Word: pots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foot cannabis leaf painted on the front door proudly advertises the wares of the San Francisco Cannabis Cultivators Club. Inside the five-story glass-and-concrete emporium on busy Market Street, origami cranes and LEGALIZE POT posters provide the decor, while live flamenco dancers on a third-floor stage supply the entertainment. At either of two bars, customers--all of whom are at least nominally required to show they have come on doctor's orders--can choose from among 10 grades of marijuana leaf, along with capsules, tinctures and half a dozen varieties of pot-laced baked goods. A lavender...
...they voted last November to enact Proposition 215, legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The beneficiaries were supposed to be AIDS sufferers, people in chronic pain, cancer patients going through chemotherapy and others in medical need. But the law does not specify the medical conditions for which pot is permissible, and it requires only a doctor's oral or written permission, not a formal prescription, to get the drug...
Many of the 20 or so pot clubs that have sprung up around the state in response to the law--places where people in need can get a steady supply of the drug--are strictly monitoring their customers. The Santa Clara County Medical Cannabis Center dispenses a pound of marijuana a week from its discreet, white-walled suite in a business complex. When one would-be customer proffered a doctor's recommendation that he had allegedly forged, co-founder Peter Baez called the police and later went to court to help press charges...
...other clubs seem closer to head shops than hospitals. Dennis Peron, a pro-pot proselytizer who helped draft Prop 215 and runs the San Francisco Cannabis Cultivators Club, admits he sells pot for everything from premenstrual syndrome to the blues. "All use of marijuana is medical," says Peron. "It makes you smarter. It touches the right brain and allows you to slow down, to smell the flowers. We're living in a very stressful world. It can and should be used for anxiety and depression...
...enforcement agencies are in a quandary over what to do about clubs like Peron's. A few cities, such as Concord and Palo Alto, have instituted moratoriums on pot clubs. California attorney general Dan Lungren, a law-and-order Republican, is pursuing civil and criminal litigation against Peron's club; he says undercover cops have bought marijuana there without a doctor's recommendation and that videotapes have shown minors on the premises...