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US CA: Rodgers, Cannabis Club Director, at 81
URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n665/a02.html
Newshawk:
Frank S. World
Pubdate: Fri, 19 May 2000
Source: San
Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Copyright: 2000 San Francisco
Chronicle
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Author: Steve
Rubenstein
RODGERS, CANNABIS CLUB DIRECTOR, AT 81
Hazel Rodgers, a
former secretary who used marijuana during her late 70s to treat her glaucoma
and then found herself a leader of the medicinal marijuana movement, died Sunday
after a brief illness in San Francisco. She was 81.
Known by some as
Grandma Ganja, Mrs. Rodgers served briefly as the director of the San Francisco
Cannabis Club, in an episode that brings fond smiles to the club's clients and
supporters.
A native of Norfolk, Neb., Mrs. Rodgers came to San
Francisco in 1937 and walked across the Golden Gate Bridge on its opening day.
For many years, she was the private secretary to the president of the state
council of carpenters and a labor union activist.
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