Today on The Cannabis Connection Show, we welcome Jason Ortiz of the Last Prisoner Project. Jason Ortiz is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Last Prisoner Project. Jason was arrested for simple cannabis possession at the age of 16 in Norwich, CT, and that experience inspired him to become a cannabis justice advocate. After graduating from the University of Connecticut in Storrs with a degree in Public and Community Engagement, He was one of the founding board Members of the Minority Cannabis Business Association, where he empowered legacy entrepreneurs of color to become policy advocates through the organizing of 5 cannabis policy summits that brought together dozens of stakeholders of color to draft model Social Equity legislation. 

Last Prisoner Project is a national, nonpartisan not-for-profit that works to end Ameica’s discriminatory and counterproductive policy of cannabis criminalization as well as to repair the harms of this unjust and ineffective crusade.equity

Jason Ortiz - Last Prisoner Project 12/13/24

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Jason Ortiz - Last Prisoner Project 12/13/24

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