November 1992 -Santa Cruz Prop A
Thirty-one years ago medical cannabis activists were anxiously awaiting the results of a local election in Santa Cruz, California. Just one year before, in November 1991, San Francisco had passed Proposition P, a city-wide initiative that protected medical cannabis patients from arrest. Passage of Prop P in cannabis-friendly San Francisco was not a surprise. Now, however, organizers had managed to place Proposition A on a county-wide initiative and its passage was not guaranteed.
Election day was November 2, 1992 and the weekend before there was a rally in Santa Cruz that attracted the illuminati of the medical cannabis world, as these pictures show. The organizer of Prop A organizer was Scott Imler, who would go on to co-author Prop 215 in 1996 and later establish the West Hollywood Cannabis Co-op.
Prop A would pass with 77.5% of the vote. The organizers were ecstatic. The measure carried every district in the county from the free-wheeling hippies in Santa Cruz to the conservative rural farming areas in the eastern part of the county. The seed for Prop 215 had been sown. ❖
