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...

Last week the governors of six states sent a letter to President Biden asking him to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III by the end of the year, meaning...

The release last week of the Beatles’ last song, “Now and Then,” inspired the lifestyle platform The Fresh Toast, which covers pot culture, to...

Happy Halloween, your yearly reminder that no matter how normal cannabis becomes as legalization and popular acceptance grows across the land, there will always...

The city of Watsonville is looking to make its first update to its retail cannabis business ordinance in four years, after complaints from business...

There are many criteria for assessing how challenging the still-new legal cannabis business is: mounting losses or declining profits, businesses going belly-up, layoffs. But there’s at least one more: the increasing trend of cannabis companies expanding into non-cannabis industries.