{"id":4084,"date":"2013-03-08T16:28:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T23:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2013-03-09T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T23:38:59","slug":"4084","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/08\/4084\/","title":{"rendered":"(CSCO) (GOOG) (ADBE) (AAPL) (EBAY) (POT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-02-28\/silicon-valley-is-high-on-innovation-dot-and-pot\" target=\"_blank\">from Business Week<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"article_headline\">Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot<\/h1>\n<div>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/authors\/107-alison-vekshin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Alison Vekshin<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-02-28\/silicon-valley-is-high-on-innovation-dot-and-pot\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot\" alt=\"Douglas Chloupek, co-founder and chief executive officer of MedMar Healing Center, a medical-marijuana dispensary, looks at the root structure of a young marijuana plant in San Jose\" src=\"http:\/\/images.bwbx.io\/cms\/2013-02-28\/tech_geeks10__01__630x420.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"lead_graphic\">\n<p><em>Photograph by David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Being a computer coder takes a physical toll. The long hours sitting at a keyboard can cause back and wrist pain. You can run to a pharmacy and pick up some Advil, or if you\u2019re in Silicon Valley, you can drop by the Palliative Health Center for some Sour Diesel. Palliative Health is a medical marijuana dispensary, one of many in San Jose, Calif. Inside, iPads are mounted on pedestals so patients can scroll through and check prices and availability of Sour Diesel, Chem Dog, and a dozen or so other strains. The shop offers marijuana-infused sodas, muffins, and chocolates, and monthly classes on cooking with cannabis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article_body_container\">\n<p>Around 40\u00a0percent of Palliative Health\u2019s clients are tech workers, says Ernie Arreola, 38, the assistant manager. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing people from some semiconductors, lots of engineers, lots of programmers,\u201d he says. That makes sense, because the shop is an easy shot from some of the area\u2019s biggest employers\u2014Cisco Systems (<a href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?ticker=CSCO\" target=\"_blank\" data-symbol=\"CSCO\">CSCO<\/a>), Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?ticker=GOOG\" target=\"_blank\" data-symbol=\"GOOG\">GOOG<\/a>),\u00a0Adobe Systems (<a href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?ticker=ADBE\" target=\"_blank\" data-symbol=\"ADBE\">ADBE<\/a>),\u00a0Apple (<a href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?ticker=AAPL\" target=\"_blank\" data-symbol=\"AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>), EBay (<a href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?ticker=EBAY\" target=\"_blank\" data-symbol=\"EBAY\">EBAY<\/a>)\u2014and a short drive from dozens more. Also, people in Silicon Valley do like their pot.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose is the medical marijuana capital of the Bay Area. The city has 106\u00a0pot clinics (four are delivery-only)\u2014more than four times the number in San Francisco, twice as many per square mile as Los Angeles, and, according to San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, \u201cmany more than are necessary to meet the medical needs of our population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-02-28\/silicon-valley-is-high-on-innovation-dot-and-pot\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at BusinessWeek.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Business Week Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot By\u00a0Alison Vekshin Photograph by David Paul Morris\/Bloomberg Being a computer coder takes a physical toll. The long hours sitting at a keyboard can cause back and wrist pain. You can run to a pharmacy and pick up some Advil, or if you\u2019re in Silicon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}