CURRENTS
CURRENTS
A WELLNESS ODYSSEY
The Panelists
Featuring a lineup of industry-leading experts, guests will learn about how wellness technologies are shaping global wellness, mental health, and culture. The discussions will touch on destigmatizing medical cannabis, the psychedelic revolution in mental health care, and the ethics of consumption. Guests will leave feeling connected to the sponsors selected to represent leading plant medicines. Please find some of the panelists below:
Lola Langusta
Destigmatizing Medicinal Cannabis
Lola Langusta is the founder and creative director of Stoned Fox. Lola has taken her passion for the arts, her love of Cannabis, and her creative determination to build Stoned Fox; a self-funded, ethical Creative Production studio, seamlessly bridging the gap between lifestyle, culture, radical transformation, and cannabis, with an inimitable approach to the industry.
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DR. CHLOE WEBER
Destigmatizing Medicinal Cannabis
Dr. Chloe Weber is a mama on a mission, looking to empower others to take control of their health and wellness through proactive healthcare and small consistent steps in the direction of their goals. Chloe is also the very proud mom to an amazing little boy named Remy who has a rare genetic disorder (called STXBP1) who is her main inspiration. Chloe is a doctor of Chinese medicine, a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, a neuro/biohacking fanatic, and the owner/founder of Radical Roots Herbs.
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LOU SAGAR
The Ethics of Consumption
Lou Sagar, CEO of The Alchemist Kitchen, works to connect people with the power of plants through their botanical dispensary
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Nicole Ricci
The Ethics of Consumption
Nicole, NYSF President, is a NYer, cultivator, and edibles creator, who became involved in cannabis policy in 2015. Nicole's vision is to see NYS's cannabis community give root to a new economic paradigm where communities, the environment, and corporate responsibility are as important to businesses as profit margins. She is most proud of her organization’s success in ensuring New York’s new Cannabis Law included environmental oversight and the intention to improve climate resiliency.
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BRandon dorsky
The Ethics of Consumption
Brandon Dorsky, Esq. is a cannabis industry attorney and the CEO of Fruit Slabs, an award winning cannabis edibles brand born out of California, with licensees in several states. Brandon has over fifteen years of experience negotiating sophisticated brand-driven intellectual property transactions and spearheading creative collaborations for brands in the cannabis industry with top recording artists (Snoop Dogg, Action Bronson, Zeds Dead and more), music festivals (Coachella, SXSW, etc.), content distributors and charities, including campaigns for GPen, Roor, Grassroots California, and others, advising businesses on transactions involving cannabis and/or psychedelics, and the ethical considerations involved.
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KAT LAKEY
The Psychedelic Revolution in Mental Health Care
Kat Lakey is the founder and director of The Psychedelic Assembly. After three years of studying traditional Amazonian plant medicine in the Peruvian Rainforest, Kat relocated to NYC when the pandemic struck. In September 2022, she launched The Psychedelic Assembly's premiere event, an intimate conference designed to bring various facets of the community together to find common ground and meaningful connection. Kat is working on expanding this vision through the Athenaeum, a physical space in Midtown Manhattan that will serve as a hub for collaboration, education, and connection surrounding psychedelics.
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Riley Cote
The Psychedelic Revolution in Mental Health Care
Riley Cote played 8 years of professional hockey including 4 with the Philadelphia Flyers. His hard style of play eventually took its toll and he decided to retire from playing at the ripe age of 28 and committed to a life dedicated to self-care, mindfulness and personal development. Riley felt called to be of service and embarked on a quest to heal and discover optimum wellness and share his discoveries with the world. Between the mental health crises, the opioid crises and the obesity crises it was clear to him that we have become extremely disconnected in our personal lives and lacked the true essence of life, positive energy of self love.
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shannon riley
Destigmatizing Medicinal Cannabis
Shannon Riley is a Canna-Wellness educator and co-founder of Hybrid Yoga and Pharm.NYC CBD. For 22 years, Shannon has taught yoga for women’s health and specializes in “yoga plus plants” for hormonal support and fertility/sexual wellness. She developed Hybrid Yoga: the world’s first yoga modality to combine Cannabis plus Yoga for women’s hormonal and mood changes. She has spent a long corporate career in publishing award winning educational materials that have changed millions of lives. Shannon seeks to educate the world on the medicine of Cannabis for our communities. She draws from a lifelong understanding of the plant from both a medicinal and spiritual place stemming from her Canadian and American roots in Cannabis.
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JOSEPH LEVEY
The Ethics of Consumption
Joseph is a Founding Partner of NYC law firm, Helbraun & Levey LLP. He has overseen all New York State Liquor Authority and compliance matters handled by the firm since its inception. For the last decade his department has filed the most liquor license applications in New York State. Joseph is one of the most knowledgeable and well-connected people in the New York State and NYC regulatory space. His reputation has placed his firm at the forefront of the cannabis legalization movement here in New York and led him to found Canna Hospitality Group. Canna HG is a full-service cannabis
consulting firm, which works in tandem with his law firm. Joseph has been actively affecting cannabis legislation in New York since 2018 and has worked with cannabis companies throughout the country in an advisory capacity. Joseph’s knowledge and experience is unparalleled amongst his peers; his work is in demand for both liquor licensing and cannabis clients across New York State.
AMBRA T. MELENDEZ
The Psychedelic Revolution in Mental Health Care
Ambra, is an urban farmer, master gardener, microbiologist, and a self-taught mycologist. She proudly describes herself as “a Steward of the Land” committed to ensuring that the basic building blocks for healthy ecosystems are nurtured and taken care of. Prior to this Ambra spent 20 years in construction as a Journeyman Ironworker and Welder, but in 2014 was drawn back to her family’s roots in agriculture and has since built an urban mushroom farm, specializing in the cultivation of fungi to produce mushrooms.
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Amagram Farms, a woman owned and operated business since 2016, is currently working on a production line of Cordyceps and Lion’s Mane beverages and supplements for wellness, vitality, brain health and overall immune support. They use compostable materials for all its products, taking great care and responsibility for how the business impacts the land. Their goal is to teach and support the home growth of medicine and foods.
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In addition to growing and cultivating mushrooms, Amagram Farms makes and sells soil amendments created from specialized fungal and worm compost for cannabis living soils and general-purpose gardening. We teach and support organic regenerative gardening and farming
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Agenda
THURSDAY, MARCH 30TH
1:00pm
Arrive to The Rockaway Hotel + Spa and get to know fellow guests.
2:00pm
Spoke Circle Experience with Lia Avellino: What is “good enough” in your relationships and careers?
4:00pm
HY Yin Yoga and Sound Bowl Healing with Shannon Riley
6:00pm
Join us for an evening of networking and panel discussions! Featuring a lineup of industry-leading experts, guests will learn about how wellness technologies are shaping global wellness, mental health, and culture. The discussions will touch on destigmatizing medical cannabis, the psychedelic revolution in mental health care, and the ethics of consumption. Guests will leave feeling connected to the sponsors selected to represent leading plant medicines.
9:00pm
After party at The Rooftop
The Venue
The Rockaway Hotel + Spa
108-10 Rockaway Beach Drive
Rockaway Park, NY 11694