Founder/President

Paul Stanford has been a cannabis activist for over 40 years, starting when he lived in North Carolina in the 1970s. Stanford started Tree Free EcoPaper and imported and sold hemp paper and fabric from China between 1988 to 1997. Stanford was the director and spokesperson for the 2012 statewide vote to legalize marijuana in Oregon, Ballot Measure 80. Stanford is an organic cannabis grower and has won many awards in Oregon for the quality of his medical marijuana. Stanford has given away over 7,000 pounds, or 3,000 kilos, of free medical marijuana to sick and dying patients since 2001. Stanford worked on Oregon's 1986 marijuana initiative vote, the second time in United States history that a state voted to legalize marijuana. Stanford worked with Jack Herer on the first (1985) and subsequent editions of Herer's seminal hemp manifesto, The Emperor Wears No Clothes. In 1996, Stanford began producing and hosting a weekly cable TV show in Portland called Cannabis Common Sense, which continues today on cable TV and the Internet. Stanford founded The Hemp & Cannabis Foundation (THCF), in 1999 and began working with doctors to help medical marijuana patients obtain state authorizations. THCF Medical Clinics has helped over 270,000 people become legal, licensed medical marijuana patients in OR, WA, CA, CO, HI, MT, & MI. Stanford has also written articles for publication, including in High Times magazine and for a compilation book that Ed Rosenthal edited called Hemp Today. Cannabis Common Sense streams online live Friday nights on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/restorehemp and archived at: www.youtube.com/cannabiscommonsense