Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR) Symposium

In San Diego for a CMCR symposium on the state of medical cannabis research—check it out here. Had an interesting dinner tonight with researchers from across California at myriad UC and CSU campuses, as well as state officials in charge of regulation. The vertigo of these moments—where legal cannabis is being discussed, researched, and talked about rationally with so many formal institutional actors—astounds me. It is, of course, only the backs of hundreds of thousands of people arrested and incarcerated, property seized, lives and livelihoods ruined that we get to have these meetings. It is especially on the backs of people that fought against the War on Drugs that these meetings occur. Just a reminder to be humble, for me.