMind Staff — Ethan Nadelmann, widely regarded as the one of the top proponents of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad, will deliver the keynote address at reMind’s Psychedelics Business Forum at MJBizCon. Nadelmann’s address, “The New Psychedelics Era: Politics, Profits & Principles,” will kick off the one-day conference and […]
By Sutton King The Eagle and the Condor, an Indigenous prophecy that dates back to the 1490s, described the Americas splitting into two paths. The Eagle people, who were the Western cultures that colonized the north, and the Condor people, who were the Indigenous cultures that populated the south. The path of the Condor has […]