In the summer of 2007, the owners of Harborside Health Center, then
and now the most prominent medical marijuana dispensary in the U.S.,
were reflecting on their rapid rise. Steve DeAngelo had opened the
center with his business partner in October 2006, on a day when federal
agents raided three other clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. "We had
to decide in that moment whether or not we were really serious about
this and whether we were willing to risk arrest for it," DeAngelo said.
"And we decided we were going to open our doors. And we did, and we
haven
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