Welcome to Oak Land !

We crash landed here in oakland about a week ago. Our first two nights were quite interesting, 4 of us arrived at a speak easy on 12th street where the front is a converted storefront with an art gallery, downstairs, behind a revolving bookase is an underground nightclub that stays open until around 6am. Crazy crazy shit went down the first night after the jazz show was over. Our hosts were really chill, nice people they just lived an insane lifestyle and had "interesting" clientelle.

We started volunteering for the 2010 tax and regulate cannabis campaignthe day after we arrived in the city, distributing flyers at a festival, doing data entry and phone calls, editing our database have been our new day to day activities. As of this morning we have been hired as Regional Coordinators for the Southern California Area. We went from sleeping in the woods to snazzy office jobs legalizing cannabis. Life moves pretty fast here in California.

Yesterday our GPS affectionately name MAGI, was stolen, we were on our way to a SSDP meeting at Berkely and we found our van, affectionally named "Barry Vanillo" with a window smashed out. We were remarkably calm about the whole thing, our co-worker took the train and we talked to the police. Welcome to Oakland. I hope you bought some good crack after selling our GPS system, window smashing guy. How does one go about selling a recently stolen GPS anyway ?

We are currently staying in the basement of the Student Union at Oaksterdamn University. It is a technical college that trains adults for "careers in the cannabis industry". It is one of the coolest places I have ever seen. The student union reminds me of CRC after parties, except everybody has a legal medical card.

I have a bunch of postcards for ppl, just need to get me some stamps.

I could never have imagined this two months ago

more posts soon

- James Fox
Regional Coordinator for Southern California
2010 Tax and Regulate Cannabis Initiative
Next Generation Inc.