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Mike Huguenor on June 9, 2021
If you hear a collective sigh of relief at noon, that’s just the world tuning into San Jose Art Museum’s free “Art Fix Wednesday.” Weekly throughout the pandemic, SJMA docents have taken to the internet to discuss the museum’s many stunning works, like Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s broken-glass installation Drowning Sorrows, and…
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Dan Mitchell on June 9, 2021
So many people have peed in cups over the past several decades that it eventually got to the point where this bizarre and undignified ritual came to be seen as normal. Even cannabis users sometimes say it’s “understandable” that companies test employees and prospective employees for drugs. After all, you wouldn’t want…
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Mighty Mike McGee on June 4, 2021
Summer really adds color to downtown, and this Friday is a chance to see just how colorful SoFA District can be. Under the blooming jacaranda, Anno Domini, KALEID, Works/San José, Art Ark Gallery, The Citadel, ICA and SJ Museum of Quilts and Textiles will be open and ready for your foot traffic.…
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Dan Mitchell on June 2, 2021
From the beginning, a weird assumption has permeated discussions of cannabis legalization: that if removing legal penalties from pot means more people will use it, that’s a problem. It’s not surprising that prohibitionists believe this (or say they do). But it’s odd that advocates of legal pot often seem—mostly by implication—to agree.…
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Dan Mitchell on May 26, 2021
In the spring of 2020, the then-struggling cannabis industry freaked out. It seemed possible, even likely, that the industry would shut down along with large swaths of the rest of the economy. Soon after governments across the country deemed weed an essential business, it became clear that the Covid-19 pandemic would not only…
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Dan Mitchell on May 19, 2021
Cannabis is, and will likely continue to be, one of the most regulated industries in America, so it is astonishing to see some people stomp into it, giving apparently zero thought to the legal ramifications of their decisions. Heedless companies violate zoning laws and locate weed farms next to schools or disregard…
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Dan Mitchell on May 12, 2021
One day in the late ’90s, I stood awestruck inside the El Cerrito Natural Grocery, where I did most of my food shopping. There in the aisle was a display of what was the most ludicrous food product I’d ever seen: potato chips laced with St. John’s wort, an herb that supposedly…
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Dan Mitchell on May 5, 2021
The “stoner” stereotype might be best represented by a guy sitting in front of a TV, watching Warner Bros. cartoons while surrounded by Yoo-Hoo empties and crumpled Funyuns bags. And being an idle, vacant slob (occasionally) is one perfectly valid mode of being stoned. It’s just another version of vegging out, which…
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Dan Mitchell on April 28, 2021
When events occur in increments, even fast increments, it’s sometimes a challenge to step back and appreciate them. Such is the case with the movement to legalize cannabis nationwide, which for so many decades was considered to be a lost cause, but started making huge gains about 15 years ago. Suddenly, legalization…
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Dan Mitchell on April 21, 2021
The popular discourse surrounding cannabis has devolved to the point that people now anticipate the responses they’ll get whenever they say anything remotely “negative” about weed. Last week, cannabis-business veteran Kristen Yoder, a self-described “BS detector” known for ridiculing myths, platitudes and bad corporate behavior in the cannabis industry, posted a story on…
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