Dan Linn has been working as a cannabis activist and lobbyist for over ten years with the Illinois chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML) and has spent most of that time as its Executive Director. He has testified before committees at the Capitol in Springfield, has been published and quoted in numerous newspapers and news broadcasts in Illinois, and is a co-author of the book The Cannabis Papers. He has publicly debated the former head of the DEA Peter Bensinger on television and spoke on a panel at the 2012 American Bar Association’s conference detailing different regulatory and tax models for legal cannabis markets. He is also a co-founder of Midwest Cannabis Consulting, serves as a founding member of the ILCIA Board of Directors and holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Illinois Springfield. Read some of Dan’s published letters and other writing archived at the Media Awareness Project.