Jonah Raskin
When Cannabis Came Out: Remembering Prop 215
Recently, SF Weekly journalist Veronica Irwin went out on a limb and exclaimed, “It’s because of gay activism that Californians have a regulated cannabis...
Giving Green: Cannabis Gifts
Two stellar companies, Kikoko and Saka, both owned and operated by women, have made a big splash in the cannabis industry. Their products are...
Marijuana Scarecrows
First off, there’s Cannabis for Dummies, a paperback that presents gobs of information about the marijuana plant that even a dummy can understand. Then...
Zoom Gloom: Teens and the Pandemic
Talk to the experts—the psychiatrists and the psychologists—and they tell you that Covid-19 has spelled disaster for American teens. It’s true that for many...
Act NORML: Contra Costa Cannabis
California has 58 counties; the Greater San Francisco Bay Area boasts eight. No two counties are the same, though the common denominator in all...
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...
Are 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...
Smoke the Vote
Cannabis users and cannabis activists—the entire U.S. cannabis world—are giddy with success right now. In five states, blue as well as red, all the...
The Healer Is In
“Who’s the chica?” my nosy neighbor asked when he saw Natasha Khallouf climb into her car and take off. I wanted to tell him...
Marijuana 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...
