{"id":2202,"date":"2018-03-15T02:17:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T02:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2018-03-15T02:17:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T02:17:07","slug":"the-solar-living-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2202","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Living Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"http:\/\/solarliving.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this place<\/a> many times.  It&#8217;s a must-stop when I&#8217;m in Ukiah.  I was surprised to find one of the very first legal pot shops in California on the grounds.  It had just opened, there were two people plus a security guard, they had product, prices were low enough to make me think they&#8217;ve made an error.  Their claim to fame is that they are totally solar-powered.<\/p>\n<p>What was striking is the setting: the center is a collection of functional exhibits including ponds and gardens and play areas; there is school bus parking in the lot, and the place is obviously prepared for groups.  In no state in the union would this be permitted, a weed store anywhere near where children gather.  So that was unusual.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the only legal pot store on US-101 in Mendocino County.  Mendo is the heart of the nation&#8217;s cannabis, yet there aren&#8217;t any stores open yet.  Two will open soon in Ukiah, but that&#8217;s it for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect this place (the solar-powered pot shop) to last for more than weeks. There could be state enforcement, a local lawsuit, or (more likely) a complaint from another store as soon as they get their license for a nearby location.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about this place many times. It&#8217;s a must-stop when I&#8217;m in Ukiah. I was surprised to find one of the very first legal pot shops in California on the grounds. It had just opened, there were two people plus a security guard, they had product, prices were low enough to make me think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}