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He said the event typically draws around 40,000 people, requiring security, portable toilets and permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival’s lack of sponsorship dollars this year is likely due to inflation and the high cost of borrowing money, according to David Downs, senior editor at Leafly.com and organizer of the city’s first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://sfweedweek.com/\">SF Weed Week\u003c/a>, which is set to take place this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alex Aquino, organizer, 420 Festival\"]‘It’s really up to the sponsors to come and say, ‘Hey, we have the cash and the financing to fund this event.”[/pullquote]“Businesses are being very careful where they spend their marketing dollars. Those budgets are often the first to get cut as businesses seek profitability,” Downs said. “Hippie Hill in 2024 sailed into those headwinds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Cannabis sales have been on the decline. Sales peaked in 2021 at $5.35 billion but dropped by $45 million the following year. The most recent data, showing sales through June 2023, reveals even weaker sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Downs calls the outlook for the pot industry in California “Dickensian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the best of times and the worst of times; it just depends on who you’re talking to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, business is good at Solful, a cannabis dispensary in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset neighborhood. On a weekday afternoon, a steady stream of customers peruses colorful aisles of cannabis flower, oils and even cannabis-spiked seltzers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11980820,news_11663153,news_11661946\"]“I never like to think cannabis is all doom and gloom,” said Eli Melrod, CEO and co-founder of Solful. “It’s certainly having its challenges. I think we’ve had some rainy days, but I think the future is always bright for cannabis. 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He said there was a “grow at all costs mindset” in the early days of legalization, but now, businesses are being more frugal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As capital in cannabis and just in general has gotten more expensive, the focus has shifted from growth to cash flow and profitability,” Melrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said while sales at Solful are relatively strong, he’s noticed demand going down in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The general cost of doing business relative to a normal business is much, much higher,” Melrod said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State laws require dispensaries to charge around a 24% tax to consumers, and with inflation stretching everyone’s wallet, he thinks that might be causing people to buy elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eli Melrod, CEO and co-founder, Solful\"]‘I think we’ve had some rainy days, but I think the future is always bright for cannabis. 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Drum circles and hand-to-hand cannabis sales transformed into big-name concerts and flashy new cannabis brands marketing their wares from merchandise booths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t realize there’s a lot of infrastructure that needs to happen to be compliant with all the city departments and to have legal sales and consumption,” said Alex Aquino, a longtime festival organizer. “There’s a lot of restrictions and guidelines, and it’s expensive to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economic realities have apparently caught up with the festival. Citing a struggling cannabis industry and city budget cuts, organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980820/san-franciscos-annual-420-celebration-on-hippie-hill-canceled-for-2024\">canceled\u003c/a> this year’s celebration. Aquino said there weren’t enough sponsorship dollars to make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really up to the sponsors to come and say, ‘Hey, we have the cash and the financing to fund this event,’” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Aquino, the 420 Festival — which has cost nearly a half-million dollars to set up — relies on sponsorships and donations. 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A place where you could be who you were in public and feel safe. Where love bloomed for many who thought they might never find it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But by the early 80s, death started to move in to that joyful space. During the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, in a small church a few blocks from the heart of the Castro, one pastor changed the experience of communion and committed felonies to comfort his flock. Reporter Christopher Beale brings us this story, which he originally produced for his podcast “Stereotypes: Straight Talk from Queer Voices,” and later aired on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902998/the-marijuana-minister-of-the-castro\">The California Report Magazine.\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> When people talk about San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in the late 1970s, they describe it as a place of freedom for gay people. A place where you could be who you were in public and feel safe. Where love bloomed for many who thought they might never find it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the early 80s, death started to move in to that joyful space. San Francisco’s gay community was hit early and hard by HIV and AIDS. People watched friends turn from vibrant to emaciated in a matter of weeks. At the height of the AIDS crisis, close to half the city’s gay men were dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a time before the treatments we have today, of course. and for some, the one thing that helped ease their pain – was marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pot either medical or recreational, wasn’t legal back then, and state politicians were beginning to crack down on it’s use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> At the expense of people with HIV\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This week on Bay Curious: how a San Francisco pastor changed the experience of communion, and committed felonies to comfort his flock…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I took a risk. I used my body. I acted on a belief that was motivated by my desire to provide healing and comfort for my friends. And I didn’t know what else to do, that I could do. But this was something I could do. And I did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>This story was first produced by KQED’s Christopher Beale for his podcast Stereotypes: Straight Talk from Queer Voices … and later aired on The California Report Magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re sharing it this week ahead of our theatrical walking tours of the AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco .. taking place Nov. 4 and 5. I was just at rehearsals last week and trust me, you don’t want to miss these tours. They feature live music from cellist, El Beh. Very moving dance performances and a ritual with the Sisters of Perpetual indulgence. I’ll be kicking off each tour and I hope to see you. We’ll put a link in the show notes, or you can find your way to KQED.org/live for details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this quick break, we return with the Marijuana Minister. I’m Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Before we get started: just a heads up this story includes frank discussions of death, sex, religion and drugs. KQED’s Christopher Beale takes it from here…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STORY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale:\u003c/strong> Cities all across America have gay neighborhoods, I like to call them “gayborhoods.” In San Francisco, ours is called the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a few blocks away from the rainbow crosswalk, and the gay bars of The Castro, here on Eureka Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m surrounded by row houses and fourplexes. This block is mostly residential and quiet. The uniformity broken only by this boarded up church building with a lavender sign. It says “a house of prayer for all people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the home of the Castro’s gay church. Where LGBTQIA people came to celebrate their faith, and pray for hope.\u003cbr>\nIt was this amazing energy place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man at the pulpit in the 80s and 90s…was a gay pastor named Jim Mitulski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I did always love going to church. And, that was the place that it was quiet. It was pretty, people were nice to each other,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale:\u003c/strong> Jim grew up in a little town northwest of Detroit called Royal Oak, Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski: \u003c/strong>My family life was rather unhappy, and it was a respite, frankly. And I looked forward to it every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale:\u003c/strong> Can you recall the first time you actually felt the presence of God?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Uh, it definitely happened for me during music in church. my earliest survival skill in church was don’t listen, if they’re talking, just pay attention when they’re singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think I’ve ever met a piece of music. I didn’t like and especially in a religious setting. It wasn’t until later that I came to understand that you could actually use the pulpit part for something positive or useful. That didn’t come till college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim went to Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It was a men’s college at that time in New York City. So who do you think goes to a men’s college in New York? In the seventies? Gay guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale:\u003c/strong> Did that ring out to be true?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It turned out to be totally true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Music} \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim had come out in high school, and even dated a little. In 1970s New York he discovered a love of queer activism. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski: \u003c/strong>I was a political gay and I was very involved in gay politics and by politics, I mean in the streets politics. And my grades reflected it by the way, I was a terrible student. I found myself in those activities. I found my voice. I found my vocation. I found my sense of self, my identity. I found my friends. I found my sexuality, You know, the people you’ve protested with in addition to being friends, we were all lovers. And that was a word we used by the way, an army of lovers can not be defeated, which is a classical phrase but we meant it. I probably had sexual adventures every day. From the time I was 18 until I was 25, with different people. And I wasn’t particularly more promiscuous than anyone in my peer group. It was several thousand people. And I know these numbers are horrifying to the post AIDS person. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>By 1979 – Jim had dropped out of college. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> This was not unusual in my class, as it turns out \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>And it was around this time Jim discovered a gay church in Greenwich Village. The MCC, or Metropolitan Community Church had been founded just a year earlier on the west coast by a Gay Reverend named Troy Perry. The “denomination” was hardly even that at this stage, but it was designed by Gay Christians, for Gay Christians. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It was church, not like church. We were anti-church. We were deconstructing Christianity church. We were out in the streets protesting church. We were wear t-shirts not wear vestments church. We wore ragged jeans and pink triangles on our shirts church and it was magical. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>One day Jim had this kind of epiphany. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I didn’t occur to me that you could be gay and be a priest. Now, this was hilarious to the gay priests that I met eventually. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim went back to school to become a pastor, and after serving at the MCC in New York for a few years he got his first senior pastor job offer in San Francisco. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I got off the plane just to interview, even. It was like, are you kidding me? It’s beautiful here. It’s so much lighter here. It’s so much brighter. The quality of the sun was something I noticed and people are happier here. And, they’re friendlier, you know, New Yorkers will cut, you dead if you say hello or smile or something, you know, the Castro was hi. Hi. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>So Jim, now in his twenties, packed up and moved to San Francisco. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Gay heaven. It was was so gay (gay gay gay) we had a gay bank (gay gay gay), we had a gay church (gay gay gay) or gay drug store. We had a gay supermarket, you know, everything was gay, gay, gay. We loved it. And it was a protest every Friday night, which turned into a dance party. you know, we got our news from the BAR \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>The Bay Area Reporter, still active in San Francisco today. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski: \u003c/strong>And we did read the Chronicle and the examiner, but mostly, to get the latest installment of the Armistead Maupin column. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>You might know that column, it spawned several books and a few TV series, it’s called “Tales of the City.” \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> And that was the mood, that was the feel, that was the San Francisco I came to. And it was a great community in the midst of a terrible tragedy unfolding. And that was evident, but still it was a cool place to be. It was still happy. (gay gay gay) \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim began hosting Sunday services at the little Metropolitan Community Church on Eureka St in 1986. And immediately the congregation began to grow. The community was in need, and eventually the church added a second, and then a third service to accommodate all of the people. [beeping sound]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>A lot of those parishioners were visibly dying of AIDS and they were on delicately timed medications…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> They had to take it every four hours and people had timers. like if you were in church, you’d hear, ‘ding ding’ all the time or anywhere, if you’re at a restaurant anywhere, you kept, always heard the ding ding go off. It became a sound like crickets all the time chirping, which is a weird soundtrack in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Over the next few years the MCC in the Castro became the de facto LGBTQIA community center, the doors were pretty much always open. Church services, community meetings…weddings…and an ever-increasing number of funerals took place there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I just was not equipped for the sheer numbers of it. Now the part of me that is good in crises, just dug right in and did it. I found that I’ll listen to anybody and nothing freaks me out. In fact I found that I was good at going with someone to a difficult topic. I could be with dying people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>After a while, hospital visits just became a normal part of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> The people that I saw were emaciated. They were dying and in great pain. And in some instances, barely able to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each and every person I talked to was convinced they had brought this on themselves. They were worried about going to hell. Many of them were experiencing rejection from friends, family, and loved ones, including gay friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>The LA Times wrote, in 1988, that about 4% of San Francisco’s population, including an astonishing half of the cities estimated 60+ thousand gay men had AIDS. Without an effective cure, most of those men would die within the next 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Here’s what I remember of this guy who said, “Will you hold my hand and pray with me?” Which of course I did. And he said that the only person who would hold his hand and pray with him was that one of the nurses on the night shift who always prayed that he would be delivered of his sin of homosexuality before he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do honestly believe she meant what she was praying. She wanted him to be saved. He was so alone there. That’s what really shook me to my core. This is why we have a gay church. This is why we do this because people should not have to be in this circumstance. And the only person who will pray with them as someone who also wants them to be cured of homosexuality. That made me angry, that’s how I became an activist, the anger part, it wasn’t the sad part that became the activist. It was the angry part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim’s work was taking a physical and emotional toll on him. He gained 80 pounds, then started working out furiously to lose it. He got a therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> There was a group of us who connected that summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>He made some new friends. Started going out more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> We used to call ourselves class of 95.