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DEA Considers Reclassifying Cannabis, Boosting Legal Industry and Research
We enter 2024 without much hope that the feds will legalize weed—though, you never know—but with some optimism that progress will be made on various cannabis reforms.That optimism turned up a notch or...
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‘Disneyland’ of the Iron Triangle
Frederick Law Olmsted once said that parks had the potential to serve as the lungs of a city. If he were alive today and could see the magic that unfolds at Pogo Park, he’d likely note that it’s the...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Who’s High?’ Segment Normalizes Cannabis Use
Focus groups are mostly bogus, of course, especially in terms of their news value. The New York Times opinion section, in particular, loves them because the paper is weirdly obsessed with normalizing...
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California’s Lawsuit Against Big Oil for Climate Deception Continues
As 2024 kicks off, an ongoing lawsuit, new state laws and a damning report from a local community-based committee will all make climate crisis news this year. California made global news in 2023 when...
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Reimagining Public Safety in Oakland
Just weeks into the new year, crime statistics in California are on the rise—with Oakland projected to surpass the record-breaking property and violent crime rates of 2019, which were more than 200%...
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California’s Ethnic Media Struggles to Survive Local News Crisis
California’s Spanish-language press owes much to Francisco Ramírez, a Los Angeles native who, as a teenager in 1855, started El Clamor Público, the state’s first Spanish-language newspaper. Ramírez...
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California’s Illicit Cannabis Market Dwarfs the Legal One
From one angle, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s United Cannabis Enforcement Task Force has been effective. Last week it announced that in the task force’s first full calendar year of operations, the state has...
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MedMen Loses Another CEO
MedMen, the failing chain of cannabis dispensaries with a history of gross mismanagement behind it, and most likely a crash-and-burn directly ahead of it, is going through CEOs like Oakland goes...
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Bystander Intervention Engages BART Riders in Safety Protocol
A little over five years ago, 18-year-old Nia Wilson got on BART in Concord with her sisters Latifah and Tashiya for the last time. John Lee Cowell, then 29 and three months out of treatment at a...
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MedMen’s Downfall By Hubris
It might be tempting to write off the astonishing implosion of MedMen as being just another instance of a weed business falling victim to the faltering cannabis economy, especially in California where...
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Oakland Coaches Trained to Support Young Athletes’ Mental Health
This article was produced by Capital & Main and is copublished here with permission. Sign up for Capital & Main’s newsletter. When gunshots ring out around the parks where Oakland Soccer Club...
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Prohibitionist Republicans’ Latest Irredeemably Stupid Cannabis Policy
Navigating the partisan politics of cannabis can be challenging because there are Republicans and Democrats on both sides of most reform initiatives. That makes cannabis politics almost unique in...
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Ava DuVernay’s New Film Makes the Caste Connection
What does the act of a racist vigilante have to do with the caste system in India that works to the detriment of the Dalits, Jewish people during the Holocaust and the system of slavery that’s in the...
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Top Pot ‘Cop’ Evolves Cannabis Stance As Is Her Job
So-called “concerns” about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity have been ginned up by the right-wing propaganda machine with the enthusiastic help of an increasingly indistinguishable mainstream...
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AG Bonta Talks ‘People Power’ in Oakland
On Feb. 8, Rob Bonta gave the keynote speech at the Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture held at Beebe Memorial Cathedral in Oakland. During his speech, Bonta shared his journey from being a “brown...
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Mental Health Advocates Rate Prop 1 a Zero
Julia Ford was in the third trimester of her pregnancy when she moved out of an abandoned school bus in Oakland and into the Healthy Babies Project transitional housing. The shelter came with a...
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Prepping for the Primary Election
As the March 5 primary election approaches, many voters are just now considering their choices. Below is information about some of the most impactful races—nationally, statewide and locally. United...
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The Higher Cost of Rising Health Insurance
This article was produced by Capital & Main and is copublished here with permission. Sign up for Capital & Main’s newsletter. For most California residents, and the vast majority of the...
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No Reliable Standards Exist for Driving While High
Blood-alcohol tests often aren’t really conclusive when it comes to determining whether a person is too impaired to drive. Many people who are over the legal limit are probably perfectly fine to...
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Betty Reid Soskin, the Musical
Betty Reid Soskin, 102, has never subscribed to the narrative that women have shelf lives. She’s spent her whole life defying that while constantly reinventing herself. As the owner of Reid Records,...
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