Farid Ghehiouèche (born in 1971 in Villefranche-sur-Saône) is a French author, activist and politician, known for his involvement for cannabis and other drugs liberalization, and in pacifist, ecologist, freedom of speech, gender equality, right of asylum and prison abolition social movements.

[1] Since 2023 he has been chairman of the non-governmental organization ENCOD[2] and was selected as a member of the Standing Scientific Committee on Psychotropics, Narcotics and Addiction of the French Medicines Agency.

Since the, Ghehiouèche has been involved with a number of associations and NGOs on the discussions around drug policy reform and drug-related harm reduction, in France and abroad.

From 2003 onwards[4] Ghehiouèche attended the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Austria, as part of different NGO delegations and as media reporter.

[28] In 2015 Ghehiouèche co-founded the think-tank FAAAT with activist Michael Krawitz among others,[29] an NGO with which he was particularly involved in the World Health Organization and CND's processes of cannabis scheduling changes under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.