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> We might’ve known each other from around. I mean The Castro’s a small town. We found ourselves dancing on Sunday nights at the pleasure dome. And most of us had been pretty good boys until then. And after a while, a lot of people had slept with a lot of people. And I don’t mean that in a disdainful way. I mean, that respectfully it was part of how we connected. It was part of how we were with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time anyone realized AIDS was sexually transmitted the damage was widespread. The disease could strike a fit, healthy, young guy, and he’d be dead in months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our moods became darker, our hope dissipated. And I became kind of nihilistic. My capacity to sustain an interior sense of self-preservation waned. And I became less protective of my own sexual behavior. I didn’t care. I didn’t care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We felt like our world was dying and this is impossible to communicate to people who weren’t there. But you asked and I’m going to tell you, we just didn’t care. We did care about our friends. We did care about those who are dying. We didn’t remember what it meant to care anymore, necessarily about not becoming part of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was the summer. We discovered separately, individually that we were not that we were no longer HIV negative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we started, doing the things that good boys never did…dancing all night, doing recreational drugs that were related to that activity. Using our bodies we felt like we belonged. We were in something together. And we had regrets, but we also weren’t, we weren’t gonna just give up on our lives either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the truth. I’m telling you the truth, because I think my story is different from others, but my story is not unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MUSIC FADES\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Today there are medications that make it possible to live with HIV, but in 1995 everything that seemed to work was experimental…Jim says he tried a drug called Crixivan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> 36 pills a day. Uh, 36? Yeah. Big pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong> Can I ask you to compare that to your pill regimen for HIV today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> My, uh, for just, just treating HIV? One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>In the 90s those early medications managed to prolong lives, but they could make AIDS patients desperately ill. Those patients quickly discovered that cannabis, or marijuana actually helped with the symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It did two things. One, it suppressed nausea, so people would eat and they wouldn’t eat otherwise because they just felt sick all the time. And the other thing is it took the pain away or enough away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>In the 80s and 90s San Francisco was pretty progressive on marijuana when compared to the rest of the country, even the rest of the state. That had a lot to do with the city’s dying gay population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical Marijuana clubs, kind of the 90s equivalent of a dispensary, were where patients got their pot, the government looked the other way and everything was fine. That is until politicians got involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Dan Lungren who was running for attorney general. No he was attorney general, he wanted to run for governor, saw this as an issue that he thought could be a popular enforcement issue as a law and order guy. And without consulting with city officials, exercised his authority as a state official, probably with the support of the federal government to one day overnight, crack down on and close without warning, all of the marijuana outlets and distributors in San Francisco. At the expense of people with HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>One day a friend named Allen White approached Jim…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> And he was a character no other word for it, but he was the journalist of the gay community in the seventies, eighties, nineties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>White had been talking with a few politicians and had an idea of how to help those AIDS patients get their much-needed medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> They wondered who could they get to distribute marijuana that the government would think twice about arresting. The risk was high because at that time, the government could seize your asset. They came to me though and said, ‘We want you to do a public distribution of marijuana from the church building to people with HIV.’ So it was a little loosey goosey, but, you know, In a general way. I understood what was at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim thought about if for a bit, then reached out to his friend Phyllis Nelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> She shared my heart for social justice and also she kind of ran the church administratively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>She came to the church for a variety of reasons. She and her husband, they wanted a place where he could come out. We didn’t know he was gay at first. Also they had a gay son who, uh, had AIDS, so they needed a community of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their son’s name was Glenn. Jim officiated his wedding to a man named Rob.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Then sadly, Glenn dies, then Rob dies. And until scenario through all this together, we were standing outside together, I still remember Saturday afternoon after Rob’s funeral sometimes you don’t need words, but we were definitely bonded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>After being approached by Allen White about distributing medical marijuana at church, Jim called Phyllis and said…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It’s not without risks. And I don’t know if I should or not. And, um, she said to me, of course he will. And I’ll stand right next to you if you do it because, how can you not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I knew what she was referring to that moment when we had stood outside. It’s the sunset, uh, just sort of being in that, uh, kind of painful silence, um, after her son and son-in-law had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was after my own diagnosis. This was a change in me facing my own mortality made me realize we’re only here as long as we’re here. What are you, what are you being so cautious about? My ministry changed right after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Do you have a lighter? Cuz I don’t know if I have one. \u003cem>[sound of someone lighting a joint]\u003c/em> In your experience, when someone experiencing, HIV or AIDS would smoke a joint, what do you think was happening for those AIDS patients that was so medically necessary?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> AIDS is in itself a disease, right? It’s a— it’s a susceptibility to any number of physical symptoms, including those which are painful to the stomach or to your skin or other kinds of nerve damage. I saw this happen. They would actually feel pain relief and your whole body would just, you know, then it also, and this is something that is something I have experienced the stress around worrying about mortality or about, uh, your circumstances and whether or not you’re going to get everything done that you want to get done while you still can do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And things like that becomes so overwhelming that it’s all you can think about. just, uh, a period of release from that. And fortunately with this, uh, it’s, it lasts for half an hour, an hour or whatever, not all day, not all night. Um, right. But sometimes the freedom from the omnipresent anxiety, uh, is, is important…it’s welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Alright, it’s the summer of 1996, and Jim is getting ready to begin giving out pot to AIDS patients in church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> We had rules, no money could be exchanged. The pot had to be donated. People had to provide a note. We did have security and we were promised by the supervisors and the health department that the city would protect us as much as they could. There would be no city prosecution, and they would try to protect us from any state or federal prosecution, which they couldn’t guarantee wouldn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>That first Sunday, it seemed like everyone was watching. The media was there in the back row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I preached on, if you want to have an increase in your spiritual growth or spiritual life, act on your conscience. That was my sermon. I took a risk. I used my body. I acted on a belief that was motivated by my desire to provide healing and comfort for my friends. And I didn’t know what else to do that I could do, but this was something I could do. And I did it. When you talk about did you experience God? I experienced God then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MUSIC UP\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> And the risk was real and the spiritual intensity was real. And the tangible relief for the people who, who used it was real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s what Phyllis said that I still remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said, “If the attorney general had to spend a whole morning trying to get his son to eat a half a bowl of cereal, like I did, \u003cem>[tearing up]\u003c/em> he would understand what we’re doing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After church patients would come forward, presented their notes, and left with a small baggie of marijuana. And that first Sunday the police and officials, the they all stayed away. In fact the entire length of the ministry there were no arrests, and no harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I swear angels protected us I still believe that and many people were praying for us. They could have arrested us. They could have, but they didn’t. And whether it was optics or whether it was, I think that a lot of people knew we were doing the right thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was in the summer and by the fall, there was a proposition on the state ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Proposition 215, which permitted the use of medical cannabis in California was passed by voters on November 5, 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Yup. And then we just stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong> How many people would you say you reached with that ministry\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski: \u003c/strong> Oh, a couple of thousand, probably. Not all of them, gay or people with AIDS, but many of them were, but other people too, that was interesting to me that there was this whole other kind of community that had been that benefited from the gay community’s model of using community, organizing around HIV to achieve a shift in policy around health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> What’s my regret? That we did all that activism on health care on AIDS healthcare on AIDS care in the eighties and nineties, and somehow did not end up with universal healthcare. Crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>A few months ago I took Jim back to Eureka St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the caretaker unlocked the now abandoned church Jim walked down the sidewalk examining these memorial plaques honoring church members, and other allies in the community…many of whom have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can you read some of them to me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> In a minute… \u003cem>[sounds of crying]\u003c/em> I remember all these people. Good Lord. People whose both weddings and funerals I did. Good God.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>There’s your name on this plaque of senior pastors…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I still rode that horse longer than anybody else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>So can we go in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Let me get the other door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim left the Metropolitan Community Church in the Castro in 2000, and hasn’t been back in the church in over a decade..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> So of course in my mind, this was the size of grace cathedral but I can see now it really isn’t very big is it? But it seemed bigger and I will say, we used every square inch of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday nights in the Castro was a thing. Seven o’clock this room filled, it sometimes filled early. And it was all about singing, we sang gospel music. Sometimes for two hours, two-and-a-half hours. It started and it built. And you know there was the sermon and there was communion and then it just kept going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d try and end the service and people wouldn’t stop because it was just a release of energy that we had to have. But to see it now you can’t tell maybe but it was this amazing energy place!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>I asked Jim what he learned from his time as the Marijuana Minister?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Let you let your acts of love guide you, even if it means great risk, the greater love, the greater the risk, and you will never regret acts of great love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HOST OUTRO\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was reporter, producer and Bay Curious sound engineer Christopher Beale. He also hosts Stereotypes, the podcast where he first aired this documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special thanks to Reverend Jim Mitulski, Todd and Miguel Atkins Whitley, the Castro Patrol, Kyana Moghadam and Josh Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price. With support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope to see you at our AIDS Memorial Grove Walking Tours this weekend. Again, find details and tickets at KQED.org/LIVE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a small church a few blocks away from the Castro — during the height of the AIDS epidemic — one pastor fought to provide comfort to his dying congregation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700531198,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":119,"wordCount":4597},"headData":{"title":"The Marijuana Minister of the Castro | KQED","description":"In a small church a few blocks away from the Castro — during the height of the AIDS epidemic — one pastor fought to provide comfort to his dying congregation.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC7361009986.mp3?updated=1698881142","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11966125/marijuana-minister-of-the-castro","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When people talk about San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in the late 1970s, they describe it as a place of freedom for gay people. A place where you could be who you were in public and feel safe. Where love bloomed for many who thought they might never find it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But by the early 80s, death started to move in to that joyful space. During the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, in a small church a few blocks from the heart of the Castro, one pastor changed the experience of communion and committed felonies to comfort his flock. Reporter Christopher Beale brings us this story, which he originally produced for his podcast “Stereotypes: Straight Talk from Queer Voices,” and later aired on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902998/the-marijuana-minister-of-the-castro\">The California Report Magazine.\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> When people talk about San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in the late 1970s, they describe it as a place of freedom for gay people. A place where you could be who you were in public and feel safe. Where love bloomed for many who thought they might never find it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the early 80s, death started to move in to that joyful space. San Francisco’s gay community was hit early and hard by HIV and AIDS. People watched friends turn from vibrant to emaciated in a matter of weeks. At the height of the AIDS crisis, close to half the city’s gay men were dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a time before the treatments we have today, of course. and for some, the one thing that helped ease their pain – was marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pot either medical or recreational, wasn’t legal back then, and state politicians were beginning to crack down on it’s use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> At the expense of people with HIV\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This week on Bay Curious: how a San Francisco pastor changed the experience of communion, and committed felonies to comfort his flock…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I took a risk. I used my body. I acted on a belief that was motivated by my desire to provide healing and comfort for my friends. And I didn’t know what else to do, that I could do. But this was something I could do. And I did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>This story was first produced by KQED’s Christopher Beale for his podcast Stereotypes: Straight Talk from Queer Voices … and later aired on The California Report Magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re sharing it this week ahead of our theatrical walking tours of the AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco .. taking place Nov. 4 and 5. I was just at rehearsals last week and trust me, you don’t want to miss these tours. They feature live music from cellist, El Beh. Very moving dance performances and a ritual with the Sisters of Perpetual indulgence. I’ll be kicking off each tour and I hope to see you. We’ll put a link in the show notes, or you can find your way to KQED.org/live for details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After this quick break, we return with the Marijuana Minister. I’m Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Before we get started: just a heads up this story includes frank discussions of death, sex, religion and drugs. KQED’s Christopher Beale takes it from here…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>STORY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale:\u003c/strong> Cities all across America have gay neighborhoods, I like to call them “gayborhoods.” In San Francisco, ours is called the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a few blocks away from the rainbow crosswalk, and the gay bars of The Castro, here on Eureka Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m surrounded by row houses and fourplexes. This block is mostly residential and quiet. The uniformity broken only by this boarded up church building with a lavender sign. It says “a house of prayer for all people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the home of the Castro’s gay church. Where LGBTQIA people came to celebrate their faith, and pray for hope.\u003cbr>\nIt was this amazing energy place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man at the pulpit in the 80s and 90s…was a gay pastor named Jim Mitulski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I did always love going to church. And, that was the place that it was quiet. It was pretty, people were nice to each other,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale:\u003c/strong> Jim grew up in a little town northwest of Detroit called Royal Oak, Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski: \u003c/strong>My family life was rather unhappy, and it was a respite, frankly. And I looked forward to it every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale:\u003c/strong> Can you recall the first time you actually felt the presence of God?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Uh, it definitely happened for me during music in church. my earliest survival skill in church was don’t listen, if they’re talking, just pay attention when they’re singing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think I’ve ever met a piece of music. I didn’t like and especially in a religious setting. It wasn’t until later that I came to understand that you could actually use the pulpit part for something positive or useful. That didn’t come till college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim went to Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It was a men’s college at that time in New York City. So who do you think goes to a men’s college in New York? In the seventies? Gay guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale:\u003c/strong> Did that ring out to be true?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It turned out to be totally true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Music} \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim had come out in high school, and even dated a little. In 1970s New York he discovered a love of queer activism. