Aaron Justis

President
Buds and Roses Collective

Aaron Justis, 37, is president of Buds & Roses Collective, Inc., a "licensed" dispensary in the City of Los Angeles, and is a founding member of NCIA. Aaron is on the steering committee of the Greater Los Angeles Collective Alliance (GLACA), a voluntary association of dispensary operators founded in 2006, and sits on the Studio City Medical Marijuana Advisory Board. Aaron is co-owner of Kushman Veganics (KV), which has developed cultivation best practices for maintaining high-quality and pure cannabis. KV is branding its form of "clean" cannabis as "Veganics." Aaron became a cannabis activist in 1997, when he was 20 years old, and has worked at the local, state and federal level to bring about cannabis policy reform. He's worked with and spoken alongside leaders inside and outside of the cannabis reform movement, including Jack Herer, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Harvard's dean of public health Dr. Julio Frenk. Aaron has traveled extensively across the U.S. and overseas to attend and speak at drug policy conferences, universities, and other forums. He also has extensive experience speaking about cannabis issues with mainstream print and broadcast media, from Al Jazeera to Men's Health Magazine. Aaron is an entrepreneur at heart. He has owned multiple successful businesses, including real estate, wireless communication and satellite TV sales and installation, and hemp clothing. In 1998, Aaron and his J-Wear Clothing Company won the High Times Cannabis Cup (HTCC) award for Best New Hemp Product. He and his team went on to win 19 HTCC awards, more than anyone else in the world. He also works as a cannabis consultant for the entertainment industry, including a current major motion picture. Aaron, his wife and two children moved from Rockford, IL to Los Angeles to work in the cannabis industry, taking a $50,000 a year dispensary and building it into an organization that will gross millions this year.