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Adam Smith is the Executive Director of the Marijuana Policy Project. Smith's extensive career in drug policy reform includes significant contributions to the movement. In 1996, as Associate Director of StopTheDrugWar.org, Adam launched The Week Online, the nation’s first publication providing original coverage of domestic and international drug policy from a reform perspective. Two years later, Smith launched the Higher Education Act Reform Campaign, the first successful effort to roll back federal drug war era legislation. He also laid the groundwork for the founding of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, incubating the group under his direction for nearly two years until SSDP’s launch as a stand-alone organization.
As the founder of the Craft Cannabis Alliance and the Alliance for Sensible Markets, Smith wrote legislation and spearheaded successful efforts to pass the nation’s first three cannabis interstate commerce bills in Oregon, California, and Washington. Smith was also a founding contributor to the "Marijuana Today" and “Marijuana Tomorrow" podcasts, appearing in more than 250 episodes from 2015-2023. He has organized and lobbied on behalf of craft cannabis producers, managed ballot initiatives and candidate campaigns, negotiated collective bargaining agreements for Oregon nurses, and built and served in coalitions driving legislative action on issues ranging from labor rights to election reform.
Morgan Fox is the Political Director at NORML, focusing on congressional lobbying and changing federal cannabis laws. As a professional cannabis policy reform advocate since 2008, Morgan has been directly involved in dozens of successful state ballot initiative campaigns to establish medical and adult use cannabis programs, as well as legislative victories at the local, state, and federal levels. He has been featured in hundreds of print, radio, television, and online publications. Morgan was most recently the Media Relations Director and chief spokesperson for the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) before joining NORML, and spent nearly a decade at the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) prior to that. He lives in Washington, DC, and when he’s not working to end prohibition and repair the damage it has caused, he can usually be found exploring the numerous parks and playgrounds of our nation’s capital with his children.
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