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Dennis Peron
Dennis Robert Peron (April 8, 1945 – January 27, 2018) was an American activist and businessman who became a leader in the movement for the legalization of cannabis throughout the 1990s. He influenced many in California and thus changed the political debate on marijuana in the United States.
The Original Prohibitionist – Harry J. Anslinger
Harry Jacob Anslinger (May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975) was a United States government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the presidencies of Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy and the first architect of the war on drugs.
Richard Anthony Marin
Richard Anthony “Cheech” Marin (born July 13, 1946) is an American activist, actor, musician, art collector, stand-up comedian and writer who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong and as Don Johnson’s partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez, on Nash Bridges.
Jack Herer (The Hemperor)
Jack Herer (June 18, 1939 – April 15, 2010), sometimes called the “Emperor of Hemp”, was an American cannabis rights activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book—in 2020 in its fourteenth edition after having been continuously in print for 35 years—frequently cited in efforts to decriminalize and legalize cannabis and to expand the use of hemp for industrial use.
Thomas King Forçade
Thomas King Forçade (September 11, 1945 – November 17, 1978), also known as Gary Goodson, was an American underground journalist and cannabis rights activist in the 1970s. or many years he ran the Underground Press Syndicate (later called the Alternative Press Syndicate), and was the founder in summer 1974 of High Times magazine.
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music”.
Brownie Mary
Mary Jane Rathbun (December 22, 1922 – April 10, 1999), popularly known as Brownie Mary, was an American medical cannabis rights activist. As a hospital volunteer at San Francisco General Hospital, she became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDS patients.
Howard Marks
Dennis Howard Marks (13 August 1945 – 10 April 2016) was a Welsh drug smuggler and author who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases. At his peak he claimed to have been smuggling consignments of the drug as large as 30 tons, and was connected with groups as diverse as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, and the Mafia.
Charlotte Parker
Charlotte Parker, formerly known as “Charlotte Faye Greenberg” (born August 3, 1949) in Vienna, Austria is the co-founder of Parker Communications, a media company that includes Parker Public Relations. She has guided the public images of over 200 celebrities, politicians, executives and corporations. She is also the founder, editor and publisher of the now out of print Head Magazine.
Thomas B. Kin Chong
Thomas B. Kin Chong (born 24 May 1938) is a Canadian activist, actor, comedian, director, musician, writer and cannabis rights activist. He is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox’s That ’70s Show. He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s.
Ed Rosenthal
Edward “Ed” Rosenthal (born Bronx, New York, 1944) is a California horticulturist, author, publisher, and Cannabis grower known for his advocacy for the legalization of marijuana use and as a columnist for High Times Magazine during the 1980s and 1990s.
Irvin Dana Beal
Irvin Dana Beal (born January 9, 1947 in Ravenna, Ohio) is an American social and political activist, best known for his efforts to legalize marijuana and to promote the benefits of Ibogaine as an addiction treatment. He is a long-term activist in the Youth International Party (Yippies). He founded the Yipster Times in 1972, the newspaper, which was later renamed Overthrow in 1978 and ended publication in 1989.
Gerald Holtom
Gerald Herbert Holtom (20 January 1914 – 18 September 1985) is likely a name you aren’t familiar with. Ironically, every man, woman and child would instantly recognize the design he gifted to the world and intentionally never copyrighted, so anyone in the world can use it for any purpose, in any medium, for free.
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music.
Nicholas Craston
Nicholas “Zorro” Craston born around 1957 and died 30 December 2018 was the editor and publisher of Red Eye Express Magazine.