March 5, 2025 • 40 mins
Dr. Leroy welcomes Onyeka Tefari and Ariana Salazar, two powerhouse women shaping the future of the industry’s wellness and advocacy. They explore various tools for self-care, pain relief, and mental health, while tackling topics like oncology care, and parenting.
Get a sneak peek at what’s coming ahead this second half of the season of the podcast. Onyeka and Ariana join the show, bringing fresh perspectives and insightful discussions. Tune in for an enlightened conversation on the power of plant medicine and community.
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Key moments in this episode include:
00:01:30 – Introducing new team members
00:02:55 – Onyeka shares her journey in wellness, skincare, and community healing.
00:05:02 – Ariana’s path as a self-taught herbalist and holistic practitioner.
00:07:29 – The power of plants, indigenous medicine, and spiritual healing.
00:13:17 – Women’s Health: Benefits for holistic wellness.
00:15:57 – Parenting and the Plant: Navigating open conversations with teens.
00:24:01 – Beyond Getting High: pain relief, anxiety, and wellness.
00:26:37 – Post-Election Reflections: Community resilience and empowerment.
00:37:19 – Final thoughts: How to connect with Anika & Ariana and their work.
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This is cannabis enlightened with Doctor Leroy.
S3 (00:57):
Hello and welcome everybody to another fantastic, dynamic Cannabis Enlightened podcast.
I am your host, Doctor Leroy, and I'm coming to
you through oldest media with JC as our producer and Lina,
and as always, as always, the show is sponsored by
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March and Ash. March and ash. This is going to
be a very, very interesting show for you. Um, we're
going to be a little bit different. We do have
some guests. Some very pretty guests. Some very outstanding guests.
Some very knowledgeable guests. Some guests who are entrepreneurs here
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in San Diego. And they're going to be talking to you.
But I guess the important thing is, or one of
the important things is they're going to be assistant producers
on my program on cannabis enlightened, and you're going to
be hearing more and more about them. So I know
they have hundreds of thousands of fans out there. At
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least that's what they told me. They got a lot
of fans that are going to be listening to Cannabis enlightened. Additionally,
listening to Cannabis Enlightened for them and what they bring
to the program. And I am positive that they're going
to bring a whole lot to the program. So please
welcome the two of them. Please give them, you know,
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your warmest love and attention because these ladies are, um,
I guess, top shelf. And I'm just very pleased to
have them working with me and helping. So earlier in
my podcast, I think it was a season one, I had, um,
a mr. Wowser on my program. It was a great,
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great episode. You need to go back and listen to that.
And Mr. Wowser is responsible for bringing these ladies to
my program. And I'm very, very, very happy to have them. And,
and here I'd like you to, to meet them because
they're going to talk about themselves and what's going on
with them. Anika Tafari, Annie is going to be talking
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to you in a few minutes. And, um, we have
miss Salazar is with me on my right side, and
Annie is with me on my left side. So, ladies,
welcome to the program. I'm glad you're here. Um, Annie,
you want to start?
S4 (03:24):
Sure. Thank you. I am only Short for Oni Tafari
I am the founder of Oni Tafari Wellness and Spa,
and we are here out of San Diego. We got
established back in 2019 where we provide services such as massage, skincare,
Yoni steams, hair removal and then we also do a
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lot of work in the community where we're trying to
bring people together just as a community, getting to know
each other. For our Bantaba, which is a connection with
the earth and learning to grow your own food, because
I truly, personally believe that that is very revolutionary. And
that work has spread not only here in San Diego,
but also across in Georgia.
S3 (04:05):
And what does that term mean?
S4 (04:07):
Bantaba it is a term that I picked up when
I was in the Gambia, West Africa, and it's a
gathering of people, whether you're trying to resolve issues that
come up, trying to make a decision for the community
to move forward. And I think it's just such a wonderful,
wonderful experience. And I want to bring that for everybody
that I come in contact with.
S3 (04:26):
And you've been doing that for quite a while. Yes
I have. Okay. All right. So did you talk about
your business that you have? Yes.
S4 (04:33):
So we do, like I said, at our Wellness and
Spa located in Santa mesa, we provide massage and skincare services.
And then in that same vein, some of the things
that we focus on is in regards to oncology and lymphedema,
which comes after someone has gone through certain treatments. Usually
they would get lymphedema. And that's just a condition of
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our lymphatic system where it doesn't work entirely. And so
I helped move the fluids along in that regard and
just bringing comfort to others. And then skincare for anti-aging
for acne care. Just corrective skincare in general.
S3 (05:10):
Okay. And I'll have to tell everyone that in the
studio here she has beautiful skin.
S4 (05:15):
Thank you.
S3 (05:16):
So whatever she's doing for everybody else, she's doing for herself.
So you need to come and you need to you
need to to to to avail yourself to her services?
S4 (05:26):
Absolutely, yes.
S3 (05:28):
Okay. So next. Ariana.
S5 (05:31):
Hello. My name is Ariana Salazar. I am a self-taught
herbalist and holistic practitioner. Um, my roots come from Central America.
I am Costa Rican and Honduran, and I have a
lot of indigenous blood on my on both sides. Um,
my grandpa is from the Bribri tribe in Talamanca in
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Costa Rica. So my passion really lies on, um, just plants,
holistic healing, um, spiritual awakening, indigenous medicine and just the
ancestral wisdom and blending that with the modern natural practices
in this world to kind of guide others in their
wellness journey. Um, I got my certification herbalism, last year,
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just kind of to deepen my commitment in my path
and really just dedicate myself to this ongoing healing journey
and learning about plans, um, you know, yoga breathwork, all
these different ways on how we can really take care
of ourselves and that power within us. And I also
have been doing a lot of retreats and healing events,
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farmers markets and pop ups. My business is Bliss Herbs,
so I sell tea blends, candles, tinctures, skincare, oils, and
I also offer spiritual healing services.
S3 (06:51):
Arianna Watts A pop up.
S5 (06:53):
A pop up is basically I go out and I
set up a booth like an easy up booth and
then a table, and I decorate everything and show all
my products and display and basically wherever they they want
me at. And I've done a few, um, North Park,
I've done some in Ocean Beach, I've done some up
in North County, I've done some up in LA. I
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love doing pop ups. It can be a lot of work,
but I'm kind of like now getting more into this
space of wanting to do like events, retreats or primarily
focus online. So my website is WW. Dot disturbs.com. That's
where you can find all my apothecary goods and even
book a session with me if you're interested to dive
deeper in your spiritual path. So I'm just really excited
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to be here and just being a part of the
cannabis community as well. I worked in it for about, oh,
probably like 6 or 7 years, and just kind of
branching out from cannabis into my own business and just
being with like minded people, open minded people. So I'm
really excited and very grateful for this.
S3 (07:58):
So is this is this pop up something that could
be added to an event that someone's having a birthday
party or some kind of reunion celebration? They could have
you come.
S5 (08:11):
Yeah. No, definitely. I've done, um, so like, community pop
up events, they'll do like flea markets or whatever. And
some people will sell clothes, other people sell, you know, jewelry,
whatever their talent is. And I'll come and bring my products,
which are my tea blends, my candles, you know, some accessories,
some plants. And yeah, I even do, um, tea ceremonies.
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I recently did a healing retreat where I did the
guided Reiki meditation and a tea ceremony, which was really
lovely and I enjoy it.
S3 (08:42):
And now you talked about both of you have roots
from other countries.
S6 (08:49):
Correct.
S3 (08:50):
And I can hear it in your language. So do
we have other languages that we speak?
S5 (08:57):
Yes.
S3 (08:59):
Okay. Ariana, what other language do you speak?
S5 (09:03):
I speak Spanish, Spanish.
S6 (09:05):
Yeah.
S5 (09:05):
Well Spanish and English okay. I'm. I learned also in
high school. I learned a little bit of Mandarin too.
S6 (09:11):
But I'll bring that. Yeah. Okay. All right.
S3 (09:14):
And Ani so.
S4 (09:16):
For us in the Bahamas it is the primary language
is English. However, we have our patois and some Creole. So, um,
I think depending on the conversation, sometimes some words will
come out and oh.
S3 (09:32):
Good words, good words or bad words.
S4 (09:34):
Depends on the situation. Okay. Um, but mostly it's sometimes
it's hard to find the word in English to describe
what it is I'm trying to say. And so, um,
but usually that comes out when I'm talking to other
people from the region.