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski: \u003c/strong>I was a political gay and I was very involved in gay politics and by politics, I mean in the streets politics. And my grades reflected it by the way, I was a terrible student. I found myself in those activities. I found my voice. I found my vocation. I found my sense of self, my identity. I found my friends. I found my sexuality, You know, the people you’ve protested with in addition to being friends, we were all lovers. And that was a word we used by the way, an army of lovers can not be defeated, which is a classical phrase but we meant it. I probably had sexual adventures every day. From the time I was 18 until I was 25, with different people. And I wasn’t particularly more promiscuous than anyone in my peer group. It was several thousand people. And I know these numbers are horrifying to the post AIDS person. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>By 1979 – Jim had dropped out of college. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> This was not unusual in my class, as it turns out \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>And it was around this time Jim discovered a gay church in Greenwich Village. The MCC, or Metropolitan Community Church had been founded just a year earlier on the west coast by a Gay Reverend named Troy Perry. The “denomination” was hardly even that at this stage, but it was designed by Gay Christians, for Gay Christians. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It was church, not like church. We were anti-church. We were deconstructing Christianity church. We were out in the streets protesting church. We were wear t-shirts not wear vestments church. We wore ragged jeans and pink triangles on our shirts church and it was magical. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>One day Jim had this kind of epiphany. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I didn’t occur to me that you could be gay and be a priest. Now, this was hilarious to the gay priests that I met eventually. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim went back to school to become a pastor, and after serving at the MCC in New York for a few years he got his first senior pastor job offer in San Francisco. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I got off the plane just to interview, even. It was like, are you kidding me? It’s beautiful here. It’s so much lighter here. It’s so much brighter. The quality of the sun was something I noticed and people are happier here. And, they’re friendlier, you know, New Yorkers will cut, you dead if you say hello or smile or something, you know, the Castro was hi. Hi. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>So Jim, now in his twenties, packed up and moved to San Francisco. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Gay heaven. It was was so gay (gay gay gay) we had a gay bank (gay gay gay), we had a gay church (gay gay gay) or gay drug store. We had a gay supermarket, you know, everything was gay, gay, gay. We loved it. And it was a protest every Friday night, which turned into a dance party. you know, we got our news from the BAR \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>The Bay Area Reporter, still active in San Francisco today. \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski: \u003c/strong>And we did read the Chronicle and the examiner, but mostly, to get the latest installment of the Armistead Maupin column. \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>You might know that column, it spawned several books and a few TV series, it’s called “Tales of the City.” \u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> And that was the mood, that was the feel, that was the San Francisco I came to. And it was a great community in the midst of a terrible tragedy unfolding. And that was evident, but still it was a cool place to be. It was still happy. (gay gay gay) \u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim began hosting Sunday services at the little Metropolitan Community Church on Eureka St in 1986. And immediately the congregation began to grow. The community was in need, and eventually the church added a second, and then a third service to accommodate all of the people. [beeping sound]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>A lot of those parishioners were visibly dying of AIDS and they were on delicately timed medications…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> They had to take it every four hours and people had timers. like if you were in church, you’d hear, ‘ding ding’ all the time or anywhere, if you’re at a restaurant anywhere, you kept, always heard the ding ding go off. It became a sound like crickets all the time chirping, which is a weird soundtrack in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Over the next few years the MCC in the Castro became the de facto LGBTQIA community center, the doors were pretty much always open. Church services, community meetings…weddings…and an ever-increasing number of funerals took place there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I just was not equipped for the sheer numbers of it. Now the part of me that is good in crises, just dug right in and did it. I found that I’ll listen to anybody and nothing freaks me out. In fact I found that I was good at going with someone to a difficult topic. I could be with dying people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>After a while, hospital visits just became a normal part of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> The people that I saw were emaciated. They were dying and in great pain. And in some instances, barely able to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each and every person I talked to was convinced they had brought this on themselves. They were worried about going to hell. Many of them were experiencing rejection from friends, family, and loved ones, including gay friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>The LA Times wrote, in 1988, that about 4% of San Francisco’s population, including an astonishing half of the cities estimated 60+ thousand gay men had AIDS. Without an effective cure, most of those men would die within the next 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Here’s what I remember of this guy who said, “Will you hold my hand and pray with me?” Which of course I did. And he said that the only person who would hold his hand and pray with him was that one of the nurses on the night shift who always prayed that he would be delivered of his sin of homosexuality before he died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do honestly believe she meant what she was praying. She wanted him to be saved. He was so alone there. That’s what really shook me to my core. This is why we have a gay church. This is why we do this because people should not have to be in this circumstance. And the only person who will pray with them as someone who also wants them to be cured of homosexuality. That made me angry, that’s how I became an activist, the anger part, it wasn’t the sad part that became the activist. It was the angry part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim’s work was taking a physical and emotional toll on him. He gained 80 pounds, then started working out furiously to lose it. He got a therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> There was a group of us who connected that summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>He made some new friends. Started going out more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> We used to call ourselves class of 95.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> We might’ve known each other from around. I mean The Castro’s a small town. We found ourselves dancing on Sunday nights at the pleasure dome. And most of us had been pretty good boys until then. And after a while, a lot of people had slept with a lot of people. And I don’t mean that in a disdainful way. I mean, that respectfully it was part of how we connected. It was part of how we were with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time anyone realized AIDS was sexually transmitted the damage was widespread. The disease could strike a fit, healthy, young guy, and he’d be dead in months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our moods became darker, our hope dissipated. And I became kind of nihilistic. My capacity to sustain an interior sense of self-preservation waned. And I became less protective of my own sexual behavior. I didn’t care. I didn’t care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We felt like our world was dying and this is impossible to communicate to people who weren’t there. But you asked and I’m going to tell you, we just didn’t care. We did care about our friends. We did care about those who are dying. We didn’t remember what it meant to care anymore, necessarily about not becoming part of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was the summer. We discovered separately, individually that we were not that we were no longer HIV negative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we started, doing the things that good boys never did…dancing all night, doing recreational drugs that were related to that activity. Using our bodies we felt like we belonged. We were in something together. And we had regrets, but we also weren’t, we weren’t gonna just give up on our lives either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the truth. I’m telling you the truth, because I think my story is different from others, but my story is not unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MUSIC FADES\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Today there are medications that make it possible to live with HIV, but in 1995 everything that seemed to work was experimental…Jim says he tried a drug called Crixivan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> 36 pills a day. Uh, 36? Yeah. Big pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong> Can I ask you to compare that to your pill regimen for HIV today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> My, uh, for just, just treating HIV? One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>In the 90s those early medications managed to prolong lives, but they could make AIDS patients desperately ill. Those patients quickly discovered that cannabis, or marijuana actually helped with the symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It did two things. One, it suppressed nausea, so people would eat and they wouldn’t eat otherwise because they just felt sick all the time. And the other thing is it took the pain away or enough away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>In the 80s and 90s San Francisco was pretty progressive on marijuana when compared to the rest of the country, even the rest of the state. That had a lot to do with the city’s dying gay population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical Marijuana clubs, kind of the 90s equivalent of a dispensary, were where patients got their pot, the government looked the other way and everything was fine. That is until politicians got involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Dan Lungren who was running for attorney general. No he was attorney general, he wanted to run for governor, saw this as an issue that he thought could be a popular enforcement issue as a law and order guy. And without consulting with city officials, exercised his authority as a state official, probably with the support of the federal government to one day overnight, crack down on and close without warning, all of the marijuana outlets and distributors in San Francisco. At the expense of people with HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>One day a friend named Allen White approached Jim…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> And he was a character no other word for it, but he was the journalist of the gay community in the seventies, eighties, nineties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>White had been talking with a few politicians and had an idea of how to help those AIDS patients get their much-needed medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> They wondered who could they get to distribute marijuana that the government would think twice about arresting. The risk was high because at that time, the government could seize your asset. They came to me though and said, ‘We want you to do a public distribution of marijuana from the church building to people with HIV.’ So it was a little loosey goosey, but, you know, In a general way. I understood what was at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim thought about if for a bit, then reached out to his friend Phyllis Nelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> She shared my heart for social justice and also she kind of ran the church administratively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>She came to the church for a variety of reasons. She and her husband, they wanted a place where he could come out. We didn’t know he was gay at first. Also they had a gay son who, uh, had AIDS, so they needed a community of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their son’s name was Glenn. Jim officiated his wedding to a man named Rob.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Then sadly, Glenn dies, then Rob dies. And until scenario through all this together, we were standing outside together, I still remember Saturday afternoon after Rob’s funeral sometimes you don’t need words, but we were definitely bonded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>After being approached by Allen White about distributing medical marijuana at church, Jim called Phyllis and said…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> It’s not without risks. And I don’t know if I should or not. And, um, she said to me, of course he will. And I’ll stand right next to you if you do it because, how can you not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I knew what she was referring to that moment when we had stood outside. It’s the sunset, uh, just sort of being in that, uh, kind of painful silence, um, after her son and son-in-law had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was after my own diagnosis. This was a change in me facing my own mortality made me realize we’re only here as long as we’re here. What are you, what are you being so cautious about? My ministry changed right after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Do you have a lighter? Cuz I don’t know if I have one. \u003cem>[sound of someone lighting a joint]\u003c/em> In your experience, when someone experiencing, HIV or AIDS would smoke a joint, what do you think was happening for those AIDS patients that was so medically necessary?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> AIDS is in itself a disease, right? It’s a— it’s a susceptibility to any number of physical symptoms, including those which are painful to the stomach or to your skin or other kinds of nerve damage. I saw this happen. They would actually feel pain relief and your whole body would just, you know, then it also, and this is something that is something I have experienced the stress around worrying about mortality or about, uh, your circumstances and whether or not you’re going to get everything done that you want to get done while you still can do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And things like that becomes so overwhelming that it’s all you can think about. just, uh, a period of release from that. And fortunately with this, uh, it’s, it lasts for half an hour, an hour or whatever, not all day, not all night. Um, right. But sometimes the freedom from the omnipresent anxiety, uh, is, is important…it’s welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Alright, it’s the summer of 1996, and Jim is getting ready to begin giving out pot to AIDS patients in church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> We had rules, no money could be exchanged. The pot had to be donated. People had to provide a note. We did have security and we were promised by the supervisors and the health department that the city would protect us as much as they could. There would be no city prosecution, and they would try to protect us from any state or federal prosecution, which they couldn’t guarantee wouldn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>That first Sunday, it seemed like everyone was watching. The media was there in the back row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> I preached on, if you want to have an increase in your spiritual growth or spiritual life, act on your conscience. That was my sermon. I took a risk. I used my body. I acted on a belief that was motivated by my desire to provide healing and comfort for my friends. And I didn’t know what else to do that I could do, but this was something I could do. And I did it. When you talk about did you experience God? I experienced God then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MUSIC UP\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> And the risk was real and the spiritual intensity was real. And the tangible relief for the people who, who used it was real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s what Phyllis said that I still remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said, “If the attorney general had to spend a whole morning trying to get his son to eat a half a bowl of cereal, like I did, \u003cem>[tearing up]\u003c/em> he would understand what we’re doing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After church patients would come forward, presented their notes, and left with a small baggie of marijuana. And that first Sunday the police and officials, the they all stayed away. In fact the entire length of the ministry there were no arrests, and no harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I swear angels protected us I still believe that and many people were praying for us. They could have arrested us. They could have, but they didn’t. And whether it was optics or whether it was, I think that a lot of people knew we were doing the right thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was in the summer and by the fall, there was a proposition on the state ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Proposition 215, which permitted the use of medical cannabis in California was passed by voters on November 5, 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Yup. And then we just stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong> How many people would you say you reached with that ministry\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski: \u003c/strong> Oh, a couple of thousand, probably. Not all of them, gay or people with AIDS, but many of them were, but other people too, that was interesting to me that there was this whole other kind of community that had been that benefited from the gay community’s model of using community, organizing around HIV to achieve a shift in policy around health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[music]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> What’s my regret? That we did all that activism on health care on AIDS healthcare on AIDS care in the eighties and nineties, and somehow did not end up with universal healthcare. Crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>A few months ago I took Jim back to Eureka St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the caretaker unlocked the now abandoned church Jim walked down the sidewalk examining these memorial plaques honoring church members, and other allies in the community…many of whom have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can you read some of them to me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> In a minute… \u003cem>[sounds of crying]\u003c/em> I remember all these people. Good Lord. People whose both weddings and funerals I did. Good God.