Members of ACT UP/San Francisco are scouring the city trying to find Chris Abbott, a former associate they accuse of absconding with just under $5,000 of the group's revenue from medical marijuana sales. The group posted flyers about Abbott throughout town, with an emphasis on the South of Market area, last Friday, September 4, although ACT UP/San Francisco member Michael Bellefountaine said the group suspects Abbott may have fled home to Orange County. Abbott is described on the flyers as being a Caucasian gay man, 27-years old, about five feet, 10 inches tall, and weighing approximately 290 pounds. He "wears Coke bottle glasses, t-shirts, and baggies," stated the flyer. According to Bellefountaine, Abbott walked out of the group's medical marijuana dispensary with over $4,000 in cash nearly two weeks ago. [continues 517 words]
The air smelled sweet and pungent as a thousand hanging origami cranes came down from the ceilings of the country's most famous medical marijuana center last Thursday, August 6. It was move-out day for Dennis Peron from 1444 Market Street, site of the former Cannabis Healing Center. The somber event came two years after state narcotic agents' infamous Sunday morning raid on the club that precipitated the still-ongoing legal battle against Peron, despite voters' passage of the medical marijuana Proposition 215 in November 1996. [continues 288 words]
