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One teaching episode a month, where Dr. Lakisha explains one idea plainly, in the pharmacognosy tradition. The full episodes live here. Short clips travel the social channels and point back to this page.

New teaching episodes begin this season. Each one takes a single idea, explains it plainly, and grounds it in the evidence and the equity case behind it. Subscribe below and you will know when the first one goes up.

Featured appearances

In the rooms where policy and science meet.

Public Comment · New York Office of Cannabis Management

Dr. Lakisha speaks on behalf of the communities this medicine comes from, framing Cannabis, the endocannabinoid system, and natural psychedelic medicine within pharmacognosy and the FDA Botanical Drug Development pathway.

Panel · Mary Jane Berlin

On the international stage at Mary Jane Berlin, Dr. Lakisha joins a panel on Cannabis, the endocannabinoid system, and the science and equity of botanical medicine.

FLINTA* Space Session · Mary Jane Berlin

In the FLINTA* space at Mary Jane Berlin, presented by Sanity Group, Dr. Lakisha speaks on Cannabis, the endocannabinoid system, and the equity of botanical medicine.

In Conversation with Kelly Dragonfly · The Legacy Lounge, Mary Jane Berlin

In the Legacy Lounge at Mary Jane Berlin, Dr. Lakisha and Kelly Dragonfly, featured together in High Times, talk Cannabis, legacy, and the plant's place in medicine.

New episode coming

Recorded Thursdays. New teaching episode every month.

Episode One

What the endocannabinoid system is.

The network inside all of us that keeps the body in balance, explained in plain language, then one layer deeper for practitioners.

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Upcoming

Recorded Thursdays. New teaching episode every month.

Episode Two

Clinical endocannabinoid deficiency, as a research question.

Why deficiency is a question to study rather than a claim to make, and how the KF-ECS-2025 study approaches it.

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Upcoming

Recorded Thursdays. New teaching episode every month.

Episode Three

Feeding the endocannabinoid system through nutrition.

What it means to support the system through what we eat, framed as pharmacognosy, never as a promise of outcome.

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