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Nov 28, 2023
Who’s Calling? The DEA Wants to Know
Just over 10 years ago, reporting by The New York Times and ABC News revealed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had for several years...
Nov 14, 2023
No Going Back
Last week’s off-year elections not only brought further proof that Democrats are doing better with voters than the pundits, polls and political media keep...
Nov 7, 2023
Ode to Pot
The release last week of the Beatles’ “last song,” titled “Now and Then,” inspired the lifestyle platform The Fresh Toast, which covers pot culture,...
Oct 31, 2023
Trick or Treat?
This is our yearly reminder that no matter how normal cannabis becomes as legalization and popular acceptance grow across the land, there will always...
Oct 24, 2023
‘I Am Not a Scientist’
As cannabis grows more normalized every day, with states legalizing the plant for adult use and dispensaries popping up on street corners and in...
Oct 17, 2023
Diversification Remediation
There are many criteria for assessing how challenging the still-new legal cannabis business is, particularly in California, but really everywhere: mounting losses or declining...
Oct 11, 2023
Newsom Vetoes
Gov. Gavin Newsom, perhaps taking his presidential ambitions into account and trying to appeal to “moderates,” last weekend vetoed two bills favored by drug...
Oct 3, 2023
Highs and Lows
In its latest session, which wrapped up last week, the California Legislature approved several cannabis-related bills and sent them along to Gov. Gavin Newsom...