Weed Warriors
Spring, 2019
The pot we smoke, vape and eat owes its increased legal status to a handful of pioneering activists—and, in one case, a platform and war chest provided by Playboy“PLEASE, PLAYBOY, KEEP UP YOUR FIGHT AGAINST OURbarbaric marijuana laws.” This January 1969 entreaty from a reader, regarding a Texas man who had received a 50-year sentence for selling a matchbox full of marijuana for 5, was one of more than three dozen letters about marijuana the magazine printed that year alone. One reader had been b...
