The choice of Texas for the meeting is symbolic. Lost in the focus on the federal legislation are the brutal state-by-state battles being waged for this research.

He said if I would form an organization to advance scientific research from a legal perspective, he would join the advisory board,

I feel like I jumped out of an airplane at 40,000 feet without a parachute,

I realized there was a vacuum, an unmet need for an organization that could stitch together all of the stakeholders into a unified voice. I created this nonprofit organization to fill that need,