David Spradlin shouldn't be an optimist. He's the CEO of a small retail cannabis company and working in an industry that, by most measures, is in a free fall. Spradlin has already personally ...

At Vibe Cultivators, an indoor cannabis farm in Sacramento, the first thing to hit you is the smell. Earthy, skunky, whatever you want to call it, that is some pungent weed. There are aisles of plants ...

Buying weed from Planet 13 feels surreal. The entire overwhelming, contrived process is so far removed from the old-school weed buy that it’s laughable. Based solely on the square footage you have to ...

Antioch, California (CNN) — Just after dawn on a recent spring morning, police dressed in tactical gear and armed with a search warrant pounded on the front door of an upscale home in a quiet suburban ...

“From the criminal mindset, there is minimal downside and massive upside to cultivating marijuana illegally,” says one sheriff’s official. Two major state programs to combat illegal cannabis recently ...

The Biden administration took a critical step in reclassifying marijuana as a lower-risk drug, the president announced Thursday, inching closer to removing it from a federal category that considers it ...

MedMen spiraled over the past several years as troubling financial reports began to leak. When MedMen first opened retail weed shops in 2018 in California, its stock was given a $3 billion valuation.

Humboldt County helped fuel the rise of the marijuana industry, but after the plant’s legalization, its farmers are struggling. Dan Golden has been growing weed for almost 20 years. As he hand-watered ...

For years, the San Francisco Peninsula has been a weed wasteland, with no legal cannabis stores in the ultrawealthy area between the San Francisco airport and San Jose. But that’s changing all thanks ...