From The New York Times — Jan 20, 2012:

A jail stint and a heart attack have done nothing to temper the spirit of Dana Beal, who still has his bushy, General Custer-style mustache, his thick head of gray hair, and the activist streak that has defined his nearly half-century of marijuana activism and radical politics.

On Friday, he sat at a table at the Yippie Museum Café on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village and tried to sort out a few more things before going back to “the jail where I died” last fall in Wisconsin.

Mr. Beal, 65, a member of the Youth International Party, better known as the Yippies, was arrested last January outside Madison with a minivan full of potand was sentenced in September to more than two years in state prison. But while in a county jail awaiting transfer, he suffered a heart attack on Sept. 27.

John Entwistle notes: Dana is the grandfather of the entire United States marijuana movement. He raised and spent fortunes to keep the dream alive in the darkest days of the early 1980’s. He is a good friend to myself, Dennis Peron and countless other activists all over the world. Free Dana Beal! Read the whole article below, it has a lot of good history.

Source and Photo Credit:  http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/a-yippie-on-familiar-turf-both-in-new-york-and-in-jail/