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John Lennon signs an autograph for Mark Chapman - his murderer, 1980 Truly a saddening image, John Lennon was signing autographs near his home in New York City. The guy standing behind Lennon is Mark David Chapman, his murderer. Ten minutes after this photo was taken Mark shoots and kills Lennon. How did the incident happen? Around 5:00 p.m., Lennon and Ono left The Dakota for a recording session at Record Plant Studios. As they walked toward their limousine, Chapman shook hands with Lennon and asked for him to sign a copy of his album, Double Fantasy. Photographer Paul Goresh took a photo of Lennon signing Chapman’s album. Around 10:49 p.m., the Lennons’ limousine returned to the Dakota. Lennon and Ono got out, passed Chapman, and walked toward the archway entrance of the building. From the street behind them, Chapman fired five shots from a .38 special revolver, four of which hit Lennon in the back and left shoulder. The death certificate gives the following description: “Multiple gu...

The badass weed brownie grandma, 1980 Mary Jane Rathbun was a medical cannabis advocate during the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic. She gained the nickname of "Brownie Mary".  Rathburn learned of the medical benefits of cannabis to people who can be in extreme physical pain. She worked as a hospital volunteer in San Francisco and witnessed the pain and suffering that some patients were going through. As she was already a heavy consumer of cannabis herself, she decided to help those around her by baking weed brownies and giving them away to people in medical need.  Cannabis has been proven to have positive and negative effects on human health. It has been used for patients suffering from significant pain levels, in which it can offer excellent pain relief without using more intense painkillers like morphine.  Rathburn decided to bake brownies containing cannabis to give to AIDS patients for free. She also supplied these brownies to patients with cancer. She did this all for...