Collaboration
Work With Dr. Lakisha®
Pharmacognosy-led consulting, and botanical formulation for personal and commercial use. Scientific consulting covers botanical discovery, Cannabis and psychedelic businesses, and public-policy questions. Speaking, teaching, and apprenticeship offer separate ways to engage. Each begins with a clear question and an agreed scope.
Industry and Scientific Consulting
Scientific and business-facing advisory for botanical, Cannabis, endocannabinoid, and psychedelic programs. Work can address evidence appraisal, research planning, development strategy, and scientific policy framing. Commercial consulting is contracted through TGR Holdings LTD.
Explore consultingBotanical Formulation
Formulation for one person's own use, and formulation through manufacturing and distribution for commercial products. Topicals, capsules, and tinctures. Contracted with Dr. Lakisha®.
Explore formulationSpeaking and Lectures
Talks and lectures for institutional, academic, policy, and industry audiences on botanical drug discovery, the FDA Botanical Drug Development pathway, endocannabinoid system education, and building equitable, evidence-generating health infrastructure.
Invite Dr. Lakisha® to speakApprenticeship
A whole-being study of herbalism for serious students, offered in tiers. The apprenticeship pairs clinical and botanical study with a service practicum, so that learning and service move together.
Explore the apprenticeshipEducation
Endocannabinoid system education, webinars, and clinical guidance frameworks written for practitioners and informed readers. Structured to build understanding rather than to sell a product.
See the writings and frameworksThis site does not offer individual patient consultations, diagnosis, treatment, legal representation, regulatory approval, or a promise of outcome. Personal formulations are herbal preparations, not medical treatment. Commercial engagements are separate from Foundation donations.
Consulting
Scientific and industry advisory.
Scientific and business-facing advisory for botanical, Cannabis, endocannabinoid, and psychedelic programs. Work can address evidence appraisal, research planning, development strategy, and scientific policy framing. Commercial consulting is contracted through TGR Holdings LTD.
Research and Study Design
Clarifying the research question, proposed population, evidence gaps, and protocol-development needs. Deliverables are scoped with your team; advisory does not replace independent ethical review or authorize recruitment.
Botanical Drug Development Strategy
Assessing botanical identity, characterization, evidence, and development questions against FDA's botanical drug guidance. The output is an evidence and development strategy, not a guarantee of an IND, approval, or clinical effectiveness.
Regulatory and Evidence Framing
Scientific and public-policy guidance connecting evidence to regulatory and policy questions. Work may include an evidence brief, scientific-claims review, or policy-facing analysis. Legal opinions, representation, and jurisdiction-specific legal compliance require qualified counsel.
Endocannabinoid and Pharmacognosy Advisory
Scientific advisory on endocannabinoid system modulation, botanical constituents, and the translation of plant knowledge into defensible, evidence-based claims.
Program and Ecosystem Architecture
Building the infrastructure around the science: partnerships, program design, and the equity framework that gives the work its purpose.
Who it serves
Botanical developers, Cannabis and psychedelic businesses, universities, research institutions, nonprofits, funders, and policy bodies. Psychedelic work is scoped to the relevant scientific or policy question; synthetic and isolated compounds are not automatically botanical products.
How engagements work
Begin with a conversation about your materials, development stage, jurisdiction, intended decision, and desired output. Scope, deliverables, confidentiality, fees, and terms are agreed in writing through TGR Holdings LTD. No treatment, legal representation, approval guarantee, or unrestricted access to proprietary formulations is included.
Formulation
Dr. Lakisha® Botanical Formulation and Product Development.
There are two services. Personal formulation is prepared for one person's own use. Commercial formulation carries a product toward manufacturing and distribution. Both begin with plant identity, preparation, and evidence. I accept four formulation projects each quarter. Formulation engagements are contracted with Dr. Lakisha®.
Personal Use
I formulate and prepare a botanical blend for one person's own use. Each blend is an herbal and nutritional preparation. It is not medical treatment. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease, and it does not replace care from a licensed clinician. Personal formulations are not for resale.
Commercial Use
For organizations bringing a botanical or phytocannabinoid product to market. I formulate the product and work through the regulatory structure for manufacturing and distribution. The work can cover specifications, quality and testing requirements, manufacturer or facility fit, packaging, and production review.
Product Forms
Topicals, capsules, and tinctures.
How do formulation engagements work?
Each engagement begins with the intended product, the person or market it serves, the jurisdiction, and the development stage. Before commercial manufacturing begins, the written engagement names the product category, the manufacturer or facility, responsibilities, testing, packaging, commercial terms, intellectual-property ownership, confidentiality, and permitted use. No FDA approval, market authorization, production result, or commercial outcome is guaranteed.
Speaking
Book Dr. Lakisha® to speak.
For universities, funders, conferences, policy bodies, and industry convenings. Dr. Lakisha® translates rigorous science for the room in front of her, without diluting it, and frames it with the equity case that gives it purpose.
Recent platforms include advocacy meetings on Capitol Hill, the United Nations, the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and international conferences.
Signature Topics
Novel botanical drug discovery and pharmacognosy; the FDA Botanical Drug Development pathway; the endocannabinoid system, explained; feeding the endocannabinoid system through nutrition; equity as the standard in botanical medicine; and Cannabis as a case study in the science.
Formats
Keynote, panel and moderated discussion, academic guest lecture, workshop or masterclass, fireside conversation, and expert media commentary. Available in person and virtually.
Audiences
Scientific and academic, industry and professional, policy and regulatory, nonprofit and community, and health practitioners and educators.
What Audiences Take Away
A rigorous, plain-spoken understanding of the endocannabinoid system and botanical drug discovery, free of hype, grounded in evidence, and framed by the equity case that gives the science its purpose.
The Apprenticeship
A whole-being study of herbalism.
The apprenticeship is a whole-being study of herbalism: botanical knowledge, clinical skill, and personal formation held together. It is offered in three tiers, each building on the one before it. Learning and service move together: each tier includes a service practicum, applied work that serves the community and the mission as part of the study itself. Apprentices are also welcome, though never required, to support the Kiona Foundation, and a pay-it-forward fund helps keep the path open to aligned students.
Tier One: Foundations
Botanical literacy, the plants and their preparation, and the grounding principles of the work. For those beginning a serious study.
Tier Two: Practice
Clinical and formulation study, case-based learning, and supervised application. For those ready to move from knowledge to practice.
Tier Three: Mentorship
Close mentorship, independent project work, and integration into the wider work. For those committed to carrying it forward.
Format
Each tier includes a private monthly mentorship session with Dr. Lakisha®, assigned readings, case-study reviews, an apprenticeship project, observation of clinical work in Dr. Lakisha®'s practice setting with each person's consent and privacy protected, and written reflections.
What you earn
A certificate that records your completed apprenticeship hours at each tier. It is not a license or a credential to practice. Apprentices also join a lasting community of the work.
Expectations
Regular study and practice, reflective work, a service practicum in each tier, and completion of each tier before advancing to the next.
Duration
Each tier runs one season of study. Dates are set at acceptance.
How to apply
The path begins with an inquiry, followed by a conversation to assess fit, then acceptance into the tier that meets the apprentice where they are. Tier pricing is shared privately with accepted applicants.
Professional certification
Beyond the apprenticeship, a professional certification track in the clinical botanical and endocannabinoid model is available by request or invitation. Certification records training completed with Dr. Lakisha®. It is not a state license.
Have a collaboration in mind?
Tell me what you are building. The right engagements start with a clear question.