Rob Kampia

Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project

Rob Kampia co-founded the Marijuana Policy Project in 1995 and has served as its executive director ever since. With 25 staff members and lobbyists in six state capitals and Congress, MPP is the largest marijuana policy organization in the world.Rob is the architect of most of the state-level marijuana laws that have been enacted in the United States since 2000:

Most importantly, MPP legalized marijuana in Colorado in 2012. As a result, Colorado has the best marijuana law in the world.

MPP decriminalized marijuana possession via a ballot initiative in Massachusetts in 2008. Since then, MPP passed similar laws through the Rhode Island and Vermont legislatures.

MPP was also instrumental or entirely responsible for legalizing medical marijuana in Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia between 2000 and 2013.

Rob has provided fiery testimony before Congress twice, as well as testifying before nine state legislatures. Rob has been quoted in almost every newspaper in the United States and regularly debates prohibitionist opponents on national television, including on CNN, the Fox News Channel, the Fox Business Network, CNBC, and MSNBC. Of course, Rob also regularly discusses the marijuana issue on network television, both nationally and locally.