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Steve DeAngelo

Steve DeAngelo is a pioneering cannabis entrepreneur, activist, author, and on-screen personality. He co-founded several iconic cannabis businesses and organizations: Harborside, one of the first six dispensaries licensed in the US; Steep Hill Laboratory, the first dedicated cannabis lab; the Arc View Group, the first cannabis investment firm; and the National Cannabis Industry Association, the industry’s first trade association. He currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of Harborside Inc., a vertically integrated California cannabis company.

In recognition of these pioneering accomplishments, in 2015, former Speaker of the California Assembly and Mayor of San Francisco, the Hon. Willie L. Brown Jr. called Steve, “Father of the Legal Cannabis Industry.”

Steve’s creative projects include a book, The Cannabis Manifesto and a Discovery Channel mini-series, Weed Wars. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements.

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Grass Roots America Magazine - Summer 2020 - Black Lives Matter
Grass Roots America Magazine - Summer 2020 - Black Lives Matter
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'It's Not Easy Doing Time in Here': Michael Thompson Shouldn't Die in Jail for Pot Crimes
'It's Not Easy Doing Time in Here': Michael Thompson Shouldn't Die in Jail for Pot Crimes

Michael Thompson is serving a 40- to 60-year sentence for a pot crime in a state where both recreational and medicinal marijuana is currently legal. Please read the full article and learn how to get involved and make an impact. Let’s get this man home.

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A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze
A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze

The cure-all debate over the cannabis compound has distracted from the serious — and seriously odd — back story of how cannabidiol conquered the country.

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Radio Free Cannabis

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Global Hemp Day Keynote
Global Hemp Day Keynote
Radio Free Cannabis #4 - Life Behind Bars
Radio Free Cannabis #4 - Life Behind Bars
Radio Free Cannabis #3 - Black People & Global Cannabis Culture
Radio Free Cannabis #3 - Black People & Global Cannabis Culture

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Wherever in the world I am, my tribe is there. This is the moment when @jim_belushi found me after hearing me speak to over 100K cannabis warriors! Where in the world will we cross paths next on our pursuit to freedom?!?!
Welcome to The Cannabis Experience Colombia. My first TCR presentation outside the U.S. and I couldn’t be more proud to deliver it in Bogotá. The Cannabis Renaissance is a global phenomenon and with more wide spread acceptance; even in

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Grass Roots America Magazine - Summer 2020 - Black Lives Matter
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Oxford Union Debate
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There are some drugs it may be wise to say no to, but cannabis is not one of them.

Alcohol for example—it’s responsible for around 10% of disease and deaths in the UK, and for social harms on the order of 20 billion pounds/year.

Tobacco is another. The NHS estimates almost 20% of all deaths aged 35 and over were caused by tobacco.

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Harborside Responds to U.S. Tax Court 280E Ruling
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“We waited more than six years to get our case to trial, and another two and a half years to get a trial court decision—and we are completely prepared to pursue this case, legally and politically, for as many more years as it takes us to get justice.”

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