Aaron Houston

Aaron Houston is an American lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project, which advocates making medical marijuana available in certain cases. Houston was featured in an Aperture (magazine) spread entitled "Washington Lobbyists" in Fall 2006 [http://www.venable.com/docs/news/307.pdf] and in The Hill (newspaper) [http://thehill.com/cover-stories/the-marijuana-lobbyist-2007-07-18.html] . He is featured in the Showtime original movie In Pot We Trust and appeared on The Colbert Report on July 26, 2007. [ [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/183180/july-26-2007/aaron-houston] ] A Bloomberg News review of the Showtime film describes Houston as "clearly comfortable with political combat." [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=apdt5n3XMd3g&refer=muse#] Houston was most recently profiled in the Washington Post Magazine [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010803467.html First Person Singular - washingtonpost.com ] ] and was named a "Rising Star of Politics" by Politics Magazine [ [http://politicsmagazine.com/sections/?SectionID=3AB612D5-1422-17E0-F819610E3423F6A3 Campaigns and Elections' Politics Magazine ] ] in June 2008.

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