Voters approve a declaration of policy recommending that California and the California Medical Association restore hemp medical preparations to available medicines and protect prescribing physicians. Dennis Peron and Mary Jane Rathbun campaign for the measure. The declaration expresses local support; it does not create an exemption from state or federal criminal law. California's statewide patient exemption follows in 1996.[1][2][3]
In the cultural atlas
People · American cannabis and gay-rights activist · 1945–2018Dennis PeronA San Francisco cannabis seller and gay-rights activist who helped turn care for people with AIDS into the campaign for California’s 1996 medical-cannabis law.
People · American hospital volunteer and medical-cannabis campaigner · 1922–1999Mary Jane “Brownie Mary” RathbunThe San Francisco hospital volunteer whose cannabis brownies, arrests and work with people with AIDS helped make medical cannabis a public cause.
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