Former Surgeon General, Sitting Congressmen Talked Cannabis at the ICBC

Dr. Joycelyn Elders, our nation’s first African American Surgeon General was the keynote address this morning at the International Cannabis Business Conference (ICB) and Congressmen Earl Blumenauer and Dana Rohrabacher followed her. Having Elders and two sitting Congressmen speak helped provide an overview of how far the United States has come nationally, where we are now, and where we are heading in the near future.

I was honored to introduce Dr. Joycelyn Elders, thanking her for being a pioneer on drug policy that dates back to 1993 when she called upon the United States to study ending the Drug War. The current U.S. Surgeon General recently announced that our nation will do a comprehensive study of our drug laws and this wouldn’t have happened if Elders wasn’t so outspoken more than two decades ago. Elders endorsed California Proposition 19 in 2010, before it was politically expedient to support marijuana legalization. While...

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