Dennis Peron, dad of medical marijuana in California, dies at 72

hashishDennis Peron, dad of medical marijuana in California, dies at 72 Activist was prominent in San Francisco gay communityPeron co-wrote California Proposition 215, legalizing medical pot In a 1996 picture Dennis Peron, leader of the campaign for Proposition 215 & founder of the hashishBuyers Club, smokes a marijuana cigarette. Photograph: Andy Kuno/APDennis Peron, the activist who fired up the movement to legalize medical marijuana in California, died on Saturday in a San Francisco infirmary. That was seen as a precursor to the statewide legalization of medical pot in 1996, by the passage of California Proposition 215, that Peron co-wrote. Today, medical marijuana is legal in generality America states & Washington DC. He was arrested various times & was once bullet in the leg by a police officer, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.




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Point of View: backing for medical marijuana access based on realities

linked coverageMike Brake (Point of View, Jan. 17) is entitled to his own opinions about medical marijuana. reality: Majorities of doctors & patients backing legal access to medical cannabis. According to a Jan. eleven, 2018 nationwide Quinnipiac Poll, 91 percent of voters saw marijuana must be legal for medical purposes. According to a 2016 research published in the American Journal of Public Health, "[O]n Rate, medical marijuana law states had reduce traffic fatality rates than non-MML (medical marijuana law) states. .... Medical marijuana laws are associated by reductions in traffic fatalities, particularly pronounced between those aged 25 to 44 years."Numerous researches more conclude which legal hashishaccess mitigates Opium abuse & mortality.


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