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Carlos “Los” Arias, J.D.

Co-Founder & CEO

Green Horizons

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Green Horizons.

Carlos “Los” Arias, J.D., is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Green Horizons, a $61M cannabis venture that encompasses a ~1M sq. ft. cultivation and CPG campus in Coachella, California, in partnership with Tommy Hilfiger’s Star Branding Entertainment. The company commences operations on its first 101,787 sq. ft. facility in Fall 2023.

A cancer survivor, Arias’s mission in life is to impact the planet as an advocate for natural medicine and optimized wellness. Arias is a graduate of Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, and moreover has trained with multiple plant and amphibian medicine modalities in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Africa.

Arias’s core modalities are cannabis, Ayahuasca, Kambo, 5-MeO-DMT (Sonoran Desert Toad and Phalaris Grass), Psilocybin, and Peyote. As a result of his lifelong interest in natural medicine and the socio-political issues associated with plant prohibition, Arias focuses his professional energy on the regulated cannabis and emerging psychedelics and wellness sectors.

Arias is an investor and partner at Psychedelics Today, the planetary leader in psychedelic education, media and advocacy. Psychedelics Today has the largest global reach of any media platform in the modern psychedelic realm.

Arias is also an investor and partner at OmniStem, a mesenchymal stem cells and exosomes focused biotech firm, based in Latin America.