The International Cannabis Business Conference was held this weekend at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown San Francisco. The unique corporate event brings together the best cannabis lawyers and professionals, as well as politicians, celebrities and journalists from around the US and the world. View the photos from the conference.
Photos by Gabrielle Lurie
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Friends of SF Evergreen David Goldman and Michael Koehn manned the NORML booth. Both are longtime marijuana activists from San Francisco.
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“If I had been arrested for smoking marijuana,” says R-Huntington Beach Congresswoman Dana Rohrabacher, “I would never have been elected to Congress.”
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You will like the way legalization looks. Mens Wearhouse founder and longtime marijuana supporter George Zimmer guarantees it.
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Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, who says he is aiming to raise as much as $15 million in 2016 to legalize cannabis in California.
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The audience listens carefully to Rick Steves’ message. For legalization it is necessary to get the police on board. That’s how Washington did it.
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Dale Sky Jones of the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, one of the groups that supported legalization in 2016.
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Travel writer Rick Steves thinks drug reform could work if a civil liberties corner is pushed. “If I work hard all day and want to smoke a joint in the evening and stare at the fireplace for three hours, I should be able to do it,” he said.
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Julie Batkiewicz of WomenGrow listens to a speaker.
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dr. Carl Hart, well-known addiction researcher at Columbia University, gave the keynote address on Sunday and asked marijuana users to “come out”. “You have to be here and you have to represent.”
