The man is a legend in the cannabis world after more than a four-decade struggle on the front lines of the movement to legalize cannabis. Steve is an author, teacher, investor, and entrepreneur. He co-founded Harborside, one of the first dispensaries licensed In the United States that’s now a publicly traded company on the Canadian Securities Exchange. It’s been a lifetime of impressive achievements for Steve and probably none more important than his work as a founding member of The Last Prisoner Project. The image you see here is a quote from Steve in our new weed e-book: Cannabis: The Untold Story of our Greatest Plant.

He played a key role in the passage of Initiative 59, Washington DC’s medical cannabis law; the passage of Prop 64, California’s adult-use law, and successfully defended multiple legal attempts by US federal authorities to shutter the doors of Harborside. His media projects include the starring role in Weed Wars, the first cannabis-oriented reality TV show, produced by the Discovery Channel in 2011; an online TV show, Ask Steve DeAngelo, available on Green-Flower.com; and extensive appearances on major media outlets including CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CNBC, and The New York Times. The image to the right is a page with a quote from Steve from our new e-book: Cannabis: The Untold Story of our Greatest Plant by Mark NIchols, available on Apple and Amazon. www.thecannabisbook.net

WE are not the only ones singing his praises. Steve was one of the first two recipients of the 2015 High Times Lester Grinspoon High Times Lifetime Achievement Award and was named one of the most influential people and “gatekeeper of the industry” in 2015 by the International Business Times. In 2016 he was named one of the seven “Most Powerful People” in America’s cannabis industry by Fortune. Most recently, he was honored with the Peter Tosh Equal Rights Award and inducted into the Marijuana Business Daily Hall of Fame.

Check out this article Steve wrote for The Last Prisoner Project blog explaining the current turmoil occuring in the cannabis world. It’s a complicated topic and Steve’s analysis is more accurate and understandable than anything else we’ve seen.

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