Paul Armentano
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
Washington,
DC
Paul Armentano has more than two decades of experience working professionally in cannabis policy. He is deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the nation’s oldest cannabis reform advocacy organization. Mr. Armentano works closely with state and federal politicians with regard to drafting and enacting marijuana policy reforms and is a frequently sought speaker at legal and academic seminars. Mr. Armentano was the principal investigator for defense counsel in the federal case “U.S. v Schweder,” one of the first legal cases to challenge the constitutionality of cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance. He was also an expert in the successful Canadian constitutional challenge, “Allard v Canada,” which preserved qualified patients’ right to grow cannabis at home. Mr. Armentano’s writing on cannabis and cannabis policy has appeared in more than 1,000 publications, scholarly and/or peer-reviewed journals, as well as in more than two dozen textbooks and anthologies. Mr. Armentano serves on the faculty of the Lambert Center for the Study of Medicinal Cannabis and Hemp at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia as well as at Oaksterdam University, where he is the chair of science. He is the 2013 Freedom Law School Health Freedom Champion of the Year and 2013 Alfred R. Lindesmith award recipient in the field of scholarship.
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