Jacob Plowden

Background

About Jacob Plowden

Jacob Plowden began his advocacy with Students for Sensible Drug Policy while at Baruch College when recruited by renowned cannabis PR specialist and friend Leland Radovanovic. Jacob now currently serves as SSDP’s State Coordinator for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) is the largest global youth-led network dedicated to ending the War on Drugs. At its heart, SSDP is a grassroots organization, led by a Board of Directors primarily elected by and from our student and youth members. SSDP brings young people of all political and ideological orientations together to have honest conversations about drugs and drug policy. We create change by providing a platform where members collaborate, communicate, share resources with, and coach each other to generate policy change, deliver honest drug education, and promote harm reduction. Jacob Plowden is also the co-founder and Deputy Director of the Cannabis Cultural Association (CCA), a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides resources to disenfranchised communities to enter the legal cannabis and hemp industries, and to advocate for justice on behalf of communities adversely affected by the War on Drugs. CCA was one of the main plaintiffs in Washington v Barr (2019), originally Washington v Sessions (2017), the revolutionary case that challenged the constitutionality of the Controlled Substances Act.