San Jose Massage Parlors: Council and cannabis collectives brace for showdown in San Jose
One reason many medicinal cannabis dispensaries have so eagerly embraced regulation is to distinguish themselves from “lemonade stands” such as the Purple Elephant at 14th and Santa Clara streets, where neighbors have reported to Liccardo’s office that the vast percentage of “patients” are young adult males.
“The club is duping people,” said Julie Engelbrecht, who lives next door to the dispensary’s parking lot, where a security guard stands watch day and night. “There’s a lot of activity going on that’s more like organized crime than dispensing marijuana to people in need,” she said. “It just doesn’t feel right.”
Engelbrecht said the building used to house a massage parlor, about whose actual business purpose she and her husband were dubious. But the Purple Elephant has made them almost miss the place. “She didn’t have as many clients, they didn’t make as much noise, and we weren’t as nervous,” Engelbrecht said.
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