Dennis Peron, right, with another marijuana activist, Jack Herer, in San Francisco in 1996 during a legalization campaign. Peron at the headquarters of his medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco in 1997. Peron is survived by his brothers, Brian and Jeffrey.In 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64, legalizing recreational marijuana in California. Peron attended the City College of San Francisco on the G.I. Bill — while selling marijuana on the side. Peron had his cause: to change the laws that criminalized the possession of marijuana for medical use.
Dennis Peron, who openly dealt marijuana from a “supermarket” in San Francisco in the 1970s before leading a successful campaign to legalize it for medical use in California two decades later, died on Saturday at a San Francisco hospital. He was 71.
John Entwistle Jr., his spouse, said the cause was respiratory failure.
Mr. Peron was identified with marijuana all his adult life.
He began smoking it at 17. He continued in Vietnam, where he served in the Air Force,...
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