S3 (09:48):
Okay. So the Creole now isn't that isn't that French Louisiana? Um,
it's French influenced.
S4 (09:56):
Um, so we are very close to Haiti. And so
because of the migration patterns, we have a lot of
patients in our community. And so that is how can
we started like for my family anyway, we we started
speaking some Creole.
S3 (10:10):
Okay. And now you have children. So do your children speak.
S4 (10:14):
They sound as if they are fresh off the boat from.
S6 (10:20):
Okay.
S4 (10:22):
That's because they're homeschooled. Okay. And so because they're homeschool,
they're around my family primarily. They hear the accent. They
hear the way that we speak. And so they speak
that same way. And sometimes even when I hear them speak,
I say, oh, you sound so bohemian.
S6 (10:39):
Okay.
S3 (10:40):
And what had just happened is, is Ani just snuck
in a topic that we'll be discussing as we go forward,
the homeschool kind of thing. Because I find that hugely interesting.
And I know a lot of people are doing that now.
They're into it for various reasons. So we're going to
talk about that. Um, ladies, thank you for agreeing to
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to work with cannabis enlightened. Um, we're very, very excited
about both of you coming. And you have some thoughts
that you want to bring to the program as we
move on. So can you give the listening audience a
Kind of like a preview. I think they call them trailers,
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you know, on on Netflix and Amazon Prime to to
what kind of things you're thinking about bringing, which would
also entail the kind of guest, the topic and the guest.
And naturally, you would be on the program to help
spice it up, too. So, Arianna, what what do you
have in mind?
S5 (11:42):
Oh, well, there's a lot that I have. There's a
lot going on in my head, but.
S6 (11:48):
But.
S5 (11:48):
In reality, you know, I really want to stick to
just the topics of not just cannabis, but, you know,
other plants and healing and knowing that cannabis is, is
a big one that has helped so many different people
with different, you know, um, you know, where they come from.
(12:08):
How is it recreational, medicinal. But I really am passionate
about the medicinal side of cannabis. And for me, cannabis
has helped me with like my pain. I had Fibromyalgia,
so I didn't want to be on opioids and stuff
like that. So that was a road opener for, you know,
therapy and then other plants and how all of that
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and the terpenes and the good parts of all plants.
S3 (12:33):
Do you mind breaking for the listening audience, break down
that that illness?
S5 (12:37):
Yeah. So fibromyalgia is basically a chronic pain throughout your body.
I was diagnosed with it when I was 16. My
rheumatologist told me that I can either grow out of
it or I'll have it for the rest of my life.
And basically, the brain is sending signals to the rest
of your body and the nerves to have inflammation in
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your joints. Headaches, migraines, depression. Um, sometimes, like some people
just don't get out of bed. I met a lady
who was in her like 50s. She had really bad
fibro and just was basically disabled. And that was something like,
oh wow. And she took pain medication. So it was like,
I just didn't want to go that route. And working
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with other, you know, holistic healing, um, that change of diet,
all that stuff. Um, just the whole wellness practice. And
then also I really want to cover, just like, cannabis
and women's health. Um, how, you know, different ways on
we can take care of ourselves because when it comes
to our moon cycle, you know, it's quick to just
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take all these other things. And cannabis has so many
different benefits.
S6 (13:46):
Sure.
S5 (13:46):
And also environmental impact of cannabis. The cultivation. Um, indigenous
land and the perspective of, you know what? Bringing the
awareness to breaking down each barrier of where cannabis comes from,
who has the, you know, main seeds to stuff and
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how the evolution of it and where it is now. Um,
that's something I really love to talk about as well.
S3 (14:12):
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of, of
women that are going to be, you know, um, Really
listening to your every word because I think, you know,
they've got issues that are women issues only that that
men don't have to, um, deal with that, that women
would like to have a solution for that's outside of, um,
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prescribed medication. So, I mean, that's going to be something
that I think women are going to really, really be
interested in.
S5 (14:43):
Definitely. And I can't wait to share more.
S3 (14:45):
Okay, okay. Anything else that you might want to bring
that you're thinking to bring to us?
S5 (14:50):
Um, I really am passionate about mental health and cannabis
and mental health or, you know, holistic healing and mental
health and just that topic in general. Um, yeah. I'm
really inspired to share to others my ways on how
I combated where I came from and my traumas and
struggles and how I cope with it. What I say
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in in my healing journey is like, you just learn
to cope with the pain and how you can deal
with it day to day by also like not hurting
yourself and really giving up on yourself. You learn to
just cope. Because the thing is, with healing in general,
everybody's like, oh, you're healed. Like, I've done all the work,
(15:33):
I've released all the trauma. It's over. But life happens,
things happen, and you just have to learn. In life
you grow, you go and you have to learn how
to cope with it. And it's in those ups and
downs like where can you find that baseline that that
balance your key, that okay, it's not okay right now,
but however it's better than it was before or I'm
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grateful for where I'm at now.
S3 (15:58):
Gotcha, gotcha. Okay, great. Fantastic. Thank you very much. Thank you,
thank you Arnie. Now, what are you going to say, Alex?
Got to smile. You know that, uh, you've got to
be able to see it, to believe it, but you've
got to smile. That's Disarming, but, you know, there's something
going on in that head of hers. So, honey, what's, uh,
(16:21):
what's going on? What what topics are you going to
bring to the program?
S4 (16:26):
Thank you. So for me, my passions as it is,
you know, wellness and and advocacy that I bring to
my business, I want to bring that here to the podcast.
So I went along along those same vein is advocacy,
health and wellness, cancer care, culture and spirituality, parenting and wellness,
because all of these things all play a role. These
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are part of my life and I would like to
have conversations around it. So, for example, can mindfulness and
cannabis coexist? For healthy parenting, having a teen or having
people who are going to be teens soon and understanding
the influence of outside? How do we have a conversation
with our children that's age appropriate, that's well informed, so
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that as they make decisions for themselves or even like
spreading education, among them their peers.
S3 (17:17):
Now you realize you're carving out a big piece. If
you're going to talk to parents that have teenagers. Now,
I don't have teenagers anymore, but I remember those days.
So helping parents to cope with teenagers is it seems
like a big, big job.
S4 (17:32):
It absolutely is. And the way that the world is today, because,
I mean, growing up at my time during teen, being
a teen, there were just certain things that were said
to me like, you don't do it. And that was it.
Now that it's more widely accepted, more easily accessible, whether
it's in a good place or a not so great place,
being able to talk to your children about the everything
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about cannabis, like an informed just education like this is
what cannabis is. Here's what you need to be worried
about or looking out for. You don't want to go
to the street pharmacist and pick something up. You don't
want to. Your friend brings it to you and says, hey,
try this right? You need to understand the dangers that
come with it because not everyone is aware. But having
that conversation with your children. As a parent, I think
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goes a long way versus their getting educated from someone
who you don't know. You don't know if that information
is accurate or not.
S3 (18:24):
So it's kind of hard for parents to get into
that conversation with their children. It is. I mean, you know.
S4 (18:30):
Yeah. It really, really does make a difference in the
style that you take with your kids and raising them.
Like the relationship that you have with them and even within.
So my home, there's like a lot of kids.
S6 (18:42):
So we might as well we might as well get
into that.
S3 (18:44):
How many kids? How many kids do you have right now?
S4 (18:49):
I have three kids. I have three children. But I also,
I like to say that I foster a whole lot
of kids in the community in the Gambia. So I
have like a whole football team, literally.
S6 (19:00):
Okay.
S4 (19:01):
Like two different leagues that they're in.
S3 (19:03):
Not American football.
S4 (19:04):
No soccer. I'm sorry.
S6 (19:06):
Yeah, well. Well, no, I think it's called football.
S3 (19:09):
But people are listening and they're thinking, oh, football. And
they're thinking, you know American football. Dallas Cowboys and the Rams.
But it's.
S6 (19:17):
Not no no.
S4 (19:18):
No. It's soccer. Okay. Um and so I have that
group and and I meet with them regularly. Um, I
haven't really met with the parents as much as much
as I have with the children who are in the league. So,
you know, having those conversations, like, let me go and
talk to the parents because, again, from their parent standpoint,
you're an outsider talking to my kids about cannabis, right.
S6 (19:40):
Mhm.
S4 (19:40):
Just because you don't have the conversation with your children
doesn't mean they're not talking about it. And so I like.
