National Review - Big Labor Loves Marijuana
The big reason that were on the same page is that we have a common enemy, says Dave Hodges, who operates the All-American Cannabis Club in San Jose. The thing thats trying to stop [cannabis-industry] jobs and the thing thats trying to stop [marijuana businesses] are one and the same the push of anti-marijuana propaganda. I dont know whether theres another situation too similar to this, but any time people in a fragile industry needed help organizing and speaking up for themselves, thats what unions are for.
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East Bay Express - Banning Pot Clubs | Reporting on California Cannabis Culture
The biggest shock wave in the Bay Area may be felt in San Jose, where voters overturned strict dispensary regulations that constituted a de facto ban. Today, more than one hundred San Jose clubs operate and pay taxes in a sort of legal limbo. In the past, San Jose's City Attorney's Office has argued that all sales at dispensaries are illegal, Elford said. And the office still wants to ban clubs once and for all, said San Jose dispensary operator Dave Hodges. "I've been telling people, 'it's apocalyptic,'" Hodges said. "In less than ninety days, cities may have the ability to outright ban all storefront dispensaries.
"It would undoubtedly give the cities the upper hand in the war against cannabis clubs," Hodges continued. "If this had been the law when I started four years ago, San Jose would have zero cannabis clubs today."