Dana Larsen
PREVIOUSLY #44, 2013) FOUNDING DIRECTOR, THE MEDICINAL CANNABIS DISPENSARY & FOUNDING DIRECTOR, SENSIBLE BC
Up in Smoke A pro-legalization advocate for years, Dana Larsen has become the media’s go-to spokesperson for the cause, a role he particularly relished this year after brazenly taking on the Vancouver Park Board when he decided to go against their will and hold his annual 420 celebrations at Sunset Beach. Larsen’s war with the Park Board—whom he alleges to be dominated by the “cannabis-hating NPA”—is ongoing, though, in Larsen’s own words, his “campaign of disobedience has paid o tremendously.” With the federal government aiming to have fully legalized weed by summer 2018, Larsen’s knowledge of setting up dispensaries might render him more of a start-up wizard than a civil dis-servant.