People who support cannabis and are against

We at growmarijuanaseeds.net have been supporting cannabis use for over 14 years

Notable pro- and anti-medical cannabis individuals

[edit]Proponents

Pro-cannabis demonstrators inLos Angeles, California, August 2007.

• William F. Buckley - conservative Republican commentator, publisher of the National Review.
• Drew Carey- Comedian, host of The Price is Right
• Jay Cavanaugh, Ph.D. - California State Board of Pharmacy 1980-90, National Director American Alliance for Medical Cannabis 2001.
• Jack Herer - California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008, Long Time Activist
• Dennis Peron - co-author of 215, along with Anna Boyce, Dale Gieringer, Scott Imler, Bill Panzer, Leo Paoli, and Valerie Corral.
• Angel Raich - U.S. activist, respondent in Gonzales v. Raich.
• Carl Sagan, Ph.D. - American astronomer and astrochemist.
• Ann Druyan - wife of Carl Sagan, one of the writers of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.
• Ed Rosenthal - A horticulturist that fights for the right to grow marijuana for medicinal purposes.
• Montel Williams - talk show host, after using it to alleviate symptoms of multiple sclerosis.^[71]
• Lester Grinspoon, M.D., - Professor of Medicine, Harvard; author of Marijuana, the Forgotten Medicine
• Jack Black - actor and musician, best known for being the lead vocalist for Tenacious D Jack Black is also on the board of MPP.ORG (an advocate for new reformed marijuana laws.)
• Eddy Lepp, [[Rastafarian Minister, Medical Activist, Largest Marijuana Crop ever raided in D.E.A. history.
• Lyle Craker, Ph.D. - Botanist who supports the study of Marijuana by the medical community. Craker and the ACLU, are currently engaged in a legal battle to allow non-government cultivation of Marijuana for medical research.
• Rick Steves - PBS Travel Show Host and on NORML's advisory board.
• Cletus Greathouse, Long time advocate, grow consultant, patient, and has fought for the rights of many patients while saving lives and is continually taking the sick from many prescriptions to none while improving thier quality of life. Cletus is also working to change Illinois state law and has proclaimed to have the cure for cancer and many other ailments that are life-threatining and debilitating.
• Snoop Dogg - American rap artist.
• Milton Friedman, Ph.D. - American Nobel Laureate in the field of Economics.
• Fred Gardner - "the chronicler of the movement", published in CounterPunch and other prominent publications and author of O'Shaunessey's, the Journal of the California Cannabis Research Medical Group.
• Kyle Gass - actor and musician, second member and lead guitarist for Tenacious D.
• Andrew Glazier Ran a garden store and taught free gardening classes to patients in Oakland, edited a number of gardening books for Cannabis patients.
• Stephen Jay Gould - American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist.
• Woody Harrelson - American actor.
• Cypress Hill - American rap group
• Christopher Hitchens spoke as a proponent of medical marijuana in the 2007 documentary film In Pot We Trust.^[72]
• Penn Jillette - Of Penn and Teller, although he has never used recreational drugs.
• Rob Kampia - Founder of Marijuana Policy Project.
• Jim Klahr - musician - Co-establisher and member of BoD of Oregon Green Free[20] and Advisor on DHS/OMMP advisory committee on medical marijuana.
• Janusz Korwin-Mikke - polish conservative-liberal politician
• Dennis Kucinich - Democratic United States Representative from Ohio and Presidential Candidate in 2004 and 2008.
• Bill Maher - Comedian and host of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO.
• Peter McWilliams - Author who used cannabis to relieve pain.
• Bill Mescher - A South Carolina state senator who proposed legalization of medical cannabis.
• Jeremy Miller - founder/director of the Olympia Hempfest Official Olympia Hempfest Website
• Ethan Nadelmann - President of Drug Policy Alliance.
• Loretta Nall - Founder of the United States Marijuana party
• Willie Nelson - Singer and songwriter.
• Ron Paul, M.D., U.S. Congressman and former Republican candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election.^[73]
• Barney Frank - Congressman from Massachusetts and Chairman of the Banking Committee.
• Robert Randall - co-founder of the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics, a medical marijuana advocacy organization, and the first person to mount a successful medical necessity defense to marijuana charges in a U.S. federal criminal case^[74]
• Dana Rohrabacher - United States Congressman who proposed a bill to stop Department of Justice from arresting medical cannabis patients.
• Bobby Steele

Medical cannabis protest

• Keith Stroup - Founder of NORML.
• Rob Van Dam - professional wrestler
• Robert Anton Wilson - novelist, essayist, philosopher, futurologist, libertarian, and founder of theGuns and Dope Party
• Steve Kubby - Key Organizer of California's Proposition 215, Founder and National DirectorAmerican Medical Marijuana Association.
• Marc Emery - Cannabis Culture Magazine, former seed merchant facing extradition to the US.

[edit]Opponents

Medicinal cannabis plant

• Andrea Barthwell - Former deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under George W. Bush.
• William Bennett - Former director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.^[75]
• George H. W. Bush - 41st President of the United States.
• George W. Bush - 43rd President of the United States.
• Richard Carmona - Former Surgeon General of the United States.^[76]
• Paul Clement - Former Solicitor General who argued on behalf of the federal government inGonzales v. Raich.
• Robert L. DuPont, M.D. - President, Institute for Behavior and Health
• Bonnie Dumanis - Current District Attorney for San Diego County, California.^[77]
• Hamid Ghodse - International Narcotics Control Board president.
• Asa Hutchinson - Former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.^[78]
• Carol Lam - Former California United States Attorney.
• Rush Limbaugh - Nationally syndicated radio talk show host.^[79]
• Hal Lindsey - Author, former talkshow host, and prophecy scholar. Supports the use of THC pills but opposes the smoking of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
• Dan Lungren - Former California Attorney General who presided over crackdown of medical marijuana dispensaries.
• Barry McCaffrey - Former Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Clinton administration.Policy]].^[80]
• John McCain - Senior Senator,(Ariz.), August 11, Milton, N.H. / ref: http://granitestaters.com/candidates/
• Janet Reno - United States Attorney General during the Clinton administration.^[81]
• Mitt Romney, former Republican candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election.^[82]
• Donna Shalala - Former Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration.
• Theodore Sophocleus - Maryland Delegate.^[83]
• Mark Souder - Republican U.S. Representative. Filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. government in Gonzales v. Raich. The federal government may ban the use of marijuana even where states approve its use for medicinal purposes.
• Eliot Spitzer - Former governor of New York.
• John P. Walters - Current Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy of United States.
• Michael Mukasey - Current Attorney General of the United States.