Schedule

WEDNESDAY APRIL 17th
All sessions are in the Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom

Coffee and pizza will be provided in Boettcher Hall off the lobby

11:00-11:15am: Welcome and Introductions

11:15am-12:15pm Opening Plenary: Wanda James
CU REGENT • FOUNDER & CEO, SIMPLY PURE DENVER DISPENSARY

12:30-1:45pm Panel #1 Cannabis: Past, Present, and Future
MODERATOR: Lauren Mundell, Hi-Curious Founder

PANELISTS:
Sarah Woodson, Founder and Executive Director of the Color of Cannabis 

Susan Squibb, Cannabis Maven, Founder of Mother's High Tea, Cannabist Journalist

Jake Mitchell, Colorado’s Cannabis Resource Optimization Program, Senior Sustainability Program Manager at Resource Innovations, and former Owner of Sustainabis

Ernest Toney, Founder and CEO BIPOCann

2:00-3:15pm Panel #2 Psychedelics: Past, Present, and  Future
MODERATOR: Reilly Capps, Editorial Director of Healing Maps

PANELISTS:
Dr. Travis Cox, Associate Professor in the Masters in Ecopsychology and Bachelors of Environmental Studies at Naropa University

Dr. Scott Thompson, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director for Novel Therapeutics, Brain and Behavior Innovation Center; Laboratory of Translation Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine at Anschutz 

Dr. Loriliai Biernacki, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Dr. Marty Otañez, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver

3:30-4:45pm Activism Workshop

Brigitte Mars, Professor in Herbal Medicine at Naropa University

Ramzy Abueita, Owner of Myco Cafe in Boulder

Evan Segura, Director of The Mycoalition in Denver

5:00-6:30pm Closing Plenary: Stephanie Shepard
DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY, LAST PRISONER PROJECT