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>There’s your name on this plaque of senior pastors…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Yeah, I still rode that horse longer than anybody else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>So can we go in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Let me get the other door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>Jim left the Metropolitan Community Church in the Castro in 2000, and hasn’t been back in the church in over a decade..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> So of course in my mind, this was the size of grace cathedral but I can see now it really isn’t very big is it? But it seemed bigger and I will say, we used every square inch of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday nights in the Castro was a thing. Seven o’clock this room filled, it sometimes filled early. And it was all about singing, we sang gospel music. Sometimes for two hours, two-and-a-half hours. It started and it built. And you know there was the sermon and there was communion and then it just kept going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d try and end the service and people wouldn’t stop because it was just a release of energy that we had to have. But to see it now you can’t tell maybe but it was this amazing energy place!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Beale: \u003c/strong>I asked Jim what he learned from his time as the Marijuana Minister?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jim Mitulski:\u003c/strong> Let you let your acts of love guide you, even if it means great risk, the greater love, the greater the risk, and you will never regret acts of great love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HOST OUTRO\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was reporter, producer and Bay Curious sound engineer Christopher Beale. He also hosts Stereotypes, the podcast where he first aired this documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special thanks to Reverend Jim Mitulski, Todd and Miguel Atkins Whitley, the Castro Patrol, Kyana Moghadam and Josh Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by Amanda Font, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price. With support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hope to see you at our AIDS Memorial Grove Walking Tours this weekend. Again, find details and tickets at KQED.org/LIVE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11966125/marijuana-minister-of-the-castro","authors":["8637"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_30596","news_21534","news_29548","news_102"],"featImg":"news_11903117","label":"news_33523"},"news_11955206":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11955206","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11955206","score":null,"sort":[1688770790000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"millions-of-criminal-records-erased-after-landmark-california-law-takes-effect","title":"Millions of Criminal Records Cleared After Landmark California Law Takes Effect","publishDate":1688770790,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Millions of Criminal Records Cleared After Landmark California Law Takes Effect | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 11 million arrest and conviction records have been wiped clean in the first six months of the implementation of a new California law, marking the largest expungement over that time period in the country’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mass expungement follows the years-long effort by lawmakers and voters dating back to 2016 — when marijuana was legalized in the state — to clear certain criminal records and open up employment and housing opportunities for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After someone has completed their sentence and paid their debts, we cannot continue to allow old legal records to create barriers to opportunity that destabilize families, undermine our economy, and worsen racial injustices,” Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/news/millions-of-old-conviction-and-arrest-records-have-been-expunged-under-unprecedented-state-law-doj-says/\">said in a press statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1076\">AB 1076\u003c/a>, a 2019 law which requires the state’s Dept. of Justice to review and automatically clear certain non-serious offense records for people who already completed their sentence or diversion program, or if their arrest did not lead to a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expungements of records under the law began a year ago. Between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2022, more than 8.4 million arrests that never resulted in a conviction were cleared from Californians’ records, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/dataset/2023-06/arr-mandated-stats.pdf\">latest relief data from the DOJ (PDF)\u003c/a>. More than 2.6 million conviction records were also expunged during the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have over 58 million records that represent 6 to 7 million people in California that just weren’t getting their records expunged,” Jay Jordan, CEO of the Alliance for Safety and Justice, a public safety advocacy organization, told KQED. “As a result, they couldn’t find good-paying jobs, they couldn’t get apartments, and they couldn’t do things like coach their kid’s Little League teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB64\">California voters approved Proposition 64\u003c/a>, which legalized cannabis and required the state to expunge prior cannabis-related records that were no longer considered criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while cannabis sales and businesses were quick to boom after legalization, expungement for prior convictions was slow because the process largely fell on individuals to do the work of determining whether they are eligible and bringing their case up for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals who wanted to expunge an arrest or a completed sentence from their record typically would have to go to court, fill out a CR-180 form to apply for dismissal, pay around $125, coordinate with the district attorney’s office, then be granted a court date for when their case could be reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t have the time or money to do it,” said Jordan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco)\"]‘California laws that prevent people living with a past conviction or arrest record from positively contributing to our communities make us all less safe.’[/pullquote]In 2018, under former Gov. Jerry Brown, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11688824/california-measure-would-expunge-many-marijuana-related-crimes\">the state approved AB 1793\u003c/a> to help speed up the process by automating it and requiring courts to identify all eligible cannabis-related records and seal them, removing the onus to do so from affected people who may not even know they are eligible. Rollout of AB 1793 was uneven, however, and many local agencies delayed the process as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted court proceedings across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the effort moving again, in 2019, Ting’s bill automated expungements for eligible arrests and convictions and expanded eligibility to every misdemeanor – not just those related to cannabis – so long as the arrest didn’t result in a prison sentence and if the person completed their sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ, along with the nonprofit Code for America, created an automated system that started expunging records on July 1, 2022. That will now continue on a rolling basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a suit and tie speaks from behind a dais with a California emblem.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) at a community meeting about language access and the Affordable Care Act on Aug. 14, 2013. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Specifically for cannabis-related sentences, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1706 in Sept. 2022, which required counties and courts to seal eligible cannabis-related records if they had not been challenged by March 2023. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties such as San Francisco, San Mateo and Sonoma had sealed nearly all of those records that were found to be eligible as of April 6, 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab1706-legreport-06012023.pdf\">according to a June report from the DOJ (PDF)\u003c/a>. Others, like Contra Costa and Alameda counties, have a higher proportion of cases to get through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ report showed a racial equity gap among people who are relieved from their past cannabis-related arrests or sentences under AB 1706. More white men have been both found eligible and granted relief, compared with Hispanic, Black, Asian or other racial groups, according to the DOJ report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, lawmakers in 2022 passed another bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB731\">SB 731\u003c/a>, which creates a pathway to sealing records for a much wider range of criminal convictions beyond cannabis, excluding sex offenses. Under that bill, a person can apply to seal their records within four years of completing a sentence, as long as they don’t have a new arrest. Some agencies like schools and police, however, can still access the criminal history, but it would not show up in regular background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California laws that prevent people living with a past conviction or arrest record from positively contributing to our communities make us all less safe,” Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by KQED’s Billy Cruz.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>July 10: An earlier version of this story conflated AB 1076 with AB 1706. This story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many of the past convictions now cleared include illegal possession, selling or growing of marijuana, all of which were decriminalized in California in 2016.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689030099,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":956},"headData":{"title":"Millions of Criminal Records Cleared After Landmark California Law Takes Effect | KQED","description":"Many of the past convictions now cleared include illegal possession, selling or growing of marijuana, all of which were decriminalized in California in 2016.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11955206/millions-of-criminal-records-erased-after-landmark-california-law-takes-effect","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 11 million arrest and conviction records have been wiped clean in the first six months of the implementation of a new California law, marking the largest expungement over that time period in the country’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mass expungement follows the years-long effort by lawmakers and voters dating back to 2016 — when marijuana was legalized in the state — to clear certain criminal records and open up employment and housing opportunities for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After someone has completed their sentence and paid their debts, we cannot continue to allow old legal records to create barriers to opportunity that destabilize families, undermine our economy, and worsen racial injustices,” Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/news/millions-of-old-conviction-and-arrest-records-have-been-expunged-under-unprecedented-state-law-doj-says/\">said in a press statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1076\">AB 1076\u003c/a>, a 2019 law which requires the state’s Dept. of Justice to review and automatically clear certain non-serious offense records for people who already completed their sentence or diversion program, or if their arrest did not lead to a conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expungements of records under the law began a year ago. Between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2022, more than 8.4 million arrests that never resulted in a conviction were cleared from Californians’ records, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/dataset/2023-06/arr-mandated-stats.pdf\">latest relief data from the DOJ (PDF)\u003c/a>. More than 2.6 million conviction records were also expunged during the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have over 58 million records that represent 6 to 7 million people in California that just weren’t getting their records expunged,” Jay Jordan, CEO of the Alliance for Safety and Justice, a public safety advocacy organization, told KQED. “As a result, they couldn’t find good-paying jobs, they couldn’t get apartments, and they couldn’t do things like coach their kid’s Little League teams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB64\">California voters approved Proposition 64\u003c/a>, which legalized cannabis and required the state to expunge prior cannabis-related records that were no longer considered criminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while cannabis sales and businesses were quick to boom after legalization, expungement for prior convictions was slow because the process largely fell on individuals to do the work of determining whether they are eligible and bringing their case up for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals who wanted to expunge an arrest or a completed sentence from their record typically would have to go to court, fill out a CR-180 form to apply for dismissal, pay around $125, coordinate with the district attorney’s office, then be granted a court date for when their case could be reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t have the time or money to do it,” said Jordan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘California laws that prevent people living with a past conviction or arrest record from positively contributing to our communities make us all less safe.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2018, under former Gov. Jerry Brown, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11688824/california-measure-would-expunge-many-marijuana-related-crimes\">the state approved AB 1793\u003c/a> to help speed up the process by automating it and requiring courts to identify all eligible cannabis-related records and seal them, removing the onus to do so from affected people who may not even know they are eligible. Rollout of AB 1793 was uneven, however, and many local agencies delayed the process as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted court proceedings across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the effort moving again, in 2019, Ting’s bill automated expungements for eligible arrests and convictions and expanded eligibility to every misdemeanor – not just those related to cannabis – so long as the arrest didn’t result in a prison sentence and if the person completed their sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ, along with the nonprofit Code for America, created an automated system that started expunging records on July 1, 2022. That will now continue on a rolling basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11803065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a suit and tie speaks from behind a dais with a California emblem.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS6157_002-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) at a community meeting about language access and the Affordable Care Act on Aug. 14, 2013. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Specifically for cannabis-related sentences, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1706 in Sept. 2022, which required counties and courts to seal eligible cannabis-related records if they had not been challenged by March 2023. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties such as San Francisco, San Mateo and Sonoma had sealed nearly all of those records that were found to be eligible as of April 6, 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab1706-legreport-06012023.pdf\">according to a June report from the DOJ (PDF)\u003c/a>. Others, like Contra Costa and Alameda counties, have a higher proportion of cases to get through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ report showed a racial equity gap among people who are relieved from their past cannabis-related arrests or sentences under AB 1706. More white men have been both found eligible and granted relief, compared with Hispanic, Black, Asian or other racial groups, according to the DOJ report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, lawmakers in 2022 passed another bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB731\">SB 731\u003c/a>, which creates a pathway to sealing records for a much wider range of criminal convictions beyond cannabis, excluding sex offenses. Under that bill, a person can apply to seal their records within four years of completing a sentence, as long as they don’t have a new arrest. Some agencies like schools and police, however, can still access the criminal history, but it would not show up in regular background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California laws that prevent people living with a past conviction or arrest record from positively contributing to our communities make us all less safe,” Ting said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by KQED’s Billy Cruz.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>July 10: An earlier version of this story conflated AB 1076 with AB 1706. This story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955206/millions-of-criminal-records-erased-after-landmark-california-law-takes-effect","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19963","news_17725","news_32895","news_4016","news_32894","news_27626","news_102","news_20720","news_17968"],"featImg":"news_11955214","label":"news"},"news_11940082":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11940082","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11940082","score":null,"sort":[1675469642000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-bill-could-bring-amsterdam-style-cannabis-cafes-to-california","title":"New Bill Could Bring Amsterdam-Style Cannabis Cafes to California","publishDate":1675469642,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Assemblymember Matt Haney thinks he might have a new way to lure visitors to San Francisco and other places in California: cannabis cafes, like the ones that draw thousands of tourists to Amsterdam each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Haney introduced legislation to make it easier for cannabis dispensaries to sell food and beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If an authorized cannabis retail store wants to sell someone cannabis, a cup of tea and a sandwich, we should allow cities to make that possible and stop holding back our economy and a service that people want. Those things are all illegal under state law now,” Haney told KQED.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Matt Haney\"]'I hope that the governor, as a small-business owner himself in the past who has been involved in the hospitality industry, can now see this as an opportunity.'