25. Interview with Ariel Clark, JD

Ariel Clark is an Odawa Anishinaabe attorney advising clients in highly regulated and emerging ecosystems. For over 15 years, Ariel has provided business, corporate, and regulatory support to organizations, non-profits, government agencies, tribes, healthcare providers, and practitioners with an emphasis on cannabis, plant medicines, and psychedelics. Ariel is actively engaged in the conversation about “psychedelic lawyering” (ethical lawyering grounded in our responsibilities to all our relatives) and helping to shape policies that emphasize open source, ethical business models that honor the Earth, Peoples, and lineages. Ariel is a co-founder of the Psychedelic Bar Association (PBA) and serves on PBA’s Legacy Board. Ariel recently joined the board of Benefit Honoring, an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building a global community rooted in Indigenous traditional lifeways and biocultural preservation. She is a member of Roots To Sky Sanctuary, a BIPOC-stewarded, land-based healing and community project. She is also honored to be in study of Indigenous Peacemaking ways. Ariel is an enrolled Tribal citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians and is Of Counsel with Calyx Law.

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