title: Jean-Pierre Galland
text: # Jean-Pierre Galland
  
  Jean-Pierre Galland (born March 2, 1951) is a French writer and activist. In 1991, his bestseller Fumée Clandestine, an illustrated and documented work devoted to cannabis in all its aspects, will propel him as the first representative of the fight for cannabis legalization in France.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Born in Lyon, Jean-Pierre Galland smoked his first joint around the age of 17. Having become a writer, he published a few thrillers in the early 1980s, then in 1988, he offered Ramsay a book project on cannabis. This book, released in 1991 under the title Fumée Clandestine, received tremendous media coverage after the author appeared on the Canal+ television program « Nulle part ailleurs [fr] ». In the wake of the success of his book, Galland participated with friends in the founding of the Collectif d'Information et de Recherche Cannabique (CIRC) on 20 November 1991, an association of which he remained president for twenty years.
  
  In 1994, he relaunched « l'appel du 18 Joint », originally published in the newspaper Libération in 1976.
  
  Jean-Pierre Galland has been the subject of several legal proceedings, despite the support of many personalities and associations. In particular, he was accused of publishing, through the IARC, documents in favor of drug liberalization and leaflets informing about consumption that limits the risks of cannabis, thus presenting it in a favorable light, which falls under the law.
  
  As an activist, he is therefore in line with other associations and NGOs on the perspective of reducing the damage associated with the consumption of psychotropic substances. Jean-Pierre Galland also participated, alongside Michel Sitbon, in the creation of Éditions du Lézard and Éditions Trouble-Fête. In 2013, he published the first volume of Cannabis 40 ans de malentendus, relating the general history of the movements in favor of the decriminalization of the use, possession and cultivation of cannabis.
  
  In 1999, he was a candidate for the Greens in the European elections.
  
  