[/pullquote]The bill comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890551/why-illegal-weed-is-booming-in-california\">California’s cannabis industry is struggling\u003c/a> — some say collapsing — under the weight of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/07/california-cannabis-tax/\">high taxation\u003c/a> and other factors that make buying pot on the illegal market more attractive than walking into a dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney's legislation would simply change state law to allow licensed cannabis stores to also sell food, nonalcoholic beverages and tickets for entertainment events — if local governments want that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people want to consume cannabis legally while socializing with others, and many want to do it while drinking coffee, eating a muffin or listening to music,” Haney said. “And there is absolutely no good reason from an economic, health, safety or fairness standpoint that the state should make those things illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney sees the diversification of cannabis businesses as a way to shore up struggling dispensaries by luring visitors for a unique experience they can’t find at home, while also helping to fill vacant storefronts and downtown corridors hollowed out by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s bill wouldn't require this — it would simply allow local governments to decide whether to expand the range of products existing operators could offer. In San Francisco, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is already on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, he plans to introduce local legislation to allow cannabis lounges — where using pot is currently permitted — to also sell food, beverages and tickets to events, such as music or comedy.[aside postID=forum_2010101887431 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2022/01/CA-Cannabis-1020x574.jpg']“I think those (current) restrictions don't make sense and they're not helpful to the lounges,” Mandelman said. “And I think that in terms of making those more enjoyable spaces and building out our local cannabis industry, tourism and economic developments — for all those reasons, it makes sense to take advantage of what Assemblyman Haney is putting forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Hollywood and desert towns like Palm Springs and Cathedral City have already written local ordinances to allow cannabis cafes if the state permits them, according to Haney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the proliferation of dispensaries, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/30/marijuana-supply-sales-turmoil/\">current economic and regulatory environments\u003c/a> pose serious hurdles for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear from our operators that it's a very challenging time to be in the cannabis space,” said Nikesh Patel, director of San Francisco’s Office of Cannabis. “And some of the reasons are reduced foot traffic on the streets and higher tax burdens on cannabis businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is still competition with the illicit market, and the cost of flower (the unprocessed cannabis “bud”) as a whole has gone down, and that's had a trickle effect on the entire supply chain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel would not take a position on Haney’s legislation, but he emphasized that, in the current market, cannabis businesses need some kind of help if they are to survive competition from illegal sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940101\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940101 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with a white shirt and a beard laughs as he sits and enjoys a conversation.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Assembly candidate Matt Haney enjoys his election night party at District 6 in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/prop64.htm\">Proposition 64 in 2016\u003c/a>, California voters legalized recreational use of marijuana in the state. More than a dozen other states have done the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Prop. 64 left licensing up to local governments. California has more than 700 legally permitted dispensaries. San Francisco alone has more than 40, while Oakland has at least 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than half of California cities and counties haven’t allowed cannabis businesses to operate in their jurisdictions — and taxation and competition from cheaper marijuana on the illegal market has pushed some operators out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s bill could help address some of those challenges by opening up new opportunities for revenue generation by cannabis sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using Amsterdam as a model for San Francisco could be somewhat problematic. While the Netherlands officially “tolerates” personal use of marijuana, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/amsterdam-s-mayor-frets-about-sex-drugs-and-tourism\">the mayor of Amsterdam is reportedly tired of tourists on a “moral vacation”\u003c/a> and wants to at least temporarily ban nonresidents from using its pot cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s office noted that his bill would do nothing to interfere with local law enforcement or other agencies monitoring the operation of these establishments — if they in fact open. If the bill passes the Legislature, the Assemblymember does not know whether Gov. Gavin Newsom would sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that the governor, as a small-business owner himself in the past who has been involved in the hospitality industry, can now see this as an opportunity,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Assemblymember Matt Haney will be introducing a new bill Monday that will make it easier for cannabis dispensaries to sell food and beverages in a bid to draw more tourists to San Francisco and other places in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1675470767,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":921},"headData":{"title":"New Bill Could Bring Amsterdam-Style Cannabis Cafes to California | KQED","description":"Assemblymember Matt Haney will be introducing a new bill Monday that will make it easier for cannabis dispensaries to sell food and beverages in a bid to draw more tourists to San Francisco and other places in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11940082/new-bill-could-bring-amsterdam-style-cannabis-cafes-to-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Assemblymember Matt Haney thinks he might have a new way to lure visitors to San Francisco and other places in California: cannabis cafes, like the ones that draw thousands of tourists to Amsterdam each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Haney introduced legislation to make it easier for cannabis dispensaries to sell food and beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If an authorized cannabis retail store wants to sell someone cannabis, a cup of tea and a sandwich, we should allow cities to make that possible and stop holding back our economy and a service that people want. Those things are all illegal under state law now,” Haney told KQED.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I hope that the governor, as a small-business owner himself in the past who has been involved in the hospitality industry, can now see this as an opportunity.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Assemblymember Matt Haney","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The bill comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101890551/why-illegal-weed-is-booming-in-california\">California’s cannabis industry is struggling\u003c/a> — some say collapsing — under the weight of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/07/california-cannabis-tax/\">high taxation\u003c/a> and other factors that make buying pot on the illegal market more attractive than walking into a dispensary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney's legislation would simply change state law to allow licensed cannabis stores to also sell food, nonalcoholic beverages and tickets for entertainment events — if local governments want that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people want to consume cannabis legally while socializing with others, and many want to do it while drinking coffee, eating a muffin or listening to music,” Haney said. “And there is absolutely no good reason from an economic, health, safety or fairness standpoint that the state should make those things illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney sees the diversification of cannabis businesses as a way to shore up struggling dispensaries by luring visitors for a unique experience they can’t find at home, while also helping to fill vacant storefronts and downtown corridors hollowed out by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s bill wouldn't require this — it would simply allow local governments to decide whether to expand the range of products existing operators could offer. In San Francisco, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is already on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, he plans to introduce local legislation to allow cannabis lounges — where using pot is currently permitted — to also sell food, beverages and tickets to events, such as music or comedy.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101887431","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2022/01/CA-Cannabis-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think those (current) restrictions don't make sense and they're not helpful to the lounges,” Mandelman said. “And I think that in terms of making those more enjoyable spaces and building out our local cannabis industry, tourism and economic developments — for all those reasons, it makes sense to take advantage of what Assemblyman Haney is putting forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Hollywood and desert towns like Palm Springs and Cathedral City have already written local ordinances to allow cannabis cafes if the state permits them, according to Haney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the proliferation of dispensaries, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/30/marijuana-supply-sales-turmoil/\">current economic and regulatory environments\u003c/a> pose serious hurdles for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear from our operators that it's a very challenging time to be in the cannabis space,” said Nikesh Patel, director of San Francisco’s Office of Cannabis. “And some of the reasons are reduced foot traffic on the streets and higher tax burdens on cannabis businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is still competition with the illicit market, and the cost of flower (the unprocessed cannabis “bud”) as a whole has gone down, and that's had a trickle effect on the entire supply chain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patel would not take a position on Haney’s legislation, but he emphasized that, in the current market, cannabis businesses need some kind of help if they are to survive competition from illegal sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940101\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940101 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with a white shirt and a beard laughs as he sits and enjoys a conversation.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/GettyImages-1370835285.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Assembly candidate Matt Haney enjoys his election night party at District 6 in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/prop64.htm\">Proposition 64 in 2016\u003c/a>, California voters legalized recreational use of marijuana in the state. More than a dozen other states have done the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Prop. 64 left licensing up to local governments. California has more than 700 legally permitted dispensaries. San Francisco alone has more than 40, while Oakland has at least 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than half of California cities and counties haven’t allowed cannabis businesses to operate in their jurisdictions — and taxation and competition from cheaper marijuana on the illegal market has pushed some operators out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s bill could help address some of those challenges by opening up new opportunities for revenue generation by cannabis sellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using Amsterdam as a model for San Francisco could be somewhat problematic. While the Netherlands officially “tolerates” personal use of marijuana, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/amsterdam-s-mayor-frets-about-sex-drugs-and-tourism\">the mayor of Amsterdam is reportedly tired of tourists on a “moral vacation”\u003c/a> and wants to at least temporarily ban nonresidents from using its pot cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s office noted that his bill would do nothing to interfere with local law enforcement or other agencies monitoring the operation of these establishments — if they in fact open. If the bill passes the Legislature, the Assemblymember does not know whether Gov. Gavin Newsom would sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that the governor, as a small-business owner himself in the past who has been involved in the hospitality industry, can now see this as an opportunity,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11940082/new-bill-could-bring-amsterdam-style-cannabis-cafes-to-california","authors":["255"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19963","news_32364","news_102","news_32362","news_32363","news_25468"],"featImg":"news_11940096","label":"news"},"news_11927938":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11927938","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11927938","score":null,"sort":[1665089914000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"biden-to-pardon-simple-federal-marijuana-possession-convictions","title":"Biden to Pardon Simple Federal Marijuana Possession Convictions","publishDate":1665089914,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>President Biden on Thursday announced that he is taking executive action to pardon people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law and Washington, D.C. statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pardons will be done through an administration process to be developed by the Justice Department, senior administration officials told reporters on a briefing call, and will cover citizens and lawful permanent residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit,\" Biden said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 6,500 people were convicted of simple possession between 1992 and 2021 under federal law, and thousands more under D.C. code, the officials said. Biden had promised the action during his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1578108939174281218\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, most convictions happen at the state level, leaving those pardons up to each governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order comes as five states, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Marijuana_laws_and_ballot_measures_in_the_United_States\">Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota\u003c/a>, have legalization measures on their ballots for November. Nineteen states have legalized marijuana for recreational use and 38 states have legalized marijuana for medical use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the executive order, Biden is also urging all governors to take similar action in their states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is also asking his Health and Human Services and Justice departments to review whether marijuana should still be classified as a Schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substances Act. The classification is meant for the most dangerous substances, according to Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ will in the coming days begin creating the process for issuing the pardons, according to a statement from Justice Department spokesperson Anthony Coley, and will work with HHS on the review of drug scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"marijuana\"]\"This is the same schedule as for heroin and LSD, and even higher than the classification of fentanyl and methamphetamine – the drugs that are driving our overdose epidemic,\" Biden said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president, however, noted that \"even as federal and state regulation of marijuana changes, important limitations on trafficking, marketing, and under-age sales should stay in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moves do not legalize the use of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some marijuana advocacy groups have applauded the move. But they want the president to go further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We, however, hope that the Biden Administration will go further and fully deschedule marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, rather than initiate a process that could lead to rescheduling,\" said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, in a statement. \"Keeping marijuana on the federal drug schedule will mean people will continue to face criminal charges for marijuana.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"storytext\" class=\"storytext storylocation linkLocation\">\n\u003cp>GOP members, like Sen. Tom Cotton, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1578116642969714688?s=20&t=lWi9Nlq78SOgnag6ApXQsg\">opposed the move\u003c/a>, calling it a blanket pardon and a \"desperate attempt\" at distraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats have long pushed Biden to fulfill his campaign promise. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2021.11.9%20Letter%20to%20POTUS%20on%20Cannabis%20Pardons.pdf\">a letter sent nearly a year ago\u003c/a>, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/senmarkey/status/1578102493166587904?s=46&t=cels3SB7hdJm576H_hh-ig\">Ed Markey\u003c/a>, and Jeff Merkley wrote to Biden urging him to issue a blanket pardon for all non-violent federal cannabis offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Biden+to+pardon+simple+federal+marijuana+possession+convictions+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The pardons will be done through an administration process to be developed by the Justice Department, administration officials told reporters; it will cover citizens and lawful permanent residents. 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Biden had promised the action during his campaign.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1578108939174281218"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>However, most convictions happen at the state level, leaving those pardons up to each governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order comes as five states, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Marijuana_laws_and_ballot_measures_in_the_United_States\">Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota\u003c/a>, have legalization measures on their ballots for November. 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But they want the president to go further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We, however, hope that the Biden Administration will go further and fully deschedule marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, rather than initiate a process that could lead to rescheduling,\" said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, in a statement. \"Keeping marijuana on the federal drug schedule will mean people will continue to face criminal charges for marijuana.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"storytext\" class=\"storytext storylocation linkLocation\">\n\u003cp>GOP members, like Sen. Tom Cotton, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1578116642969714688?s=20&t=lWi9Nlq78SOgnag6ApXQsg\">opposed the move\u003c/a>, calling it a blanket pardon and a \"desperate attempt\" at distraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats have long pushed Biden to fulfill his campaign promise. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2021.11.9%20Letter%20to%20POTUS%20on%20Cannabis%20Pardons.pdf\">a letter sent nearly a year ago\u003c/a>, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/senmarkey/status/1578102493166587904?s=46&t=cels3SB7hdJm576H_hh-ig\">Ed Markey\u003c/a>, and Jeff Merkley wrote to Biden urging him to issue a blanket pardon for all non-violent federal cannabis offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Biden+to+pardon+simple+federal+marijuana+possession+convictions+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11927938/biden-to-pardon-simple-federal-marijuana-possession-convictions","authors":["byline_news_11927938"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19963","news_17999","news_31771","news_717","news_102","news_18584","news_5386","news_29538"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11927939","label":"news_253"},"news_11916028":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11916028","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11916028","score":null,"sort":[1654620744000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lawmakers-consider-adding-mental-health-warnings-to-pot-products","title":"Cases of Cannabis-Induced Psychosis Rise. Lawmakers Want to Add Mental Health Warnings to Pot Products","publishDate":1654620744,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie’s grandson was at the top of his class in high school and a talented jazz bassist when he started smoking pot. The more serious he got about music, the more serious he got about pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the more serious he got about pot, the more he became paranoid, even psychotic. He started hearing voices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They were going to kill him and there were people coming to eat his brain. Weird, weird stuff,” Kirkaldie says. “I woke up one morning and no Kory anywhere. Well, it turns out, he'd been running down Villa Lane here totally naked.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='small' citation='Dr. Lynn Silver, Public Health Institute']'Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis.'[/pullquote]Kory came to live with his grandmother for a couple years in Napa. She thought maybe she could help. Now, she says that was naïve. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kory was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Kirkaldie blames the pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The drug use activated the psychosis, is what I really think,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indeed, research confirms people who use cannabis are\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">four times more likely\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to develop chronic psychosis, or schizophrenia, compared to people who don’t. For people who smoke every day or use higher potency products, the risk is up to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">six times higher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01586-8\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by 10%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis producers to warn consumers of this and other health risks on their package labels and in advertising, similar to requirements for cigarettes. They also want sellers to distribute health brochures to first-time customers outlining the risks cannabis poses to youth, drivers and those who are pregnant, especially for pot that has high concentrations of THC.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis,” says Dr. Lynn Silver with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.phi.org/work-with-us/?gclid=CjwKCAjwv-GUBhAzEiwASUMm4sYE1WqZD4Z4iqYpMm60UMxb9B7hGezMGVxymh1JyTsjszQF7jfrIRoCUDUQAvD_BwE\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Health Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit sponsoring the proposed labeling legislation,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1097\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1097\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Cannabis Right to Know Act.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Californians voted to legalize pot in 2016. Three years later, emergency room visits for cannabis-induced psychosis went up 54% across the state, from 682 visits to 1,053, according to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-emergency-department-diagnosis-procedure-and-external-cause-codes\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state hospital data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For people who already have a psychotic disorder, cannabis can make things worse: It leads to more ER visits, more hospitalizations, and more legal troubles, says\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/deepak_dsouza/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Deepak Cyril D’Souza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a psychiatry professor at Yale University School of Medicine, who also serves on the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Medical-Marijuana-Program/Medical-Marijuana-Program-Board-of-Physicians\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">physicians’ advisory board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Connecticut's medical marijuana program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But D’Souza faces great difficulty convincing his patients of the dangers, especially as\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">19 states\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have legalized recreational marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Both my patients with schizophrenia, and also adolescents, hear very conflicting messages that it's legal — [that] in fact, there may be medical uses for it,” he says. “If there are medical uses, how can we say there's anything wrong with it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A rectangular wooden frame holds three images of children. Two are blurred and the third shows Kory as a young boy in a denim shirt with a mop of dark hair, black eyes, and a happy smile.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie holds a photo of Kory as a child at her home in Napa on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legalization is not the problem, he says, but rather the commercialization of cannabis — the heavy marketing, which can be geared toward attracting young people to become customers for life — and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/27/california-cannabis-gets-thc-boost-as-voters-consider-legalizing-pot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the increase in THC\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 4% on average up to 20%-35% in today’s varieties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limiting the amount of THC in pot products and including health warnings on the labels could help reduce the health harms associated with cannabis use, D’Souza says, the same way they worked for cigarettes. He credits warning labels, education campaigns and marketing restrictions for the sharp drop in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/trends-in-tobacco-use-among-youth.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">smoking rates among kids and teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the last decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know how to message them,” D’Souza says. “But I don’t think we have the will or the resources, as yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some states, including Colorado, Oregon and New York, have dabbled with cannabis warning label requirements. California’s proposed legislation suggests language for 10 distinct warnings, including:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg\" alt=\"Three suggested warning labels in black lettering on a bright yellow background read: WARNING: Cannabis use may contribute to mental health problems, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Risk is greatest for frequent users and when using products with high THC levels. WARNING: Not for Kids or Teens! Starting cannabis use young or using frequently may lead to problem use and, according to the U.S. Surgeon General, may harm the developing brain. WARNING: Do not use if pregnant or breastfeeding. Substances in cannabis are transferred from the mother to the child and may harm your baby’s health, including causing low birth weight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1020x495.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-160x78.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s proposed rules are modeled after comprehensive protocols established in Canada: rotating health warnings would have to be set against a bright yellow background, use black 12-point font, and take up a third of the front of the package. \u003ccite>(Image by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opponents of the proposed warning labels say the requirements are excessive and expensive, especially since marketing to children is already prohibited in California and people must be 21 to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This bill is really duplicative and puts unnecessary burdens on the legal cannabis industry, as we already have incredibly restrictive packaging and advertising requirements,” says Lindsay Robinson, executive director of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacannabisindustry.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Cannabis Industry Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which represents legal pot businesses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state should focus more on combatting the illicit pot market, rather than further regulating the legal one, she says. Legal dispensaries are already struggling to keep up with existing rules and taxes: The state’s 1,500 licensed pot retailers generated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/dataset.htm?url=CannabisTaxRevenues\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1.3 billion in state tax revenue\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last year. Adding more requirements just makes it harder for them to compete with the illicit market, she says, and more likely to go out of business.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The only real option if they fail out of the legal system is to shutter their businesses altogether or to operate underground. And I don't think the state of California, with the tax revenue, wants either of those to happen,” she says. “The heart of the issue is that there's a massive, unregulated market in the state.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people, even parents like Elizabeth Kirkaldie, are skeptical the labels will work. Her grandson, Kory, is stable now, living with his dad. But she’s not sure a yellow warning would’ve stopped him when he was a teen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re just not going to pay attention,” she says. “But if it helps even one person? Great.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists still do not know what causes schizophrenia, but they believe multiple factors are at play, including genetics, family history, trauma and other influences in a person’s environment, like smoking pot. Some scientists believe having schizophrenia itself is what \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5341491/#:~:text=We%20found%20strong%20evidence%20in,2014).\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">predisposes people to smoking pot\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. While it’s difficult to prove a direct causal link between cannabis use and schizophrenia, the associations are strong enough to warrant action, says D’Souza — and importantly, pot use is one of the only risk factors people can control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Not everyone who smoked cigarettes developed lung cancer, and not everyone who has lung cancer smoked cigarettes,” he says. “But I think we would all agree that one of the most preventable causes of lung cancer is cigarette smoking.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applying the same health education strategies to cannabis that were used for tobacco, he says, is long overdue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia by 10%.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654817094,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1169},"headData":{"title":"Cases of Cannabis-Induced Psychosis Rise. 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Lawmakers Want to Add Mental Health Warnings to Pot Products","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/1e4ccc05-8878-4c91-b3a1-aead0134ab56/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11916028/lawmakers-consider-adding-mental-health-warnings-to-pot-products","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie’s grandson was at the top of his class in high school and a talented jazz bassist when he started smoking pot. The more serious he got about music, the more serious he got about pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the more serious he got about pot, the more he became paranoid, even psychotic. He started hearing voices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They were going to kill him and there were people coming to eat his brain. Weird, weird stuff,” Kirkaldie says. “I woke up one morning and no Kory anywhere. Well, it turns out, he'd been running down Villa Lane here totally naked.”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","citation":"Dr. Lynn Silver, Public Health Institute","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kory came to live with his grandmother for a couple years in Napa. She thought maybe she could help. Now, she says that was naïve. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kory was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Kirkaldie blames the pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The drug use activated the psychosis, is what I really think,” she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indeed, research confirms people who use cannabis are\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">four times more likely\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to develop chronic psychosis, or schizophrenia, compared to people who don’t. For people who smoke every day or use higher potency products, the risk is up to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315315/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">six times higher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01586-8\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by 10%\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis producers to warn consumers of this and other health risks on their package labels and in advertising, similar to requirements for cigarettes. They also want sellers to distribute health brochures to first-time customers outlining the risks cannabis poses to youth, drivers and those who are pregnant, especially for pot that has high concentrations of THC.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms associated with cannabis,” says Dr. Lynn Silver with the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.phi.org/work-with-us/?gclid=CjwKCAjwv-GUBhAzEiwASUMm4sYE1WqZD4Z4iqYpMm60UMxb9B7hGezMGVxymh1JyTsjszQF7jfrIRoCUDUQAvD_BwE\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Health Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit sponsoring the proposed labeling legislation,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1097\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1097\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Cannabis Right to Know Act.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Californians voted to legalize pot in 2016. Three years later, emergency room visits for cannabis-induced psychosis went up 54% across the state, from 682 visits to 1,053, according to\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/hospital-emergency-department-diagnosis-procedure-and-external-cause-codes\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state hospital data\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For people who already have a psychotic disorder, cannabis can make things worse: It leads to more ER visits, more hospitalizations, and more legal troubles, says\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/deepak_dsouza/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Deepak Cyril D’Souza\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a psychiatry professor at Yale University School of Medicine, who also serves on the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Medical-Marijuana-Program/Medical-Marijuana-Program-Board-of-Physicians\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">physicians’ advisory board\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Connecticut's medical marijuana program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But D’Souza faces great difficulty convincing his patients of the dangers, especially as\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">19 states\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have legalized recreational marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Both my patients with schizophrenia, and also adolescents, hear very conflicting messages that it's legal — [that] in fact, there may be medical uses for it,” he says. “If there are medical uses, how can we say there's anything wrong with it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A rectangular wooden frame holds three images of children. Two are blurred and the third shows Kory as a young boy in a denim shirt with a mop of dark hair, black eyes, and a happy smile.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/003_KQED_LizKirkaldie_06062022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Kirkaldie holds a photo of Kory as a child at her home in Napa on June 6, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legalization is not the problem, he says, but rather the commercialization of cannabis — the heavy marketing, which can be geared toward attracting young people to become customers for life — and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/27/california-cannabis-gets-thc-boost-as-voters-consider-legalizing-pot/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the increase in THC\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from 4% on average up to 20%-35% in today’s varieties.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limiting the amount of THC in pot products and including health warnings on the labels could help reduce the health harms associated with cannabis use, D’Souza says, the same way they worked for cigarettes. He credits warning labels, education campaigns and marketing restrictions for the sharp drop in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/trends-in-tobacco-use-among-youth.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">smoking rates among kids and teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the last decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We know how to message them,” D’Souza says. “But I don’t think we have the will or the resources, as yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some states, including Colorado, Oregon and New York, have dabbled with cannabis warning label requirements. California’s proposed legislation suggests language for 10 distinct warnings, including:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg\" alt=\"Three suggested warning labels in black lettering on a bright yellow background read: WARNING: Cannabis use may contribute to mental health problems, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Risk is greatest for frequent users and when using products with high THC levels. WARNING: Not for Kids or Teens! Starting cannabis use young or using frequently may lead to problem use and, according to the U.S. Surgeon General, may harm the developing brain. WARNING: Do not use if pregnant or breastfeeding. Substances in cannabis are transferred from the mother to the child and may harm your baby’s health, including causing low birth weight.\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-800x389.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1020x495.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-160x78.