Mikki Norris
| Mikki Norris | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 18, 1952 |
| Occupation | Drug policy activist, publisher, author |
| Website | hr95.org |
Mikki Norris (born July 18, 1952) is an American drug policy activist, former publisher, and author, known for her work highlighting the human cost of the US War on Drugs. She co-authored, with husband Chris Conrad and Virginia Resner, Shattered Lives: Portraits From America's Drug War and Human Rights and the US Drug War. Norris was also the co-founder, managing editor, and publisher of the West Coast Leaf, the "cannabis newspaper of record" for the West Coast of the United States from 2008 to 2013. The newspaper has gone digital, and is now The Leaf Online.
Norris earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she studied Sociology. She then pursued graduate studies at California State University, Los Angeles, where she earned a Master's degree in Education.
Norris began her Drug War activism in 1989, when she and her husband, Chris Conrad, founded the American Hemp Council. They became outspoken activists and organizers for the many uses of the hemp plant.
In 1993, Norris assisted her husband in curating and designing the Amsterdam Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum.
In 1995, Norris and her husband Chris Conrad partnered with Virginia Resner to create the "Human Rights '95: Atrocities of the Drug War" photo exhibit which put a human face on non-violent prisoners of the Drug War and showed how the Drug War operates through their personal stories. Launched at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on June 24, 1995 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, the exhibit looked at the issue in the context UN's Declaration on Human Rights. The grand opening presented a program called, "Give Drug Peace a Chance," and included Ram Dass, Paul Krassner, Jello Biafra, Ngaio Bealum, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Terence Hallinan, and Dennis Peron. In November, 1995, Norris and Conrad created a photo exhibit for the Drugs Peace House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that traveled to other European Cities. Norris created 30 smaller excerpted displays that were shown at libraries, universities, conferences, and events across the US under the name "Human Rights and the Drug War." In order to reach a wider audience with this information, she developed the web site, Human Rights and the Drug War.
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