page_title: Dana Beal
section_title: Global Marijuana March
hierarchical_section_title: Dana Beal / Global Marijuana March
caption_attribution_description: English: Dana Beal in the mid to late 90s probably at a "smoke-in" (2nd version)
context_page_description: Irvin Dana Beal is an American social and political activist, best known for his efforts to legalize marijuana and to promote the benefits of Ibogaine as an addiction treatment. He is a long-term activist in the Youth International Party. He founded the Yipster Times in 1972. The newspaper, which was later renamed Overthrow in 1978, ended publication in 1989.
context_section_description: The worldwide Global Million Marijuana March (GMM or MMM) event began in 1999 with Beal as the major organizer. It occurs on the first Saturday of May every year, and now takes place in hundreds of cities around the world in addition to New York City,  which has had various marijuana rallies since 1967.
  Beal has a long history of marijuana activismboth inside and outside of New York City, and has often been called "The Lenin of the Marijuana Movement". In July 1972 in Miami Beach, Florida Beal was one of the organizers of a Zippie-led marijuana smoke-in outside the 1972 Democratic Convention.
caption: Dana Beal sometime in the early-to-mid 1990s
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