In the lead-up to the legalization of weed, the liquor business generally sided with the prohibitionists. In 2011, the California Beer and Beverage Distributors donated to the effort to oppose the first—failed—voter initiative to legalize weed in California.

The cover of a recent report on cannabis consumers, produced by New Frontier Data, features a set of nine close-up portrait shots of people,...

California goes after its unlicensed cannabis operators States across the country, as well as the federal government under veteran drug-warrior President Joe Biden, are falling...

California’s legal pot industry has struggled since it began in 2018. High taxes, burdensome regulations, the refusal of many local governments to issue licenses...

How two UC professors dove into the weed world of Santa Cruz and beyond to explore the future of legal cannabis

The county’s cannabis tax revenues saw a major drop in 2022 as several local businesses closed

A promise of justice, but uncertainties for pot’s OGs

Sponsored content by Solful While perusing your local dispensary, have you ever asked the budtender who grew the weed? Perhaps not just who, but how...

Grandpappy Skunk seeds are now available at Santa Cruz Naturals in Aptos and Pajaro

The multi-talented pot activist on hip-hop, the Grateful Dead, prison life and his business ventures

Influencers dangerously pushing ‘magical plant’ as remedy

The “munchies” are very real, but why?