Overcoming Prohibition: Efforts to Reform State Cannabis Laws

Dan Linn was one of the leading voices for passing the Illinois Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act and the City of Chicago's municipal cannabis decriminalization ordinance. He has worked extensively with lawmakers and activists in Illinois and built a coalition of groups to advocate for changing cannabis policy, offender re-entry programs, and broader drug policy reform. With a grant from the Marijuana Policy Project in 2008 he founded the Illinois Cannabis Patients Association to better represent medical cannabis patients' interests to the Illinois General Assembly. He has been a registered lobbyist and helped the Illinois Senate pass a medical cannabis bill in 2009. Dan Linn is the executive director of the Illinois chapter of NORML and an independent contractor with Greenbridge Corporate Counsel.