This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on December 13, 2014.
This list will certainly miss the thousands of activists working hard every day to restore basic civil rights to every day citizens. Marijuana prohibition speaks volumes about police and government over reach, and abuse. Along with everyones hard work, these people are returning our world to an age of enlightenment.
#5Sanjay Gupta |
 When he is not producing positive, award-winning shows for CNN addressing the medical benefits of marijuana, Sanjay Gupta,MD is an American neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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#4George Soros |
 Money talks and George Soros has lots of it. This billionaire donates the majority of marijuana legalization campaigns across the Unites States. |
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#3Ethan Nadelmann |
 Ethan is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. Described by Rolling Stone as, “The driving force for the legalization of marijuana in America,” Ethan Nadelmann is known as a high profile critic and commentator on U.S. and international drug control policies. |
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#2Steph Sherer |
 Usually the first pair of boots-on-the-ground in resistant states, Steph is a hard-working activist that never slows down. She is the founder and Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists, and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. |
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#1José Mujica |
 Uruguay legalized cannabis in 2014 with the help from its 78-year-old President José “Pepe” Mujica, a former leftist guerrilla who spent 14 years in prison, many of them in solitary confinement, before being granted amnesty and freed.
“Years ago, we used to think that there were good wars and bad wars,” Mujica told students at American University. “Good wars were the ones supported by a just and noble cause, for processes of liberation. Today, with all of our technological and scientific knowledge, war — whatever its tendency — ends up becoming a sacrifice for the weakest people in society… The worst negotiation is better than the best war. That’s what I think now, because I know the pain and sacrifice of war.” |
That is an excellent top 5 list. I agree!
Medical pot is an oxymoron that makes morons out of its users. These people are killing our society and you praise them. Ughhh
Well done . Very helpful indeed. People I’d love to meet one day to learn their wisdom and embellish my own plans of activism