Seattle Hempfest - Kevin Zeese
Kevin Zeese, head of Common Sense for Drug Policy, discusses drug related proposals in the 107th Congress.
Kevin Zeese has written for newspapers and journals on a range of drug issues, including an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the Colombian drug war. He has also appeared on every major television network as a commentator. He served as a consultant to Walter Cronkite for the Discovery Channel special: The Drug Dilemma: War or Peace?
He has been a legal advisor to needle exchange workers prosecuted for their anti-AIDS efforts, buyer's clubs who distribute marijuana to the seriously ill and medical marijuana patients prosecuted for the medical use of marijuana.
Mr. Zeese facilitates the Alliance of Reform Organizations, a network of all the major reform organizations in the United States. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Harm Reduction Coalition. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Drug Policy Forum of Texas, and is a Board member emeritus of DrugSense.
Mr. Zeese is a co-founder of the Drug Policy Foundation (now renamed the Drug Policy Alliance), where he served as Vice President and Counsel, and is a former Executive Director and Chief Counsel of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Kevin Zeese served as Press Secretary for the Ralph Nader Presidential Campaign in 2004.