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Podcast: Talk of the Bay from KSQD
Episode: Cannabis Consumption Lounges are Coming / Second Harvest Food Bank Update
Description: It’s no secret that Santa Cruz County loves its weed. Take a trip to UCSC’s campus on April 20th and you’ll get a sense of what I mean.
But despite the community enthusiasm for the flowering herb, the industry has struggled to take off both at the local and statewide level after it was legalized almost a decade ago.
Those struggles are part of what inspired Santa Cruz County supervisors Manu Koenig and Felipe Hernandez to sponsor a pair of county ordinances designed to give the struggling industry an added spark.
The...