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EXCLUSIVE: The history of marijuana legality is queer… & we have this gay man to thank!
altering blowing new documentary, Join The Club, from filmmakers Kip Andersen and Chris O’Connell.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.After he was drafted in the Vietnam War, the native New Yorker came out as gay and relocated to the Castro, where he began to sell weed in underground markets. With business booming, the politically involved Peron shared the wealth with his community, even supporting the campaign of his friend Harvey Milk.And when the global AIDS epidemic made its way to San Francisco in the ’80s, he started to see cannabis in a whole new way.