research focused not on flower production ... rather on the production of the various components of cannabis, including cannabinoids like THC. Those components are the real product

One thing that often gets lost in all the debate over highly problematic hemp-derived THC products is that the people who make and sell them have every reason to oppose cannabis legalization.

...Newsom’s office announced a crackdown on companies that are peddling products containing THC isolates derived from hemp...

If people are drinking less, that’s good, and if they’re replacing their alcohol intake with weed, it’s not necessarily bad

The movement to legalize cannabis began in earnest in the ’60s and ’70s, and California was at the epicenter of it

ously, we should all feel bad for the MedMen employees who are now out of jobs after the once-seemingly-high-flying company finally declared bankruptcy ...But that aside...

The politics of cannabis sometimes seem complicated because, almost uniquely in this sad political era, both support for and opposition to laws reforming cannabis...

Blood-alcohol tests often aren't really conclusive when it comes to determining whether a person is too impaired to drive. Many people who are over the legal limit are probably perfectly fine to drive...

Navigating the partisan politics of cannabis can be challenging because there are Republicans and Democrats on both sides of most reform initiatives. That makes cannabis politics almost unique...

From one angle, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s United Cannabis Enforcement Task Force has been effective. Last week it announced that in the task force’s first...

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.

alifornia’s cannabis industry is in rough shape for a variety of reasons: high taxes and the refusal of many local governments to issue licenses being the top two. So it seemed a little weird to see a headline...