Vegan Dinner and Marijuana Debate

Enjoy a great vegan dinner, then follow a live debate on a topic of great importance for health and public policy.

The debate is entitled: “Should Marijuana Be Legalized?” Participants are Dr. Marty Nemko, PhD, and Dr. Michael Edelstein, PhD.

Dr. Marty Nemko is an author, columnist, and radio host specializing in career/workplace issues and higher education reform. In 2011-2012, Dr. Nemko wrote The Big Idea column in The Washington Post and the Working it Out column in The Atlantic. He has written over 1,000 published articles including six years of columns in the San Francisco Chronicle. He writes weekly at AOL.com and at USNews.com, where as Contributing Editor, he created and directed its annual Best Careers rankings.He has written six books including in 2012, How to Do Life: What they didn't teach you in school and What's the Big Idea? 39 Disruptive Proposals for a Better Society. The San Francisco Bay Guardian named Nemko "The Bay Area's Best Career Coach." U.S. News described him as "job coach extraordinaire." In its summit on education, ABC-TV called him "The Ralph Nader of Education.

Dr. Michael Edelstein has an in-person and telephone therapy practice in San Francisco. He is the author of Three Minute Therapy, a self-help book for overcoming common emotional and behavioral problems, for which he has been awarded Author of the Year. The book was a Quality Paperback Book Club/Book-of-the-Month Club Selection, a Behavioral Sciences Book Service Book Club Selection, and an Albert Ellis Institute Selection. His latest book,Stage Fright, includes interviews with Robin Williams, Jason Alexander, Melissa Etheridge, Maya Angelou, and others, relating their personal experiences and wisdom in coping with performance anxiety. Dr. Edelstein lectures nationally and internationally, appears on radio and television, and is published in psychological journals. He writes the advice column, "Ask Dr. Mike," which has appeared in the Mensa San Francisco Intelligencer and In the Know.

Before the debate enjoy a delicious vegan dinner house-made from quality ingredients by a certified Nutrition Consultant. All vegan and all health-supporting, made without eggs, dairy, honey, oil or added sugars. It is nutrient-dense and is specially designed to help you cope with the stresses of urban living. The dinner is rejuvenating and many have commented on how GOOD they feel after enjoying Patricia's dinners.

It is all you can eat. Bring a container and take some home with you. To get to the Community Room take the elevator to the first floor, then security will key you down to the mezzanine for the event.

A fifteen dollar requested donation covers the all you can eat dinner and the debate. The Nutritionist, and the debaters, are donating their time. Funds go toward facility rental, food, transport and other costs.