About Us

The JUSTÜS Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring and facilitating the entry of legacy (pre-legalization) cannabis operators to the legal cannabis market. The organization was founded in October 2021 by cannabis proponent Steve DeAngelo, in response to the following two related trends: the exclusion of the legacy cannabis operators from the legal industry and the persistence of a dual market following legalization, which results in a delay in consumer migration to the legal cannabis market. Our COO, Scheril Murray Powell Esquire, currently leads the foundation and manages all daily operations.

Our Mission

To secure a legal role in the industry for the pioneers who carried cannabis medicine through the years of prohibition and to create a single, unified, legal market for cannabis.

The scope of The JUSTÜS Foundation’s work is global. Every country and every city that legalizes cannabis must come to grips with the legacy community that has been providing cannabis in that jurisdiction during the years of Prohibition. If legacy operators are not welcomed into the legal market, they will continue their activities outside of it. And unburdened with regulatory costs and taxes, they will outcompete the legal cannabis market unless the JUSTÜS strategies are implemented, which will allow for market best practices and optimization.

our BOARD MEMBERS

Mary Jane Oatman

INDIGENOUS/NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST – OBAMA ADMINISTRATION APPOINTEE

Andrew Cooper, ESQ.

DYNAMIC SME LITIGATOR IN M&A, CLASS-ACTION, TRIALS, ARBITRATIONS, AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

umi

MUSICIAN, WRITER, DIRECTOR, ENTREPRENEUR & WORLDLY SCHOLAR

Sean Hocking

FOUNDER, ENTREPRENEUR, OWNER - CANNABIS LAW REPORT, DIRECTOR, EDITOR, ADVISOR, WRITER, PUBLISHER

Erin Thurmond

FOUNDER, CEO, ENTREPRENEUR CANNABIS LEGACY LEADER & INDUSTRY EXPERT, EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL

Firstman

RASTAFARI ACTIVIST AND UNITED NATIONS CULTURAL PROTECTIONS EXPERT

Scheril Murray Powell, ESQ.

PASSIONATE AGRICULTURE & CANNABIS LAW EXPERT, TRAILBLAZER, ENTREPRENEUR, VISIONARY, PHILANTHROPIST

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