Pioneering SF activist accused of being part of the 'gay weed mafia' dies

https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/terrance-alan-sf-activist-dies-21114524.php

Terrance Alan, a dynamic and fearless San Francisco activist, who went from acting in gay porn films and facing criminal charges for growing marijuana in the 1980s and ’90s to running a city commission and helping legalize cannabis, has died.

His death was announced Wednesday by Flore Dispensary, the cannabis store he co-founded in San Francisco’s Castro Neighborhood. He was 72, according to his business partner Nathan Whittington, who declined to say Alan’s cause of death.

Alan was known as a relentless advocate for gay rights, cannabis and San Francisco’s nightlife community. His goatee and dangling earrings were a fixture across decades of commission hearings, smoky cannabis cafes, Board of Supervisors meetings, events in the Castro and flower-filled cannabis grows.