Pebbles Trippet

Pebbles Trippet, given name Mary Susan – known as "Sudi" to family and friends, and as "Pebbles" later in life –has been a long-time cannabis activist in Northern California. Pebbles had suffered intractable migraine headaches since early childhood. When she began smoking marijuana in the 1960s, she realized it had a palliative effect. It wasn't until she moved to San Francisco in 1972 that legalizing the herb became her primary focus as an activist. Her name is enshrined in CA state law for the Trippet decision, in which she won a appeals court ruling that the state’s medical marijuana law, Prop 215, covers transportation of any reasonable amount of cannabis for personal medical use. In 2017 NBC San Francisco aired a documentary that gave Pebbles proper credit for advancing the movement. Peter Coyote narrated.