The YANAcast

Meet the Founder of YANA, Ariana Tokes, on Cannabis Talk 101 is the World’s #1 Source for Everything Cannabis. YANA Wellness and Creativity Center™, an entity that provides access to resources & crucial information for creatives in Washington, DC! YANA Wellness and Creativity Center™ consists of a podcast studio for members to record, a wellness room for consultations with their Clinical Psychologist, as well as other spaces that specifically cater to cannabis strain matching, meditation training, yoga, & reiki. Most importantly, YANA Wellness and Creativity Center™ has both Cannabis and Psilocybin Mushrooms for consumption as a wellness and creative support! For more information be sure to visit the website at www.yanacast.com & also follow @yana.creatives on Instagram to tap in with Ari Tokes & the professionals she has over at YANA Wellness and Creativity Center™! Cannabis Talk 101 is your ESPN, CNN, FOX NEWS and The View of Cannabis, With our main hosts, Chris Wright, aka Blue & Joe Grande! They all share a passion for educating, advocating and defending members of the cannabis community. They discuss the benefits of cannabis as well as the laws engulfing it while breaking the stoner stereotype. Together they have embarked on a mission to spread the truth about cannabis while guiding and connecting industry professionals along the way.

Welcome ⁠Lauralee Benjamin⁠, a spotlight artist at YANA Creativity and Wellness Center. Lauralee is a multimedia visual artist from Queens, NY who creates femme erotic art, connecting themes of sex, love, lust, pain, revenge and control. She uses images appropriated from pornography to hijack the patriarchal sentiments and flip them into female, queer, and trans empowering narratives.

Meet Dr.Vivid, a YANA Wellness Advisor at the YANA Wellness Center in DC. Dr. Vivid is a clinical psychologist, therapist, motivational speaker, author, podcaster, and cannabis activist who integrates this holistic plant medicine into her practice. Dr. Vivid shows us that you can be anything you set your mind to and encourages her community to take care of their mental health with frequent self love practices. Dr. Vivid is a native Washingtonian. Dr. Ashley Elliot is the formal name that she uses in her clinical psychology practice and this is what her patients commonly refer to her as.