[#item_full_content] At the 2026 California Cannabis Awards, Dale Gieringer asked how many people in the room had been arrested for medical marijuana. Hands went up. Then came the medals. Inside a night that closed a thirty-year loop, plus the full Golden Bear list and the country’s first state-sanctioned home grow champion. 
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They Were Arrested for Cannabis. Now California Gives Activists Medals and Home Growers Golden Bears.
ByPot Shop News
August 4, 2026