Kava & Cannabis Indigenous Pilot Program
The pilot explores how kava, hemp, cannabis research literacy, agriculture, heritage, and community development can be approached with cultural respect, scientific integrity, and clear legal boundaries.
Four operating lanes
- Community education: history, botany, cultural protocol, public-health information, safety, and responsible conversation.
- Research readiness: qualified investigators, protocols, consent, privacy, laboratory quality, peer review, and regulatory approvals.
- Lawful commerce: only goods and services permitted for the specific entity, premises, customer, payment provider, and destination.
- Clinical care: only through licensed professionals and authorized settings; the website does not provide treatment.
Why kava and cannabis are not interchangeable
Kava and cannabis have different histories, pharmacology, legal classifications, risks, product standards, and cultural contexts. The platform should never collapse them into a generic “natural medicine” claim. Each receives separate safety, sourcing, evidence, and compliance review.
Community participation
Growers, cultural stewards, researchers, laboratories, clinicians, veterans, recovery professionals, churches, and public agencies can submit partnership inquiries for review. No submission authorizes regulated activity.
Connect with the program
If you would like to get involved, tell us what interests you and how we can follow up. Do not submit medical records, government identity documents, confidential research protocols, or other highly sensitive information through a public website form.
Kava & Cannabis Pilot Inquiry — Public Pre-Screen
This first step collects only the minimum information needed for human review. Do not submit medical records, government ID, passwords, payment-card data, confidential protocols, or controlled-substance transfer details.
How a pathway moves from idea to responsible pilot
- Community listening: define the need with participants, families, cultural reviewers, service providers, employers, and the people expected to do the work.
- Readiness: identify a lawful site, qualified supervision, safeguarding, accessibility, insurance, transportation, emergency procedures, data practices, and a realistic budget.
- Small cohort: begin with measurable activities and documented learning goals rather than promising outcomes that have not been demonstrated.
- Evaluation: review attendance, safety, skill completion, participant experience, referrals, next-step placement, and unintended harms.
- Expansion: grow only after the pilot has evidence, community support, staffing, funding, and corrective actions.
Participants may receive education, mentoring, peer support, referrals, and workforce exposure. The exact service offered depends on the approved operator and does not replace clinical care, legal advice, disability services, or licensed substance-use treatment.
Come back for new stories, ideas and opportunities
As the work develops, we hope to share field notes, interviews, workshops, corrected information, new opportunities and progress updates. Each update should show its source or reviewer, publication date, and next review date when the subject is sensitive or changeable.
Visitors can subscribe or become members for approved updates, but the platform should not use urgency, fear, medical promises, or cultural access as pressure to pay.
Frequently asked questions
Does applying guarantee enrollment?
No. Applications are reviewed against program readiness, eligibility, safety, capacity, funding, referral, and supervision requirements.
Does the program replace treatment?
No. Education, land-based activity, mentoring, and navigation can complement—but do not replace—licensed medical, psychiatric, disability, legal, or substance-use services.
How are outcomes measured?
Measures are selected for the actual pilot and may include attendance, competencies, safety, participant feedback, completion, referrals, placement, service, and leadership progress.