The Healing Weed?


by HARRY GOLDSTEIN
with additional coverage by James Rutenberg
and research by Graham Rayman and Laura Perry





I [Enterhad the address memorized--1444 Market Street--but, as it turns out, I didn't need to look on the building for the number. I knew where I was as soon as I saw the people on the sidewalk. There were grandmothers, leather boys and transvestites, clean-cut goodie-two-shoes and several Stan and Jane Averageamericans; some smoking cigarettes, others shading half-closed eyes from the noonday sun; all clustered together, waiting to get into the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers' Club.