S5 (19:46):
To I'll chime in real quick on just like society,
how they view smoking cannabis and consuming it in any
way or form like in the Latin community, like my
grandma is very like, no, that is so terrible. It's
the devil. It's it's like the devil's lettuce. Is that
what they call it, or.
S6 (20:04):
Something like that?
S5 (20:05):
And it's just like, yes, but then there's everybody who
is out here drinking. And, you know, that kind of
goes into, you know, don't drive high, of course, but
it's just kind of like I personally would rather my
if I had a kid, you know, come home a
little toasted red eyes, you know, but not like super drunk.
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And it's just a different effect. And a lot of
people have viewed it so negatively just because of the
social norm and the social ways.
S6 (20:35):
Of, yeah.
S3 (20:35):
It's that conversation. I feel like you two are going
to bring to the listening audience. You got to have
that conversation. Yeah, because if you don't, I think I
heard both of you say, if you don't have that
conversation in the home, it's going to happen outside the
home and you have no control over it. Yes. And
that's when you might get the child coming home with
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the red eye and, you know, really high or loaded and,
you know, then you really got to take some stance
on what's going on.
S4 (21:04):
Right? And that's one of the topics that I was
that I'm hoping to bring also is like, how can
we have, um, how can we foster open, non-judgmental conversations
around cannabis.
S6 (21:14):
Oh my gosh. Right.
S3 (21:16):
Non-judgmental.
S6 (21:18):
I mean, I think that's gonna be tough.
S4 (21:20):
I think that's key because everyone has their own biases
and we bring it with us whether we like to
admit it or not. True. But I think he is
understanding the bias that you do have, and being able
to have a conversation about cannabis without being emotional about it. Right. Um, yeah.
And then also from the health and wellness side standpoint.
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So I incorporate cannabis use in, in my practice. Oh okay.
As far as like massage goes. And so people often requested.
So I, you know.
S5 (21:52):
Is it the CBD oil.
S4 (21:53):
CBD oil CBD balms. So I incorporate that into some
of the massages that I provide. But even in that space, um,
as a business owner, it kind of gets interesting as
far as like, well, some payment platforms won't even accept
us using the word cannabis or CBD in the description
of it, and then also for others when they're like,
(22:17):
I see you have this on your website, um, how
am I going to feel afterwards? Is it going to
show up in my testing? Is it going to make
me not be employable after this? You know, those types
of conversations and then on the oncology side of things.
So I want to talk about or bring on guests
that talk about their use of cannabis or people who
have used cannabis as part of their relief while they're
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going through cancer treatments and post-cancer treatment.
S3 (22:41):
And how it's helped, how it's affected and and or
helped them. Yes.
S6 (22:45):
Okay. Yes.
S5 (22:46):
Yes. And there needs to I feel like people are
like it's so it's growing and I feel like there
is some education, like you go to the dispensary and
then like you have somebody telling you, oh, this sativa
strain does this and these terpenes do this. But I
feel like, you know, this podcast can be an amazing,
like educational like source for cannabis users or those new
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to the game or already in the game on, you know,
how we can better educate people so it can really
filter and they can absorb that and then be like, oh,
so they are more knowledgeable and accept that information when
you're telling them what strain is what. And, you know,
rambling on, even though they just want to get high,
like they're just like they walk in there, they're like,
I don't care about the terpene.
S6 (23:28):
This.
S5 (23:29):
CBG CBN.
S6 (23:30):
They probably don't know. They just don't know. Yeah that's one.
S3 (23:33):
Of the things I found I think I shared with
the audience several times several podcasts ago that that I
taught the business of cannabis in college. And the main
thing is education. People just don't know. Yeah, they don't know.
And they're not sure they want to ask and show
you that they don't know, but they want to find out.
(23:55):
It's the strangest it's the craziest thing. Okay. So I
think it sounds like what you two are going to
bring is some of the answers to those questions that
people have about cannabis and how cannabis can help you.
And not just something to get high, you know, but
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something that will will help, you know, to to solve
some of your pain problems. Maybe you know, the anxiety
that you have sometimes. So, um, I'm excited about it.
To tell you the truth, I'm really excited.
S4 (24:30):
And also for pets because I have a dog.
S6 (24:32):
Okay, I have many dogs and just pointed.
S3 (24:36):
I have pets, okay.
S6 (24:38):
And for pets. Yes.
S4 (24:39):
And then, um, I mean, I don't mind sharing my
experience with trying to grow it out of curiosity. Okay.
And how my dog just ate all of it. And
so now I can't grow cilantro because he's like, is
that it? Oh.
S6 (24:54):
Oh, he likes it. He likes it.
S4 (24:55):
So every, every herb that's come up now, he's like,
is that what that was? Is that it. So he's
trying all you have.
S3 (25:00):
To have an indoor thing though. I mean you have to, um,
do a little house.
S4 (25:05):
I, I've experimented with indoor. I've experimented like growing it
out in the garden.
S6 (25:10):
And you still get soil.
S4 (25:11):
He didn't get. He got to the one that was
in the garden and he enjoyed it thoroughly.
S6 (25:16):
So how do you.
S5 (25:18):
Know what strain it was? Or does he have he.
Does he know? Like what strain.
S4 (25:21):
I don't care, I think he cared.
S6 (25:23):
Well, he just. Your dog is just like I know
that's the I knew.
S4 (25:26):
I knew he ate it because I met all my
bell peppers bitten off. He was going after every plant
that had a fruit. He was like, yeah. So he
had munchies afterwards.
S6 (25:36):
But, you know, that's that's a.
S3 (25:39):
Very good point because when I was teaching it, I
had people that wanted information on cannabis for their pets,
you know, and we did talk about it a little bit.
But I know that there are folks out there right
now that are thinking, gee, you know, cannabis for my
my cat or for my dog or, you know, whatever
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pet they have, is it okay? Can I ask a question?
So you two are going to become quite experts on,
you know, how people can, you know, help their particular
pet relieve pain? Mhm. Um, so great. You know, I'm
excited about the topics that you two brought up. Um,
and we'll be, we will be discussing over the next
(26:22):
several months. Um, but you know, right now what I'd
like to do is to get your opinion and you're
going to say, oh, no, get your opinion on the
election and what you have heard about, you know, the
the loss, the win. Um, I'm going to chime. I've
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heard I've heard things all the way from it. Was
the Democrats fault all the way to oh, man, the
fix was in. Um, and then in the middle, someone
talking about, from a spiritual standpoint that this is what
the creator wanted to happen. You know, I've heard all
kind of stuff. So what do you what do you
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guys think? What have you heard?
S5 (27:06):
Well, um, it's going.
S6 (27:09):
To be a deep subject, huh? Well, well.
S5 (27:12):
Um, I just feel like, you know, for the, you know,
Latin brown, black community, you know, whoever, however, you felt
like your vote was doing something for you, in a way,
it was like, I feel like they just they're the
main concern. I feel a lot of people why they
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voted for whoever they voted for, um, is the economical concern.
S6 (27:41):
Mhm.
S5 (27:42):
So, you know, whether you are a person of color
or not, it was right now America that the economical concern, the,
you know, the, the way of how leadership, who is
in power can do it best. There was a hope
for that side. But as a women and seeing another
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woman And how she carried herself in that whole situation.
I feel like people were not as hopeful or not.
They didn't really. She she did her best. But some
of the points and some of the things that I
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feel like our community really needed was there were certain
things that she left out, and she tried to put
more light on certain areas that directed towards a group
of our community, but not mass majority of our community.
So therefore, people were seeking another route, even though it
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probably didn't support their path, doesn't support their tax bracket,
it doesn't support their citizenship.
S3 (28:53):
Mhm. Okay.
S5 (28:55):
Um, and it was just kind of yeah, it was
a lot going on. And I feel like there was
a lot of people to, I know in my community
that didn't vote. They just were like, I don't want
to vote. I don't care to. They're not the best people.
And it's kind of a mess. And then there was
the people like, oh, well, we already know it's already selected.
There's the people who say, oh, I'm really into astrology.
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So there's a lot of different astrologers that predicted like, oh,
he was going to win because of this planet was
shifting in this way, the way it was going to
end up.
S6 (29:24):
I heard that too.
S5 (29:25):
So all these conspiracy and then I come down to
the the thought and the feeling of, you know, whoever
is going to be in office is going to be
in office. I'm still going to do what I have
to do for me, right? Take care of myself, my
own finances, my family and my community. And that's that's
how I can navigate it. You know, I'm not going
to throw a pity party. I think it's more of
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like from a mature standpoint, everybody has their own opinions
and is entitled to however they feel and whatever they choose. Um,
but it's kind of just accepting people and loving them
in that way, whatever their opinion is, and just moving
on with my life and what I got to do
for me, and nothing's going to impact me crazy unless
I let it.
