How Santa Barbara County Jurisdictions Are Dealing with Marijuana Legalization

You couldn’t walk through downtown Santa Barbara on New Year’s Day without smelling weed.

Friends out to lunch could be heard casually chatting about it, and teenagers lit up as they strolled down the street. Meanwhile, all across the state, hippies three times their age rejoiced, never having thought they’d live to see the day when marijuana was legalized.

Weed was coming out of the shadows.