Brownie Mary

Brownie Mary

Mary Jane Rathbun (22 December, 1923, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 10 April, 1999, Forest Hill, San Francisco, California), popularly known as Brownie Mary, was an American hospital volunteer who became internationally known as a medical cannabis activist. Brownie Mary was famous for baking and distributing "Alice B. Toklas brownies" and volunteering in the AIDS ward of San Francisco General Hospital. [cite news
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] She was active in efforts to legalize cannabis use for people with AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and other diseases, helped Dennis Peron establish the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, and worked on Proposition P and California Proposition 215.

In 1986, SFGH's Ward 86 honored Brownie Mary with a "Volunteer of The Year" award. In 1992, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared August 25 "Brownie Mary Day".cite news
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] She was named a "Living Saint" in 1994 at the San Francisco Saints Alive Benefit. In 1997 the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence dubbed her "Saint Brownie Fucking Mary" at Mary's request as she was a lifelong atheist. Mary was also included in the Sisters' Nuns of the Above AIDS Memorial Quilt for her work with and advocating for people with AIDS.

Brownie Mary died of a heart attack at a Laguna Honda nursing home for the poor at age 77.

References

Bibliography

* (1996). "Brownie Mary's Marijuana Cookbook, Dennis Peron's Recipe for Social Change ". Trail of Smoke Publishing Co. ISBN 0-9639892-0-0

Further reading

* Potter, Beverly. (1998) "The Healing Magic of Cannabis". Ronin Publishing. ISBN 1579510019
* Russo, Ethan. (2001). "Cannabis Therapeutics in HIV/Aids". Haworth Press. ISBN 0789016990.
* Saxon, Wolfgang. (1999). "Mary Jane Rathbun, 77, Baker Known for Marijuana Brownies". "The New York Times". Obituary. April 14.


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