Patrick McGreevy

Customers maintain social distance while waiting to enter The Green Cross cannabis dispensary in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 18, 2020.

California pot dispensaries are open during coronavirus crisis. Some want them closed

March 31, 2020 at 4:20 p.m.

In designating California's marijuana industry as essential under the state's COVID-19 stay-at-home order, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom has argued that the health benefits of keeping pot shops open...

With more California job applicants failing marijuana drug tests and being disqualified, legalization advocates and a legislator, are calling on the state to change employment laws.

Legal marijuana use still costs people jobs. A new California bill takes on the issue

February 20, 2020 at 8:14 p.m.

California voters legalized pot in 2016. But for many seeking jobs in state government, cannabis use has become an obstacle to getting hired. Now, a spike in the number of...

The figures are the latest sign of California's rocky rollout of its legal marketplace, which promised better regulations and control beginning in 2018. Legitimate marijuana businesses have repeatedly criticized state leaders and law enforcement for failing to curb unlicensed dispensaries and delivery services, which sell cannabis at a much lower price by skirting state and municipal cannabis taxes.

Two years in, California’s legal marijuana industry is stuck. Should voters step in?

December 26, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

Two years after California began licensing pot shops, the industry remains so outmatched by the black market that a state panel recently joined some legalization supporters in calling for significant...

Acacia Friedman takes a break from 'Dawn of Cannabis' event at EAZE L.A. Headquarters in Venice in 2018. EAZE is the state's biggest cannabis delivery business. California cities are suing the state to challenge rules allowing the home delivery of marijuana where pot shops are outlawed.

California officials side with marijuana company in new fight over home deliveries

November 26, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

Escalating a legal battle with California cities and counties over where marijuana can be sold, state officials are intervening in a new court fight over home delivery of cannabis in...

California state agencies send minors into thousands of liquor stores and bars each year to attempt to buy alcohol or cigarettes. The state agency tasked with enforcing cannabis laws has not conducted similar stings.

California uses minors to bust illegal tobacco and alcohol sales. It hasn’t done the same with pot

November 18, 2019 at 7:25 p.m.

California state agencies send minors into thousands of liquor stores and bars each year to attempt to buy alcohol or cigarettes. The stings catch hundreds of clerks and bartenders selling...

Most Californians want marijuana stores in their communities, poll shows

October 9, 2019 at 3:30 p.m.

Three years after California legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, most voters want municipalities to permit pot shops in their communities even though the vast majority of cities have outlawed...

California lawmakers OK medical marijuana in schools; will Gov. Newsom approve?

September 13, 2019 at 6:26 p.m.

By SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California moved a step closer Friday to allowing parents to bring some medical marijuana products to their children on school campuses, and now Gov. Gavin Newsom...

Audit finds nearly 3,000 illegal marijuana businesses in Calif., dwarfing legal trade

September 12, 2019 at 5:03 p.m.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's black market for cannabis is at least three times the size of its regulated weed industry, according to an audit made public Wednesday, the latest illustration...

Different strains of marijuana at 420 Central in Santa Ana.

A ‘monumental moment’ for fully legal marijuana in California

August 22, 2019 at 7:12 a.m.

Will Senn has been waiting his whole life for this. Californians can now go to the store and buy marijuana, and his shop is opening its doors at 7 a.m....

California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit on behalf of the state Wednesday that accused the Trump administration of violating environmental laws in expediting construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

California steps up legal challenge to Trump, this time to stop the border wall

August 22, 2019 at 5:58 a.m.

Opening a new front in its broad legal battle against policies of President Trump, California filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the administration has overstepped its powers in expediting construction...

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