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Marijuana Is Beating Google and Twitter at Fighting AIDS

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 07/20/2015 - 08:45

Every single one of the 20,000 people who march through Golden Gate Park during the annual AIDS Walk on Sunday will be exposed to marijuana. 

There will be no choice — the cannabis industry has sponsored one of the checkpoints. The water, the tents, the DJ booth, that's all paid for with volunteered cannabis cash.

"We're trying to have a presence here," says Christopher Esposito, a former board member of the SF AIDS Foundation who's now running the "Team Cannabis" fundraising cadre at the walk. "It's the Gap, it's Chevron — and it's Team Cannabis."

And in some instances, cannabis's activist streak is winning, handily.

A brief look at the list of fundraisers for Sunday's walk reveals all of the usual suspects in San Francisco business, including some gigantic, multi-billion dollar corporations that are lagging far, far behind the cannabis people. 

AIDS and cannabis go way...

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