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Anthony, James
Clark, James
Conrad, Chris
Ereneta, Joey
Figueroa, Omar
Gilmore, Chad
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Lee, Richard
Raich, Robert
Rosenthal, Ed
Zalkin, Sara
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Richard Lee
Oaksterdam University President
Horticulture Professor
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Richard Lee has been working to end cannabis prohibition for 17 years. In 1992 he co-founded Legal Marijuana - The Hemp Store in Houston, Texas, one of the first hemp products retail outlets in the United States. Lee moved to Oakland in 1997 and co-founded the Hemp Research Company, supplying cannabis to the Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Club and researching efficient and environmentally friendly cannabis horticulture. In 1999, he opened the Bulldog Coffeeshop, the second cannabis outlet in "Oaksterdam". In 2003 Lee founded the Oakland Civil Liberties Alliance, the PAC that passed Oakland's Measure Z making private sales, cultivation, and possession of cannabis the lowest law enforcement priority and mandating that Oakland tax and regulate cannabis as soon as possible under state law.
From 2005 to 2007, Lee published the Oaksterdam News quarterly newspaper with a circulation of over 100,000. In 2007, he founded the first cannabis college in the United States, Oaksterdam University. In 2008 he funded the startup of the monthly magazine West Coast Cannabis, current circulation 30,000. Since 2005, Lee has been serving on the City of Oakland Cannabis Regulation and Revenue Ordinance Commission, which was created after Measure Z passed with 65% of the vote 2004. He manages several other Oaksterdam companies, including the Oaksterdam Gift Shop and Nursery. His dedication to ending cannabis prohibition continues to play a crucial role in the revitalization and economic growth of Oakland.
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Robert Raich
Cannabusiness
History of Cannabis
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Robert A. Raich practices law in Oakland, California, where he specializes in medical cannabis law, business law, political law, and lobbying. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Texas School of Law, he previously practiced law with Eber, Nakagawa & Kitajo in San Francisco and with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Raich has spoken across the United States and internationally on the regulation of medical cannabis. He was the attorney in both of the U.S. Supreme Court cases ever to consider medical cannabis issues, United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, 532 U.S. 483 (2001), and Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005). Mr. Raich was a member of the California Attorney General's Medical Marijuana Task Force (Chairman, Caregiver Issues Subcommittee), and he has taught classes on medical cannabis to cadets at the Oakland Police Department's Police Academy. He has appeared before dozens of tribunals throughout the country, lobbying with respect to medical cannabis legislation and litigating medical cannabis cases.
Before practicing law, Mr. Raich served as a staff member in the United States Senate and the Texas House of Representatives, served in various positions in presidential and senatorial election campaigns, was a public opinion survey analyst, and worked as a television sound and camera technician and as a radio reporter. He was the publisher of an art journal, and served on a U.S. Department of Transportation Advisory Committee.
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Chris Conrad
History of Cannabis
Politics of Cannabis
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Chris Conrad is a court-qualified expert witness on cannabis (marijuana) who has testified more than 175 times in state, military and federal courts. He is also expert on industrial hemp, religious and medical cannabis use. A curator of the Hash-Marijuana-Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, he grew and processed cannabis legally in Europe and worked at the famous Cannabis Castle.
He is author of Hemp: Lifeline to the Future, Shattered Lives: Portraits From America's Drug War, and other books. His groundbreaking book on medical marijuana, Hemp for Health, has been translated into six languages and published in Argentina under the title Cannabis para la Salud. His latest booklet, Cannabis Yields and Dosage, explains basic principles of cultivation and consumption of medical marijuana as well as the legal issues. He presented this research at the Fifth International Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics in 2008.
He and his wife Mikki Norris were volunteer coordinators for California's Proposition 215 that legalized medical marijuana in 1996, and cofounders of Human Rights and the Drug War. He has worked with legal medical marijuana patients, caregivers and support groups; consults regularly with doctors, attorneys and legislators; and directs Safe Access Now www.safeaccessnow.net. Conrad was cofounder and first president of the Hemp Industries Association, editor of Oaksterdam News from 2005 to 2007.
