Wall of Fame

Ager, Alan / AIDS patient, First Prop 215 caregiver defendant

Aldrich, Michael and Michelle / Michael co-founded Amorphia and produced the first hemp rolling papers, Michelle joined him working on Prop 19 in 1972 and they married. Both worked on Prop 215 and Michael was director of the SF CHAMP dispensary that fought 280E IRS tax requirements. Co-founders of CCHS.

Armstrong, Louis / Jazz musician, arrested 1930

Baldwin, Michael / Cannabis patient charged with cultivation, Researcher who challenged police ‘experts’

Bearman, David / Cannabis physician, expert witness and author, CCHS Advisory Board.

Blake, Tim / Area 101 cannabis dispensary, Emerald Cup founder

Boyce, Anna / Nurse, Proponent of Prop 215

Britt, Bill / PAN, cannabis expert witness

Bronner, David / Funder, President of Dr Bronners Soap company, did civil disobedience in DC by planting hemp and in Sacramento for protesting for medical marijuana patients

Brownell, Gordon / Proponent of the original Prop 19 in 1972

Byars, Karen / Patient, early advocate for CBD, events promoter

Clarke, Rob / Botanist, breeder, author

Corral, Valerie & Mike / WAMM collective founders and growers in Santa Cruz, involved in SB 420 legislation.

Davis, Richard / Founder of US Hemp Museum, grower near Willits, drove his mobile hemp museum across the state, author

DeAngelo, Steve & Andrew / Ecolution hemp company in 1990s, Hemp Industry Association co-fouders, Harborside Health Center patient collective in the 2000s,

Duncan, Don / Worked with Cannabis Action Network (CAN), Berkeley Cannabis Consumers Union, BPG Dispensary, Americans for Safe Access (ASA)

Eggemeier, Lowell / Civil disobedience arrest in 1964 was critical in launching cannabis reform in California

Entwhistle, John / San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, co-author of Proposition 215, right hand man and husband of Dennis Peron

Epis, Bryan / Cannabis caregiver and dispensary operator, federal medical marijuana POW

Erstadt, Genie / Audiographer of She Who Remembers, recorded radio programs and cannabis reform events in the 1990s and sold copies at rallies

Fontan, Etienne / Veteran activist, director of BPG, spokesperson for vets use for PTSD, Hash Church podcast  

Ford, David / Author of Marijuana, Not Guilty as Charged and Marijuana: Good Medicine, Great Sex.

Frank, Mel / Breeder, grow book author, collaborator with Ed Rosenthal

Gardner, Fred / O’Shaugnessey’s newspaper, founder of Project CBD

Genoy, Mary / Patient featured in media reports, hemp advocate, active at SFCBC

Gilbert, Barton / Proponent of California Marijuana Initiatives in 1980 and 1989 that didn’t make the ballot

Ginsberg, Allen / Beat Poet, based in NY and San Francisco, wrote “Howl”  which references cannabis use

Goldsberry, Debby / Activist, Cofounder of Cannabis Action Network (CAN), Berkeley Patients Group (BPG), the Hemporium store in SF, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), and others.

Gosney, Michael / Advocate of cannabis and psychedelics, publisher, promoter of Deep Green eannabis / ecology events

Greer, Mark / Founder of DrugSense and the Drug War Chronicle

Hallinan, Terrence / San Francisco DA, signed the Prop 215 ballot argument

Herer, Jack (1939-2010) / author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, co-author and chief proponent of the California Hemp Initiative, which never made the ballot

Jacobs, Monty (husband of Mary Pat) Beck) / Patient advocate, co-founder of Sonoma Alliance for Medical Marijuana (SAMM), helped convince Sonoma County DA to adopt SAN guidelines of 3 pounds and 100 square feet of canopy per qualified patient.

Jones, Dale & Jeff / Jeff founded the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Club (OCBC) a year before Prop 215 passed, proponent of Oaksterdam with Richard Lee, worked with Lee and married Dale during Prop 19, Dale took over OU when Lee was raided in 2012  

Kesey, Ken / Author, sponsored SF ‘acid tests’ while LSD was still legal, arrested for cannabis in 1965 in La Honda

Kizner, Dave / The Hempman, sold hemp retail at rallies, introducing many to hemp products and helping get hemp businesses established.

