Étienne Fontan is Vice President & Co-owner of Berkeley Patients Group (BPG), a leader in the medical cannabis industry since 1999. He has founded dispensaries in Berkeley, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, and in the state of Maine. For more than a decade, Étienne has positioned BPG as a leading medical cannabis dispensary, focusing on leading the emerging industry as it expands, evolves, and becomes more professional. In 1993 he was a director with the Cannabis Action Network and traveled through 47 U.S. states speaking at rallies, teach-ins, and tours, reaching out to the general public on all cannabis-related issues. As a combat veteran of the first Gulf War, Mr. Fontan now lobbies on veterans’ behalf for the use of cannabis.