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David Downs

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

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Pot sex lube maker Foria preps new product

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The best new strains of 2017, according to Cali Connection

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Inside California’s leading cannabis chocolatier – Kiva Confections

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San Francisco’s secret garden — Inside Butterbrand

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Goldman and partner Michael Koehn enjoy a Volcano vaporizer --- a desktop unit that fills a bag with cannabis vapor. Vaporizers cut out the carcinogens associated with smoking cannabis. PHOTO: Michael Short for San Francisco Chronicle
Health

Seniors are surging into cannabis country

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Grenco’s G Pen Elite flower vape for marijuana pros is challenging the Pax 2 as the best vaporizer of the year.
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Best Bets: Grenco G Pen Elite vape review

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Cannabis users’ sex lives are thriving, Stanford study finds

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Cannabis industry rallies for California wildfire relief

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