Conrad is currently publisher of the West Coast Leaf newspaper, political science instructor at Oaksterdam University, and a legal consultant. You can contact him via www.chrisconrad.com and get links to his books and other sites from there.
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James Clark
Legal Issues
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A Graduate of the University of Houston, with Bachelors degrees in Political Science and Anthropology, and the University of Colorado School of Law, Mr. Clark's practice focuses on criminal defense for the victims of the "War on Drugs."
Court Admissions: Mr. Clark is admitted to practice in all California State and Federal Courts.
Significant Example Cases
Eddy Lepp; People v. John Barlow; People v. Chan, et al. (San Francisco Medical Marijuana Dispensary). Numerous narcotics, marijuana, medical marijuana, marijuana DUI, and protest/civil disobedience cases. Has obtained several court orders requiring law enforcement officials to return medical marijuana seized from his clients.
"The government's unconstitutional "War on Drugs" will ultimately suffer the same demise as other totalitarian regimes. However, until then, know your rights and stand up for them!" - James J. Clark -
Pier 5 Law Offices
(415) 986-5591
james.clark@colorado.edu
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Sara Zalkin
Legal Issues
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A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, for Liberal Arts, Philosophy and Psychology, and the University of California Hastings School of Law, Ms. Zalkin practices strictly criminal defense. Many of Ms. Zalkin's cases involve marijuana, often in the context of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.
Court Admissions: Ms. Zalkin is admitted to all California State Courts, the Federal Courts of the Northern and Eastern Districts of California, and has previously been admitted to practice pro hac vice in the Nevada State Courts.
Ms. Zalkin is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Pier 5 Law Offices
(415) 986-5591
cannabis.counsel@gmail.com
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Joey Ereneta
Horticulture
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Joey began his work with medical cannabis in 1994 while attending U.C. Berkeley. A budding cultivator and harm reduction activist, he collaborated with the folks at Cannabis Action Network, who were providing underground care to local medical patients. Throughout the years of local and statewide political involvement, Joey worked as a health and wellness educator with the Gay Men's Health Collective of the Berkeley Free Clinic; UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies; LYRiC, an LGBT youth center in San Francisco; and at the Harm Reduction Coalition in Oakland. During this time he worked under the tutelage of many talented Bay Area cannabis cultivators and caregivers. In recent years, he has been a consultant for individuals and small patient cooperatives in California. Joey feels blessed to be part of the Oaksterdam family, and is thrilled to be passing on much of what he has learned along the way.
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Chad Gilmore
Concentrates
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Chad got involved in 2002 when he came to work at the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative. He has focused his efforts on advocating information and education to patients. Chad is on the Board of Directors and manages the hemp store containing healthy assimilation devices growing tools as well as accessory items all focused to be made of hemp. Chad works with the Medical Cannabis Association; a trade organization to help network organizations and groups all focused on providing safe and healthy cannabis to patients. Chad graduated with an business accounting background but has aways been into sciences of chemistry and physics. In his spare time, he enjoys playing competitive tennis and teaching college students. When he has a little extra time to play he turns to surfing, skydiving, scuba diving, and rock climbing always gets the heart pumping.
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Ed Rosenthal
Horticulture
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"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 authority on marijuana. He has studied and written about the plant for more than 35 years. His books cover gardening, law and social policy, and have cumulatively sold over two million copies. Rosenthal is a member of the International Cannabinoid Research Society and the Garden Writers Association of America, and has served as an expert witness on marijuana cultivation in federal and state trials. Rosenthal has also been active in promoting and developing policies of civil regulation for medical marijuana. With the passage of California's pioneering Prop 215 in 1996, which authorizes medicinal use of marijuana, he was deputized by the city of Oakland, CA to provide pharmaceutical grade cannabis to patients. His best-selling titles include; Medical Marijuana Handbook, Marijuana Garden Saver, Best of Ask Ed, and Marijuana Grower's Handbook, among others.
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