S6 (30:05):
Got to go.
S3 (30:06):
Got to move on.
S6 (30:06):
Got to move on. Yeah.
S3 (30:08):
Okay. Annie, what are you. What are your. What are
your thoughts.
S4 (30:11):
On the election? I think going into it, it was
like there was hopefulness. Like what's hopeful? Like, whatever. Turns out,
whatever the turnout is that we as a people would be,
would be okay. Um, it's still left to be seen
how we're going to turn out after everything that's gone
down in the circles that I'm in. You know, I
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think people went straight from okay, they acknowledged the results.
This is what happened. And then they went into either
how are we going to get out of here?
S6 (30:44):
So when you say out of here.
S3 (30:46):
Out of the country.
S6 (30:47):
Exodus. Oh, Exodus.
S3 (30:50):
So because because things are going to be so bad.
S4 (30:53):
Um, in some levels, yes. They, you know, for for
black women who are, who are moms and you have
your children, there's always that fear of like, oh, my
kids walking down the street, are they going to be returned?
Are they going to get home safely without having an
issue of walking while black?
S6 (31:12):
Right.
S4 (31:13):
And so when you've heard on the campaign trail immunity
for police officers knowing what they've done when they didn't
have immunity, how much worse is it going to get
now that they're being promised immunity? So for some moms,
it's let's get out of this country, take our kids
out and figure things out somewhere else.
S3 (31:34):
So so that fear, it sounds like you're talking about
a fear that they have of of being picked up
or harassed.
S4 (31:43):
I mean, that's the best case.
S6 (31:45):
Like a hate crime. The best.
S4 (31:46):
Case scenario is that they're picked up and.
S6 (31:48):
Harassed. Best case.
S4 (31:49):
Best case scenario. Worst case scenario, they are shot.
S3 (31:53):
Oh, my. Right. Okay.
S4 (31:55):
Um. And it's not too surprising. It's not a far
fetched idea to think of. No, no. Your child was walking.
They had their headphones on. They didn't even hear a policeman.
Command to them. They turned around. They have the phone
in their hand. Oh, they have a gun. Boom! Yeah.
So that ends your child. So I've heard people saying, okay,
how do we get out of here? There are others
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who are like, well, this is going to bring our
community closer because now we're going to really have to
rely on each other, right? Um, and so then you're
starting to see people organize around, well, let's find these,
these small, these small minority owned businesses, or let's go
ahead and and look at the businesses that supported whichever candidate.
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And then people are like, we're not going to shop
there because they didn't support a candidate. That's for my
wellness or my, my well-being. So why give them my money? Uh,
so so I've seen that right now. From what I'm seeing,
a lot of people are mostly just trying to say,
how do we move on from whatever the.
S6 (32:52):
Results.
S4 (32:52):
Are, you know? Um, I know for myself personally, sometimes,
like when I walked into the store More recently, it
hit me like, wait a minute, these people, some of
these people probably voted against my better my well-being, right?
My ability to make decisions for myself and my reproductive system.
S6 (33:11):
Right.
S4 (33:12):
And so it changes the way you look at people.
I mean, you can't look at someone and say, oh,
you voted a certain way. Yeah. But, you know, when
you there's a demographic and a percentage of the people
in that demographic, it's like, wait, you really voted against
me being able to say, this is not in my
best interest. Like, I have to be near death before
the doctor can help me go through because I'm having
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a miscarriage and now I have to be near death,
or my blood count has to be so low before
the doctor can take action. And I have kids at home. Yeah. Right. So.
So it was kind of like that. And and for me,
I have never really felt that way before. Like, I mean,
I walk in the store, I go through it. I
don't even notice really too much who's around me. But
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then it's like like that. There was a moment when
that happened for me, like, oh, wait a minute. And then, um,
having to, like, just take some time to myself, like, okay,
you need to think about it is what it is.
It's happened. So how do you how do you respond now?
How are you going? Like, what are your what are
you going to do? Because you now have to start
to think through. If this scenario happens, what is my
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response going to be? If this never happens, what is
my response going to be?
S5 (34:21):
So I feel like to, um, like for women, like
that whole what you were speaking about, the whole abortion
thing and your body, your choice, all of that stuff.
You know, just the next day, I, I felt energetically
like I had to cry because I was like, as
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a woman, I was like, something is just the that
choice to do that like and even women who are unfortunately,
you know, on substances or going through certain traumas or
it wasn't their choice to go through this, like this
whole thing in itself is just like it hit me like, wow,
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we we really need to help each other in our
community and take care of our bodies and be more
mindful about who we're connecting with, who we're exchanging and
creating with, and how we're maneuvering with that, because things
are different.
S3 (35:18):
So so I guess if I, if I use if
I can use the word positive, I guess the only positive. Well,
one of the positive things about this is that it's
bringing people together.
S6 (35:28):
Absolutely.
S4 (35:29):
I will say that that's something that's collectively like that
seems to be like a very positive.
S6 (35:33):
Yeah.
S4 (35:34):
A positive thing that I'm seeing now since the election. Mhm. Um,
even if it's on a matter of people being more
educated on like, let me think about what I'm putting
into my body as far as what I'm going to eat.
Let me think about my finances.
S6 (35:46):
Mhm. Right.
S4 (35:47):
I can't just be spilling out everywhere. So I have
to like think about where I'm spending my money. Um
I think that's very positive. I think, uh, you know,
sometimes when, when we know what we should do and
we don't do it. Though life has a way of saying, well,
you're going to have to do it now. And I
think this election is like, you're going to have to
figure this out.
S3 (36:05):
Are you talking to me? I know what I'm supposed
to do, but.
S6 (36:09):
I don't do it.
S3 (36:11):
Yeah, yeah. Um, you know, I think I think what
you two have have put on the table for folks
to think about, um, men as well as women is
is you got to take care of yourself. You got
to be mindful of your environment and what's going on. Um,
and we got to rely on each other. Yeah. Okay.
S5 (36:33):
Building community and just representation. And those who are in
the community and have that power and leading in a
way where, you know, it's a positive way or more
of a peaceful transition as opposed to the frustration and
anger that we feel, you know, and not moving in
that emotional aspect and coming from more of a logical,
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peaceful For and loving way of connecting.
S3 (37:01):
I think what you two have done today is really
given the listening audience a taste of what they're going
to hear in coming months. And, um, not that they
haven't been listening to Doctor Leroy and Kenneth Leighton, but
this is going to make them want to listen even
more so, because you two have some very refreshing ideas
(37:26):
and points of views. So as we move, you know,
to the end of this podcast, can we go back
to your businesses? Let's give those another punch. Um, so
let me go to Arnie. Can you let's give your
business a punch. How can folks and how can folks
get in touch with you? Maybe they want to. Maybe
they say, I don't want to get in touch with
(37:47):
Doctor Leroy.
S6 (37:48):
I want to get in.
S3 (37:50):
I want the therapist. I want the person that's going
to help me.
S4 (37:54):
Sure. So my website is Onic Onek. Tafari. Com so on.
Y e k a t e f a r I. Com.
And so you can find all of our services, all
of our events that's coming up. We have community events here.
Like I said in San Diego and in Savannah Georgia.
And so you can see all of our events, a
(38:15):
lot of the events are just around gardening and and
community building. And then also like we do a lot
of charity events as well in the community. So if
you want to get involved, that's a great way to
reach out with us at our website. Monique Tafari comm
and yeah, I'm here.
S3 (38:30):
Okay. Fantastic. Okay, Ariana, how can folks find you?
S5 (38:35):
They can find me on my website that just dropped
its WW dot disturbs b l I s s e
d herbs.com and on Instagram. Um. My main Instagram is
Ariana Salazar. Ariana no. Two ends, no two R's, just
the simple Ariana. And then my business. Instagram. If you're
(38:58):
looking for any kind of candles, if you're needing assistance
in your wellness journey, your spiritual path, you want to
get into teas and transitioning out of coffee. My Instagram
is bliss Herbs and also on Threads and Twitter. So yeah.
S3 (39:14):
So we've got a lot of social media, um, contact.
