Clark Metcalfe is the doer, thinker, and tinkerer behind multi-branded cannabis products, marketed under such notable trade names as Clark’s Cannabis and Clark’s CBDs. The Southern California native, dubbed the Cannabis Cowboy by the Wall Street Journal and likened to Steve Jobs by Buzzfeed, is the acknowledged Pater Patriae of North American CBDs.
Prior to his entrepreneurial enterprises, Clark came of age in and around California’s 1960s counter-culture movements. For him, hippies, aging beatniks, and renegade motorcyclists were the norm. And so were the drugs. Buying, selling, and using cannabis was likely as normal as a kid’s corner lemonade stand in bourgeois America. Today, for Clark, normalizing, indeed analyzing, legalizing, and standardizing, cannabis is his mission.
Like many people who develop a resolute passion, Clark’s mission is rooted in personal experience. After receiving a Schwinn bicycle from his grandmother as a six-year-old, Clark became an avid bicyclist. Riding what he calls the two wheels of freedom that have carried him for fifty-six years, Clark went on to win many national and international bicycling tournaments, such as the Nike Master's World Games. Within a one-year span, Clark suffered two traumatic brain injuries following …show more content…
Clark maintains that with hundreds of reported and anecdotally evidenced medicinal uses, the public deserve to know the truth behind Cannabidiol. Negative connotations inspired by discriminatory misinformation and heavy-handed legislation have kept the public in the dark too long. Fortunately, right-minded insight has gained ground. And as this newfound knowledge spreads, the laws change in kind. Clark is proud of the ground gained both legally and in the hearts and minds of the American public, but until cannabis is decriminalized, studied, and appropriate efficacy established, Clark Metcalfe’s mission
Prior to his entrepreneurial enterprises, Clark came of age in and around California’s 1960s counter-culture movements. For him, hippies, aging beatniks, and renegade motorcyclists were the norm. And so were the drugs. Buying, selling, and using cannabis was likely as normal as a kid’s corner lemonade stand in bourgeois America. Today, for Clark, normalizing, indeed analyzing, legalizing, and standardizing, cannabis is his mission.
Like many people who develop a resolute passion, Clark’s mission is rooted in personal experience. After receiving a Schwinn bicycle from his grandmother as a six-year-old, Clark became an avid bicyclist. Riding what he calls the two wheels of freedom that have carried him for fifty-six years, Clark went on to win many national and international bicycling tournaments, such as the Nike Master's World Games. Within a one-year span, Clark suffered two traumatic brain injuries following …show more content…
Clark maintains that with hundreds of reported and anecdotally evidenced medicinal uses, the public deserve to know the truth behind Cannabidiol. Negative connotations inspired by discriminatory misinformation and heavy-handed legislation have kept the public in the dark too long. Fortunately, right-minded insight has gained ground. And as this newfound knowledge spreads, the laws change in kind. Clark is proud of the ground gained both legally and in the hearts and minds of the American public, but until cannabis is decriminalized, studied, and appropriate efficacy established, Clark Metcalfe’s mission