Our Board members are a diverse group of people from all walks of life who have one thing in common: passion for individual freedom, responsibility, and liberty.
- Executive Director
We currently have no-one willing to take on this role, and as the role is a demanding one that our team is managing well enough without, we are content to wait until someone suitably qualified and available comes forward.
Jo Martin Moss - Deputy Director
A medical cannabis user and mum of 5, Jo, has worked as a Care Home Manager, Support Worker, Community Worker and spent 15 years as a campaigner for the National Childbirth trust. She has a wide range of experience in the health sector and in management to bring to NORML UK.
As Deputy Director, Jo hopes to support the rest of the board in planning, team-building, communications and policy development, and occasionally writing something creative.
Away from cannabis activism, Jo’s interests include her family, traveling, cooking, gardening, music and photography.
Chris Bovey - Treasurer and Webmaster
Chris is a successful Internet entrepreneur who has set up a variety of companies ranging from head shops and cannabis seeds sales to the design and manufacture of Solid State Drives and other computer peripherals.
Chris has always been passionate about individual liberty and the desire for the state to let us get on with our right to pursue peaceful activities without intervention from the authorities.
Chris hopes his wide experience in business will lend benefit to NORML UK helping it to become a successful cannabis campaigning organisation.
Lesley Reynolds - Secretary
Lesley has experience in administration, development, management, promotion and cannabis education. She has had a long and varied career, and spent 8 years working as an accounts supervisor and business manager, and 9 years as a secretary for a union of youth clubs in London.
Lesley was the first female hydroponic shop owner in the 90s, at a time when there were only 25 shops in the entire country. The Dutch called her “the pot lady” as she sold more actual pots than anyone else at that time, even supplying to the uk garden centres. She left the business in 2006 and currently runs an Italian pizzeria in addition to her duties as Secretary.
Lesley became our secretary after attending the Hyde Park 420 demo and realising she wanted to give back what she could to the movement. With her broad range of skills, she is willing to help in any capacity that is needed to support the cause.
Alan Pavia - Public Relations and Media Director
Alan currently earns his living working as a self employed electrician in Surrey and has been a recreational user of cannabis for over 20 years. Having studied Spanish and Psychology at Surrey University-Roehampton and Criminology and Sociology at Brighton University, he has an intense desire to actively engage with policy makers, politicians, policy enforcement officers and effect change of the legislation by challenging the current state of UK drug laws. With an extensive background in Sales and Business, Alan has a range of useful skills, knowledge and experience to bring to NORML-UK.
Despite having only recently become an activist he has quickly established himself within the cannabis activist community and taken on leading roles to help further the movement.
“My main goals will be to increase public awareness through any and all available media, to open up and encourage this debate across all political, social and economic platforms and to network and unite all organisations and individuals with the same common goal, to legalise cannabis for all of its many uses.”
Greg de Hoedt - Communications & Community Outreach Director
Greg de Hoedt is a filmmaker who has battled with Crohn’s Disease since his teens and fortunately found cannabis to be the most beneficial medicine in his quest for health. Greg quit his job to focus on his health and cannabis advocacy.
Greg spent 6 months traveling up and down the west coast of America to document the medical cannabis community that is currently thriving after more than 15 years of legal state protection and, in some form or another, regulation.
Greg says, “I will be looking to build bridges between the cannabis community and other national networks and organisations that would benefit from and be happy to promote the NORML UK mission. Expect to see lots of videos, blogs and podcasts from me as I travel across the United Kingdom with the UKCSC local activist movement.”
Free Rob Cannabis - Education Director
Free Rob Cannabis (his legal name) has been a cannabis activist for over 20 years, primarily focussing on education. In the 1990s, Free Rob founded the Cannabis Hemp Information Club (CHIC) and a “Cannabis Museum” in London. He organized international CHIC conferences and created displays, literature and demonstrations.
Free Rob came to the limelight after he handed out cannabis brownies with Howard Marks in Hyde Park. Free Rob made an appointment at Marylebone police station to be arrested, where upon arrival the police refused to arrest him. Free Rob now owns a “hemporium” in Glastonbury where he promotes the uses of cannabis as food, fibre, fuel, medicine and inspiration.
Clark French - Medical Campaign Director
Born in the autumn of 85, Clark lives in Reading, England. He was diagnosed with MS in 2010 and found cannabis helps him deal with his symptoms. He now wants to spread awareness of the therapeutic potential of cannabis.
Clark is an enthusiastic media interviewee, and has appeared on BBC Television, Channel 4, local newspapers, national and international news websites, BBC and Private Radio programmes and many online pod-casts/radio stations, in his fight for personal freedom to use cannabis as a medicine.
Political Lobbying Director - TBA
Lowell Wolfe - Civil Rights Campaign Director
Matt Aldridge – Harm Reduction Campaign Director
Deej Sullivan - Membership Secretary
- Organisations Outreach Director
We are currently looking for volunteers to fill this role.
Regional roles
Des Humphrey - Community Outreach Director (Wales)
Des served in HM Forces for 10 years and suffered a very bad fall whilst serving abroad on a live firing exercise, but that didn’t keep him down. He was then run over by a car in Cardiff after representing the Battalion in rugby against Newport, then to top it off he suffered a neck injury again playing rugby for the Battalion at Cardiff Blues ground against RWF.
Des has never hid the fact he consumes cannabis for medical consumption but he strongly agrees with freedom of choice. One of his favourite sayings includes: “My Body, My Mind, My Disability, My Pains, Our Plant! Let us be FREE.”
Chris Mackenzie - Community Outreach Director (Scotland)
Chris Mackenzie has been a recreational cannabis consumer for six years. During the first few years, he conducted his own research online and studied the medicinal benefits of the plant as well as the many uses of hemp. He encouraged a close family member, with serious heath problems, to medicate with cannabis and witnessed positive results first hand. These results, coupled with his own research, spurred him on to becoming an activist so that he could educate others about the great many uses of the cannabis plant.
NORML UK and the UKCSC Model played an important part in his journey towards activism. In March 2012, after being encouraged by the UKCSC community, Chris established the Glasgow Cannabis Social Club in preparation for the upcoming 420 events. He hosted the first official Scottish 420 event in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow.
In April 2013, he was elected as the Scottish Regional Organiser for UKCSC, which sees him play an integral part in the development of new and existing cannabis social clubs in Scotland. Since then he has helped to form 8 other clubs in Scotland and is continuing to expand the cannabis community north of the border.