Hempresent

Entheo With Leo Russell And Kody Zalewski on Hempresent. Leo Russell serves as the Executive Director of Decriminalize the Nature Washington & Entheo Society of Washington. Leo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 18 years of experience. She has a passion for exploring new treatment modalities through entheogens with a focus on mental health and chemical dependency. Her early career started as a provider of cultural-based counseling in the Native American community with the United Indians of All Tribes. Then she spent 11 years as a State Social Worker for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services serving the Martin Luther King Office, Indian Child Welfare Unit, and Family Treat Court. She is working towards her licensure as a CPDT (Chemical Dependency Professional) and provides therapy services to clients facing civil commitment due to their mental health and problematic chemical dependency issues. Ms. Russell also volunteers with the Seattle Indian Health Board in their Chemical Dependency Department and is currently interning with the Organization for Prostitution Survivors, running a chemical dependency group focused on the intersection of feminism and addiction recovery. She spent part of her childhood in India, has lived and worked abroad. She enjoys traveling whenever possible and spending time with friends and family. She has been a foster parent, in addition to raising one biological son. Kody serves as the Community Outreach Director of the Decriminalize Nature Washington/Entheo Society of Washington. He has earned a B.S. from the University of Minnesota in Neuroscience and is currently a researcher at the University of Washington. Mr. Zalewski has been working in neuroimaging research for the past decade and is currently studying the longitudinal effects of traumatic brain injury in veterans. Mr. Zalewski is also interested in neuropsychological approaches to studying plant-based entheogenic medicine for improving mental and neurological well-being. He also works with FairVote Washington to promote Ranked-Choice Voting as an equitable, non-partisan improvement to our current election process. He spends his free time with a partner of seven years, a snowshoe cat named "Mr. McMittenMuffins", doing freelance graphic art, cycling, and hiking.

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Being Black Or Brown In The Green Rush With Ingrid Joiya-Warrick. Being Black Or Brown In The Green Rush is A practical guide for women and people of color to make money in the legal marijuana industry. Awarded the Authority in Aspiring Entrepreneurs award by New York Times bestselling authors, Jack Canfield and Raymond Aaron, Ingrid has been an entrepreneur for more than 30 years. Raised in Chicago, Ingrid was always quick to recognize untapped opportunities. She launched a luxury sugar-free chocolate company in the height of the decadent 80s and started a prepaid cellular company (before there was such a thing) in the late 90s. Ingrid later earned her law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, receiving many awards while a law student. Ingrid relocated, with her teen daughter, to Arizona to join her family in the early 2000s. She enjoyed the fruits of the real estate market in 2006 and unfortunately experienced the bust in 2008. Ingrid became involved in the cannabis industry in its infancy in 2010. As this book outlines, she faced many of the trials and tribulations that are inherent in the industry, particularly as a woman of color, in a conservative state, whose politicians don't support any sensible drug reform, including cannabis legalization. At the time she started in the industry, Ingrid was one of the few minority women for several years. The award-winning author lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her significant other, Eddy. She is currently focused on the Illinois market, working with women and people of color to get involved in the state's ground-breaking social equity program.

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Jimi Hendrix 50th Anniversary with Tina Hendrix. In 2009, Tina Hendrix, the niece of Rock Legend Jimi Hendrix, founded the Hendrix Music Academy to honor her uncle by making a difference in the lives of the under-served children from his hometown. Since then, hundreds of under-served youth of all ages have been served with free music lessons, free instruments, free healthy meals, free mentoring programs, and performance opportunities. At the Hendrix Music Academy, they teach so much more than Music! They teach AGAINST: violence, hate, crime, ignorance, and poverty. They advocate for arts in the community, peaceful solutions, acceptance of others, embracing diversity, encouraging education, and charity in our world. The Hendrix Music Academy is funded by Tina Hendrix and the support of Jimi's most dedicated fans! We don't receive any government funding whatsoever. We rely on the fans and those who believe in free education for under-served youth to keep our programs alive. Our music teachers are fans of Jimi Hendrix and they pay tribute to their mentor by teaching the children.

