Jesse Stout

Who is Jesse Stout?

Jesse Stout is an American attorney and drug policy reform activist. He serves as the Policy Director at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. He is a founder of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition which successfully lobbied the state of Rhode Island for the creation of a medical marijuana program in 2006. In 2009, Stout and RIPAC passed the third piece of medical marijuana legislation in Rhode Island calling for the creation of "Compassion Centers" for the distribution of medical marijuana to patients.

In August 2007 Stout was the High Times Freedom Fighter of the Month. In 2010 he was given the Student Activism Award by NORML.

Stout graduated from Brown University in Providence, RI in 2006 and University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, CA in 2012. From 2010 to 2012 he served on the board of directors for Students for Sensible Drug Policy.