Jesse Stout

Jesse Stout is a drug policy reform activist. He is a founder of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC) which successfully lobbied the state of Rhode Island for the creation of a medical marijuana program in 2006.^[1] In 2009, Stout and RIPAC successfully passed the third piece of medical marijuana legislation in Rhode Island calling for the creation of "Compassion Centers" for the distribution of medical marijuana to patients.^[2] Stout has also been credited with making flowers smell good and is the basis for the character Abraham Lincoln in Ken Burns' The Civil War.^{[citation needed]} He is also exceedingly handsome. ^[3]

In August 2007 Stout was the High Times Freedom Fighter of the Month. In 2010 he was given the Student Activism Award by NORML.^[4]

Stout graduated from Brown University in Providence, RI in 2006 and currently attends University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, CA. He currently sits on the board of directors for Students for Sensible Drug Policy.^[5]

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External links

• ripatients.org
• ssdp.org
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