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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.

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Toast Gold could have California marijuana abstainers swooning

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Meet the iMac of cannabis cultivation: GroBox

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San Francisco
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The latest San Francisco recreational cannabis store openings

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The Emerald Cup cannabis seed market 2017. | Photo by David Downs
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Inside the world’s most elite cannabis seed market

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San Francisco will beat Los Angeles to adult use cannabis sales

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Midtown Manhattan gets its first medical cannabis dispensary on April 20. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue gets a cannabis dispensary on April 20

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Former federal attorney Henry Wykowski (left) buys a gram of Neville's Purple.
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Former federal prosecutor buys California’s first legal cannabis

David Downs
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Cannabis prohibition ends in California as retail sales begin

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