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How to navigate ethical conflicts in collaborative herbal businesses

My best friend and I started a small herbal business together, combining my wildcrafting knowledge with her clinical training, but we're realizing we have completely different ethics around harvesting, pricing, and who should have access to plant medicine, and these aren't just business disagreements — they're challenging our entire friendship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When plant medicine becomes commerce, deeper questions about access, sustainability, and values surface between partners who thought they were aligned.

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“Where Are You with Herbal medicine across traditions?”

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