Brian Vicente is an American attorney and

marijuana rights Cannabis rights or marijuana rights (sometimes more specifically cannabis consumer rights or stoner rights) are individual civil rights that vary by jurisdiction. The rights of people who consume cannabis include the right to be free from employ ...

advocate. He is a partner and founding member of Vicente LLP, which Rolling Stone has labeled "the country's first powerhouse marijuana law firm." Vicente was one of the primary authors of

Colorado Amendment 64 Colorado Amendment 64 was a successful popular initiative ballot measure to amend the Constitution of the State of Colorado, outlining a statewide drug policy for cannabis. The measure passed on November 6, 2012, and along with a similar mea ...

and was co-director of the successful 'Yes on 64' campaign in 2012, which resulted in Colorado (along with

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on the same day) becoming the first state in the world to make the possession, use, and regulated distribution of

marijuana Cannabis (), commonly known as marijuana (), weed, pot, and ganja, List of slang names for cannabis, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant. Native to Central or South Asia, cannabis has ...

legal for adults. Vicente served as chair of the Committee for Responsible Regulation and was a member of the Colorado Department of Revenue Medical Marijuana Workgroup. In 2018, Colorado Governor Jared Polis selected Vicente to serve as a member of his gubernatorial transition team, where he sat on the Economic Development and Labor Committee. In 2023, Vicente was elected as a Board Member of the Marijuana Policy Project. He is also a member of the DanceSafe Advisory Council. In 2010, Vicente was elected as the first board chair of the National Cannabis Industry Association. Vicente has also served as executive director of Sensible Colorado and on the boards of the Harm Reduction Action Center, the SAFER Voter Education Fund, and the City of Denver's Marijuana Policy Review Panel.Vicente is the co-founder and president of the National Hispanic Cannabis Council. Vicente has conducted over one thousand interviews regarding marijuana policy, for national, state, and local media outlets; ''

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'' called him "the (cannabis) industry's de facto spokesman".

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