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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Paul Stanford: 40-Year Cannabis Activist Reflects on Legalization 🌿Paul Stanford: 40-Year Cannabis Activist Reflects on Legalization
Paul Stanford first tried cannabis when he was just 11-years-old. The year was 1971 and he was in his babysitter’s basement in Dallas, Texas. The offending “pusher” was the babysitter’s son, a 26-year-old who had just returned home from serving in the Vietnam War. Stanford didn’t start using cannabis regularly until he was 13 and able to scrape together $110 to buy his first pound. His intent at the time was to make a little extra money while stocking his own stash. He lost money on that first buy but a budding infatuation for the cannabis plant was sparked inside him. At 17 he moved to North Carolina and began selling cannabis and turning a profit.
Today, Stanford runs one of the nation’s largest and longest-running cannabis recommendation clinics, The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation (THCF aka Empower Clinics), which has registered over a quarter-million patients in 12 states since 1999....
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