marijuana -- you notice i say medical cannabis -- but the pioneer who made medical marijuana, dennis perone, a thing. almost 50 years ago. his single handed and single-minded approach that cannabis belongs in patients hands and appropriate hands and it should not be an illegal substance, it should be something that we use in our compassion, or giving in our society, has lead us to where we are today and with this mention, i would like us to note that without dennis perone, i don't think we would be having this discussion today. i thank him for his labour of work and memorialize his passing. also in regulatory, there is the fun part -- event. we need to provide a vehicle by which san francisco can participate in the invents system that has grown up around cannabis. currently the state does not allow any space in san francisco to be licensed for events. so this is a dual pronged effort. through the advocacy and political will building at the task force, we can bring suggestions both to you and the office of cannabis with some force behind them and together take them to the state and ask that

and dennis peron, longtime medical-marijuana advocate, has died at the age of 72.peron was a leader in the campaign that resulted in passage of proposition 215 in 1996, the first-ever state law legalizing cannabis for medical use. peron was an activist during the hiv epidemic of the 1980's and advocated for the use of marijuana to treat symptoms of aids patients. peron was a vietnam veteran who blamed exposure to agent orange for the lung cancer that ultimately contributed to his death. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show looking at a decades-old mystery. behind who helped daniel ellsberg in 1971 leaked the pentagon papers. the 7000-page classified history outlining the true extent of u.s. involvement in vietnam. time, the pentagon papers represented the biggest leak of classified documents in history. daniel ellsberg once faced espionage charges and possibly life in prison for leaking the documents, which he photocopied while working as an analyst for the ra