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Julia Baum on August 1, 2018
Weed’s a powerful enough drug to lure business, labor and political interests into the same space as pot farmers and folks getting paid to guard ganja with guns. In this case, it was the country’s leading ganjapreneurs that rubbed elbows with the South Bay political elite last week at the Silicon Valley…
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Julia Baum on July 18, 2018
Stoners revelled again last week in their freedom to light up with a post-Fourth of July holiday dedicated to getting high. Also called “the 420 of summer,” 710 is the counterpart to the classic marijuana holiday known as 420, but is instead celebrated, as you’d imagine, on July 10.
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Julia Baum on July 11, 2018
Pounds of pot and other cannabis products that California dispensaries couldn’t unload by July 1 now need to be destroyed. Call it a “weed apocalypse,” “marijuanapocalypse” or an “a-pot-calypse,” the new rules that went into effect July 1 sparked some deep discounts as clubs statewide scurried to unload their noncompliant nugs before…
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Julia Baum on June 27, 2018
It’s hard to imagine a pot company pissing off millions of stoners enough to bring about its own demise, but even members of one of society’s most peaceful segments have their breaking point. Bay Area cannabis company TreatWell, which sells (sold?) CBD-infused pet wellness products and regular THC edibles, appears to have…
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Julia Baum on June 20, 2018
Platforms for pot lovers are popping up everywhere since legalization took off, and now it seems like there’s an app for every marijuana-related item or service imaginable. Bay Area startups are linking more local smokers via THC-centric tech for growing, selling or buying buds and even making love connections as the number of…
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Tomek Mackowiak on June 6, 2018
On the morning of May 22, we lost a keystone figure of our community. Andrew Pejack inspired us to pursue creativity, to respect and support everyone around us, and to treat life like an adventure. His immeasurable kindness and imagination seemed effortless. His artistic talents were boundless. He could appear at any…
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Julia Baum on June 6, 2018
Like a bad cop buddy film from the ’80s, an unusual set of circumstances has forced U.S. and state officials, who spent years fighting over the legality of the Golden State’s booming pot market, to team up and fight an unlikely shared enemy: pot farmers. As California leaves its Wild West weed days…
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Tom Gogola on May 30, 2018
A story popped up in the New York Times recently about a San Francisco company that has developed an algorithm to assist local district attorneys in their efforts to expunge cannabis convictions as part of the Proposition 64 cannabis-legalization reform.
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Julia Baum on May 23, 2018
South Bay communities that once made pariahs of pot clubs have now warmed up to them. In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, Santa Clara County jurisdictions like Los Altos and Milpitas, as well as Redwood City in San Mateo County, now want a slice of California’s legal and highly…
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Julia Baum on May 16, 2018
With legal pot taking off at neck-breaking speed, a myriad of inventive products have hit the market as “cannasumer” demand grows and diversifies. And with even more women now reporting using marijuana than before, according to a May 2017 Forbes article, local dispensaries are selling items that target period pain alongside the…
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