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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aging yuppies in neon beachwear stand before a green wall with the catchphrase, "You have changed ... so has cannabis." The social media post is part of "Real CA Cannabis," a $5-million ...

Buying weed from Planet 13 feels surreal. The entire overwhelming, contrived process is so far removed from the old-school weed buy that it’s laughable. Based solely on the square footage you have to ...

“From the criminal mindset, there is minimal downside and massive upside to cultivating marijuana illegally,” says one sheriff’s official. Two major state programs to combat illegal cannabis recently ...

On a brisk mid-March night in the small Northern California town of Grass Valley, more than 100 people crowded around a Grateful Dead cover band in a drafty warehouse. They were an eccentric mix: ...

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 ...

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 ...