Business As Usual, At COPA, In Stockton (Cannabis Wars)

[asdjrocky]

(Pictured left to right, Scott Sinden and Ruben Venegas, Managers owners of COPA.)

In an unostentatious room Scott Sinden sits behind a small desk fingering his laptop, checking email and staying up to date on schedules. The room contains the one desk, a few comfortable but not expensive office chairs, a wall of cabinets and a microwave and a monitor. A long blue topped table lines one wall, it’s stacked with boxes, petition drive sheets, and other general office items.

A Bob Marley flag hangs on the wall as the only art in the room.

The back room could easily serve as a break room for a busy doctor’s or dentist’s office. There is nothing in the room that brings to mind the backroom of a drug lord or a kingpin, far from it in fact, the room has a very ordinary work- a-day feel, as do the two guys I’m talking to.

“The Blue Cheese is a Sativa dominant strain,” Informs Scott not looking up from his computer as I ask them about strains and effects. Being the novice that I am, I’m always eager for new information from people in the Cannabis industry.

“Our members use the Blues Cheese for anxiety, for pain right now our most popular is Purple Urkle.” Ruben Venegas, like Scott an investor and manager in the day to day operation of COPA. He sits on the other side of the desk in a blue button down shirt and dress slacks, eyeing a bud of Erkle and a bud of the Blue Cheese. “It’s amazing for some people when they learn the varied uses of cannabis as medicine for symptom relief, “ He continues.

Ruben and Scott are always moving as we talk, busy and in some peculiar way earnest in their daily tasks. Scott’s attention often wanders to his laptop or to the multi-screen surveillance monitor on the shelves, Ruben looks at his phone with every new email or message. As collective members entered the lobby after ringing the doorbell, they were greeted by a big friendly security guard named Mario and Scott and Ruben took turns waiting on each member. I was especially struck by the time they took with the members and the fact that few people waited for more than a minute or two.

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[asdjrocky]

1. Shameless morning self kick.

[Romulox]

2. I'll give you a K&R. Legalize it in Ca, and Mi may well follow suit. nt

[asdjrocky]

3. Thank you!

The effort we're making in Ca can help the whole country and the whole world.

[Royal Sloan 09]

4. k & R

legalize it, that is all. just sayin':smoke:

[asdjrocky]

6. Thanks Royal Sloan 09!

[Echo In Light]

5. K/R

[bobthedrummer]

7. Kick for big medicine that isn't poisonous, planted by God harvested by all creation

:smoke:

[asdjrocky]

8. I'm down with that Bob.

Thanks for the kick.