Talk:1996 California Proposition 215

message: Note: Recently Scott Imler asked to have my name removed and his name added as an author of Prop. 215. However, Scott failed to disclose that his version was rejected by the California Election Dept. and replaced by a version authored by Dennis Peron and Anna Boyce. I have only claimed that I helped write the initiative, as documented by a letter from Dennis Peron. Below is further documentation to support what I have said. --Steve Kubby
:Actually, Scott Imler was not the one who e-mailed in. Cbrown1023 talk 02:14, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Steve kubby's Role in Prop. 215 Campaign

message: Prop 215 was was at one point at risk. If the required number of signatures was not attained, it could not be on the ballot. Jack Herer endorsed the initiative within the first three months of the campaign kicked off at 1444 Market Street, the notorious Cannabis Buyer's Club which had relocated there from 194 Church Street where it operated under police surveillance (tapes available) since 1994. The original founders of the CBC included myself, Jon Entwhistle, Dennis Peron, Brownie Mary Rathbun, Mary Gennoy, and a host of others each whom worked at a particular task, attending to new members, monitoring the door or the bar, and working in the weighing and packaging room. Others provided product in the form of brownies and other medical treats, including "pills" made of pure marijuana and extra virgin olive oil. I made those, so I can attest to these statements. Although Anna Boyce and Dennis Peron are the official proponents of 215, the early supporters easily numbered in the hundreds, including Scott Imler of Santa Cruz, later LA, Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, and Jon Entwistle, acting secretary and then assistant director for Californians for Compassionate Use, a group formed to promote the proposition, as yet unnamed, but to be known as The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 or Proposition 215 on the 1996 California ballot. Steve Kubby was involved in the initiative, but not more so than a dozen others. Perhaps a telephone log of Peron's office phone would provide further evidence of the participants activities.
From my recall, Lynette Shaw was an active organizer who worked to provide support to the meeting mentioned elsewhere in this wiki which resulted in campaign contributions from Zimmerman of The Men's Wearhouse and Soros. The money enabled the signature collectors to be paid an additional 40 cents, from .60 to $1.00. Herer worked in LA, Orange County and Venice Beach primarily but organized petitioners throughout California. Other organizers took charge of collecting signatures in their perspective counties. The depression mentioned re Peron was but a brief moment and in consideration of the fact that to meet the ballot requirements, we may fall short on signatures, lacking ability to organize in all California counties at once. One of the early solutions was to enable an online petition, the first of its kind, that voters could download at home and fill up and return by mail or in person. Many organizers came with ballot innitiatives in person to the campaign headquarters, then 1444 Market Street, though addresses for 3745 17th Street remained active and in use.
It is awkward to list the true names of those who wrote the innitiative. The best chance of getting this information factual is to ask Peron or Entwistle, Dale Geringer, or Todd Mikuryia, all present during the many rewitings of the innitiative which was being written in late 1995 as a follow up to a successful city innitiative in san Francisco, Proposition P, backed and written by Dennis Peron. As I recall, Anna Boyce was a retired nurse from Orange County. Her contribution to the campaign was very inportant to bringing in mainstream voters in the southern part of the state. There is no doubt that she lent her name to the proposition or that she collaborated in the writing and wording of the proposition. Likewise, Jack Herer frequently offered his opinion in person or by phone, as did Dale Geirenger, Todd Mikuriya, Jon Entwistle, and others, unnamed. I can attest to the contribution of and/or which was approved by the Legislative Analyst in Sacramento. The critical importance of each word and the large nuber of contributers to the writing of said document would lead to its success. This was not written overnight, rather over a series of weeks, even several months.
Sadly, Kubby who was among the many very active proponents and signature organizers was busted repeatedly after the propostition passed, and actively campaigned against unjust federal and state laws, asking that the real intent of Prop 215 be noted and upheld.
In summary, there can be but two writers whose names appear on this initiative, Dennis Peron and Anna Boyce. The real writers are not the "movement", but the many activist who were clearly involved in the Cannabis Club and legalization activities from 1994 to Nov. 1996, inclusive of Hazel Rodgers, Mary Gennoy, Jon Entwistle, Wayne Justin, Gilbert Baker, Todd Mikuryia, numerous politicians throughout the United States and of course, California, and celebrities such as Chris Conrad, Snoop Dog, Barbara Streisand, Willie Nelson, Bill Murry, Tommy Chong, Woody Harrelson, myself and untold others.
Jeffrey Bullard
June 13, 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.188.118.34 (talk) 03:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  other contributors 

message: I was reading the article for basic research and was surprised that, while there's an entire section on the Yes on 215 campaign, there's nothing on the opposition to the proposition. I was hoping to find the dire predictions that people had before the proposition passed, but there's nothing on the page. (please feel free to correct me if there was no No on 215 campaign, but it seems like the kind of issue where there would be an opposition)Bigben987 (talk) 12:17, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No on 215 campaign 

message: Unfortunately,  appears to have made up a lot of nonsense and added it to this article. As a result, this article needs to be completely rewritten, possibly reduced to a stub. Viriditas (talk) 03:33, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Blatant falsehoods by [[User:72.171.0.138]]