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Dale Sky Jones

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Dale Sky Jones is widely known as one of the first female cannabis industry leaders in the world. An advocate since 2007, she rose to international prominence in 2010 as a spokesperson and legislative liaison for California's first legalization effort, Prop 19, which became the blueprint for efforts to end cannabis prohibition around the world. Dale took over as Executive Chancellor of Oaksterdam University, the world's first cannabis college, after a crippling federal raid in 2012. Ushering the school out of crisis, she now oversees a program that has trained more than 50,000 alumni from 40 countries, along with regulators, legislators, and municipalities. Dale is regularly interviewed by notable media outlets such as Politico, Al Jazeera, History Channel, MSNBC, NPR, Telemundo Univision, Los Angeles Times, VICE, Wall Street Journal, and many others. She also has appeared in several documentaries, including California 90420, Legalize It, and The Legend of 420; and served as an expert for HBO's Weeds. She and her husband, veteran cannabis crusader Jeff Jones, live in Oakland, Calif. with their three young children.
- IMDb mini biography by: Wensdy Von Buskirk

Tell your story and people will believe you and you will change hearts and minds.
Cannabis has been demonized by prohibition and has deprived us of a safe medicine that can be grown itself. This is why Oaksterdam University is so diligent to set the standards through our efforts in education. Education is the foundation that drives the standard of a new industry.
That was the shocker to me .... when I realized that my power as an advocate came because I was a mother. Not only is it that you can't remove them from one another, but you shouldn't.
Having been the only chick in the room in my entire corporate career, I'm used to that. When I first got into the cannabis industry, I was often the only chick in the room, too. This industry has not been formed yet. We're still a movement. We are not yet a fully formed industry, because of federal law. There's no glass ceiling to break through. We haven't even finished the infrastructure yet.
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