Pharmers’ Health Center Cooperative has a bland exterior. Housed in an office building on the outskirts of Saratoga, neighbor to a SAT prep class and a travel agency, there isn’t much distinguishing the little suite from the average chiropractor’s office.

The air conditioner is broken, and the room is uncomfortably warm.There’s only one detail that reveals to everyone who walks in what the health center has to offer: the smell. Crack the door and the pungent stench of dried marijuana is like a clout to the nose.

PHCC is a medical marijuana dispensary, one of many that have proliferated from polar ends of the state, spawning at a swift rate.

“It’s totally saturated; you have so many people that are opening all over the place,” said Andy Schwaderer, co-founder of PHCC.

The booming medical marijuana market, coupled with popular support from patients and their advocates, has pushed local governments and citizens of California to decide how to properly regulate the state’s largest cash crop, which the California Board of Equalization recently estimated could create up to $1.4 billion in tax revenue.

Although not completely in favor of the statewide proposition on the ballot, Schwaderer believes cannabis sales can help alleviate budgets on a community level.

“The ultimate goal is, we’d like to see some public good generated off of these types of activities,” Schwaderer said.

The center has accumulated over 450 members, some of them De Anza College students who volunteer at the collective.

“It’s a good initiation for discussion and starting it going, but there’s too much that’s not defined in it,” said Schwaderer, recalling proposition 215, the initiative that allowed medical marijuana use in California, which was originally marred by vagueness and required years of fine tuning.

But the decision to puff or pass on progressive pot policy relies on citizens and local legislators, a group Schwaderer has faith in.