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.

Chris Conrad signing books at the California Museum of Oakland.

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).

Chris Conrad, Friends of Prop 64 victory party
Chris Conrad celebrates election night in California with Friends of Prop 64, in 2016
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Chris Conrad wearing a hemp shirt as he examines a flowering cannabis plant in a California indoor medical marijuana garden, 2015.
Chris Conrad and wife, Mikki Norris
Chris Conrad and wife, Mikki Norris, after speaking at the Cannamed medical marijuana conference in Argentina, April 2014
Chris, Mikki, Ben
Opening of the redesigned Hash, Marihuana and Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, with Ben Dronkers, October 1993
Chris Mikki and Virgie
Opening of the Human Rights and the Drug War exhibit, with Mikki and our late partner, Virginia Resner, 1995
Conrad, Boucher, Martin, hemp field
Chris Conrad, Dave Martin and Chris Boucher at the hemp test crop in Imperial Valley, CA, 1994
Speaking from Seattle Hempfest main stage 2010
Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris
Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris leading a Pot Pride / Cannabis Consumers’ rally outside San Francisco City Hall, 2000
With Jack Herer after designing and editing Herer’s book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 1991
business alliance for commerce in hemp marijuana legalization strategy launched 1988
Chris Conrad’s original strategy for legalizing cannabis; planned 1988, launched 1989.
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“The Many Uses of Hemp,” the flyer that launched the hemp movement in 1989.
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Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris with their yard sign for Proposition 215 Medical Marijuana, 1996

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