wintersshield: anerdyfeminist:bundyspooks:Mary Jane Rathbun, Inventor of the Marijuana Brownie.
wintersshield: anerdyfeminist: bundyspooks: Mary Jane Rathbun, Inventor of the Marijuana Brownie. In the 1980s, Mary Jane was baking over 4,000 brownies a week for Californian AIDS patients after she realised it eased their suffering and depression. Despite multiple convictions, she remained an active marijuana advocate until the day she died. I had to fact check this and her Wikipedia page made me like her even more: “She was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended Catholic school. At the age of 13, she was involved in an altercation with a nun who tried to cane her, but Rathbun fought back.” “Social activism appealed to her from a young age; she traveled from Chicago to Wisconsin to campaign for the right of miners to form unions. In the late 1940s, she worked as an activist promoting abortion rights for women in Minneapolis.” “Rathbun often appeared in public wearing polyester pantsuits, and she was said to have a ‘sailor’s mouth.’” some heroes wear polyester pantsuits -- source link