And these two ladies are going to make sure that
I'm putting them on the spot right now that Cannabis
enlightened has that kind of, of footprint also in terms
of social media. Um, so but thank you very much, ladies,
for joining me today. And I look forward to you
(39:35):
to either both of you or one of you being
with me as we continue on this cannabis enlightened journey.
Thank you very much.
S6 (39:42):
Thank you.
S5 (39:43):
Thank you so much.
S3 (39:44):
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This is cannabis enlightened with Doctor Leroy.
S3 (00:57):
Hello and welcome everybody to another fantastic, dynamic Cannabis Enlightened podcast.
I am your host, Doctor Leroy, and I'm coming to
you through oldest media with JC as our producer and Lina,
and as always, as always, the show is sponsored by
(01:20):
March and Ash. March and ash. This is going to
be a very, very interesting show for you. Um, we're
going to be a little bit different. We do have
some guests. Some very pretty guests. Some very outstanding guests.
Some very knowledgeable guests. Some guests who are entrepreneurs here
(01:40):
in San Diego. And they're going to be talking to you.
But I guess the important thing is, or one of
the important things is they're going to be assistant producers
on my program on cannabis enlightened, and you're going to
be hearing more and more about them. So I know
they have hundreds of thousands of fans out there. At
(02:01):
least that's what they told me. They got a lot
of fans that are going to be listening to Cannabis enlightened. Additionally,
listening to Cannabis Enlightened for them and what they bring
to the program. And I am positive that they're going
to bring a whole lot to the program. So please
welcome the two of them. Please give them, you know,
(02:26):
your warmest love and attention because these ladies are, um,
I guess, top shelf. And I'm just very pleased to
have them working with me and helping. So earlier in
my podcast, I think it was a season one, I had, um,
a mr. Wowser on my program. It was a great,
(02:48):
great episode. You need to go back and listen to that.
And Mr. Wowser is responsible for bringing these ladies to
my program. And I'm very, very, very happy to have them. And,
and here I'd like you to, to meet them because
they're going to talk about themselves and what's going on
with them. Anika Tafari, Annie is going to be talking
(03:08):
to you in a few minutes. And, um, we have
miss Salazar is with me on my right side, and
Annie is with me on my left side. So, ladies,
welcome to the program. I'm glad you're here. Um, Annie,
you want to start?
S4 (03:24):
Sure. Thank you. I am only Short for Oni Tafari
I am the founder of Oni Tafari Wellness and Spa,
and we are here out of San Diego. We got
established back in 2019 where we provide services such as massage, skincare,
Yoni steams, hair removal and then we also do a
(03:45):
lot of work in the community where we're trying to
bring people together just as a community, getting to know
each other. For our Bantaba, which is a connection with
the earth and learning to grow your own food, because
I truly, personally believe that that is very revolutionary. And
that work has spread not only here in San Diego,
but also across in Georgia.
S3 (04:05):
And what does that term mean?
S4 (04:07):
Bantaba it is a term that I picked up when
I was in the Gambia, West Africa, and it's a
gathering of people, whether you're trying to resolve issues that
come up, trying to make a decision for the community
to move forward. And I think it's just such a wonderful,
wonderful experience. And I want to bring that for everybody
that I come in contact with.
S3 (04:26):
And you've been doing that for quite a while. Yes
I have. Okay. All right. So did you talk about
your business that you have? Yes.
S4 (04:33):
So we do, like I said, at our Wellness and
Spa located in Santa mesa, we provide massage and skincare services.
And then in that same vein, some of the things
that we focus on is in regards to oncology and lymphedema,
which comes after someone has gone through certain treatments. Usually
they would get lymphedema. And that's just a condition of
(04:55):
our lymphatic system where it doesn't work entirely. And so
I helped move the fluids along in that regard and
just bringing comfort to others. And then skincare for anti-aging
for acne care. Just corrective skincare in general.
S3 (05:10):
Okay. And I'll have to tell everyone that in the
studio here she has beautiful skin.
S4 (05:15):
Thank you.
S3 (05:16):
So whatever she's doing for everybody else, she's doing for herself.
So you need to come and you need to you
need to to to to avail yourself to her services?
S4 (05:26):
Absolutely, yes.
S3 (05:28):
Okay. So next. Ariana.
S5 (05:31):
Hello. My name is Ariana Salazar. I am a self-taught
herbalist and holistic practitioner. Um, my roots come from Central America.
I am Costa Rican and Honduran, and I have a
lot of indigenous blood on my on both sides. Um,
my grandpa is from the Bribri tribe in Talamanca in
(05:51):
Costa Rica. So my passion really lies on, um, just plants,
holistic healing, um, spiritual awakening, indigenous medicine and just the
ancestral wisdom and blending that with the modern natural practices
in this world to kind of guide others in their
wellness journey. Um, I got my certification herbalism, last year,
(06:15):
just kind of to deepen my commitment in my path
and really just dedicate myself to this ongoing healing journey
and learning about plans, um, you know, yoga breathwork, all
these different ways on how we can really take care
of ourselves and that power within us. And I also
have been doing a lot of retreats and healing events,
(06:38):
farmers markets and pop ups. My business is Bliss Herbs,
so I sell tea blends, candles, tinctures, skincare, oils, and
I also offer spiritual healing services.
S3 (06:51):
Arianna Watts A pop up.
S5 (06:53):
A pop up is basically I go out and I
set up a booth like an easy up booth and
then a table, and I decorate everything and show all
my products and display and basically wherever they they want
me at. And I've done a few, um, North Park,
I've done some in Ocean Beach, I've done some up
in North County, I've done some up in LA. I
(07:15):
love doing pop ups. It can be a lot of work,
but I'm kind of like now getting more into this
space of wanting to do like events, retreats or primarily
focus online. So my website is WW. Dot disturbs.com. That's
where you can find all my apothecary goods and even
book a session with me if you're interested to dive
deeper in your spiritual path. So I'm just really excited
(07:38):
to be here and just being a part of the
cannabis community as well. I worked in it for about, oh,
probably like 6 or 7 years, and just kind of
branching out from cannabis into my own business and just
being with like minded people, open minded people. So I'm
really excited and very grateful for this.
S3 (07:58):
So is this is this pop up something that could
be added to an event that someone's having a birthday
party or some kind of reunion celebration? They could have
you come.
S5 (08:11):
Yeah. No, definitely. I've done, um, so like, community pop
up events, they'll do like flea markets or whatever. And
some people will sell clothes, other people sell, you know, jewelry,
whatever their talent is. And I'll come and bring my products,
which are my tea blends, my candles, you know, some accessories,
some plants. And yeah, I even do, um, tea ceremonies.
(08:32):
I recently did a healing retreat where I did the
guided Reiki meditation and a tea ceremony, which was really
lovely and I enjoy it.
S3 (08:42):
And now you talked about both of you have roots
from other countries.
S6 (08:49):
Correct.
S3 (08:50):
And I can hear it in your language. So do
we have other languages that we speak?
S5 (08:57):
Yes.
S3 (08:59):
Okay. Ariana, what other language do you speak?
S5 (09:03):
I speak Spanish, Spanish.
S6 (09:05):
Yeah.
S5 (09:05):
Well Spanish and English okay. I'm. I learned also in
high school. I learned a little bit of Mandarin too.
S6 (09:11):
But I'll bring that. Yeah. Okay. All right.
S3 (09:14):
And Ani so.
S4 (09:16):
For us in the Bahamas it is the primary language
is English. However, we have our patois and some Creole. So, um,
I think depending on the conversation, sometimes some words will
come out and oh.
S3 (09:32):
Good words, good words or bad words.
S4 (09:34):
Depends on the situation. Okay. Um, but mostly it's sometimes
it's hard to find the word in English to describe
what it is I'm trying to say. And so, um,
but usually that comes out when I'm talking to other
people from the region.
S3 (09:48):
Okay. So the Creole now isn't that isn't that French Louisiana? Um,
it's French influenced.
S4 (09:56):
Um, so we are very close to Haiti. And so
because of the migration patterns, we have a lot of
patients in our community. And so that is how can
we started like for my family anyway, we we started
speaking some Creole.
S3 (10:10):
Okay. And now you have children. So do your children speak.
S4 (10:14):
They sound as if they are fresh off the boat from.
S6 (10:20):
Okay.
S4 (10:22):
That's because they're homeschooled. Okay. And so because they're homeschool,
they're around my family primarily. They hear the accent. They
hear the way that we speak. And so they speak
that same way. And sometimes even when I hear them speak,
I say, oh, you sound so bohemian.
S6 (10:39):
Okay.
