I've cashed in my membership, there is nothing left at the Co-op worth continuing there. See how often your one share voters actually shop.

Exactly where is medical cannabis more "Socially Acceptable"? The same knee-jerk reactions are widely present, even in your little blurb. Where does one find these tabulated results about how widespread any particular plant or drug is? Should you trust them? Let's be honest here, our government is routinely complicit in allowing drugs to come into our country, sometimes even favoring one "gang" over another. Your local sherrif knows who all the big players in local drug marketeering are. The real trick here is who is making money off of it, and where does it go? Just locally laundered drug money exceeds a Billion per year, so pretty much every business or investment is profiting from that indirectly or directly. Sorry you feel that your fellow stoner classmates are such victims, but where it counts no one ever cared. Someone must man the cash register at the convenience store.

Even a discussion of the issues is forbidden. You are the people Orwell warned us about.

A non fast food establishment in the grid depends upon the 35 -45 demographic, and associations matter. I got no problems with the GB, but I hung out at Drago's, Montreal, and even the ethnocentric Cafe Paris. It isn't difficult to run a micro business like those were, as long as there's beer. The Quonset hut location is a much bigger challenge, and differentiating that from the spur of similar businesses along S street will be difficult. Parking? There isn't much. The S Street businesses had the advantage that the entire street is dedicated and working to attract attention. This business has to blend in and not make too much noise. Hannabal's was around the corner for years, high quality food yes, but not a huge draw. I don't think up scale designer restaurant/lounge is what that area will support. Sensible, inexpensive food and beer, with a flourish or specialty or two might.

The space is "tagged" as a former TV/Appliance store by anyone who wasn't recently a fetus. It was vacant for years, the Hanger 17 thing barely noticed at all. The Golden Bear's entire success hinges upon it once being "Drago's" and to a lesser extent "Cafe Montreal", people have the good associations of those ephemeral times and they rubbed off. Can GB appeal to a neighborhood that is 50% Asian with the remainder being scraping by apartment dwellers?--Not as an upscale bar or eatery. The nearby State Workers are notorious for not hanging around after 5pm, and they go straight for what is cheapest, which has lots of competition in that area. It's overshadowed by the Mexican Restaurant on the corner that has a huge suburban following (locals avoid it like the plague though).