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Green Scene
Emerging from behind the green curtain Happy 4/20, and welcome to the Nugget, a weekly column focusing on all things cannabis, conveniently rolled up within the safety of a free local newspaper. I...
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Growing Growers
Sustainable ag starts with education In this era of drought and increasing environmental awareness, it's easy to point the finger for the problems our state faces, and there is plenty of...
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Pot Shots
Continuing care after service In a nation with one of the largest military budgets and strongest fighting forces in the world, we still somehow struggle to provide quality care for our veterans. The...
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New Day
Adapting to a changing environment Times are changing for cannabis cultivators across the state. To meet the rigorous demands of the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA), set to take...
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Rediscovering the spirit of cannabis There are increasing accounts of people using cannabis as medicine for a wide variety of ailments: stress relief, insomnia, PTSD, nausea, appetite and more. But...
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Business Unfriendly
New cannabis regulation requires new thinking Cannabis is one of the hottest topics in the media. But can too much exposure put lives at risk?…
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Time to Organize
Farmers control their destiny Cannabis farmers in California have the opportunity to work together, build cooperative brands and secure a competitive position in the newly developing market. But the...
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Bigger, Better
New regs create surge of innovation For decades, cannabis cultivators, dispensaries and patients have faced raids and incarceration for growing, distributing and consuming cannabis. The constant fear...
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Grass Fed
Should livestock eat cannabis? As marijuana becomes legal in more and more states, pot people are growing more and more creative in novel uses for the plant. We've seen edibles of all stripes, oils...
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Safe Harbor
The cannabis industry needs a clear pathway to success A shockwave hit Sonoma County last week as one of the most reputable CBD (cannabidiol) oil producers, the CBD Guild, was subject to a...
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Prince Ea urges Obama to legalize Prince Ea —hip-hop artist, activist and founder of Make "SMART" Cool — just released a remake of his brilliant music video urging President Obama to end our country's...
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Pot's Shot
Recreational cannabis headed for the ballot A broadly backed initiative to legalize marijuana in the country's most populous state will be on the ballot in November. The California secretary of...
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Donkeys for Dope
Democrats call for 'pathway to legalization' Meeting in Orlando on Saturday, ahead of the Democratic National Convention later this month, the party's platform-drafting committee dropped a moderate...
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Stoned Age
Did pot dealers found Western civilization? Ever since Herodotus, we've been aware that the nomadic pastoralists of Asia Minor known as the Scythians burned marijuana as part of religious rituals and...
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Pence on Pot
Trump's VP is anti-weed, but says tobacco is just fine The Republican nominee's choice of Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate means Donald Trump has selected a man who is the very...
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Stoner City, USA
Federal study smokes out high-use cities Where do people like to smoke pot the most? Thanks to government statistics, we have an answer.…
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Dream On
Reading the signals in the smoke Here's a cannabis-related observation that I feel compelled to share. I know I'm not alone in this phenomenon, but maybe I am—"I don't know, you tell me," as Trump...
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New Age
Get in synch, Sonoma County Tokey was reading a Press Democrat editorial last week with great interest—the eye-opening one in the Aug. 17 paper where the PD clearly fired up the Great Bong of Justice...
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Lock Up
Minorities, youth more likely to be arrested for pot A report released by the Drug Policy Alliance this month finds that there were nearly half a million felony and misdemeanor arrests related to...
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Full Circle
CBD was the key The firt time I smoked pot was in Eric Schroeder's garage in Fullerton, 1969. The high was different than now.…
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