HE LATE ’90S/EARLY 2000S WAS A MUCH SIMPLER TIME FOR CANNABIS advocacy. Before home grow bans, local taxes, purchase limits, and multi-state operators (MSOs), there were two main questions: Should people who use cannabis go to jail? Should adults have the right to use cannabis if they choose? Today, you could ask 10 people if they are cannabis advocates and although they may answer “yes,” they may also all disagree on what advocacy looks like or what the end goal of policy change should be. Perhaps this is a good time to revisit the basis of early cannabis activism and why those goals have not been fully realized, even after we have made so much progress in policy and industry.
