Hi! I'm Dana Larsen, welcome to my website!

For all of my adult life I have worked for marijuana and drug policy reform. On this website you can find out more about me and my work.

I was born in Vancouver, and as a student at Simon Fraser University I co-founded a club called "The League for Ethical Action on Drugs" which continued on for many years after I graduated in 1993.

From 1994 to 2004 I was the editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine, working with publisher Marc Emery to build it into one of Canada's most successful magazines, with a print run approaching 100,000 copies.

In 2000 and 2001 I was a founding member of both the Canadian Marijuana Party and the BC Marijuana Party, running as a candidate for each.

In 2003 I became a New Democrat, and soon after I founded a group called End Prohibition, which works within the NDP to promote alternatives to the war on drugs.

In 2004 I opened the Vancouver Seed Bank, a retail storefront which sells seeds from dozens of rare and medicinal plant species, including hundreds of kinds of marijuana seeds.

In 2007 I published a humorous book called Hairy Pothead and the Marijuana Stone. The sequel, Hairy Pothead and the 420 Code, should be in print by the end of 2010.

In 2008 I sold the Seed Bank to my co-founder Rebecca Ambrose, and opened the Vancouver Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary, located almost next door. The Dispensary now has two locations and provides medical-grade marijuana products to over 3500 patients with a doctor's recommendation.

In 2008 I also ran as the federal NDP candidate for my riding of "West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast - Sea-to-Sky Country."

In 2011 I ran for the leadership of the BC NDP.

I continue to work on many projects, including End Prohibition, the Vancouver Medical Cannabis Dispensary and writing the next book in the Hairy Pothead series.