On Broadway, in downtown Oakland, a small coffee shop called the Bulldog has a couple of round tables out on the sidewalk where people sit, read the paper and drink coffee, shaded by big blue umbrellas. Its neighbor, the Patient ID Center, looks like a pharmacy, with a small neon sign that glows “open” as people stream in and out buying their goods. To the unsuspecting eye, these look like regular businesses that you might find in any downtown city. It’s only when you look closer that you see the windows smattered with banners, posters and stickers that say “control and tax cannabis.”

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