Jack Herer (1939–2010), author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Hemp & The Marijuana Conspiracy, was the Grassroots presidential candidate in 1988[5] and 1992.

[5][6][7][8] In 1996 the Grassroots Party of Minnesota nominated Dennis Peron in the presidential election.

In 2000, the Grassroots Party of Vermont nominated Denny Lane as their presidential candidate.

In 2012, the Grassroots Party nominated Minnesota businessman Jim Carlson as their presidential candidate.

[12] Founding member Oliver Steinberg, who was a Republican candidate for US Congress in 1984,[13] had a background of violence discrediting the peace movement in the 1970s.

Russell Bentley, a party candidate for US Senate in 1990 and US Congress in 1992 and GRP board member, was arrested on marijuana smuggling charges in 1996.

[3][21] In 1990, Ross Culverhouse, a computer programmer and Vietnam veteran was the Grassroots gubernatorial candidate.

[22] In 2000, the party nominated David Daniels, an African American playwright/performance artist from Minneapolis, as candidate for the United States Senate.

Davis returned to the Grassroots Party and ran for United States Senator in 2012.

[28] In 2023, Grassroots Party founder Oliver Steinberg testified before the Minnesota Senate Public Safety Committee, in favor of Senate File 73 to create a regulated commercial cannabis market in the state.

[38] In 1996, genetic researcher and microbiologist Melamede, whose views promoting the curative properties of cannabis put him at odds with mainstream academia, was Grassroots candidate for U.S.

[11] The Grassroots Party of Vermont fielded candidates representing a mixture of liberal and libertarian views for over a decade.

Vermont Grassroots Party ran a full slate, including gubernatorial candidates, in 2002.

[37] In 2016, musician and martial artist Marvin Sotelo ran for U.S. House of Representatives in California's 40th congressional district as a Grassroots Party candidate.

The name of The Canvas was inspired by Webster's Dictionary definition of the word, which literally means "hempen."