Cannabis Conference Blends Activism and Business

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“This is a freedom issue,” said Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher speaking about the social injustice of cannabis prohibition to a rousing crowd at the International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) in San Francisco February 13-14. One of many legitimate gatherings to be held in the rapidly maturing marijuana industry, the ICBC brought together the interdependent players of activism and business to discuss the pending future of cannabis legalization at home and abroad.

“We are so much out of sync with what our founding fathers intended,” said the libertarian-leaning Rep. Rohrabacher who served under Ronald Reagan’s administration. “They never wanted the federal government to be breaking into people’s homes for [marijuana] baggies.”

Impassioned speakers at the ICBC ranged from legislators and entrepreneurs to activists and drug policy experts – including the former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, the first African American to hold the office. All presenters were candid about their pro-cannabis...

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