Stories By Chris Roberts
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Economics
Here Are the Anti-Marijuana Vegas Casinos to Avoid
October 31, 2016Since gambling, dining, and over-the-top entertainment apparently isn’t enough, Las Vegas is also aiming to become...
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Cultivation
Lab: California Cannabis Is a Pesticide Risk
October 26, 2016Most people would be aware if they were participating in an ongoing medical experiment — or,...
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Joint Opinions
Debate Recap: Puppets, Suspense & Bigly Stakes — At Least That’s Over
October 20, 2016America, we have peered into the abyss, and it has stared us right back in the...
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Politics
Gateway Theory Destroyed: Even FDA Admits It’s Bunk
October 19, 2016This summer, the DEA declined to reschedule cannabis from Schedule I, meaning the federal government is...
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Cannabis
End of the Square Grouper: Medical Marijuana Appears Headed To Florida
October 19, 2016Fishing is good in the Florida Keys, the collection of islets and islands connected by a...
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Cannabis
Cannabis Research Pioneer Ungerledier Dies at 85
October 18, 2016J. Thomas Ungerledier, a longtime psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles, was one of...
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Concentrates
Damian Marley is Behind CA’s Prison-to-Pot Movement
October 12, 2016The plan to convert a former prison in Coalinga into a grow-and-extraction complex has been in...
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Concentrates
CA Establishes Protections for Hash, Small Farms
October 11, 2016Last month, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the “Cottage Cannabis Farmers Bill,” which created a special MMRSA...
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Cannabis
Banned Buds Week: Cinderella 99
October 9, 2016Oregon puts kibosh on Girl Scout Cookies, Charlotte’s Web, 18 other strain names that they say...
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Cannabis
Banned Buds Week: Dr. Who
October 5, 2016Oregon puts kibosh on Girl Scout Cookies, Charlotte’s Web, 18 other strain names that “appeal to...
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Cannabis
Banned Buds Week: Charlotte’s Web
October 4, 2016Oregon puts kibosh on Girl Scout Cookies, Charlotte’s Web, 18 other strain names that “appeal to...
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Legal
Charlo Greene Faces More Than 50 Years In Prison
October 3, 2016You remember Charlo Greene. Even if you don’t know her by name, you’ll recall the former...
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Cannabis
Banned Buds Week
October 3, 2016What’s in a name? The difference between being sold in Oregon’s recreational cannabis retail outlets and...
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Politics
CA Political Watchdog Digs Into Anti-Legalization Group
September 27, 2016Something smells funny in the run-up to the vote on Prop. 64, California’s long-awaited legalization measure...
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Cannabis
Cannabis-Dervied Pharmaceutical Conquers Latest Test
September 27, 2016Big pharma is already making big money off of cannabis.
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Politics
Californians Are Interested In Prop. 64, And Will Pass It
September 22, 2016If the latest polling is correct, California voters will approve the legalization of recreational cannabis for...
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Politics
U.S. Attorney General: Marijuana Is No Gateway Drug
September 22, 2016By now, the “gateway” theory has been pretty well exploded. Data from the federal government shows...
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Politics
California’s Biggest Newspapers Endorse Prop. 64 As Fundraising Tops $14 Million
September 20, 2016The momentum behind Prop. 64, California’s best-ever shot at legalizing recreational cannabis for adults, continues to...
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Legal
Two-Timing Pharma Company Opposes Legalization, Working on Synthetic THC
September 15, 2016Put Arizona pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics into its own basket of deplorable. The company is donating...
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Economics
Investment Bank: Recreational Cannabis a $50 Billion Market By 2026
September 14, 2016Another day, another estimate of how big the recreational cannabis market is going to be —...