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The koalas are back with the latest instalment of Steve’s long and storied life in cannabis.
The 80’s see many changes in Steve’s life.
Time for law school!
The university tours continue engaging with students rather than faculty and it’s time to decamp to the west coast, Berkeley specifically as California develops an understanding of “medical” cannabis and cannabis in the community.
Two prominent names become more public in their cannabis activism and Steve starts a new phase in his life.
Jack Herer
Jack Herer (; June 18, 1939 – April 15, 2010), sometimes called the “Emperor of Hemp“, was an American cannabis rights activist and the author of the 1985 book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Herer founded and served as the director of the organization Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP).[1]
As an activist, he advocated for the decriminalization of the cannabis plant and argued that it could be used as a renewable source of fuel, medicine, food, fiber, and paper/pulp and that it can be grown in virtually any part of the world for medicinal as well as economic purposes. He further asserted that the U.S. government has been deliberately hiding the proof of this from its own citizens.
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Dennis Peron
Dennis Robert Peron (April 8, 1945[1] – January 27, 2018) was an American activist and businessman who became a leader in the movement for the legalization of cannabis throughout the 1990s. He influenced many in California and thus changed the political debate on marijuana in the United States.[2][3]
Peron sold cannabis from storefronts in the Castro District and advocated for medical cannabis, as he saw how patients with AIDS benefited from it. His partner, Jonathan West, whom he met in San Francisco, died of AIDS in 1990.[4] In 1991, Peron organized for the passage of San Francisco’s Proposition P, a resolution calling on the state government to permit medical cannabis, which received 79% of the vote.[9] That same year, he co-founded the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, the first public cannabis dispensary. His businesses were raided by authorities in 1978 and 1990.[10] In 1993, Peron and Brownie Mary jointly released a cookbook with recipes for cannabis edibles.[11]
In 1996, Peron coauthored California Proposition 215, which sought to allow the use of medical cannabis.[12] Dan Lungren, the Attorney General of California, ordered a police raid of Peron’s club a month before the election, arresting Peron.[13] Peron worked with other activists such as Scott Imler and Valerie Corral.[14] Proposition 215 was passed soon thereafter, which allowed the club to reopen. Later in 1996, the Grassroots Party fielded Peron as their nominee, in the U.S. presidential election. Peron was on the ballot in Minnesota and Vermont, and received 5,400 votes.[15] In 1998, Peron ran in the Republican primary for California governor against Lungren, who won the primary and lost the election to Gray Davis.[16]
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