Cannabis Documentary: 'Smoke: Marijuana + Black America'
As a criminal defense lawyer, my pal, Stewart Hanlon, represented for many years his client, Black Panther Party icon, Elmer Geronimo Pratt. “Geromino” served 27 years in prison, eight of them in...
View ArticleAre THC Numbers Really Rising?
When you buy marijuana on the licit or illicit market, do you know what you’re really getting? Even if the product has been sold by a dispensary and there’s a label with THC and CBD percentages, the...
View ArticleLit Up: Confessions of a literary cannabis smoker
The other day, my pal, Akinyele Sadiq, took me aside. “The first time I read Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl I couldn’t make sense of it,” he said.…
View ArticleSmoke the Vote
Cannabis users and cannabis activists—the entire U.S. cannabis world—are giddy with success right now.…
View ArticleThe Healer Is In
“Who’s the chica?” my nosy neighbor asked when he saw Natasha Khallouf climb into her car and take off.…
View ArticleMarijuana Measure Divides
In August 2020, after years of dickering, the city of Sonoma finally voted to allow SPARC—which has a marijuana farm in Glen Ellen and dispensaries in Santa Rosa and Cotati—to open a weed shop on...
View ArticleEddie Alvarez Runs for Council
A local environmental group recently endorsed Eddie Alvarez, though it also called him “rough around the edges.” Alvarez is running for a position on the Santa Rosa City Council, which meets a short...
View ArticleFormer Agricultural Commissioner Has Island Fever
Tony Linegar retired as Sonoma’s Agricultural Commissioner at the start of 2020.…
View ArticleBJ Hughes Instagrams Cannabis
Bobby James Hughes III, known to friends as “BJ,” went online for the first time in 1991.…
View ArticleNovel Puts Pot Farmer in Dystopia
Alison Stine’s new thriller takes place in a world racked by climate chaos. The main character, a woman named Wylodine (Wil to family and friends), cultivates cannabis and vegetables.…
View ArticleA farm and a dispensary bloom in Sonoma
Mike Benziger has grown many things in his life, but not this. …
View ArticleChuck Ross’ secret ingredient
Chuck Ross, 42, the man behind the fledgling company, F.A. Nino’s, has found a way to marry his own passions with the demands of the marketplace.…
View ArticleAaron Keefer Grows Veggies & Pot
The “No Pot on Purvine” signs are gone and so are some of the anti-pot citizens who lived on Purvine Road and sold their property to Sonoma Hills Farm, where Aaron Keefer grows organic cannabis and...
View ArticleJewel Mathieson: Fearless Activist
She called herself “a breast cancer survivor, dancer, award-winning storyteller and poetry slam champion.” Jewel Mathieson was all those things and much more.…
View ArticleIvan Escobar is in Heaven
Jonah Raskin Ivan Escobar works in cannabis heaven, or as they say south of the border, Estamos en la gloria.…
View ArticleCannabis and the County
A sense of frustration characterizes the mood of the Sonoma County cannabis community, but cultivators are also smiling more now.…
View ArticleSonoma Patient Group covers the North Bay
“Drive!” Kevin McEachern tells his team. The delivery manager at the Sonoma Patient Group (SPG), the oldest and longest-operating cannabis dispensary in the county, McEachern has his hands full during...
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