The Pioneers of Pot Check-in Challenge - SF Hash Week

The SF Hash Week Pioneers of Pot check-in challenge is a gamified self-guided cultural travel adventure that celebrates the cannabis legalization movement and the pioneers that paved the way.

Advocating for safe cannabis medicine access for patients in San Francisco back in the 1980s and 1990s is what led to the recreational 21+ cannabis access that we enjoy today.

Enjoy the Pioneers of Pot walking tour adventure, brought to you by The Cannabis Trail in partnership with SF Hash Week! 

Get elevated and take an immersive cultural cannabis walkabout. Learn about Dennis Peron and Brownie Mary and the community of inspiring activists and outlaws who re-legalized medical cannabis for suffering patients in need.

The SF Hash Week Pioneers of Pot Check-in Challenge:

1. Prior to embarking on your adventure, watch The Secret Story, a 15-min short doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YRxfa_b2Sk

2. Visit cannabis landmarks and points of interest

3. Check-in at three places and collect pioneer unique Pioneer badges at each place

4. Collect three pioneer badges and win…

…a 2024 SF Hash Week Patch, limited edition, while supplies last

If you complete the challenge, your commemorative SF Hash Week 2024 Patch must be picked up inside the Moe Greens cannabis lounge by 8pm on 7/30/24.

Mission Dolores Park, 18th St & Castro St, Castro St & Market St, 3745 17th St, The Island Cafe (Former Home Of), Duboce Park, Flore Dispensary Castro

• Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco, United States

  
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• 18th St & Castro St in San Francisco, United States

  
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• Castro St & Market St in San Francisco, United States

  
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• 3745 17th St in San Francisco, United States

  
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• The Island Cafe (Former Home Of) in San Francisco, United States

  
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• Duboce Park in San Francisco, United States

  
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  #2. DUBOCE TRIANGLE PARK THE BIG TOP COMMUNE AND PERON’S FIRST BUST - 1967 to 1974 Our story begins in 1967, during the Summer of Love, when Dennis Peron visits San Francisco on a 30-day leave from the military. Radicalized by witnessing the horrors of the Vietnam War, Dennis finds himself drawn to the free love vibrant energy of the Haight Ashbury. He established a cannabis-centric commune on Oak Street named the Big Top Commune. The Big Top Commune was a free love cannabis-friendly hippy haven for flower children and their families during this era. In 1974, law enforcement raided The Big Top commune because of pot dealing, leading to Dennis Peron's arrest and the confiscation of seven pounds of cannabis. Iconic human rights attorney Tony Serra, renowned for his defense of counter-culture underdogs, stepped in to represent Dennis and The Big Top Commune. Tony Serra negotiated the release of 43 detainees, the Big Top Commune family, and secured a favorable outcome for Dennis Peron. Tony Serra went on to be Dennis Peron’s attorney multiple times in the years ahead. From 1976 to 1996 Dennis Peron was arrested 26 times and shot by law enforcement due to his pro-cannabis work and human rights advocacy. To this day Tony Serra does not believe in paying taxes. Every ten years he goes to jail for one year instead, and spends that year writing books and teaching inmates about the law and their rights. Badge: Tony Serra

• Flore Dispensary Castro in San Francisco, United States

  
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