“Marijuana in the Haight” Panel Discussion on Cannabis Today | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Summer “Now Festival” 2018 | June 22-24

Come on out June 22-24, 2018 to co-create the best possible version of the panhandle community for one extraordinary week as the NOW Summer Festival takes over the neighborhoods around San Francisco’s iconic Panhandle (plus a few others all over the city).

Join in for free events like build-your-own-boat race, flowers crowns, and their always popular bonfire at Ocean Beach. Most of the events are free, however, some events ask for donations or have a low cover.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Summer “Now Festival” 2018 | June 22-24

Join for a community discussion of Marijuana in the Haight: From the 1967 Grateful Dead Bust to Legalization in 2016.

The event will feature some of the original movers and shakers from the Haight’s heyday to talk about how medical and health approaches to cannabis have evolved from the Summer of Love to the possibility of legalization in the present.

Featuring:

• Steve Heilig of the San Francisco Medical Society and member of Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana.
• David Smith MD, founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, will talk about how medical and health approaches to cannabis have evolved.
• Michael Stepanian and Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally, PhD will talk about the Big Bust on Ashbury.
• San Francisco Assistant DA Andrew Clark will discuss how marijuana offenses are handled now in contrast to 1967.
• Drug Policy Alliance leader Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD, also from the Newsom commission, will address “”What about the Children” drug education then and now.
• David Talbot, author Season of the Witch, will share recollections as well.

The newly published Journal Of Psychoactive Drugs theme issue on Marijuana in California will be on sale for $10.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.