September 19, 2020 Some have long used pot to sleep, now science may affirm them By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside A new study, by scientists at UC San Diego, moves the needle just a little on research around cannabis and sleep, and results are promising. Read More 3
September 12, 2020 Gimme MORE: Key Vote on Federal Pot Legalization Coming By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside The Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement Act (MORE) is slated for a vote in the House later this month. Read More 3
September 8, 2020 Is Cannabis an ‘Industry’ in the U.S? Depends Who You Ask By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside Language is important in the pot world in surprising ways, and a new debate over what to call the business is brewing. Read More 2
August 29, 2020 Is a 2020 Biden and Harris Ticket Good for Cannabis Legalization? By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside The elevation of Harris to the national ticket has elicited a collective sigh of relief from worried legalization advocates. Read More 0
August 16, 2020 Hazy Science: Medical CBD Proponents Rely on Anecdotes But Push For Research By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside CBD Nation is a documentary based largely on anecdotes, but refreshingly, the filmmakers are up front about that as research lags. Read More 1
July 14, 2020 Last Prisoner Project Aims to Free People Jailed for Nonviolent Cannabis Offenses By Emanuel Lee In the wake of the nationwide anti-racist protests, the cannabis industry has been confronted with the reality that it, too, has racial issues. Read More 4
July 8, 2020 Ill at Eaze: Famed Cannabis Platform Part of Federal Probe By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside None of this would have been a problem if the cannabis industry, like every other legal business in the U.S., had access to banking. Read More 1
June 5, 2020 Tight Security Wards Off Would-Be Thieves From San Jose Cannabis Dispensaries By Emanuel Lee While weed stores in some parts of the U.S. have been hard hit by looting this week, only two of San Jose’s 16 dispensaries reported break-ins. Read More 1
May 28, 2020 Chronic Town: Will Covid Pandemic Sap Weed-Biz Hype? By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside MedMen will go down in the annals as a symbol of the early days of the legal-weed industry: a meteoric rise and a spectacular crash. Read More 5
May 23, 2020 Chronic Town: Refreshing Candor Among (Some) Pot Execs By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside There’s a frankness that was fairly unusual even at in-person trade shows that are now canceled or delayed as we all shelter in place. Read More 1
May 10, 2020 Chronic Town: Don’t Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside Given the economic pressures that governments face, the push to legalize pot could end up resembling the end of prohibition in more ways than one. Read More 6
April 28, 2020 Governments Wrestle with ‘Medical’ vs. ‘Recreational’ Pot By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside The dual nature of cannabis—it’s both a “vice” and a health elixir, and sometimes both at once—makes it hard to regulate. Read More 6
April 24, 2020 Santa Clara County to Clear Thousands of Pot Convictions By Silicon Valley Newsroom The expungements stem from collaborative efforts of the local district attorney, public defender, the county and the courts. Read More 9
April 24, 2020 Small, Little-Known Companies Sell CBD as Cure-All, Prompting Federal Regulators to Step In By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside The Food and Drug Administration isn’t effing around when it comes to cracking down on companies selling supposed cures for Covid-19. Read More 7
April 16, 2020 Cannabis and Chicanery: No, Weed Does Not Cure Covid-19 By Dan Mitchell and San Jose Inside Some pot advocates and peddlers of elixirs now declare that their products can alleviate the symptoms of Covid-19, or even cure it. Read More 2
April 1, 2020 As Panic Buying Ensues, Dispensaries Try to Get Straight Answers in New Regulated Era By Hugh McCormick and Dan Mitchell The Bay Area retail cannabis industry reinvented itself overnight for shelter-in-place, and legal weed may never be the same again. Read More 2