Stoner Alert for Healdsburg

When I retired I moved to world famous wine country (Healdsburg in Sonoma county), not because I focus on pinot gris but because wine country (high class tourist country) sells excellent food, the most liberal magazines and newspapers. You can enjoy free music and stores that sell garlands for your horse's mane. The climate is great, too, and the Pacific is an easy drive. 

Yesterday recreational weed became legal in California, and marijuana boutiques opened in Cotati and Sebastopol. Given the county's closeness to the emerald triangle, which produces most of the nation's finest weed, added to Sonoma county's nationally-best wines, l expect Cotati and Sebastopal to do well. Both have nifty areas where you can find, comfortably, the best America can offer. In the past these towns have had to take a backseat to the more glamorous Sonoma and Healdsburg. Fortunately Sonoma and Healdsburg have decided no weed will be sold inside their borders. Tourists will have to buy weed in the more smiling towns of Cotati and Sebastopal, where superb local restaurants will no doubt prosper. 

There may be less tourism in Healdsburg and Sonoma, of course, and tourism provides the main tax support, but, as the towns see it, 20th century standards must be maintained for the next few months.

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