Without Compassion, Cannabis Doesn’t Work: California’s Fight for Patients in Need
So what did spur the era of legalization? People started risking arrest and imprisonment to provide this healing herb to the sick and dying.
The modern medical cannabis movement in America began in San Francisco, in the early 1990s, as a response to the AIDS crisis then decimating the city. Spearheaded by heroic figures like Dennis Peron and Brownie Mary, a tight-knit network of grassroots activists worked tirelessly to change the laws against cannabis via political campaigns and voter initiatives, while simultaneously subverting those very same laws by breaking them openly.