Aunt Sandy's Medical Marijuana Cookbook

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Foreword

by Dennis Peron Medical Marijuana Pioneer

 

 

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first met Aunt Sandy while teaching the History of Medical Marijuana at Oaksterdam University. Over the years we have fostered our friendship, and I am honored to be a part of Aunt Sandy's Medical Marijuana Cookbook.

Aunt Sandy has told me that she relies on my book all the time. She is referring to “Brownie Mary's Marijuana Cookbook and Dennis Peron's Recipe for Social Change, co-authored with Mary Rathbun, in 1996. In the mid-70s, I met “Brownie Mary” Rathbun outside of a San Francisco café. A friend pointed her out to me and from then on we were very close friends.

The 1980s AIDS epidemic happened at the height of America's War on Drugs. We knew marijuana could relieve the pain and weight loss due to wasting syndrome in AIDS patients, but we were in the “Belly of the Beast”. Brownie Mary made cannabis brownies in my kitchen and distributed them for free to street kids and AIDS patients in a blatant act of defiance to the arcane drug laws. The sweet taste of the brownies helped them consume the medicine, which in turn restored their appetites and improved their quality of life. She continued to help people in need, regardless of her life mission's conflict with our drug laws.

Brownie Mary died in 2000, but her legacy lives on through Aunt Sandy's work. After suffering a stroke, I have been unable to smoke cannabis. Aunt Sandy brings me medicated foods every Tuesday. Her food is delicious, innovative, and nutritious, but more importantly Aunt Sandy's foods truly relieve pain in the body, mind and soul. Her warmth and compassion shines through in her recipes. I truly believe that the information in this book is invaluable and could potentially be life changing for you, your friends, or a loved one.

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unt Sandy's edibles are a favorite around Blue Sky Coffeeshop, in Oakland, and in the Bay area. Since joining us, her recipes have also become popular with Oaksterdam University students, but more importantly Sandy herself has been part of the Oaksterdam family for years. Aunt Sandy is now taking cooking with cannabis to a higher level with this cookbook. We are proud to have Sandy enhance and contribute to our Methods of Ingestion curricululm. She is helping Oaksterdam University bring quality training to the cannabis and hospitality industry.