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1-1536x746.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/warning-labels-1.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s proposed rules are modeled after comprehensive protocols established in Canada: rotating health warnings would have to be set against a bright yellow background, use black 12-point font, and take up a third of the front of the package. \u003ccite>(Image by Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opponents of the proposed warning labels say the requirements are excessive and expensive, especially since marketing to children is already prohibited in California and people must be 21 to buy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This bill is really duplicative and puts unnecessary burdens on the legal cannabis industry, as we already have incredibly restrictive packaging and advertising requirements,” says Lindsay Robinson, executive director of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacannabisindustry.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Cannabis Industry Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which represents legal pot businesses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state should focus more on combatting the illicit pot market, rather than further regulating the legal one, she says. Legal dispensaries are already struggling to keep up with existing rules and taxes: The state’s 1,500 licensed pot retailers generated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/dataportal/dataset.htm?url=CannabisTaxRevenues\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$1.3 billion in state tax revenue\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last year. Adding more requirements just makes it harder for them to compete with the illicit market, she says, and more likely to go out of business.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The only real option if they fail out of the legal system is to shutter their businesses altogether or to operate underground. And I don't think the state of California, with the tax revenue, wants either of those to happen,” she says. “The heart of the issue is that there's a massive, unregulated market in the state.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people, even parents like Elizabeth Kirkaldie, are skeptical the labels will work. Her grandson, Kory, is stable now, living with his dad. But she’s not sure a yellow warning would’ve stopped him when he was a teen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They’re just not going to pay attention,” she says. “But if it helps even one person? Great.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scientists still do not know what causes schizophrenia, but they believe multiple factors are at play, including genetics, family history, trauma and other influences in a person’s environment, like smoking pot. Some scientists believe having schizophrenia itself is what \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5341491/#:~:text=We%20found%20strong%20evidence%20in,2014).\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">predisposes people to smoking pot\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. While it’s difficult to prove a direct causal link between cannabis use and schizophrenia, the associations are strong enough to warrant action, says D’Souza — and importantly, pot use is one of the only risk factors people can control.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Not everyone who smoked cigarettes developed lung cancer, and not everyone who has lung cancer smoked cigarettes,” he says. “But I think we would all agree that one of the most preventable causes of lung cancer is cigarette smoking.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applying the same health education strategies to cannabis that were used for tobacco, he says, is long overdue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11916028/lawmakers-consider-adding-mental-health-warnings-to-pot-products","authors":["3205"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_28199","news_102","news_431","news_22282","news_31186"],"featImg":"news_11916217","label":"news"},"news_11902998":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11902998","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11902998","score":null,"sort":[1643414516000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-marijuana-minister-of-the-castro","title":"'Acts of Great Love': How the Marijuana Minister of the Castro Helped His Flock Endure the AIDS Epidemic","publishDate":1643414516,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you think of gay activists and icons in San Francisco history, leaders like Supervisor Harvey Milk and Sally Miller Gearhart or recording artist — and Castro staple — Sylvester might first come to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These pioneers did their work in the public eye and are recognized for their achievements, but they weren’t the only ones on the front lines fighting for the rights of the city’s queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a small church a few blocks away from the Castro — during the height of the AIDS epidemic — a much lesser-known activist was fighting to provide comfort to a dying congregation of LGBTQIA Christians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not your average pastor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My earliest survival skill in church was: Don't listen if they're talking, just pay attention when they're singing,” said Rev. Jim Mitulski, the former senior pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church in San Francisco’s Castro district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903193\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two little boys sitting on the lap of their grandfather.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Mitulski (left), his grandfather Jack Downs, and cousin Jan. \"I dressed gay then, too,\" Mitulski said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jim Mitulski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up in northern Michigan, Mitulski, now 63, was immediately drawn to church: the ritual, the kindness and, most of all, the music. “I don't think I've ever met a piece of music I didn't like, especially in a religious setting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitulski attended New York’s Columbia College in the 1970s (then an all-men's school) and immediately felt at home there. “Who do you think goes to a men’s college in the '70s?” he said. “Gay guys.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rev. Jim Mitulski\"]'The greater the love, the greater the risk, and you will never regret acts of great love.'[/pullquote]While in New York, Mitulski says he was focused more on political activism and sex than on his schoolwork, “and my grades reflected it.” He eventually dropped out of college and continued to pursue his activism work. “I was a political gay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After discovering the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Mitulski began considering a new career path. In this new gay denomination — founded in 1968 by and for LGBTQIA people — Jim found a spiritual family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t occur to me that you could be gay and be a priest,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitulski went back to school to become a pastor, and would help lead the MCC in New York for several years, a time he recalls as magical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was church, not like church. We were anti-church,” he said. “We were 'deconstructing Christianity' church. We were 'out in the streets protesting' church. We were 'wear T-shirts, not wear vestments' church.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco in crisis\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the mid 1980s, Mitulski moved to San Francisco to become the senior pastor of an MCC congregation in the historic Castro District. He arrived to find a city “in the midst of a terrible tragedy unfolding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But still, it was a cool place to be,” he said. “It was still happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located a few blocks from the shops and gay bars of Castro Street, the church served as a de facto LGBTQIA community center, hosting meetings, same-sex weddings (which would not be legal for two more decades) and an ever-increasing number of funerals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-22-mn-551-story.html\">The LA Times\u003c/a>, under the headline \"City Under Siege,\" reported that about 4% of San Francisco’s population, including an astonishing half of the city's estimated more than 60,000 gay men, had AIDS. Without a cure or effective treatment, most would end up dying within the next 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1992, HIV infection had become \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00022174.htm\">the No. 1 cause of death\u003c/a> among 25- to 44-year-old men in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1036px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11903196 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n.jpg\" alt=\"Three pastors wearing church garb sit near a microphone.\" width=\"1036\" height=\"1548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n.jpg 1036w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n-800x1195.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n-1020x1524.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n-160x239.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n-1028x1536.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1036px) 100vw, 1036px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Rev. Ron Russell-Coons, Rev. Jim Mitulski and Rev. Kit Cherry at the MCC of SF in 1989. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jim Mitulski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just wasn't prepared for the sheer numbers of it,” Mitulski said. Seemingly healthy young men in his neighborhood, he recalled, would simply just disappear and be assumed dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1995, Mitulski received his own HIV diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facing my own mortality made me realize we're only here as long as we're here. 'What are you being so cautious about?'” he said he asked himself. “My ministry changed right after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Marijuana and AIDS\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marijuana is known to help ease the nausea and pain associated with HIV and AIDS. The drug also enables many patients to eat by helping to increase their appetites, while providing pain relief and aiding in sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would actually feel pain relief and relief from the stress around worrying about mortality,” Mitulski said. “It lasts for half an hour, an hour or whatever, not all day, not all night. But sometimes the freedom from the omnipresent anxiety is important. ... It’s welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, marijuana is now legal for adult use, both recreationally and medically. But in the 1980s and early 1990s, things worked a bit differently. Medical marijuana clubs, the underground predecessors of dispensaries, provided the drug to people in need — and law enforcement generally looked the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter California Attorney General Dan Lungren, the state’s top cop for much of the 1990s. In anticipation of his (ultimately unsuccessful) bid for governor in 1998, Lungren “saw [marijuana] as an issue that he thought could be a popular enforcement issue as a law-and-order guy,” Mitulski said. “And without consulting with city officials, [he] exercised his authority as a state official — probably with the support of the federal government — to crack down on and close, without warning, all of the marijuana outlets and distributors in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost overnight, marijuana patients across the city, including those with HIV/AIDS, lost access to one of the few treatments that had been available. It wasn’t long before the gay community sprang into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'Acts of great love'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Within a few days of the crackdown, Allen White — a queer journalist — approached Mitulski with the idea of distributing marijuana from his church to patients in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wanted to see who could they get to distribute marijuana that the government would think twice about arresting,” Mitulski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2049px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask stares up to the ceiling of a large vacant room.\" width=\"2049\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D.jpg 2049w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2049px) 100vw, 2049px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Jim Mitulski in 2021 revisiting the now-vacant Metropolitan Community Church building in the Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Todd Atkins-Whitley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The risks were high: The federal government could seize the property of people found to be participating in a federal crime — including the distribution of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 1996, Mitulski began distributing small bags of marijuana to HIV/AIDS patients after his church services. The pot was all donated, no money could be exchanged, and the patients were required to have a doctor's note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"aids\"]Mitulski said the media reported on it when he first started distributing marijuana in his church, but the police never cracked down on him. “I think they knew we were doing the right thing,” he said. “I think angels protected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Lungren’s campaign to stop it, voters in 1996 passed Proposition 215, legalizing medical marijuana statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitulski shut down his marijuana ministry right after the results were announced. But the impact of his efforts was evident: In just over a few months, he had used prayer, music and marijuana to serve a few thousand people in dire need of comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has only one regret from that period of his life: “That we did all that activism on AIDS care in the '80s and '90s, and somehow did not end up with universal health care. Crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Mitulski left the MCC in the Castro where he had served for more than two decades. He is now interim senior pastor of Peace United Church of Christ in Duluth, Minnesota, where he continues to push for marijuana legalization and gay rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let your acts of love guide you, even if it means great risk,” Mitulski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man sitting outside on a chair by a lake.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Jim Mitulski at Lake Merritt in Oakland in 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Todd Atkins-Whitley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s still proud, he says, of the work he did at that little church in San Francisco more than 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a risk. I used my body. I acted on a belief that was motivated by my desire to provide healing and comfort for my friends,” he said. “And I didn't know what else to do that I could do, but this was something I could do. And I did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitulski says he wouldn’t hesitate to do it all again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greater the love, the greater the risk, and you will never regret acts of great love,” he said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the summer of 1996, Rev. Jim Mitulski began distributing small bags of marijuana to HIV/AIDS patients at the ends of the services he led from his small church in the Castro district. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1643415446,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1536},"headData":{"title":"'Acts of Great Love': How the Marijuana Minister of the Castro Helped His Flock Endure the AIDS Epidemic | KQED","description":"In a small church a few blocks away from the Castro — during the height of the AIDS epidemic — one pastor fought to provide comfort to a dying congregation of LGBTQIA Christians.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11902998 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11902998","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/01/28/the-marijuana-minister-of-the-castro/","disqusTitle":"'Acts of Great Love': How the Marijuana Minister of the Castro Helped His Flock Endure the AIDS Epidemic","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC8035844417.mp3?updated=1643325568","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11902998/the-marijuana-minister-of-the-castro","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you think of gay activists and icons in San Francisco history, leaders like Supervisor Harvey Milk and Sally Miller Gearhart or recording artist — and Castro staple — Sylvester might first come to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These pioneers did their work in the public eye and are recognized for their achievements, but they weren’t the only ones on the front lines fighting for the rights of the city’s queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a small church a few blocks away from the Castro — during the height of the AIDS epidemic — a much lesser-known activist was fighting to provide comfort to a dying congregation of LGBTQIA Christians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not your average pastor\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“My earliest survival skill in church was: Don't listen if they're talking, just pay attention when they're singing,” said Rev. Jim Mitulski, the former senior pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church in San Francisco’s Castro district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903193\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two little boys sitting on the lap of their grandfather.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272669153_3156595744556727_3278188865832847024_n-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Mitulski (left), his grandfather Jack Downs, and cousin Jan. \"I dressed gay then, too,\" Mitulski said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jim Mitulski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Growing up in northern Michigan, Mitulski, now 63, was immediately drawn to church: the ritual, the kindness and, most of all, the music. “I don't think I've ever met a piece of music I didn't like, especially in a religious setting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitulski attended New York’s Columbia College in the 1970s (then an all-men's school) and immediately felt at home there. “Who do you think goes to a men’s college in the '70s?” he said. “Gay guys.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The greater the love, the greater the risk, and you will never regret acts of great love.