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Do Farmers Have a Legal Right to Grow Cannabis?
Paul Roberts - Published on December 22, 2016Read moreFed up with cannabis cultivation bans, growers are fighting back by using laws meant to defend farmers. Because…they are farmers.
Gavin Newsom: Here’s How Prop. 64 Passed
Paul Roberts - Published on November 9, 2016Read moreCalifornia’s lieutenant governor, a champion of Prop. 64, explains how the law passed—and what to expect going forward.
A Wary Adaptation: Cannabis and the Small-Town Cop
Paul Roberts - Published on October 20, 2016Read moreHow police officers are living with legalization in small town America.
The Bayer-Monsanto Deal Won’t Eat the Cannabis Industry…Yet
Paul Roberts - Published on September 15, 2016Read moreThe news that Monsanto is being bought by Bayer probably won’t be well received in the cannabis sector. The deal brings together two research powerhouses that, reportedly, have long eyed cannabis as a possible new business. The worry is that the combined firm will have the financial and political influence to do to cannabis what […]
Bud Farming Backlash: Rural America’s Uneasy Embrace of Cannabis Farming
Paul Roberts - Published on September 13, 2016Read moreLegalization brought jobs and profitable farming to the country. Now some small towns are bristling at the fences, the floodlights, and the smell. Are the concerns legit or just a new form of prohibitionism?