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WAMM was started in 1993, lucky to be born in
Santa Cruz. The coastal city
about 75 miles south of San Francisco is one of the most tolerant in the
country. Here's a place where old and young hippies sit cross-legged on the
sidewalk, strumming guitars all day, where the City Council proposed
"sleeping zones" for the homeless (until the town was inundated by
urban
campers from all over the West), and where the nation's first bed and
breakfast for medical marijuana users opened last year with great fanfare.
True to form, Santa Cruz has honored WAMM with official proclamations and
vowed to defend the collective's right to exist. The city's position,
endorsed by the mayor, district attorney, and chief of police, is that Santa
Cruz will abide by California's medical marijuana law, and never mind the
feds.