Upcoming events.
Making a Way
In a time of Black erasure, social isolation, and political uncertainty, we need spaces where Black women can gather across generations to remember, reflect, and reconnect.
On Sunday, March 29, from 1:30–4:30 PM, The Living Library Human Story Exchange: Women’s History Month Edition will pair Black elder women with younger generations for an intimate exchange on how we made a way out of no way, what our foremothers taught us about navigating racism and power, and how joy remains a form of resistance.
This gathering is about preserving memory, honoring lived wisdom, and building the intergenerational relationships our community needs right now.
Light refreshments provided.
Bottle and Sip
Join The Black Canni Brain Trust for an interactive learning lab focused on the fastest-growing cannabis product category—infused beverages. This session blends education + demonstration so you can understand how infused drinks move from concept to consumer, whether you’re exploring beverages for personal use with friends or considering a compliant product pathway for retail.
What You’ll Learn + Experience (Hands-On Demos):
Cold-pressed juice demonstration (with or without infusion): ingredient selection, pressing workflow, bottling basics
Infusion techniques for beverages: tincture-style methods, beverage-friendly infusion formats, mixing techniques to reduce separation
Infusion measurements + dosing fundamentals: how to calculate mg per serving, batch consistency, and responsible serving guidance
How infusion works in tea + juice: education on converting cannabis into infusion inputs used in beverages (with a compliance- and safety-minded approach)
Industry insights: bottling process, sales channels, and key regulatory considerations for beverage products
Featured Guests / Facilitators:
Keith Parker - Manufacturer (Piedmont Harvest)
Michele Fuller -Independent Bottling + Sales Expert
Dominic Nell - Bottler | Urban Farmer (City Weeds)
Trevor Lawrence - Processor (Kamnisha Wellness)
Who Should Attend:
Cannabis-curious consumers, wellness explorers, legacy operators, and aspiring beverage entrepreneurs interested in learning beverage basics, dosing literacy, and market realities.
Format: Interactive discussion + live demonstrations + Q&A
Note: Educational session only. No medical or legal advice. All participants must follow local laws and age requirements.
The Black Canni is TLW’s cannabis education and convening platform that brings together Black cannabis innovators, legacy operators, consumers, healers, researchers, cultivators, and policymakers. Through immersive learning experiences, Sesh Talks, and Brain Trust-led forums, Black Canni bridges the gap between today’s cannabis market and community needs—offering practical education on benefits/risks, dosing literacy, cannabinoids/terpenes, policy and repair, and equitable pathways into the cannabis health and economic ecosystem.
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Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
High Tea: Cannabis Conversations in Today’s Weedscape
High Tea: Cannabis Conversations in Today’s Weedscape
Join us for High Tea, a social tea experience designed to spark real conversation about cannabis in today’s evolving weedscape. This gathering creates a warm, inviting space for curious consumers, seasoned enthusiasts, and those returning to cannabis after many years away to sip tea, share perspectives, and learn how the modern cannabis landscape has changed.
Today’s weed is not the weed of yesterday. From dispensary culture and product variety to strains, terpenes, potency, and intentional use, cannabis has entered a new era. High Tea offers a relaxed but elevated environment to unpack what that means for everyday people who want to make informed, comfortable, and confident choices.
Together, we’ll explore how to navigate dispensaries, understand the language of cannabis, and think more deeply about how strains, terpenes, and desired effects shape the experience. Through guided conversation, community dialogue, and a touch of luxury, this event blends social connection with practical cannabis education.
Come for the tea, stay for the conversation, and leave with a better understanding of how to move through today’s weedscape with style, clarity, and intention.
Enjoy infused tea and treats.
Breaking Free: Healing Circle for Black Men
Breaking Free Healing Circle for Black Men — Baltimore (Reactivated)
Since 2019, Breaking Free has offered a trusted, healing-centered space for Black men to speak from the inside out about life’s stressors and practice embodied tools for wellbeing. Facilitated by Dr. Henry Gregory, Clinical Psychologist, and Sensei Ausar Winkler, the circle weaves conversation with immersive martial arts and mindfulness—helping participants build emotional intelligence, reduce toxic stress, and recognize and manage trauma symptoms.
Benefits
Stronger emotional intelligence: name feelings, set boundaries, and respond (not react).
