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Same Same

Same Same

On its website, San Francisco-based Pax Labs, a pioneer of cannabis vaping products, has devoted a page to explaining the differences between the indica and sativa types of cannabis. Indicas, it says, “are typically relaxing and calming strains” that “activate the parasympathetic response, which can…

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Strange Synth

Strange Synth

Some people give old clothes to the Salvation Army. I donate FM synthesis techniques to the building where I came from. I recently unearthed a few boxes of old music textbooks from college that I hadn’t opened in 20 years. Rifling through them felt like…

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Joint Efforts

Joint Efforts

In 2010, I launched a cannabis blog for Slate’s business-news site, unfortunately called The Big Money. It was named after a 1936 novel by the then-socialist writer John Dos Passos, but nobody got the reference and the name just seemed dumb. Sadly, Slate shut down…

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Cruising Kooser

Cruising Kooser

When Herman Horton Kooser came to San Jose 160 years ago, he did not know his future street would help define the second Chuck E. Cheese and the last Burger Pit. What’s left of Kooser Road today is a street most people wouldn’t think of…

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Sin Tax

Sin Tax

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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Riot Reputation

Riot Reputation

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…

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An Odd Space

An Odd Space

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…

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Tiki Twist

Tiki Twist

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…

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Ludicrous

Ludicrous

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…

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Bright Memory

Bright Memory

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…

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