The Vermont Cannabis Coalition (VCC) was created in 2000 by Denny Lane as a continuing vehicle in which to advocate and demonstrate for the end of cannabis prohibition. Founder Denny Lane has been on numerous nationally syndicated radio shows and interviewed by all the Vermont TV networks. Denny Lane founded the Vermont Grassroots Party (VGP) in 1992 and co-founded the Cannabis Cable Network (CCN) in 1994 on Adelphia Cable Channel 15. In 2004 Owen Mulligan and Jay Vos joined Denny Lane to help turn the VCC into one of the largest coalition groups advocating for marijuana legalization in Vermont. Owen Mulligan founded Healing Hemp in 1998