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The founder of a club that supplies marijuana to the sick announced Friday that he would be a Republican candidate for governor.
“I will take the high road in this campaign,” Cannabis Buyers Club founder Dennis Peron said. “It’s about hope, empowerment and compassion. It’s also about new priorities for our state. It’s about, as corny as it may sound, peace and love too.”
Peron, the gay Vietnam War veteran who led a successful campaign to legalize medicinal marijuana in California, will take on state Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren next year in the GOP primary.
Lungren, who has fought against Peron and Cannabis Buyers, has raised millions of dollars for his campaign and is considered an overwhelming favorite.
