Instructor: Horticulture, Advocacy, Methods of Ingestion: Extracts, Oaksterdam University
Jones has provided expertise in the medical cannabis field for more than 20 years. He co-founded the Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperative (OCBC) in 1995. With his assistance, the City of Oakland became the first U.S. City to contract with a medical cannabis provider, and to implement a successful city program to issue compassionate provider permits. He proved self-regulatory practices that would eventually become the tenets of Senate Bill 420 and the Attorney General Guidelines of 2008. He has been educating professionally as the horticulture expert, politics, and history instructor for Oaksterdam University since 2007. In 2010, Jones was co-proponent of the first legalization ballot measure in 30 years, Prop 19. He now serves on the Board of the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform (CCPR).