S3 (10:40):
And what had just happened is, is Ani just snuck
in a topic that we'll be discussing as we go forward,
the homeschool kind of thing. Because I find that hugely interesting.
And I know a lot of people are doing that now.
They're into it for various reasons. So we're going to
talk about that. Um, ladies, thank you for agreeing to
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to work with cannabis enlightened. Um, we're very, very excited
about both of you coming. And you have some thoughts
that you want to bring to the program as we
move on. So can you give the listening audience a
Kind of like a preview. I think they call them trailers,
(11:23):
you know, on on Netflix and Amazon Prime to to
what kind of things you're thinking about bringing, which would
also entail the kind of guest, the topic and the guest.
And naturally, you would be on the program to help
spice it up, too. So, Arianna, what what do you
have in mind?
S5 (11:42):
Oh, well, there's a lot that I have. There's a
lot going on in my head, but.
S6 (11:48):
But.
S5 (11:48):
In reality, you know, I really want to stick to
just the topics of not just cannabis, but, you know,
other plants and healing and knowing that cannabis is, is
a big one that has helped so many different people
with different, you know, um, you know, where they come from.
(12:08):
How is it recreational, medicinal. But I really am passionate
about the medicinal side of cannabis. And for me, cannabis
has helped me with like my pain. I had Fibromyalgia,
so I didn't want to be on opioids and stuff
like that. So that was a road opener for, you know,
therapy and then other plants and how all of that
(12:29):
and the terpenes and the good parts of all plants.
S3 (12:33):
Do you mind breaking for the listening audience, break down
that that illness?
S5 (12:37):
Yeah. So fibromyalgia is basically a chronic pain throughout your body.
I was diagnosed with it when I was 16. My
rheumatologist told me that I can either grow out of
it or I'll have it for the rest of my life.
And basically, the brain is sending signals to the rest
of your body and the nerves to have inflammation in
(12:59):
your joints. Headaches, migraines, depression. Um, sometimes, like some people
just don't get out of bed. I met a lady
who was in her like 50s. She had really bad
fibro and just was basically disabled. And that was something like,
oh wow. And she took pain medication. So it was like,
I just didn't want to go that route. And working
(13:20):
with other, you know, holistic healing, um, that change of diet,
all that stuff. Um, just the whole wellness practice. And
then also I really want to cover, just like, cannabis
and women's health. Um, how, you know, different ways on
we can take care of ourselves because when it comes
to our moon cycle, you know, it's quick to just
(13:42):
take all these other things. And cannabis has so many
different benefits.
S6 (13:46):
Sure.
S5 (13:46):
And also environmental impact of cannabis. The cultivation. Um, indigenous
land and the perspective of, you know what? Bringing the
awareness to breaking down each barrier of where cannabis comes from,
who has the, you know, main seeds to stuff and
(14:06):
how the evolution of it and where it is now. Um,
that's something I really love to talk about as well.
S3 (14:12):
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of, of
women that are going to be, you know, um, Really
listening to your every word because I think, you know,
they've got issues that are women issues only that that
men don't have to, um, deal with that, that women
would like to have a solution for that's outside of, um,
(14:34):
prescribed medication. So, I mean, that's going to be something
that I think women are going to really, really be
interested in.
S5 (14:43):
Definitely. And I can't wait to share more.
S3 (14:45):
Okay, okay. Anything else that you might want to bring
that you're thinking to bring to us?
S5 (14:50):
Um, I really am passionate about mental health and cannabis
and mental health or, you know, holistic healing and mental
health and just that topic in general. Um, yeah. I'm
really inspired to share to others my ways on how
I combated where I came from and my traumas and
struggles and how I cope with it. What I say
(15:12):
in in my healing journey is like, you just learn
to cope with the pain and how you can deal
with it day to day by also like not hurting
yourself and really giving up on yourself. You learn to
just cope. Because the thing is, with healing in general,
everybody's like, oh, you're healed. Like, I've done all the work,
(15:33):
I've released all the trauma. It's over. But life happens,
things happen, and you just have to learn. In life
you grow, you go and you have to learn how
to cope with it. And it's in those ups and
downs like where can you find that baseline that that
balance your key, that okay, it's not okay right now,
but however it's better than it was before or I'm
(15:56):
grateful for where I'm at now.
S3 (15:58):
Gotcha, gotcha. Okay, great. Fantastic. Thank you very much. Thank you,
thank you Arnie. Now, what are you going to say, Alex?
Got to smile. You know that, uh, you've got to
be able to see it, to believe it, but you've
got to smile. That's Disarming, but, you know, there's something
going on in that head of hers. So, honey, what's, uh,
(16:21):
what's going on? What what topics are you going to
bring to the program?
S4 (16:26):
Thank you. So for me, my passions as it is,
you know, wellness and and advocacy that I bring to
my business, I want to bring that here to the podcast.
So I went along along those same vein is advocacy,
health and wellness, cancer care, culture and spirituality, parenting and wellness,
because all of these things all play a role. These
(16:47):
are part of my life and I would like to
have conversations around it. So, for example, can mindfulness and
cannabis coexist? For healthy parenting, having a teen or having
people who are going to be teens soon and understanding
the influence of outside? How do we have a conversation
with our children that's age appropriate, that's well informed, so
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that as they make decisions for themselves or even like
spreading education, among them their peers.
S3 (17:17):
Now you realize you're carving out a big piece. If
you're going to talk to parents that have teenagers. Now,
I don't have teenagers anymore, but I remember those days.
So helping parents to cope with teenagers is it seems
like a big, big job.
S4 (17:32):
It absolutely is. And the way that the world is today, because,
I mean, growing up at my time during teen, being
a teen, there were just certain things that were said
to me like, you don't do it. And that was it.
Now that it's more widely accepted, more easily accessible, whether
it's in a good place or a not so great place,
being able to talk to your children about the everything
(17:55):
about cannabis, like an informed just education like this is
what cannabis is. Here's what you need to be worried
about or looking out for. You don't want to go
to the street pharmacist and pick something up. You don't
want to. Your friend brings it to you and says, hey,
try this right? You need to understand the dangers that
come with it because not everyone is aware. But having
that conversation with your children. As a parent, I think
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goes a long way versus their getting educated from someone
who you don't know. You don't know if that information
is accurate or not.
S3 (18:24):
So it's kind of hard for parents to get into
that conversation with their children. It is. I mean, you know.
S4 (18:30):
Yeah. It really, really does make a difference in the
style that you take with your kids and raising them.
Like the relationship that you have with them and even within.
So my home, there's like a lot of kids.
S6 (18:42):
So we might as well we might as well get
into that.
S3 (18:44):
How many kids? How many kids do you have right now?
S4 (18:49):
I have three kids. I have three children. But I also,
I like to say that I foster a whole lot
of kids in the community in the Gambia. So I
have like a whole football team, literally.
S6 (19:00):
Okay.
S4 (19:01):
Like two different leagues that they're in.
S3 (19:03):
Not American football.
S4 (19:04):
No soccer. I'm sorry.
S6 (19:06):
Yeah, well. Well, no, I think it's called football.
S3 (19:09):
But people are listening and they're thinking, oh, football. And
they're thinking, you know American football. Dallas Cowboys and the Rams.
But it's.
S6 (19:17):
Not no no.
S4 (19:18):
No. It's soccer. Okay. Um and so I have that
group and and I meet with them regularly. Um, I
haven't really met with the parents as much as much
as I have with the children who are in the league. So,
you know, having those conversations, like, let me go and
talk to the parents because, again, from their parent standpoint,
you're an outsider talking to my kids about cannabis, right.
S6 (19:40):
Mhm.
S4 (19:40):
Just because you don't have the conversation with your children
doesn't mean they're not talking about it. And so I like.
S5 (19:46):
To I'll chime in real quick on just like society,
how they view smoking cannabis and consuming it in any
way or form like in the Latin community, like my
grandma is very like, no, that is so terrible. It's
the devil. It's it's like the devil's lettuce. Is that
what they call it, or.
S6 (20:04):
Something like that?
S5 (20:05):
And it's just like, yes, but then there's everybody who
is out here drinking. And, you know, that kind of
goes into, you know, don't drive high, of course, but
it's just kind of like I personally would rather my
if I had a kid, you know, come home a
little toasted red eyes, you know, but not like super drunk.
(20:25):
And it's just a different effect. And a lot of
people have viewed it so negatively just because of the
social norm and the social ways.
