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Joe welcomed Dallin Young and Dion Markgraaff experts in the cannabis and hemp industry to discuss the cannabis industry and the Cannabis Village at the Earth Day celebration in Balboa Park on Sunday April, 22nd.
Dallin Young
Dallin Young is Executive Director of the Association of Cannabis Professionals. Young began his career in politics as a consultant during the 2012 election cycle. He has since worked on over 20 campaigns throughout the state of California including some of the largest, most expensive, and closely watched races in the San Diego County area. Young became part of Grassroots Resources in 2015 after working for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2014 and leading the largest field operation in the country in support of the Scott Peters for Congress campaign.
Young maintains very close ties to the San Diego political arena by being elected to the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee, with his lobbying and advocacy efforts on behalf of cannabis policy, and by providing the data, voter targeting, and technological support to the California Democratic Party and 14 other county parties throughout California.
In addition to his work in both politics and the cannabis industry, Young is a passionate advocate in the disability community as a board member for San Diego’s Disability Services Advisory Council, as well as a 5-year high school Assistant Varsity wrestling coach at Canyon Crest Academy.
Dion Markgraaff
Dion Markgraaff is the vice president of communications for Hemp Technologies. Before that he worked for General Hemp in San Diego, a private equity company founded to support growth in the industrial hemp industry. In 2016, he was the President of HempMeds® Mexico, opening Mexico to cannabinoids for the first time legally.
With more than 25 years of experience in the cannabis industry, Mr. Markgraaff has achieved many “firsts” for the cannabis industry, as founder of Europe’s first hemp store “Cannabis in Amsterdam” in 1993; organizer of the first medical cannabis dispensary in San Diego in 1997; and founder of one of the largest cannabis patient rights groups San Diego Americans for Safe Access in 2002. Mr. Markgraaff graduated with a dual Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in Political Science and History from San Diego State University, using cannabis/hemp as a subject in his senior thesis.
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