Omar Figueroa has more than twenty six years of experience at the vanguard of California cannabis law and is widely respected as an industry expert. Omar is a Director of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts and the Sonoma County Bar Association.  Omar’s interests are not limited to cannabis, and he has a profound, long-term interest in entheogen law and policy. Omar also volunteered his time as a Board Member with the Sonoma County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California, and along with other members of its  the Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology (LEST) team spearheaded Sonoma County’s first  Surveillance Technology Ordinance. Omar has a long record of pro bono service, including decades of successfully defending protesters and activists.  Some notable pro bono cases defended by Omar include, but are not limited to: dismissal of the first federal prosecution brought under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act; dismissal of state charges against OG computer hacker Kevin Mitnick in Los Angeles County; no jail time against journalist Will Parrish in Mendocino County; dismissal against septuagenarian forest defender in Humboldt County; hung jury trial in the Southern District of California (San Diego federal court) with no jail time against legendary activist Rod Coronado; no jail time and no felony conviction against a member of the so-called Paypal 14 in the Northern District of California. Omar was trained as a litigator by his mentor, legendary San Francisco trial lawyer J. Tony Serra, sometimes called the Hippie Atticus Finch.