.Cannabis

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 been collecting billions of American phone records. The government was paying AT&T to do the work. The DEA and other agencies could then collect whatever...
Nov 14, 2023

No Going Back

Nov 7, 2023

Ode to Pot

Trick or Treat?
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 be cops and politicians out there spreading moral panic about the plant, and...
‘I Am Not a Scientist’
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 strip malls in legal states, resulting in none of the horrifying outcomes anti-weed...
‘Time, Paperwork, Letdowns’
Oct 18, 2023

‘Time, Paperwork, Letdowns’

On a warm, spring day in March, I took my first tour of Rose Mary Jane, a Black-women-owned dispensary on Harrison Street which has since closed due to burglaries and increased rent prices. The general manager, Sway...
Diversification Remediation
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 profits, businesses going belly-up, layoffs. But there’s at least one more: The increasing...
Newsom Vetoes
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 reformers: one to decriminalize a limited number of psychedelics, and the other to...
Highs and Lows
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 for his signature … or veto. Conspicuously missing from this clutch of would-be...
Rudy on Weed
Sep 26, 2023

Rudy on Weed

Last week was a bad one for Rudy Giuliani, though it’s difficult to know how to measure that these days, given the uncountable, ever-mounting, self-generated threats he faces to his own financial security, his freedom and his...
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