In fighting for the passage of Proposition 64 in 2016, advocates of legal cannabis issued no warnings about how overtaxation could stifle the legal industry’s prospects. In fact, they did the precise opposite, telling voters and government officials that cannabis would result in a windfall…
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As a teenager, when I snuck into a botched King Diamond show in the same building where the Fats Domino riot happened, I was too young to care about history. With all the current yakking about plaques, landmarks, local music roots and such, one marker…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last week unveiled his timeline for debating a bill to legalize cannabis. His efforts, along with those of Democrat co-sponsors Sen. Cory Booker (New Jersey) and Sen. Ron Wyden (Oregon), appear to be increasingly serious, even though the bill doesn’t…
In East San Jose, I went looking for a lost safari at Story and White, but the French muses of memory dragged me right back downtown. By today’s geography, the congested intersection might not seem like a place to see Wayne Newton, the Everly Brothers…
The battle for national cannabis legalization is fraught with absurd contradictions. Read More
If it seems ludicrous that Congress is debating bills to enable the cannabis industry to do business, and to regulate it—all while even simple possession of weed is a federal crime—that’s because it is. It’s even more ludicrous that this is all happening even as…
San Jose history is a moving fog bank. No matter how dim it gets, holes will open up to reveal bright moments of memory. Now is one of those moments. After a seven-year run, Cafe Stritch is no more. The Borkenhagens built the club as…
Until cannabis is legalized on a federal level, politicians and police will continue their political theater. Read More
Most state legislators, even some of the pot-skeptical ones, understand that criminal enforcement will never help reduce the illicit market’s share. But some do not. Or they pretend they do not. Having lost the war against weed with the passage of Proposition 64 in 2016,…
