Jean-Pierre Galland

Jean-Pierre Galland smoked marijuana for the firs time at the age of 17. Having become a writer, he published a few detective stories in the early 1980s. In 1988, he offered Ramsay editions a project for a book on cannabis. This book, which came out in 1991 under the title "Smoke clandestine", received a tremendous media response after the author's appearance in the television program of the Canal + channel "Nulle part autre".[5] In the wake of the success of his book, Galland participated with friends in the foundation of the Collectif d'Information et de Recherche Cannabique, which he remained president of for twenty years.

Jean-Pierre Galland has been the subject of several legal proceedings, having notably been accused of publishing, through IARC, documents in favor of drug regulation and leaflets informing about consumption that limits the risks of cannabis.

As an activist, he is in line with other associations and NGOs with a view to reducing the damage linked to the consumption of psychotropic substances.

Galland also participated in the creation of Éditions du Lézard alongside Michel Sitbon as well as to Éditions Trouble-Fête.

In 2013, he published the first volume of the Cannabis trilogy 40 Years of Misunderstandings, chronicling the general history of movements in favor of the de-criminalization of the use, possession and cultivation of cannabis.