Stress reduction techniques: breathing, grounding, and movement you can use anywhere.
Trauma-informed skills: practical strategies to manage triggers and promote nervous-system regulation.
Brotherhood & accountability: a confidential circle of support led by trusted Black clinicians and teachers.
Everyday application: take-home practices to improve relationships, work focus, and overall wellbeing.
Open to Black men seeking a disciplined, compassionate path to healing and growth.
RSVP: Click on this link
Living Library Human Story Exchange
The Living Library is a next practice—not a “best practice”—for how nonprofits, individuals, and social-impact cohorts build shared knowledge, coaching, mentoring, and council. Instead of extracting information from communities, we circulate wisdom through guided “check-outs” with seasoned practitioners, culture keepers, researchers, and organizers. This living exchange pairs story with strategy: participants reflect, learn skills, and co-design actionable steps they can carry back to teams, programs, and neighborhoods.
Grounded in liberatory learning and healing-centered engagement, the Living Library transforms professional development from passive training into relational practice. It creates brave, facilitated circles where people test ideas, name power dynamics, translate data into context, and receive real-time coaching from peers and Brain Trust members. The outcome is practical: stronger leadership pipelines, more equitable decisions, and a durable network of mutual support. The Living Library is how we move from information about communities to knowledge with communities—building capacity, trust, and momentum for change.
Seeds of Repair
Black Cannabis Week Daily Dose Tour Stop
Seeds of Repair: A Reparative Justice Circle
In a reparative justice circle, truths are named, grief is acknowledged, and visioning begins for what repair looks like when those most harmed are also those shaping the solutions.
Theme: The Impact of the War on Drugs & Cannabis Industry’s Role in Repair.
Purpose: To create a safe, structured space where participants can share lived experiences, examine the systemic impact of the War on Drugs on communities of color, and co-create visions for repair using cannabis industry resources.
In this circle, social justice practitioners, legacy operators, and community members will come together to:
Bear witness to the impact of cannabis prohibition on neighborhoods, families, and futures.
Share stories and truths too often silenced.
Co-create a vision for repair that includes access, investment, and healing.
Call to Action
Repair begins with truth. By adding your voice, you help shape a shared blueprint for how cannabis industry resources and public policy can restore what was taken.
Bring your story. Bring your vision. Bring your determination to see justice done. Together, let’s plant seeds that will grow into equity, opportunity, and healing for generations to come.
The Living Well (TLW) and the Diasporic Alliance of Cannabis Opportunities (DACO) share a deep commitment to Equity, healing, and liberation through cannabis. Both organizations recognize that the War on Drugs—and the criminalization of cannabis in particular—devastated Black and Brown communities by stripping away wealth, health, housing, and opportunity. Together, we are working to ensure that the communities most harmed are the ones leading the way in building repair. For over 50 years, the War on Drugs—and in particular the criminalization of cannabis—has systematically targeted communities of color, especially Black and Brown neighborhoods. This policy era was framed as public safety but functioned as a mechanism of racial control and economic suppression, leaving lasting scars on community infrastructure, health, and generational wealth.
Sesh Talk
Join Us for Sesh Talk with Otha Smith III, Founder of Tetragram
Discover the Power of Cannabis for Healing
Are you using cannabis to manage symptoms like pain, anxiety, sleep disturbances, or appetite challenges? Learn how to tailor your experience and optimize your wellness journey with the innovative Tetragram app.
In This Session, You’ll Learn To:
✅ Understand how terpenes and flavonoids interact with your endocannabinoid system.
✅ Navigate the Tetragram app to track your cannabis use and its effects.
✅ Curate your healing journey with data-driven insights.
✅ Empower yourself with knowledge to make informed choices for optimal wellness.
Led by Otha Smith III
Otha Smith III, founder of Tetragram, will guide you through this interactive session, sharing his expertise in cannabis journaling and the science of personalized healing.
Why Attend?
Gain practical tools to enhance your cannabis experience.
Build confidence in using cannabis as a healing technology.
Connect with a community of like-minded individuals on similar wellness journeys.
📅 Date: 12/18/24
🕒 Time: 7 - 8 pm
📍 Location: Virtual
Spaces are limited, so register today to secure your spot!
The Black Canni
We look forward to seeing you at the Black Canni's Health and Hemp Edition.
