Bruce Margolin is a prominent Los Angeles-based attorney who has successfully defended more cannabis cases than probably any other attorney in the country. Since 1973, Bruce has served as director...
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David Goldman
David has been a medical cannabis patient activist and law reform advocate for over 10 years and has taught high school mathematics for 34 years. From 2008 through 2013, he was the chair of San...
Chris Conrad
Chris Conrad is a court-qualified expert witness on cannabis (marijuana) who has testified more than 200 times in state, military and federal courts. He is also expert on industrial hemp, religious...
Chad Gilmore
Chad got involved in 2002 when he came to work at the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative (OCBC). Chad is on the Board of Directors for the OCBC, now known as The Patient ID Center. Chad manages the...
Kyle Kushman
Kyle Kushman is an internationally renowned marijuana cultivator whose collaborations have earned 13 Medical Cannabis Cups awards, including three US Cannabis Cups for Best Flowers. All awards were...
Richard Lee
Richard Lee has been working to end cannabis prohibition for 20 years. In 1992 he co-founded Legal Marijuana – The Hemp Store in Houston, Texas, one of the first hemp products retail outlets in the...
Dave McCullick
RIP A US Navy Veteran, Dave opened his first dispensary called D&M Compassion Center in 2005. In 2008, Dave opened Sonoma Patient Group in Santa Rosa and sold D&M Compassion Center. Dave...
Sandy Moriarty
Everyone knows about pot brownies, but not many know how to make them… and brownies are so old-school. Aunt Sandy has perfected more than 30 cannabis-infused recipes using her family’s favorite...
Michael “Big Mike” Parker
Rest in Peace, Big Mike! Big Mike is steeped in the legacy and tradition not just of Oaksterdam University, but the American cannabis cultivation movement lauding from the radical 1960s- 1970s...
Ed Rosenthal, Emeritus
Mr. Rosenthal is the pothead’s answer to Ann Landers, Judge Judy, Martha Stewart and the Burpee Garden Wizard all in one.” –NY Times January 2003. Ed Rosenthal is recognized worldwide as an...
Mike Whitty
Professor Mike Whitty has taught at the OU in Ann Arbor, Michigan and in Oakland, California. Mike also teaches drug policy and advocacy at the University of Michigan and global trends at...