For decades, veterans returning home from service have faced a wellness conversation built around one default: prescription painkillers. The cost — in dependency, in lives, in families — has been documented again and again. Yet the alternatives have stayed in the margins.

Plant medicine is one of those alternatives. Not a replacement for medical care. Not a silver bullet. But a real, researched, increasingly available option that many veterans say has changed their recovery — and that many more haven’t been given the chance to learn about in a setting they trust.

Operation Green Wellness exists to close that gap. Not as a sales event. Not as a trade show. As a professional, stigma-free educational expo where veterans can meet practitioners, ask questions, hear from peers, and walk out with the information they need to decide what’s right for them.