Paul Wellman

Then there’s medical marijuana, which is being sold in a haze of legality (the state’s cool with it, the feds aren’t) at numerous shops around Santa Barbara. Grow rooms (such as the one pictured above) are taking root in many neighborhoods, and the city is finally starting to put regulations down on the books about this curative cannabis. Will everything remain groovy in 2008? That’s up to the feds.