Jacob Redmond
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Phillip Leveque, a longtime marijuana legalization advocate, died Saturday in Happy Valley. He was 92.
Leveque was one of the first physicians in Oregon to sign off on patients' use of the drug after the state's medical marijuana law was passed in 1998, said Paul Stanford, another longtime advocate of marijuana legalization and a friend of Leveque's.
Leveque was a regular co-host of Stanford's weekly show, Cannabis Common Sense. Stanford said the pair hosted 350 episodes of the show between 1998 and 2006.
After medical marijuana became legal, lines of prospective patients lined up to meet Leveque to ask for medical marijuana recommendations, said Stanford. Stanford, who owns medical marijuana clinics, said Leveque traveled the state to see people who wanted to use marijuana as medicine.
"He is gratefully appreciated by many, many thousands of people in the state," Stanford said.
Sandee Burbank, a medical marijuana advocate who owns medical marijuana clinics in Oregon, said in the early years of the medical marijuana program Leveque was one of the only doctors who would help sick people obtain permission to use medical marijuana.
"He was the only one that was aggressively doing that," said Burbank, who said Leveque signed off on her first medical marijuana card around 1999. "He stood up and he took the hits."
Leveque's death was noted by several prominent marijuana activists in Oregon, including Anthony Johnson, chief petitioner of Measure 91. The measure, approved by Oregon voters last fall, legalizes marijuana for people 21 and older and creates a regulated marijuana industry.
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Leveque was one of the first physicians in Oregon to sign off on patients' use of the drug after the state's medical marijuana law was passed in 1998, said Paul Stanford, another longtime advocate of marijuana legalization and a friend of Leveque's.
Leveque was a regular co-host of Stanford's weekly show, Cannabis Common Sense. Stanford said the pair hosted 350 episodes of the show between 1998 and 2006.
After medical marijuana became legal, lines of prospective patients lined up to meet Leveque to ask for medical marijuana recommendations, said Stanford. Stanford, who owns medical marijuana clinics, said Leveque traveled the state to see people who wanted to use marijuana as medicine.
"He is gratefully appreciated by many, many thousands of people in the state," Stanford said.
Sandee Burbank, a medical marijuana advocate who owns medical marijuana clinics in Oregon, said in the early years of the medical marijuana program Leveque was one of the only doctors who would help sick people obtain permission to use medical marijuana.
"He was the only one that was aggressively doing that," said Burbank, who said Leveque signed off on her first medical marijuana card around 1999. "He stood up and he took the hits."
Leveque's death was noted by several prominent marijuana activists in Oregon, including Anthony Johnson, chief petitioner of Measure 91. The measure, approved by Oregon voters last fall, legalizes marijuana for people 21 and older and creates a regulated marijuana industry.
News Moderator: Jacob Redmond 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Phillip Leveque, early advocate for medical marijuana in Oregon, dies | OregonLive.com
Author: Noelle Crombie
Contact: Contact - Oregonian Media Group
Photo Credit: None Found
Website: Oregon Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather - OregonLive.com
