Bruce Shoop is a minister, graphic artist, computer pioneer, entrepreneur, and campaigner against the US drug policy. In 2006, he founded the Green Earth Ministries, a chapter of the THC Ministry and religion that considers cannabis to be a sacrament.

William Bruce Shoop was born on May 23, 1967 in Miami, Florida. Raised and schooled in metropolitan Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, he graduated from Miami Norland high school in 1985, and attended The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama from 1985 through 1989.

After four years of college studies he graduated with a bachelor's degree in corporate finance. He spent the next couple of years between Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia pursuing a career path in his chosen college specialty before moved back to his home state of Florida for the next dozen years as a small business owner. An avid outdoorsman and adventurer, Bruce developed a love for flying and travel and received his Private Pilot certificate in 1995.

Bruce began learning to program computers at the age of 12 when he paid $600 for half of his first Apple II microcomputer for Christmas out of the money he earned cleaning cages and helping out at a local petshop. With many years of advanced programming study and practice in the field of computers and information technology, he was one of the early professional pioneers on the world wide web and founded PlanetWebSite in March of 1998, and most recently The Global Webisphere, an emerging global awareness project in 2006.

In 2001, he moved to Fairhope, Alabama to reconnect with rural America and his love for the outdoors. On October 14, 2006 he was married to Brenda Sue Williams of Pensacola, Florida. He now lives in Robertsdale, Alabama where he has become a Cannabis activists while awaiting trial for charges brought against he and his wife, Brenda(a licenced Registered Nurse), for growing sacramental cannabis herbs in his private garden in September 2006.