World Class Cannabis Expert

Chris Conrad is a well known author, consultant, public speaker, cannabis expert witness, museum curator and internationally respected authority on cannabis, industrial hemp, medical marijuana, cultivation, garden yields, processing, dosages, commercial intent, personal use and cannabis culture. He is professor emeritus at Oaksterdam University, taught at the International Pharmacological Academy and has given numerous presentations for continuing legal education (CLE) and continuing medical education (CME) programs. Conrad is a board member of the California Cannabis Historical Society. Use this link to email Chris Conrad.

As an expert witness, Conrad has worked on thousands of cannabis-related cases and given testimony in criminal and civil courts in 38 California counties, US Courts Martial, US Ninth Circuit Courts in California Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts and Louisiana Fifth Circuit Middle Dist., the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Commonwealth of Virginia, Washington and Wyoming. His work has helped shape California marijuana law. Click here for important legal information regarding medical cannabis in California and beyond. He is married to prominent human rights and cannabis reform activist Mikki Norris.

As a social and political activist, Conrad devised the BACH Plan in 1988 to legalize marijuana. He founded the Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp (BACH) and the Family Council on Drug Awareness (FCDA) in 1988 and the American Hemp Council in 1989. He worked on numerous other campaigns and legislation in California and globally, including California Prop 215 and SB420, and remained politically active until after well the passage of California Prop 64 legalized cannabis there in 2016.

Conrad is author of Hemp: Lifeline to the Future (1993), Hemp for Health (1997), co-author of Shattered Lives: Portraits From America’s Drug War (1998) and Human Rights and the U.S. Drug War (2001), author of Nostradamus and the Attack on New York (2002), Cannabis Yields and Dosage (2005, revised 2015) and co-author of The Newbie’s Guide to Cannabis and the Industry(2015). He also designed, edited and did extensive ghost writing for Jack Herer’s book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes (1990).