Hergenrather, Dr. Jeff / Cannabis physician, MD, Supporter of Prop 215 and SAMM, cannabis expert witness, co-founder of Society of Cannabis Clinicians (SCC).  

Imler, Scott / Gay Rights and AIDS activist, co-author of Prop 215, founder of West Hollywood CBC, raided by federal agents but not prosecuted

Kane, Mari / Founder, editor and publisher of HempWorld magazine, the first trade publication for industrial hemp

Kaplan, John / 1929-1989, Academic who reviewed CA marijuana laws in 1966, wrote Marhhuana: The New Prohibition (1969)

Kerry, Theodora / Holy Hemp Sisters and Cannabis Conversations in Santa Cruz, coined the term ‘hempster’

Kiczenski, Ron / Cannabis hemp advocate, sent books and a cannabis pack including marijuana to President Clinton, 3-Hawks group won acquittal for planting industrial hemp in 1995

Komp, Ellen / Hempster, worked on CHI, Prop 215, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, and CANORML, Created Very Important Potheads website, authored Tokin’ Women.

Landa, Steph & Kikuchi, Tom / Caregivers, Federal POWs after their SF dispensary was raided, founders of Overgrow support network for drug war POWs

Landers, Ryan / AIDS and MMJ activist from Sacramento, defendant support, sat on City’s cannabis advisory group

Laughter, Wade / Nevada Co grower, popularized high-CBD harlequin variety, Caladrius Network

Lee, Martin / Project CBD, author

Lee, Richard (1962 – 2025) / Mayor of Oaksterdam, founder of OU, O’dam News, O’dam Cannabis Museum, Proponent of Measure Z and Prop 19, collaborator with Jeff and Dale Jones

Lepp, Eddie / Caregiver, busted in Lake County and acquitted, founder of Eddie’s Medical Marijuana Garden, raided by feds and became cannabis POW.  

Levine, Steve / Founder of Santa Barbara Hemp Co., long-time President of the HIA, worked with David Bronner

Lucido, Dr. Frank / Supporter of Prop 215, medical cannabis physician and expert witness, co-founder of Society of Cannabis Clinicians

Markgraaf, Dion / San Diego activist, worked in Amsterdam and internationally, founded SD CBC, hempcrete advocate, event organizer

McCormick, Todd / grower, known as Pot Prince of Bel Air, arrested in Ohio and in LA by Feds, devised multi-media version of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, sponsored THC Expo, raided again by Feds in Oakland when Oaksterdam was raided.

McWilliams, Peter / Self-help author, AIDS patient, Libertarian candidate, worked with WH CBC, arrested by Feds, denied access to medical marijuana to control vomiting and died as a direct result of the court order.

Mikuriya, Dr. Tod (1933-2007) / Author of Marijuana Medical Papers, co-author of Prop 215, physician named by Drug Czar in anti-medical marijuana press conference, beat charges put forth by the CA Medical Board.

Mills, Marie & Theresa / Mother and daughter team. Founders and operators of The Hemp Connection in Garberville, the first hemp store in California.

Musikka, Elvy / Federal Investigational New Drug (IND) cannabis patient, went on speaking tours, hemp rallies and media. “If I have access to medical marijuana, so should every other patient who needs it.” Musician, The War on Us.

Ommaha, Michael d.2021 / Sponsored first 1970s growers’ cups, founded The Farmacy dispensary

Osburn, Lynn & Judy / Husband and wife team, successfully fought forfeiture of their farm, authored The Spectre of Forfeiture, worked on The Emperor Wears No Clothes, grew for WH CBC and were caught up in the federal raid there.

Paoli, Leo / Worked on the first Prop 19 campaign in 1972

Parker, Cat / Worked on Prop 19 campaign in 2010, Prop 64 in 2016 and for Drug Policy Alliance (DPA),  

Parker, Sean / Tech billionaire who financed the successful Prop 64 legalization initiative in 2016.

Penn, Candee / Long-time secretary of the HIA, largely credited for keeping the trade association together for its first decade of existence.

