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Founder of Harborside in 2006—one of America's first licensed dispensaries—DeAngelo spent five decades drafting California's earliest cannabis regulations, launching the Last Prisoner Project, and building the legal and commercial framework the entire U.S. industry now runs on.
Steve DeAngelo co-founded Harborside in 2006 in Oakland, one of the first licensed cannabis dispensaries in the United States, and has been a cannabis legalization advocate for over four decades.
He helped draft early California cannabis regulations, authored The Cannabis Manifesto, and was featured in Discovery's Weed Wars. His Last Prisoner Project advocates for those incarcerated for cannabis offenses.
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