Description: (Zoologist)
Mary Jane Rathbun, also known as Brownie Mary, was an influential American medical cannabis rights activist. She became well-known for baking and sharing cannabis brownies with AIDS patients at San Francisco General Hospital. Together with Dennis Peron, she actively campaigned for the legalization of medical cannabis, which resulted in the approval of San Francisco Proposition P and California Proposition 215. Rathbun was instrumental in founding the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, the first medical cannabis dispensary in the United States. Her frequent arrests brought significant awareness and backing to the medical cannabis cause.