Mary Jane Rathbun (1922 - 1999)
an American medical cannabis rights activist known as "Brownie Mary";
as a hospital volunteer in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s,
she baked and delivered her "magical" marijuana brownies to hundreds of
patients in order to ease their symptoms of pain and nausea;
despite being arrested 3 times over the years, she lobbied to make
medical cannabis legal in 1996, and also helped establish the first
medical cannabis dispensary in the USA.
Notable quotation --
"If the narcs think I'm gonna stop baking brownies for
my kids with AIDS, they can go fuck themselves."
Marvelous woman! What a great person, especially at that period when we didn't know exactly how AIDS was transmitted and many medical personnel refused to have any dealings with AIDS patients. The fear overrode their practice
ReplyDelete🤠Mary Jane...giggle! Her Wikipedia page has the story that at age 13, one of the nuns at her school tried to cane her and Mary Jane fought her...caning an abusive nun! ✊️🤘 I like her!! And I like that pin she is wearing; Born-Again Atheist!
ReplyDeleteIt is sad that Mary Jane's various physical ailments eventually overcame what cannabis could do for her own debilitating pain.😢
I remember her crusade! She surely dwells in whatever heaven she believes in.
ReplyDeleteI remember her! Wish I had met her.
ReplyDeleteSo fabulous!
ReplyDeleteYay for medical cannabis!
XOXO