Chris Conrad is a court-qualified expert witness on cannabis who has testified more than 200 times in state, military, and federal courts. He is also an expert on industrial hemp, and religious and medical cannabis use. A curator of the Hash-Marijuana-Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, he grew and processed cannabis legally in Europe and worked at the famous Cannabis Castle.
He is author of Hemp: Lifeline to the Future, Shattered Lives: Portraits From America’s Drug War, and other books. His groundbreaking book on medical marijuana, Hemp for Health, has been translated into six languages and published in Argentina under the title Cannabis para la Salud. He and his wife Mikki Norris were volunteer coordinators for California’s Proposition 215 which legalized medical marijuana in 1996, and cofounders of Human Rights and the Drug War. He has worked with legal medical marijuana patients, caregivers, and support groups; and consults regularly with doctors, attorneys, and legislators. He was the first president of the Hemp Industries Association and editor of Oaksterdam News from 2005 to 2007.