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rev. Jim Mitulski","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While in New York, Mitulski says he was focused more on political activism and sex than on his schoolwork, “and my grades reflected it.” He eventually dropped out of college and continued to pursue his activism work. “I was a political gay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After discovering the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Mitulski began considering a new career path. In this new gay denomination — founded in 1968 by and for LGBTQIA people — Jim found a spiritual family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t occur to me that you could be gay and be a priest,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitulski went back to school to become a pastor, and would help lead the MCC in New York for several years, a time he recalls as magical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was church, not like church. We were anti-church,” he said. “We were 'deconstructing Christianity' church. We were 'out in the streets protesting' church. We were 'wear T-shirts, not wear vestments' church.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco in crisis\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the mid 1980s, Mitulski moved to San Francisco to become the senior pastor of an MCC congregation in the historic Castro District. He arrived to find a city “in the midst of a terrible tragedy unfolding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But still, it was a cool place to be,” he said. “It was still happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located a few blocks from the shops and gay bars of Castro Street, the church served as a de facto LGBTQIA community center, hosting meetings, same-sex weddings (which would not be legal for two more decades) and an ever-increasing number of funerals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-22-mn-551-story.html\">The LA Times\u003c/a>, under the headline \"City Under Siege,\" reported that about 4% of San Francisco’s population, including an astonishing half of the city's estimated more than 60,000 gay men, had AIDS. Without a cure or effective treatment, most would end up dying within the next 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1992, HIV infection had become \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00022174.htm\">the No. 1 cause of death\u003c/a> among 25- to 44-year-old men in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903196\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1036px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11903196 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n.jpg\" alt=\"Three pastors wearing church garb sit near a microphone.\" width=\"1036\" height=\"1548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n.jpg 1036w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n-800x1195.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n-1020x1524.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n-160x239.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/272445169_651379669343066_1985915600313202814_n-1028x1536.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1036px) 100vw, 1036px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Rev. Ron Russell-Coons, Rev. Jim Mitulski and Rev. Kit Cherry at the MCC of SF in 1989. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jim Mitulski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just wasn't prepared for the sheer numbers of it,” Mitulski said. Seemingly healthy young men in his neighborhood, he recalled, would simply just disappear and be assumed dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1995, Mitulski received his own HIV diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facing my own mortality made me realize we're only here as long as we're here. 'What are you being so cautious about?'” he said he asked himself. “My ministry changed right after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Marijuana and AIDS\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Marijuana is known to help ease the nausea and pain associated with HIV and AIDS. The drug also enables many patients to eat by helping to increase their appetites, while providing pain relief and aiding in sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would actually feel pain relief and relief from the stress around worrying about mortality,” Mitulski said. “It lasts for half an hour, an hour or whatever, not all day, not all night. But sometimes the freedom from the omnipresent anxiety is important. ... It’s welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, marijuana is now legal for adult use, both recreationally and medically. But in the 1980s and early 1990s, things worked a bit differently. Medical marijuana clubs, the underground predecessors of dispensaries, provided the drug to people in need — and law enforcement generally looked the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter California Attorney General Dan Lungren, the state’s top cop for much of the 1990s. In anticipation of his (ultimately unsuccessful) bid for governor in 1998, Lungren “saw [marijuana] as an issue that he thought could be a popular enforcement issue as a law-and-order guy,” Mitulski said. “And without consulting with city officials, [he] exercised his authority as a state official — probably with the support of the federal government — to crack down on and close, without warning, all of the marijuana outlets and distributors in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost overnight, marijuana patients across the city, including those with HIV/AIDS, lost access to one of the few treatments that had been available. It wasn’t long before the gay community sprang into action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>'Acts of great love'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Within a few days of the crackdown, Allen White — a queer journalist — approached Mitulski with the idea of distributing marijuana from his church to patients in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wanted to see who could they get to distribute marijuana that the government would think twice about arresting,” Mitulski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2049px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask stares up to the ceiling of a large vacant room.\" width=\"2049\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D.jpg 2049w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/08130841-DEC3-4E56-84A6-EA6C0BF39A3D-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2049px) 100vw, 2049px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Jim Mitulski in 2021 revisiting the now-vacant Metropolitan Community Church building in the Castro District. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Todd Atkins-Whitley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The risks were high: The federal government could seize the property of people found to be participating in a federal crime — including the distribution of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 1996, Mitulski began distributing small bags of marijuana to HIV/AIDS patients after his church services. The pot was all donated, no money could be exchanged, and the patients were required to have a doctor's note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"aids"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mitulski said the media reported on it when he first started distributing marijuana in his church, but the police never cracked down on him. “I think they knew we were doing the right thing,” he said. “I think angels protected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Lungren’s campaign to stop it, voters in 1996 passed Proposition 215, legalizing medical marijuana statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitulski shut down his marijuana ministry right after the results were announced. But the impact of his efforts was evident: In just over a few months, he had used prayer, music and marijuana to serve a few thousand people in dire need of comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has only one regret from that period of his life: “That we did all that activism on AIDS care in the '80s and '90s, and somehow did not end up with universal health care. Crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Mitulski left the MCC in the Castro where he had served for more than two decades. He is now interim senior pastor of Peace United Church of Christ in Duluth, Minnesota, where he continues to push for marijuana legalization and gay rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let your acts of love guide you, even if it means great risk,” Mitulski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11903117\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man sitting outside on a chair by a lake.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/194146336_326107285562520_8338172634866005523_n-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Jim Mitulski at Lake Merritt in Oakland in 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Todd Atkins-Whitley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s still proud, he says, of the work he did at that little church in San Francisco more than 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I took a risk. I used my body. I acted on a belief that was motivated by my desire to provide healing and comfort for my friends,” he said. “And I didn't know what else to do that I could do, but this was something I could do. And I did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitulski says he wouldn’t hesitate to do it all again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greater the love, the greater the risk, and you will never regret acts of great love,” he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11902998/the-marijuana-minister-of-the-castro","authors":["11749"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1510","news_30596","news_2768","news_21534","news_27626","news_30586","news_102","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11903295","label":"news_26731"},"news_11889861":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11889861","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11889861","score":null,"sort":[1632523572000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures","title":"Ex-Rohnert Park Cops Indicted on Federal Extortion, Conspiracy Charges Linked to Marijuana Seizures","publishDate":1632523572,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Two former Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety police officers were arraigned Friday on federal charges including extortion and conspiracy in connection with marijuana seizures made in 2016 and 2017. Both officers entered not guilty pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, KQED first reported on a string of motorists who alleged then-Sgt. Brendan Jacy Tatum and his partner Joseph Huffaker unlawfully seized marijuana or cash from them during traffic stops along Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Tatum and Huffaker are currently out of custody on bail, and the arraignment took place via Zoom due to COVID-19 restrictions, with U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim presiding. The charges they face come with a maximum sentence of 60 to 65 years if served consecutively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/TatumHuffakerIndictment.pdf\">indictment\u003c/a> handed down by a federal grand jury on Tuesday alleges that the two abused their power as police officers to extort people during traffic stops by “claiming to be ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] agents, threatening to arrest drivers” and then seizing their marijuana “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">'Highway Robbery': Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read KQED's 2018 investigation\u003c/a>: Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer declined to comment. Huffaker’s attorney, Heather Phillips, said in an email that she looks forward to presenting her defense “so that the entire story can be revealed and Mr. Huffaker's name can be cleared. He did not do this and we are confident that a neutral jury will see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is easy to get an indictment, as the defendant and his attorney are not allowed to take part in the grand jury proceedings,” Phillips said. “It is solely a one-sided presentation of the prosecution's case, and the burden of proof is very low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment details six traffic stops Tatum made in 2016, either with Huffaker or with another officer, while he was head of a drug interdiction task force. These stops were recorded on police body cameras, but they were never documented in incident reports, according to the indictment. The indictment also says Tatum also failed to get destruction orders for the approximately 60 pounds of marijuana seized during the stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\">In 2018, KQED reported that destruction orders were missing for hundreds of pounds of marijuana seized by Rohnert Park officers.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the interdiction team was discontinued in late 2017, Tatum and Huffaker continued to seize marijuana from motorists, according to the indictment, but during this time they were out of uniform and posing as ATF agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges that the two would then sell the seized marijuana for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum also faces tax evasion charges. The indictment alleges that he used cash to buy cashier’s checks for the purchase a $46,835 fishing boat, and that he and his family members deposited a total of $396,224 in various bank accounts in increments of less than $10,000 that were never reported as taxable income. Bank deposits of $10,000 and up are automatically reported to the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum left the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety in June 2018 after KQED reported on the allegations against him. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681642/rohnert-park-police-chief-to-retire-amid-questions-over-seized-marijuana-and-cash\">police chief\u003c/a> and a number of Tatum’s supervisors also retired that same year. Huffaker left the department in early 2019 under the conditions of a settlement agreement he reached with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Another lawsuit is filed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Zeke Flatten, the motorist who first came forward to independent reporter Kym Kemp in 2018 to say he had been robbed by police officers posing as ATF agents, filed a new lawsuit this month alleging that the conspiracy to seize and sell marijuana went far beyond Tatum and Huffaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11864589,news_11678122,news_11681642,news_11706921\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1200x800.jpg\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" label=\"More From 'Highway Robbery' Series\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten has long maintained that Tatum was not present when he was stopped on Dec. 5, 2017. The suit alleges that the man with Huffaker that day was actually a Mendocino County sheriff’s sergeant in charge of the county’s marijuana enforcement team named Bruce Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges that on Dec. 22, 2017, Smith also seized 1,875 pounds of marijuana worth nearly $2 million from a “legally licensed distributor,” but “the seized cannabis has disappeared with no records proving it was destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other plaintiffs are suing Mendocino County along with Flatten. 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Both officers entered not guilty pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, KQED first reported on a string of motorists who alleged then-Sgt. Brendan Jacy Tatum and his partner Joseph Huffaker unlawfully seized marijuana or cash from them during traffic stops along Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Tatum and Huffaker are currently out of custody on bail, and the arraignment took place via Zoom due to COVID-19 restrictions, with U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim presiding. The charges they face come with a maximum sentence of 60 to 65 years if served consecutively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/TatumHuffakerIndictment.pdf\">indictment\u003c/a> handed down by a federal grand jury on Tuesday alleges that the two abused their power as police officers to extort people during traffic stops by “claiming to be ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] agents, threatening to arrest drivers” and then seizing their marijuana “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">'Highway Robbery': Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read KQED's 2018 investigation\u003c/a>: Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer declined to comment. Huffaker’s attorney, Heather Phillips, said in an email that she looks forward to presenting her defense “so that the entire story can be revealed and Mr. Huffaker's name can be cleared. He did not do this and we are confident that a neutral jury will see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is easy to get an indictment, as the defendant and his attorney are not allowed to take part in the grand jury proceedings,” Phillips said. “It is solely a one-sided presentation of the prosecution's case, and the burden of proof is very low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment details six traffic stops Tatum made in 2016, either with Huffaker or with another officer, while he was head of a drug interdiction task force. These stops were recorded on police body cameras, but they were never documented in incident reports, according to the indictment. The indictment also says Tatum also failed to get destruction orders for the approximately 60 pounds of marijuana seized during the stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\">In 2018, KQED reported that destruction orders were missing for hundreds of pounds of marijuana seized by Rohnert Park officers.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the interdiction team was discontinued in late 2017, Tatum and Huffaker continued to seize marijuana from motorists, according to the indictment, but during this time they were out of uniform and posing as ATF agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges that the two would then sell the seized marijuana for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum also faces tax evasion charges. The indictment alleges that he used cash to buy cashier’s checks for the purchase a $46,835 fishing boat, and that he and his family members deposited a total of $396,224 in various bank accounts in increments of less than $10,000 that were never reported as taxable income. Bank deposits of $10,000 and up are automatically reported to the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum left the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety in June 2018 after KQED reported on the allegations against him. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681642/rohnert-park-police-chief-to-retire-amid-questions-over-seized-marijuana-and-cash\">police chief\u003c/a> and a number of Tatum’s supervisors also retired that same year. Huffaker left the department in early 2019 under the conditions of a settlement agreement he reached with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Another lawsuit is filed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Zeke Flatten, the motorist who first came forward to independent reporter Kym Kemp in 2018 to say he had been robbed by police officers posing as ATF agents, filed a new lawsuit this month alleging that the conspiracy to seize and sell marijuana went far beyond Tatum and Huffaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11864589,news_11678122,news_11681642,news_11706921","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1200x800.jpg","herolink":"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series","target":"_blank","label":"More From 'Highway Robbery' Series "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten has long maintained that Tatum was not present when he was stopped on Dec. 5, 2017. 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