David Spradlin shouldn't be an optimist. He's the CEO of a small retail cannabis company and working in an industry that, by most measures, is in a free fall. Spradlin has already personally ...

The "California sober" strategy -- smoking marijuana -- might help people to drink less, at least in the short term, ...

Members of a Siskiyou County marijuana task force dump out hundreds of pounds of processed cannabis flowers into a trench for burial at an illicit cannabis grow in Mount Shasta Vista in 2022. (Brian ...

At Vibe Cultivators, an indoor cannabis farm in Sacramento, the first thing to hit you is the smell. Earthy, skunky, whatever you want to call it, that is some pungent weed. There are aisles of plants ...

It's trendy in some circles to replace drinking with consuming cannabis. But can it help people with a drinking problem cut ...

The Biden administration’s rescheduling of marijuana could have a big financial impact on California pot businesses. While dropping weed from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug would not make it ...

Despite being among the largest and most mature legal marijuana markets in the country, the cannabis industry in California is struggling. Regulatory hurdles, high taxes, and a still-thriving illicit ...

The first randomized controlled trial of the "California sober" approach suggests marijuana may indeed lessen alcohol ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Customers lined up early to purchase recreational marijuana legally for the first time in California as the new year brought broad legalization some two decades after the state was ...

Reality Check is a Sacramento Bee series holding officials and organizations accountable and shining a light on their decisions. Have a tip? Email [email protected]. The Biden administration’s ...

With no help from the federal government, states are trying to regulate recreational marijuana. California's Department of Cannabis Control works... Could legal weed make you sick? Here's how ...