Traditional Naturopath &
Clinical Herbalist
Dr. Lakisha Jenkins-Samuels
Where traditional medicine meets drug discovery.
Dr. Lakisha Jenkins-Samuels, Ph.D., RH (AHG), is a Traditional Naturopath, Clinical Herbalist, and research scientist working in pharmacognosy, botanical drug discovery, and endocannabinoid system research.
Founder & President,
Kiona Foundation
Kiona Foundation
Principal Investigator,
ECS Research Protocol
ECS Research Protocol
Administrative Director;
Main Representative to the United Nations,
EABICCS
Main Representative to the United Nations,
EABICCS
Chair,
TGR Holdings LTD
TGR Holdings LTD
Direct answer
Who is Dr. Lakisha Jenkins-Samuels?
Dr. Lakisha Jenkins-Samuels, Ph.D., RH (AHG), is a Traditional Naturopath, Clinical Herbalist, and research scientist. Her work focuses on pharmacognosy, botanical drug discovery, endocannabinoid system research, scientific consulting, public policy, education, and nonprofit leadership.
Is Dr. Lakisha® the same person as Dr. Lakisha Jenkins-Samuels?
Yes. Dr. Lakisha® is the federally registered mark and professional brand used by Dr. Lakisha Jenkins-Samuels, Ph.D., RH (AHG). She also appears publicly as Dr. Lakisha Jenkins. All three names refer to the same person.
What does Dr. Lakisha® do?
She connects traditional botanical knowledge with modern evidence through research, scientific consulting, education, public policy, and nonprofit leadership. She is Founder and President of the Kiona Foundation and Principal Investigator named in its prepared endocannabinoid research protocol.
Does Dr. Lakisha® provide medical treatment?
No. Dr. Lakisha® does not provide individualized medical treatment or patient care through this website. The website provides education and professional information, not medical advice, diagnosis, or a promise of outcome.
Welcome
Meet Dr. Lakisha®.
An introduction, and a gift: The Living Materia Medica, free.
The Work
A global botanical research and healing ecosystem.
Pharmacognosy connects knowledge of natural sources with modern botanical drug discovery. Dr. Lakisha® brings that approach to research, formulation, scientific consulting and public policy. Cannabis is a botanical case study within the work. Psychedelic-related engagements require attention to the particular compound, evidence, community and regulatory context, not an assumption that every psychedelic is botanical.
The Mark
What Dr. Lakisha® means.
Dr. Lakisha® tells you who stands behind the work.
Across the laboratory, the field, the policy table, and the page, the through-line is the one my grandfather handed me. Botanical knowledge is medicine. It belongs to the people.
Cannabis is a botanical case study within the work. The method does not stop at one plant.
Read what the mark meansThree Thresholds
Three ways in, three levels of access.
The work opens in thresholds. The first is open to everyone. The second is held for members. The third is by invitation only.
New here? Start with Open Access. It is the public work, open to all.
Salt
Open Access
Dr. Lakisha®
The public professional profile. Pharmacognosy, botanical drug discovery, the FDA development framework, scientific and policy consulting, public testimony, and research questions. The research page distinguishes the Foundation's prepared protocol from current approval, enrollment and results. Open to everyone.
Enter the public work Sulfur MembershipThe Alkemist Mother
The origin arc. Grief, loss, and the transmutation of both into the work. Grief-informed writing, mentorship, and the fuller story, opened through membership.
About membership Mercury By InvitationThe Dutchess
The most private threshold. Spiritual work and closed circles, held by invitation only.
Request access“She has known the death of a child and built rather than broke. She made grief into infrastructure.The Work Behind the Foundation →
Where traditional medicine meets drug discovery.
You architect the questions worth asking. The research, the writing, and the collaborations follow from there.
Public testimony
At the FDA public hearing
Watch my September 14 testimony on the potential future therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs, in the full official record.
Watch the testimonyFor continuing parents
Paralunae
When your child dies, your love and your parenthood do not end. Paralunae is a place for the parent you remain: words for what you are carrying, a gentle guide for the first days, and ways to reach human support. Come as you are, whenever you are ready.
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