S6 (20:35):
Of, yeah.
S3 (20:35):
It's that conversation. I feel like you two are going
to bring to the listening audience. You got to have
that conversation. Yeah, because if you don't, I think I
heard both of you say, if you don't have that
conversation in the home, it's going to happen outside the
home and you have no control over it. Yes. And
that's when you might get the child coming home with
(20:56):
the red eye and, you know, really high or loaded and,
you know, then you really got to take some stance
on what's going on.
S4 (21:04):
Right? And that's one of the topics that I was
that I'm hoping to bring also is like, how can
we have, um, how can we foster open, non-judgmental conversations
around cannabis.
S6 (21:14):
Oh my gosh. Right.
S3 (21:16):
Non-judgmental.
S6 (21:18):
I mean, I think that's gonna be tough.
S4 (21:20):
I think that's key because everyone has their own biases
and we bring it with us whether we like to
admit it or not. True. But I think he is
understanding the bias that you do have, and being able
to have a conversation about cannabis without being emotional about it. Right. Um, yeah.
And then also from the health and wellness side standpoint.
(21:42):
So I incorporate cannabis use in, in my practice. Oh okay.
As far as like massage goes. And so people often requested.
So I, you know.
S5 (21:52):
Is it the CBD oil.
S4 (21:53):
CBD oil CBD balms. So I incorporate that into some
of the massages that I provide. But even in that space, um,
as a business owner, it kind of gets interesting as
far as like, well, some payment platforms won't even accept
us using the word cannabis or CBD in the description
of it, and then also for others when they're like,
(22:17):
I see you have this on your website, um, how
am I going to feel afterwards? Is it going to
show up in my testing? Is it going to make
me not be employable after this? You know, those types
of conversations and then on the oncology side of things.
So I want to talk about or bring on guests
that talk about their use of cannabis or people who
have used cannabis as part of their relief while they're
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going through cancer treatments and post-cancer treatment.
S3 (22:41):
And how it's helped, how it's affected and and or
helped them. Yes.
S6 (22:45):
Okay. Yes.
S5 (22:46):
Yes. And there needs to I feel like people are
like it's so it's growing and I feel like there
is some education, like you go to the dispensary and
then like you have somebody telling you, oh, this sativa
strain does this and these terpenes do this. But I
feel like, you know, this podcast can be an amazing,
like educational like source for cannabis users or those new
(23:08):
to the game or already in the game on, you know,
how we can better educate people so it can really
filter and they can absorb that and then be like, oh,
so they are more knowledgeable and accept that information when
you're telling them what strain is what. And, you know,
rambling on, even though they just want to get high,
like they're just like they walk in there, they're like,
I don't care about the terpene.
S6 (23:28):
This.
S5 (23:29):
CBG CBN.
S6 (23:30):
They probably don't know. They just don't know. Yeah that's one.
S3 (23:33):
Of the things I found I think I shared with
the audience several times several podcasts ago that that I
taught the business of cannabis in college. And the main
thing is education. People just don't know. Yeah, they don't know.
And they're not sure they want to ask and show
you that they don't know, but they want to find out.
(23:55):
It's the strangest it's the craziest thing. Okay. So I
think it sounds like what you two are going to
bring is some of the answers to those questions that
people have about cannabis and how cannabis can help you.
And not just something to get high, you know, but
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something that will will help, you know, to to solve
some of your pain problems. Maybe you know, the anxiety
that you have sometimes. So, um, I'm excited about it.
To tell you the truth, I'm really excited.
S4 (24:30):
And also for pets because I have a dog.
S6 (24:32):
Okay, I have many dogs and just pointed.
S3 (24:36):
I have pets, okay.
S6 (24:38):
And for pets. Yes.
S4 (24:39):
And then, um, I mean, I don't mind sharing my
experience with trying to grow it out of curiosity. Okay.
And how my dog just ate all of it. And
so now I can't grow cilantro because he's like, is
that it? Oh.
S6 (24:54):
Oh, he likes it. He likes it.
S4 (24:55):
So every, every herb that's come up now, he's like,
is that what that was? Is that it. So he's
trying all you have.
S3 (25:00):
To have an indoor thing though. I mean you have to, um,
do a little house.
S4 (25:05):
I, I've experimented with indoor. I've experimented like growing it
out in the garden.
S6 (25:10):
And you still get soil.
S4 (25:11):
He didn't get. He got to the one that was
in the garden and he enjoyed it thoroughly.
S6 (25:16):
So how do you.
S5 (25:18):
Know what strain it was? Or does he have he.
Does he know? Like what strain.
S4 (25:21):
I don't care, I think he cared.
S6 (25:23):
Well, he just. Your dog is just like I know
that's the I knew.
S4 (25:26):
I knew he ate it because I met all my
bell peppers bitten off. He was going after every plant
that had a fruit. He was like, yeah. So he
had munchies afterwards.
S6 (25:36):
But, you know, that's that's a.
S3 (25:39):
Very good point because when I was teaching it, I
had people that wanted information on cannabis for their pets,
you know, and we did talk about it a little bit.
But I know that there are folks out there right
now that are thinking, gee, you know, cannabis for my
my cat or for my dog or, you know, whatever
(25:59):
pet they have, is it okay? Can I ask a question?
So you two are going to become quite experts on,
you know, how people can, you know, help their particular
pet relieve pain? Mhm. Um, so great. You know, I'm
excited about the topics that you two brought up. Um,
and we'll be, we will be discussing over the next
(26:22):
several months. Um, but you know, right now what I'd
like to do is to get your opinion and you're
going to say, oh, no, get your opinion on the
election and what you have heard about, you know, the
the loss, the win. Um, I'm going to chime. I've
(26:44):
heard I've heard things all the way from it. Was
the Democrats fault all the way to oh, man, the
fix was in. Um, and then in the middle, someone
talking about, from a spiritual standpoint that this is what
the creator wanted to happen. You know, I've heard all
kind of stuff. So what do you what do you
(27:04):
guys think? What have you heard?
S5 (27:06):
Well, um, it's going.
S6 (27:09):
To be a deep subject, huh? Well, well.
S5 (27:12):
Um, I just feel like, you know, for the, you know,
Latin brown, black community, you know, whoever, however, you felt
like your vote was doing something for you, in a way,
it was like, I feel like they just they're the
main concern. I feel a lot of people why they
(27:35):
voted for whoever they voted for, um, is the economical concern.
S6 (27:41):
Mhm.
S5 (27:42):
So, you know, whether you are a person of color
or not, it was right now America that the economical concern, the,
you know, the, the way of how leadership, who is
in power can do it best. There was a hope
for that side. But as a women and seeing another
(28:03):
woman And how she carried herself in that whole situation.
I feel like people were not as hopeful or not.
They didn't really. She she did her best. But some
of the points and some of the things that I
(28:24):
feel like our community really needed was there were certain
things that she left out, and she tried to put
more light on certain areas that directed towards a group
of our community, but not mass majority of our community.
So therefore, people were seeking another route, even though it
(28:46):
probably didn't support their path, doesn't support their tax bracket,
it doesn't support their citizenship.
S3 (28:53):
Mhm. Okay.
S5 (28:55):
Um, and it was just kind of yeah, it was
a lot going on. And I feel like there was
a lot of people to, I know in my community
that didn't vote. They just were like, I don't want
to vote. I don't care to. They're not the best people.
And it's kind of a mess. And then there was
the people like, oh, well, we already know it's already selected.
There's the people who say, oh, I'm really into astrology.
(29:17):
So there's a lot of different astrologers that predicted like, oh,
he was going to win because of this planet was
shifting in this way, the way it was going to
end up.
S6 (29:24):
I heard that too.
S5 (29:25):
So all these conspiracy and then I come down to
the the thought and the feeling of, you know, whoever
is going to be in office is going to be
in office. I'm still going to do what I have
to do for me, right? Take care of myself, my
own finances, my family and my community. And that's that's
how I can navigate it. You know, I'm not going
to throw a pity party. I think it's more of
(29:46):
like from a mature standpoint, everybody has their own opinions
and is entitled to however they feel and whatever they choose. Um,
but it's kind of just accepting people and loving them
in that way, whatever their opinion is, and just moving
on with my life and what I got to do
for me, and nothing's going to impact me crazy unless
I let it.
S6 (30:05):
Got to go.
S3 (30:06):
Got to move on.
S6 (30:06):
Got to move on. Yeah.
