Cultivating Conscious Relationship with Cannabis

Cultivating Conscious Relationship with Cannabis
Wednesday, September 30, 6:30–9:00pm
The Emerald Dispensary – 85 Suydam St, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$30 · tickets: https://www.bps.community/event-details/conscious-cannabis

Cannabis education talks endlessly about set and setting. It says almost nothing about the third thing that shapes an experience: skill.

Most guidance stops at dose and product. Far less attention goes to the quality of the relationship itself — whether we meet cannabis through habit, avoidance, and dependence, or through respect, discernment, and reciprocity. That relationship isn't fixed. It can be practiced.

This pilot group draws on relationship psychology, harm reduction, sacred plant traditions, and contemplative practice to explore what an active alliance with a teacher plant looks like, as against passive consumption.

We'll look at your current connection with cannabis; the signs of healthy and unhealthy patterns; power dynamics, attachment, and the difference between using and partnering; and how ritual, intention, and integration work in ordinary life. The through-line: a healthier relationship with cannabis tends to deepen your relationships with yourself, with others, and with the living world.

This is a Brooklyn Psychedelic Society event, facilitated by Logina Mostafa and Cate Jester. The Psychedelic Yoga Research Collective joins in a supporting role — I'll be leading a somatic awareness practice as part of the evening.

No cannabis is provided or consumed at this event. It is a reflection, sharing, and community group with a healthy dose of humor. It is not psychotherapy, and it does not promote or encourage cannabis use.
A pilot. Participants will be invited to give feedback that shapes where this goes next.