After he was paralyzed in an accident, his use of marijuana for medical purposes led him to become one of the nation’s most influential cannabis activists.
Richard Lee spoke at a news conference in Oakland, Calif., in 2010 to bring attention to Proposition 19, a measure to legalize marijuana in California. He became a national face of the legalization movement when he spent more than $1.3 million of his own money to support the proposition.
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