Richard Stockton

Richard Stockton gives up cannabis for a week and asks sleep researchers whether weed really helps people sleep—or simply changes how they experience it.

Cannabis judge Christopher Carr explores aroma, terroir, legacy genetics and why Santa Cruz home growers may produce some of the world’s finest weed.

Richard Stockton traces how SpaceX launches, a new federal review of California’s coastal program and possible offshore oil leasing have converged into a larger fight over who controls California’s coast.

Richard Stockton talks with Washington State University psychologist Carrie Cuttler about research into how cannabis may affect men and women differently—from appetite and memory to pain tolerance.

Smoking remains the classic cannabis ritual, but dry-herb vaporizers may reduce exposure to tar, carbon monoxide and other combustion byproducts. Richard Stockton weighs the pleasures, health concerns and practical tradeoffs.

The Santa Cruz Jug Band Festival returns for four free days of concerts, sing-alongs, musical history and gloriously unconventional instruments.

Richard Stockton examines why preventive dental care remains beyond reach for many Medi-Cal patients—and why waiting for catastrophe ultimately costs everyone more.

The Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society relaunches with author Abbie Rosner and a discussion of how psychedelics may help older adults reconsider aging, purpose and mortality.