Vivian McPeak

Vivian McPeak at Seattle Hempfest in 2007

Vivian McPeak (born 1958) is an American peace and social justice activist, and musician, in Seattle, Washington. Mcpeak founded Peace Heathens in 1988, a Seattle cannabis rights community action group. McPeak and Gary Cooke organized the first Seattle Hempfest in 1991, the 2-day event has grown to become the world's largest cannabis policy reform rally. McPeak, who is director of Hempfest, performed with the rock band Stickerbush in the 1980s.[1][2]

Appearances

McPeak is the recipient of the High Times Freedom 2001 Fighter of the Year Award, as well as the High Times Lester Grinspoon Lifetime Achievement Award, The Dope Magazine Emery Award for lifetime achievement in the cannabis industry, and was listed by Seattle Magazine as one of the 50 Most Influential People of 2016.

McPeak has also appeared on numerous network and cable news outlets including CNN, FOX, and CNBC.

Publications

McPeak is the author of the book Protestival: A Twenty Year Retrospective of Seattle HEMPFEST.[3] He has a weekly radio podcast at cannabisradio.com called Hempresent.[4]

McPeak is a guest blogger for the SeattlePI.com,[5] he has also been published in the "social-political-religious criticism and satire" magazine the Realist by Paul Krassner.

In 2015 McPeak was the opening keynote speaker at the Washington Cannabis Summit at the Crowne Plaza in Seatac, Washington.

References

  1. ↑ "History Seattle HEMPFEST". Hempfest.org. June 20, 2014. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  2. ↑ Martin A. Lee (August 13, 2013). Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific. Simon and Schuster. pp. 471–. ISBN 978-1-4391-0261-9.
  3. ↑ "Vivian Mc Peak's Protestival Book Signing | in Seattle". Timeout.com. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  4. ↑ "Hempresent Archives". Cannabis Radio. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  5. ↑ McPeak, Vivian. "Vivian McPeak – Vivian McPeak is a Pacific Northwest based musician and social justice activist. He is also the executive director of the world's largest cannabis policy reform rally, Seattle Hempfest". Blog.seattlepi.com. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
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