MILESTONES

DIED

Like a lot of people who support marijuana use, psychiatrist Tod
Mikuriya had detractors. (His work was called "the Cheech and Chong
show" by Bill Clinton's drug czar, General Barry McCaffrey.) The
longtime Republican believed in the therapeutic effects of the drug
on more than 200 ailments and in 1996 saw a bill he crafted,
Proposition 215, pass in California, legalizing the use of pot for
the seriously ill. The "grandfather" of the medicinal-marijuana
movement said his fight to "restore cannabis" stemmed from a backlash
against its medical use following the late-'30s film Reefer Madness.
He was 73 and had cancer.