WHY we curated the Black Canni
After adult-use cannabis became legal in the summer of 2023, I recognized a critical gap in our community's understanding of today’s cannabis market. The Black Canni was created to fill that void by providing education and access to knowledge about cannabis products, the endocannabinoid system, and the nuances of THC and CBD.
For many, the legalization has been a gateway to curiosity, but without the proper information, it's easy to get lost in a market overflowing with products and misinformation. The Black Canni is not just about cannabis; it's about community empowerment. We’re providing resources, mentorship, and conversations that address both the benefits and potential risks, fostering a space where our community can make informed decisions. This is more than an event; it’s a movement to ensure we aren’t left behind in the evolving cannabis landscape.
From understanding the science behind the plant to navigating market access, The Black Canni stands as a beacon for education, equity, and opportunity. Join us as we elevate our knowledge and reclaim our legacy in this industry.
#TheBlackCanni #CannabisEducation #CommunityEmpowerment
Facilitating Data - Driven REDI
Location: Baltimore Unity Hall
With a standard in place that defines and identifies what it means to be diverse, equitable and inclusive it becomes possible to measure diversity, equity and inclusion in a company, understand that company’s “level” of diversity, equity and inclusion against the standard and drive measurable and methodical results - i.e. make the company more diverse, equitable and inclusive over time. This requires data skills on the part of the facilitator and leaders in the company. This session will introduce participants to a new measurement system and tool for diversity, equity and inclusion, and methods for understanding decision funnels in companies that can be analyzed and utilized to drive improvements.
Dismantling the Myth of White Supremacy at Work
The Myth of White Supremacy is centered in every aspect of workplace culture, interpersonally and structurally. It is not just the water in which we all exist; it is an anti-oppressive decision point that one ultimately decides to make or not to make. Dismantling the myth of white supremacy in work environments requires individuals, communities, and organizations to understand the stakes and range of possibilities of either choice. This session will explore the tactics used to promote the myth of white supremacy culture, including supervisory styles, communication practices, competitive environments, and performance reviews. Participants will engage in experiential processes that uncover the operating norms, as well as, uncover strategies to dismantle operational practices, policies, and procedures that reinforce and burden internal and external stakeholders.
Collaboration over Competition
Capitalism is baked into institutions’ operating norms. Disrupting Eurocentric ethos of rugged individualism, scarcity and competitiveness in the Black social uplift space is important to our collective movement and sustainability. Dismantling social determinants of health will require the disruption of silos that further reinforce competition over collective impact and outcomes. To embrace the principles of Ubuntu (I am because we are) is to begin to unlearn the principles of bootstrapping. Participants will learn how to incorporate the principles of Ubuntu, create and deepen partnerships and collaborations, and identify tools to interact with those who have not embraced the principles of Ubuntu.
The Future of Black Love: A Visual Healing Arts Renaissance with Saddi Khali
A visual exhibit centered around images from Saddi Khali’s “Soft, Sensual and Seen” Photography Tour designed to stimulate illuminating conversations and collective healing of Black Love.
Scored by the music of DJ Spirulina Green. Come “Love Every Angle” and revel in the beauty of Black Love.
Interior Design Principles for Trauma-Exposed Publics
The work environment can promote productivity and a healing space for those who work in trauma-exposed environments. Often, social health practitioners are exposed to vicarious trauma as a result of working with community members who are experiencing chronic and compound stress. The interior composition of a client serving environment can further induce toxic stress. This session will explore how the positioning of furniture in the workplace, color pallets, art, lighting, plants, sound and ergonomics can reduce stress for both provider and client. Participants will learn trauma informed design principles that promote wellness and biophilia in the workplace.
Healing the DEI Officers
Facilitating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives should/must confront the history and apparatus of racism. DEI practitioners’ bodies become the container for the resistance of shifting power dynamics. The DEI arena consists of practitioners who were promoted to often ambiguous positions without the benefit of committed leadership and the authority to move the needle of racial equity in policy and practice. This session will explore the restraining forces that take a toll on the economic, emotional, mental well-being of practitioners, and ultimately resulting in physical health challenges and a diminished quality of work life. Participants will share strategies to cope in toxic environments and will learn ways to leverage healing technologies in the moment to develop a practice of self-care in the workplace.