Steve DeAngelo

Steve DeAngelo is a co-founder and chairman emeritus of Harborside Inc., a publicly-traded cannabis company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange. Harborside Health Center was founded in 2006 as a non-profit medical cannabis dispensary and had more than 300,000 registered medical patients.

DeAngelo is also co-founder of Steep Hill, Inc., the first commercial cannabis lab in the country, and co-founder of Arcview Group, the first cannabis investment firm. DeAngelo formerly served Arcview as vice president.

Harborside was the subject of Weed Wars, a reality series which aired on the Discovery Channel.^[1]

DeAngelo is the author of The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness.

In 2019 DeAngelo founded Last Prisoner Project, a cannabis reform non-profit, along with Dean Raise and Andrew DeAngelo. The project advocates for legislation to clear criminal convictions related to cannabis use and provides resources for previously incarcerated individuals.^[2]

Early on as an activist, DeAngelo skipped school to attend anti-war demonstrations and eventually dropped out to join the Youth International Party, also known as the Yippies.^{[citation needed]} He went on to become the lead organizer of the annual Fourth of July Smoke-In in D.C., carrying the position for a decade. He also opened a D.C. counter-cultural gathering place that became known as a refuge for local cannabis and peace activists during the Reagan-Bush era, including William Kunstler, Wavy Gravy, and author Jack Herer.^{[citation needed]}

DeAngelo helped Jack Herer edit and publish the manuscript for his book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, and became a lead organizer of the first Hemp Museum and Hemp Tour. His first cannabis business, Ecolution, was one of the first to ride the industrial hemp boom, manufacturing hemp clothing and accessories for retail sales in all 50 states and 21 countries during the 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

• DeAngelo, Steve (2015). The Cannabis Manifesto: A New Paradigm for Wellness. North Atlantic Books. p. 230. ISBN 978-1583949375.