S3 (30:08):
Okay. Annie, what are you. What are your. What are
your thoughts.
S4 (30:11):
On the election? I think going into it, it was
like there was hopefulness. Like what's hopeful? Like, whatever. Turns out,
whatever the turnout is that we as a people would be,
would be okay. Um, it's still left to be seen
how we're going to turn out after everything that's gone
down in the circles that I'm in. You know, I
(30:34):
think people went straight from okay, they acknowledged the results.
This is what happened. And then they went into either
how are we going to get out of here?
S6 (30:44):
So when you say out of here.
S3 (30:46):
Out of the country.
S6 (30:47):
Exodus. Oh, Exodus.
S3 (30:50):
So because because things are going to be so bad.
S4 (30:53):
Um, in some levels, yes. They, you know, for for
black women who are, who are moms and you have
your children, there's always that fear of like, oh, my
kids walking down the street, are they going to be returned?
Are they going to get home safely without having an
issue of walking while black?
S6 (31:12):
Right.
S4 (31:13):
And so when you've heard on the campaign trail immunity
for police officers knowing what they've done when they didn't
have immunity, how much worse is it going to get
now that they're being promised immunity? So for some moms,
it's let's get out of this country, take our kids
out and figure things out somewhere else.
S3 (31:34):
So so that fear, it sounds like you're talking about
a fear that they have of of being picked up
or harassed.
S4 (31:43):
I mean, that's the best case.
S6 (31:45):
Like a hate crime. The best.
S4 (31:46):
Case scenario is that they're picked up and.
S6 (31:48):
Harassed. Best case.
S4 (31:49):
Best case scenario. Worst case scenario, they are shot.
S3 (31:53):
Oh, my. Right. Okay.
S4 (31:55):
Um. And it's not too surprising. It's not a far
fetched idea to think of. No, no. Your child was walking.
They had their headphones on. They didn't even hear a policeman.
Command to them. They turned around. They have the phone
in their hand. Oh, they have a gun. Boom! Yeah.
So that ends your child. So I've heard people saying, okay,
how do we get out of here? There are others
(32:15):
who are like, well, this is going to bring our
community closer because now we're going to really have to
rely on each other, right? Um, and so then you're
starting to see people organize around, well, let's find these,
these small, these small minority owned businesses, or let's go
ahead and and look at the businesses that supported whichever candidate.
(32:35):
And then people are like, we're not going to shop
there because they didn't support a candidate. That's for my
wellness or my, my well-being. So why give them my money? Uh,
so so I've seen that right now. From what I'm seeing,
a lot of people are mostly just trying to say,
how do we move on from whatever the.
S6 (32:52):
Results.
S4 (32:52):
Are, you know? Um, I know for myself personally, sometimes,
like when I walked into the store More recently, it
hit me like, wait a minute, these people, some of
these people probably voted against my better my well-being, right?
My ability to make decisions for myself and my reproductive system.
S6 (33:11):
Right.
S4 (33:12):
And so it changes the way you look at people.
I mean, you can't look at someone and say, oh,
you voted a certain way. Yeah. But, you know, when
you there's a demographic and a percentage of the people
in that demographic, it's like, wait, you really voted against
me being able to say, this is not in my
best interest. Like, I have to be near death before
the doctor can help me go through because I'm having
(33:35):
a miscarriage and now I have to be near death,
or my blood count has to be so low before
the doctor can take action. And I have kids at home. Yeah. Right. So.
So it was kind of like that. And and for me,
I have never really felt that way before. Like, I mean,
I walk in the store, I go through it. I
don't even notice really too much who's around me. But
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then it's like like that. There was a moment when
that happened for me, like, oh, wait a minute. And then, um,
having to, like, just take some time to myself, like, okay,
you need to think about it is what it is.
It's happened. So how do you how do you respond now?
How are you going? Like, what are your what are
you going to do? Because you now have to start
to think through. If this scenario happens, what is my
(34:16):
response going to be? If this never happens, what is
my response going to be?
S5 (34:21):
So I feel like to, um, like for women, like
that whole what you were speaking about, the whole abortion
thing and your body, your choice, all of that stuff.
You know, just the next day, I, I felt energetically
like I had to cry because I was like, as
(34:41):
a woman, I was like, something is just the that
choice to do that like and even women who are unfortunately,
you know, on substances or going through certain traumas or
it wasn't their choice to go through this, like this
whole thing in itself is just like it hit me like, wow,
(35:02):
we we really need to help each other in our
community and take care of our bodies and be more
mindful about who we're connecting with, who we're exchanging and
creating with, and how we're maneuvering with that, because things
are different.
S3 (35:18):
So so I guess if I, if I use if
I can use the word positive, I guess the only positive. Well,
one of the positive things about this is that it's
bringing people together.
S6 (35:28):
Absolutely.
S4 (35:29):
I will say that that's something that's collectively like that
seems to be like a very positive.
S6 (35:33):
Yeah.
S4 (35:34):
A positive thing that I'm seeing now since the election. Mhm. Um,
even if it's on a matter of people being more
educated on like, let me think about what I'm putting
into my body as far as what I'm going to eat.
Let me think about my finances.
S6 (35:46):
Mhm. Right.
S4 (35:47):
I can't just be spilling out everywhere. So I have
to like think about where I'm spending my money. Um
I think that's very positive. I think, uh, you know,
sometimes when, when we know what we should do and
we don't do it. Though life has a way of saying, well,
you're going to have to do it now. And I
think this election is like, you're going to have to
figure this out.
S3 (36:05):
Are you talking to me? I know what I'm supposed
to do, but.
S6 (36:09):
I don't do it.
S3 (36:11):
Yeah, yeah. Um, you know, I think I think what
you two have have put on the table for folks
to think about, um, men as well as women is
is you got to take care of yourself. You got
to be mindful of your environment and what's going on. Um,
and we got to rely on each other. Yeah. Okay.
S5 (36:33):
Building community and just representation. And those who are in
the community and have that power and leading in a
way where, you know, it's a positive way or more
of a peaceful transition as opposed to the frustration and
anger that we feel, you know, and not moving in
that emotional aspect and coming from more of a logical,
(36:56):
peaceful For and loving way of connecting.
S3 (37:01):
I think what you two have done today is really
given the listening audience a taste of what they're going
to hear in coming months. And, um, not that they
haven't been listening to Doctor Leroy and Kenneth Leighton, but
this is going to make them want to listen even
more so, because you two have some very refreshing ideas
(37:26):
and points of views. So as we move, you know,
to the end of this podcast, can we go back
to your businesses? Let's give those another punch. Um, so
let me go to Arnie. Can you let's give your
business a punch. How can folks and how can folks
get in touch with you? Maybe they want to. Maybe
they say, I don't want to get in touch with
(37:47):
Doctor Leroy.
S6 (37:48):
I want to get in.
S3 (37:50):
I want the therapist. I want the person that's going
to help me.
S4 (37:54):
Sure. So my website is Onic Onek. Tafari. Com so on.
Y e k a t e f a r I. Com.
And so you can find all of our services, all
of our events that's coming up. We have community events here.
Like I said in San Diego and in Savannah Georgia.
And so you can see all of our events, a
(38:15):
lot of the events are just around gardening and and
community building. And then also like we do a lot
of charity events as well in the community. So if
you want to get involved, that's a great way to
reach out with us at our website. Monique Tafari comm
and yeah, I'm here.
S3 (38:30):
Okay. Fantastic. Okay, Ariana, how can folks find you?
S5 (38:35):
They can find me on my website that just dropped
its WW dot disturbs b l I s s e
d herbs.com and on Instagram. Um. My main Instagram is
Ariana Salazar. Ariana no. Two ends, no two R's, just
the simple Ariana. And then my business. Instagram. If you're
(38:58):
looking for any kind of candles, if you're needing assistance
in your wellness journey, your spiritual path, you want to
get into teas and transitioning out of coffee. My Instagram
is bliss Herbs and also on Threads and Twitter. So yeah.
S3 (39:14):
So we've got a lot of social media, um, contact.
And these two ladies are going to make sure that
I'm putting them on the spot right now that Cannabis
enlightened has that kind of, of footprint also in terms
of social media. Um, so but thank you very much, ladies,
for joining me today. And I look forward to you
(39:35):
to either both of you or one of you being
with me as we continue on this cannabis enlightened journey.
Thank you very much.
S6 (39:42):
Thank you.
S5 (39:43):
Thank you so much.
S3 (39:44):
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and have a great, great week.
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