Reggae music rolled like a cloud across a large room filled with blond wood, and behind the bar at the Arc Healing Center, Hector Gonzalez watched as Chris Braun, 23, entered wearing a green velvet top hat, green sunglasses and a clutch of fake emerald necklaces. It was nearly noon Wednesday, a few hours before [...]

San Jose says pot clubs popping up like weeds; city starts crackdown
By John Woolfolk
San Jose is yanking the welcome mat for medical marijuana dispensaries that have proliferated across the city in recent months, according to this story in the San Jose Mercury News.
With San Jose, which had no known dispensaries a year ago, now perhaps [...]

“It has become increasingly clear that the use of cannabis for medical purposes has gained legitimacy in our culture,” San Jose City Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio writes in a memo to his colleagues. “It’s important that San Jose establish its own set of guidelines for medical cannabis collectives, since the state and federal governments have already [...]