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David Downs

@davidrdowns

GreenState founder David Downs is an award-winning freelance journalist and best-selling author based in San Francisco, with appearances in WIRED, Rolling Stone, The Onion, New York Times, and Scientific American. He is a 2025 Mendo Cup Judge.

News

Vallejo dispensaries join the 300+ recreational stores open in California

David Downs
Etiquette

Retailers taking too much personal information? Safety stickers? — Cannabis FAQs answered

David Downs
News

World-class shop Buds & Roses joins ranks of California’s recreational cannabis stores

David Downs
Qualified medical cannabis patients may gain the right to work in California. | GreenState file photo
News

Workplace discrimination against California medical cannabis patients may end

David Downs
Midori Mel blows vapor after using the dab rig at Urban Pharm in San Francisco, Calif. Saturday, August 5, 2017.
News

Urban Pharm, Greenwolf top new marijuana store openings in California

David Downs
Kehinde Wiley's portrait of President Barack Obama.
Arts

President Obama’s new Smithsonian portrait is lit AF, says cannabis community

David Downs
News

Travel writer Rick Steves goes to Washington for legal cannabis

David Downs
Emerald Farm Tours begins serving canna-tourists in the Bay Area. | The Chronicle illustration
Travel

San Francisco’s first cannabis tour of 2018 is ready to roll

David Downs

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