Peron, Dennis (1945-2018) / Prop P, San Francisco CBC, co-author and proponent of Prop 215, co-author of The Brownie Mary Cookbook.

Raich, Angel & Rob / Argued that marijuana grown in California and given to a qualified patient for free did not fit under the Interstate Commerce Clause that is the basis for federal prohibition. Won at the appellate level but the US Supreme Court disagreed and held in Gonzalez v Raich that the CSA to be Constitutional in 2003.

Rathbun, Brownie Mary (1922-1999) / Nurse, AIDS patient advocate and provider of medical marijuana in the form of brownies. Arrested for distribution but not charged.

Reiman, Amanda / PhD researcher, worked for DPA, founding member of CCHS    

Resner, Virginia / California Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), co-founder of Human Rights and the Drug War, director of Green Aid

Rogers, Hazel / Nurse, advocate for medical use of cannabis

Romo, Asencion / First known California cannabis arrest in the notorious Sonoratown marihuana bust in Los Angeles, 1914

Rosenbaum, Marsha / Director of the California DPA, Helped arrange financing for Prop 215, author of Safety First and the Safety First drug education program for schools

Rosenthal, Ed / Grower, advocate

Schmidt, Robert / Genesis, Cannabis Cowboy

Scarmazzo, Luke / Caregiver, POW

Scott, Donald / Forfeiture Raid

Serbin, Lawrence / BACH, HempTraders

Shafer, Cliff / Drug Library

Shaw, Lynette / Fairfax CBC

Sherer, Steph / ASA

Smith, Aaron / SAN, NCIA

Speciale, Aundre / Sacramento CBC, CBCB

Stahl, John / Evanescent Press hemp paper Declaration

Stonehill, Jeffrey / Hemp

Swerdlow, Lanny / MAPPS

Tischler, “Nurse” Andrea / Compassion Flower Inn

Trippet, Pebbles / Trippet v CA win in appeals court

Vasquez, Lauren / SSDP, Prop 64

Watson, Dave / Breeder, Skunk, Haze, Cal Orange, Early Girl, Durban Poison (Mel Frank), etc.

Waldos, The / San Rafael, 420

Zimmer, George / Prop 215, State of the World Forum

Allman, Sheriff Tom / Mendo

Ammiano, Assy. Tom / SF Sup, Assemblyman

Brown, Governor Jerry / Moscone Act Decrim, MMRSA, rewrote swathes of Prop 64 in SB 94

Eyster, David / Defense attorney, Mendo DA

Gallegos, Paul / Humboldt DA

Hallinan, Terrence / Prop 215

Hamburg, Dan / US Congress, Mendocino

Lee, Rep. Barbara

Leno, Assy. Mark / SB 420

Mello, John / Medical resolution

Maher, Bill / Comedian, Prop 19

Moscone, George / Decrim

Mullins, DA Michael / Sonoma

Newsom, Lt. Gov Gavin / endorsed Prop 6

Rohrbacher, Rep. Dana / Congress, Medical use exemption

Vasconcellos, Sen. John / SB 420

Zimmerman, Bill / Prop 215

Berg, Eric / Shasta, valley

Denson, Ed / North Coast

Figueroa, Omar / Northern CA

Gilg, Zenia; Schulz, Danny; Meier, Lisa / Statewide defense team from Pier 5, Jackson Square

Goggin, Patrick / HIA v DEA

Gray, James / LEAP,  former Sup Court judge Orange County

Jackson Square Law / Gilg, Schultz, Bustamante, Meier

Levinsohn, Michael / Statewide

Logan, Bill / Eastern, mountains

Margolin, Bruce / LA NORML

McPike, Bill / Eastern, mountains

Michael, David / Federal courts

Nick, David / Statewide

Panzer, Bill / Statewide, CLE instructor

Pier 5 Law, Serra, Tony / Figueroa, Gretch, et al; incubator for cannabis attorneys

Public Defenders of CA / Statewide

Rice, Ben / Santa Cruz

Shevin, Eric / LA dispensaries

Spiegelman, Steve / Marin  

Stepanian, Michael / Sonoma

Tulanian, Steve / Lake