Fred Gardner (activist)

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Fred with Abe, his second youngest son.

Fred Gardner is an American political organizer and author best known for his opposition to the

medical marijuana movement in the United States.[1][2]

Biography

Gardner received his bachelor's degree from

Harvard in 1963. He has been an editor at Scientific American[citation needed] and Ramparts, a private detective, a songwriter, an author, a freelance journalist, one of the credited screenwriters for Zabriskie Point directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, the owner of Variety Home Video, the editor of Synapse (the UCSF Medical Center weekly), Public Information Officer for the San Francisco District Attorney's Office
, and the editor of O'Shaughnessy's Journal of Cannabis in Clinical Practice.

In the fall of 1967 Gardner, with Donna Mickleson and Deborah Rossman, started a coffeehouse in

Free The Army (FTA) tour with actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. This traveling road show for soldiers was meant to counter USO shows put on by Bob Hope
.

As a journalist in the 1970s, Gardner helped break the story that the US government was funding the spraying of paraquat by helicopter to defoliate Mexican marijuana fields. Farmers had been harvesting plants before the poison could work, selling it, and US consumers were inhaling paraquat-laced pot.[citation needed]

Gardner also helped expose the hidden ownership of

clinical depression. In 1999, he foresaw and wrote about the medical and political significance of cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound in cannabis that may have diverse medical benefits.[medical citation needed
]

O’Shaughnessy’s was launched by Gardner in 2003 at the urging of

Tod Mikuriya, founder of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians
. It is distributed by SCC doctors to their patients. An offshoot of O’Shaughnessy’s, Project CBD, expedited demand for and production of CBD-dominant cannabis in the U.S.

Gardner is a frequent and long-time contributor to CounterPunch and the Anderson Valley Advertiser.

Gardner lives in Alameda, California with his wife Marci. He has six sons and a daughter.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  2. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  3. ^ "UFO coffeehouse founder Fred Gardner--outtakes". digital.tcl.sc.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  4. ^ Imperialism, Derek SeidmanTopics; Movements; Americas, War Places; Asia; States, United; Vietnam (2016-06-01). "Monthly Review | Vietnam and the Soldiers' Revolt". Monthly Review. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  5. S2CID 150228828
    .

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