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David Downs

@davidrdowns

Cannabis Editor |? | San Francisco Chronicle. Award-winning journalist. Best-selling author.

San Francisco
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The latest San Francisco recreational cannabis store openings

David Downs
The Emerald Cup cannabis seed market 2017. | Photo by David Downs
Culture

Inside the world’s most elite cannabis seed market

David Downs
News

San Francisco will beat Los Angeles to adult use cannabis sales

David Downs
Midtown Manhattan gets its first medical cannabis dispensary on April 20. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
News

Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue gets a cannabis dispensary on April 20

David Downs
Former federal attorney Henry Wykowski (left) buys a gram of Neville's Purple.
News

Former federal prosecutor buys California’s first legal cannabis

David Downs
News

Cannabis prohibition ends in California as retail sales begin

David Downs
liveblog marijuana prohibition ends in california
News

Liveblog: Cannabis prohibition ends in California

David Downs
A customer finishes his cannabis purchase at Harborside in Oakland Jan. 1.
Explained

Checklist: What to bring, what to wear and how to act at a dispensary

David Downs

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