America's 100 Year Drug War by Dana Beal

Join us at the Hollywood Hemp Museum for a lecture by American social and political activist Dana Beal about the last hundred years of the War on Drugs in the United States. The afternoon will open with positive protest songs performed by Brian Florian, followed by a two-part multimedia presentation by Dana Beal. Dana is a long-term activist in the Youth International Party (Yippies), a radical countercultural revolutionary group of free-speech and anti-war movements co-founded by Abbie Hoffman, and in 1972, Dana Beal founded the Yipster Times. Best known for his career fighting to legalise marijuana all over the USA, Dana Beal founded the worldwide Global Million Marijuana March, which now takes place in hundreds of cities around the world on the first Saturday in May. Dana also advocates for breakthroughs in medical research concerning the benefits of Ibogaine to cure addictions and slow autoimmune diseases. For more than 40 years, Dana has been on the forefront of the battle for drug law reform and civil liberties. His work has been controversial, and he has been to jailed for numerous drug charges including hauling large quantities of marijuana across the country for AIDS patients. In Dana's own words: “I’m not a run-of-the-mill drug runner. I’m a medical advocate. I had to do it.” Join us Sunday, November 26, 2017 for a fascinating afternoon with a pioneer who has fought for forty years on the front line of the ongoing war on drugs. Dana narrates a journey from Prohibition through McCarthyism to Nixon's War on Drugs and into the first wave of Legalization, accompanied by historic photos, videos, and documentary evidence. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/americas-100-year-drug-war-multimedia-historic-journey-by-dana-beal-tickets-39804897520