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The only LGBTQ organization in cannabis with Neil Lequia. In Neil's spare time, Lequia has also been building what is, to his knowledge, the only LGBTQ organization in the cannabis industry for cannabis industry professionals. Lequia founded Queers of Cannabis in October 2018, before changing the group’s name to The Full Spectrum in November 2019. The Full Spectrum currently has about 30 members nationally and is in the process of establishing bylaws and a board of directors to become a registered nonprofit. Anybody interested in joining or learning more can find information on Facebook (www.facebook.com/thefullspectrumorg) and Instagram (@thefull.spectrum).

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Richard Delisi: Serving life for cannabis with Ashley Delisi. In December 1989, Richard DeLisi was sentenced to a total of 98 years in prison for trafficking cannabis as part of a RICO case. Richard was caught as part of a reverse-sting/entrapment operation for trafficking cannabis into the State of Florida. Richard and his brother Theodore were both charged for cannabis trafficking - his brother served 24 years in total and was released in 2013. This case was based on intelligence from an informant for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement who was cooperating due to impending firearms and cocaine charges. Ashley Delisi is the daughter of Richard Delisi. Ashely has been fighting to get her father released with every last breath. The toll Delisi’s incarceration has had on his family is immeasurable including the death of his wife and his son from pill overdoses. Ashley herself has suffered from depression and anxiety disorder and multiple other health issues due to the loss of her father. She wants to get to know her father. Ashley wants to help him rebuild his life one step at a time. “My dad doesn't even know how to use a cell phone. I will teach him,” she said. Today Vivian speaks with Delisi about the case and how you can help release Richard Delisi from this ridiculous sentence.

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Becoming a Citizen Activist Nick Licata. Nick is from a working-class family, where neither parent graduated from high school. Licata, who couldn’t read until the age of nine, was the first of his relatives to attend college.

He led the local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Bowling Green State University and subsequently was elected student body president. He became a Seattle City Councilmember despite being significantly outspent, with the majority of the council, the mayor, and both daily newspapers supporting his opponent. He was elected to five terms to the council and became its president.

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Empowering women in cannabis with Julie Chiarello. As a woman in business for close to the last two decades Julie Chiarello enjoys bringing green, cutting edge products successfully to market and empowering other women to succeed. She is a medical user, an herbalist, and believes in the use and protection of herbal medicines in all their forms. Julie Chiarello is a champion of a new style business that upholds the tenets of sustainability, empowered consumerism, philanthropy, and more intelligent use of our collective resources. She has successfully built and led the sales teams of various companies within the yoga, health, and wellness industries and entered the Cannabis market in the vaporizer manufacturing segment, where she was blessed to cultivate a global network of friends and activists. Julie is the editor-in-chief of Skunk Magazine.

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Our Planet and Our Plant with OP Innovates, Keith Butler. With 40+ years serving the cannabis industry and 20+ years developing consumer products, Keith leads formulations for the company and helps them achieve their goals. OP innovates is a formulations company dedicated to delivering the world’s most effective cannabinoids. Using Op's patent-pending delivery method, termed Nature's Delivery System, its products provide unmatched absorption of cannabinoids, omegas, and some vitamins, improving results and experience.

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Art In Life and Cannabis With Art Chantry. Today Vivian is joined by an old and dear friend who has been known as a pioneer in his field. They go through the years of Art's career including his work with Vivian's own "Hempfest". Art is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he has done for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Mudhoney, Mono Men, Soundgarden, and The Sonics. Chantry's designs are perhaps most closely associated with the Seattle, Washington-based Sub Pop Records and the Bellingham, Washington-based Estrus Records, for which he has worked with dozens of bands.

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Police Reform In Our Trying Times with Norm Stamper. Social media has been on teeming with videos of police officers using rubber bullets, flashbangs and smoke bombs against, not always, but mostly peaceful protestors. Today we sit down with Norm and talk about how we can avoid this type of situation in the future. As well as his tenured career dealing with this while he himself was an active police officer. Norm was a police officer for 34 years, the first 28 in San Diego, the last six (1994-2000) as Seattle’s Chief of Police. He earned his Ph.D. in Leadership and Human Behavior and is the author of two books: To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police (2016) and Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (2005).

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