The Melissa Etheridge Interview: This Is M.E.

Melissa Etheridge is known around the globe as a songwriting musician who’s earned all the badges of celebrity honor. With two Grammys, millions of albums sold and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she’s achieved a type of luminary status that generally comes with a team of PR specialists warning against saying the wrong thing and causing a media frenzy that tarnishes an otherwise solid-gold image – like advocating for cannabis.

But Etheridge isn’t one to let stigmas stop her. In September, she was the keynote speaker at theCannabis World Congress and Business Expo in Los Angeles — the nexus of high finance and the burgeoning marijuana economy — where her affability, intelligence and personal connection won over the crowd and inked yet another glowing line on her already impressive curriculum vitae: cannabis activist.

Her message is straight forward. Cannabis should be legalized and the people who...

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