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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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Health

Cannabis users’ sex lives are thriving, Stanford study finds

David Downs
Cannabis industry rallies for California wildfire relief
News

Cannabis industry rallies for California wildfire relief

David Downs
The main building at Paras Vinyards burns in the Mount Veeder area of Napa in California on October 10, 2017. Firefighters battled wildfires in California's wine region on Tuesday as the death toll rose to 15 and thousands were left homeless in neighborhoods reduced to ashes. SOURCE: JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images
News

‘The whole thing was on fire’: One California cannabis farmer describes losing crop, saving house

David Downs
Flames surround a marijuana plant as a wildfire burns near Oroville, Calif., on Saturday, July 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) SOURCE: Noah Berger
News

California’s cannabis harvest season has turned disastrous

David Downs
Pot grower Steve Evans carries marijuana plants into a greenhouse at his Santa Rosa, Calif., home on Monday, May 22, 2017. SOURCE: Noah Berger
Explained

What is my local marijuana law in California?

David Downs
California marijuana rules
Explained

Ten highlights and lowlights from California’s new marijuana rules

David Downs
A worker at San Francisco cannabis garden Butterbrand transfers flowers for drying.
News

Berkeley among first cities prepping to sell legal cannabis in California Jan. 1

David Downs
Explained

When can I buy legal cannabis in California?

David Downs

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