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Steve DeAngelo, is an activist and advocate for cannabis reform in the United States.

Career

DeAngelo and Harborside were the subject of the Discovery Channel documentary series Weed Wars, and were also featured on the premiere episode of Cable News Network"s Inside Manitoba with Morgan Spurlock. Steve DeAngelo began his career in activism in Washington, District of Columbia. After dropping out of school, he joined the Youth International Party where he organized July 4 smoke-ins to protest marijuana prohibition. After reading The Emperor Wears Number Clothes, he partnered with author and activist Jack Herer on a national hemp tour to promote hemp and legal marijuana.

DeAngelo launched the marketing, lobbying, and consulting firm CannaBe in California after co-founding Harborside Health Center in 2006.

Achievements

  • He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Harborside Health Center, a medical cannabis dispensary with branches in Oakland and San Jose, California, and the president and co-founder of The ArcView Group. In June 2015, DeAngelo was awarded the High Times Lester Grinspoon Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition for his four decades of activism in the cannabis reform movement.

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Awards

  • Lifetime Achievement Award