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Culture

Farewell Dennis Peron, Medical Marijuana Champion

Dennis Peron, who helped pass California’s medical marijuana law and who lawmakers recognize as the “father...

Economics

Legal Weed is Cheaper Weed

There are high taxes associated with the production and purchase of pot, but that still hasn't...

Cannabis

Q&A: Cannabis Now Talks With Sparc

In this article from 2015, Robert Jacob the former dispensary owner at Sparc, straddles the two...

Economics

Giving Back from Ganja Profits: Industry Efforts Raise Thousands for Charity

By now the word is out that legal cannabis means big boosts in revenue for crucial...

Economics

CA Cannabis Industry Responds to Governor’s Vision of the Future

California readies to merge medical and adult-use cannabis.

Legal

Radical Sentence Reduction Returns Beloved Cannabis Icon to CA

This Wednesday saw one of the most beloved prisoners of the war on cannabis leave federal...

Cannabis

The Father of the Medical Marijuana Movement

A building avalanche of medical and general decriminalization continues to barrel across the nation, and with...

Joint Opinions

Veterans are Winning the Legalization War

In recent months, America has seen what a potent force veterans can be when it comes...

Cultivation

Growing with the Guru of Ganja Ed Rosenthal

If Ed Rosenthal’s name isn’t immediately familiar to you, chances are you’ve never attempted to grow...

Economics

Tax Code 280E: The Dagger Pointed at the Heart of Medical Cannabis

Near the end of 2015, in the case of Canna Care Inc v. Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service...

Legal

Typo in California Pot Law Leads Cities To Quick Bans

A mistake in the text in California’s new medical marijuana law, the Medical Marijuana Regulation and...

Joint Opinions

Golden Tarp 2015: The Year of Change

The Friday before this year’s Golden Tarp Award, California legislators passed a historic and sweeping set...

Politics

The End of the Wild Wild West: California To Regulate Its MMJ Industry

After months of negotiations, California lawmakers struck a deal late Thursday night on a historic framework...

Cultivation

How the Peace-Pipe May Be a New Way to Exploit Tribes

International sovereignty is more gray area than it is black and white and tribes growing cannabis...

Culture

Dispensary Profile: The Apothecarium

The interior of Apothecarium is sleek and sophisticated. Textured, velvet wallpaper lines the walls and the...

Legal

California’s Legal Issue

California boasts the world’s eighth largest economy, larger than even Russia. San Francisco Weekly’s Chris Roberts recently...

Industry Events

A Reflection on Medical Marijuana’s San Francisco Roots

By Anna Foster “I was a young gay man trying to find myself in the beginning...

Hemp

Remembering the Godfather of the Modern Hemp Legalization Movement, Jack Herer (1939-2010)

I’m not sure when I first ran in to Jack Herer, but it was in the...

Cultivation

How Honeydew Farms Grew Into the Legalized Cannabis Market

A Humboldt ranch stays true to its roots and finds itself with a local cannabis license.

In The Magazine

Return of the MAC

The seeds that made Miracle Alien Cookies survived a trip through the washing machine before becoming...