OAKLAND

Quinns reopening btw

hell yeah

yeah I don't think legal weed is going to go anywhere but it's well on the way to being utterly consumed by corporations.

yeah, and states like Oklahoma & New Mexico have been overrun with Chinese-owned grow house operations, often using trafficked labor.. that's how you end up with $40/oz. weed when it was $50 for an 1/8 oz. thirty years ago... the little mom & pop growers of yore can't compete with that

I'm not a big fan of THC myself, but I think two out of every three people I know regularly use edibles ("gummies") which seem to me the best thing to come out of legalization. Easier to control dosage and is way more appealing to the types of people who don't want to be smoking for whatever reason (health, stigma). A lot of those people use delivery services AFAIK.

yeah, I know quite a few folks on the CBD gummies.. you can even buy a version in liquor stores here

A friend has been allowing his teenage kid to use them, to help with ADHD

https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/high-times-shuts-down-pot-shops-california-19385787.php

"California’s cannabis industry struggles to survive, with massive distributors going belly-up, tax revenues sinking and dispensaries closing across the state."

I have to say, the MedMen dispensary on San Pablo Ave & 40th looked more like a Verizon store than a head-shop... I know they're trying to appear 'legitimate' but it was really uninviting

i dislike most dispensaries for this reason. the ones in LA were particularly annoying. I like Berkeley Patients Group (the first in the country, I think) and try to stick with them.

i went to one downtown when i was visiting a while back and had left my carts at home and i hated the whole experience, even moreso than the medical experience here in PA which is not great

never ever go into a medmen

Not great, Bob?

MedMen bankrupt: https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/medmen-bankruptcy-19429105.php

Yeah, I just walked by the... branch? on San Pablo and noticed that it's empty

What an uninviting place that was, it looked like a stripmall verizon store

(oh wait I just said the same thing upthread)

I think it used to be a verizon/ some form of cell phone store tbh

Perhaps too obscure, but does anyone know why the freeway underpass on MLK around 55th or so is the site of large scale radical poster wheatpasting? Like… it isn’t one poster every pillar for the length of the road until Berkeley… it’s densely concentrated postering in a two block radius.

Today was several Palestine posters (2-3 different designs) and one for worker solidarity

not too far from a number of radical spaces, right? Long Haul, anything left at Omni, a ton of radical houses and holdouts

Yeah see I am guessing there is a radical house in that 2 block radius because the block postering doesn’t show up in the immediate vicinity of Omni, and Long Haul is further north …it’s kinda near Purple House but …

It’s like it’s more “proof of concept” than a full on campaign