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Saturday, 20 March 2004 |
Hazel
Rogers
California, Medical marijuana patient
advocate
Hazel Rogers made national news as the little old lady
smoking from a marijuana pipe at Dennis Peron's Cannabis
Buyers' Club in San Francisco during and after the Prop 215
campaign to legalize medical use.
She also heroically stepped into the void as director of
the Club in 1998 when the state attorney general got a cease
and desist order to stop Peron from operating his 5-story
cannabis dispensary on Market Street. On April 20, 1998, San
Francisco County Sheriff Michael Hennessey served Peron at
around 1:30 p.m. with a court order for him to close his
Cannabis Buyers Club. Hennessey, a supporter of Proposition
215, said he backed medical marijuana clubs because he knew
sick people who appeared to derive therapeutic benefit from
the plant. "I believe it is helpful to have well-run
clubs,'' Hennessey said. On April 21, 1998, Peron announced
that a new club, the Cannabis Healing Center, had been
opened at the site of the old club, to be directed by
78-year-old medical marijuana user and advocate Hazel
Rodgers. Peron, it seems, had decided to run for
governor.
The feisty Rogers followed in Peron's footsteps but the
relentless pressure of the federal and state governments
came to a head when the property owner was threatened with
property forfeiture if he allowed any medical marijuana to
be dispensed from the premises. The club closed its doors
for the last time shortly thereafter.
She rallied support with her call to the patient advocate
community, "You are so strong when you have no fears
anymore".
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