City officials to hand out marijuana. Santa Cruz city leaders plan to take part in a public pot giveaway next week to protest a recent federal raid of a medicinal marijuana cooperative that served mostly terminally ill members. In an unprecented showing of solidarity from the stoner capital of the West, these rebellious stoners are busting their image of inanimate sloth-ness and proving to the world that they won't be pushed around by the government when it comes to one thing: access to more precious, precious pot.