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Funds, free bongs and a place to puff: how the cannabis crowd is helping fire victims

The L.A. cannabis community’s aid efforts include raising funds, replacing smoking devices and giving displaced medical marijuana patients a free place to light up.

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New tests find ‘hidden’ pesticides in more California weed brands. Regulators ignored warnings

Los Angeles, CA - July 17: A "blueberry razz" flavored vape pen by Runtz is photographed at the Los Angeles Times Photo Studio on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

Cannabis conundrum: Legal doesn’t mean clean; illicit isn’t always dirty

Among 80 cannabis brands included in more than 500 pesticide tests.

Search your stash: 538 cannabis pesticide tests show what’s in your weed

AGUANGA, CA. SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 -- Aerial view of the property in Aguanga, where seven people were shot to death over Labor Day weekend at an illegal marijuana grow house Tuesday September 8, 2020. Riverside County sheriff's deputies found several hundred plants and more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana at the Inland Empire home. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

After four years, investigators determine motive behind Aguanga mass killings

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High summer is coming. What to pack in a ultimate weed-themed picnic basket

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‘You sent me to war. Now’s your turn to fix me.’ How a weed brand is helping veterans

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Buy a bong, support a Latino artisan through this stylish L.A. brand

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California medical marijuana patients can get free weed. Here’s how

A collage illustration of Seth Rogen with a yellow house, golden dog and tree sized cannabis bud.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s weed house is actually really chic? Take a look

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‘I’m not doing anything wrong’: Pot-smoking L.A. moms on parenting while high

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The future of weed isn’t in California. It’s somewhere totally unexpected

Want to get high (but not too high) this holiday season? Here are 7 low-dose options

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Black Girl Magic meets Jazz Age speakeasy at this new L.A. pot shop

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Learn how to roll a joint like a rock star with L.A. roots

I thought I hated yoga. Then I tried ‘stoned yoga’ in L.A.

I needed answers. My hunt to find the backstory of the perfect pot pipe

Ricky Williams talks cannabis, the NFL and pain management

Check out Stone Road, an off-the-grid cannabis farm with big cannatourism dreams

Cannacurious seniors board the magic bus

Mike Tyson and Ric Flair tag-team the cannabis space and wait, is that Evander Holyfield?

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Cannabis plants on an illegal grow blow in the wind

Legal Weed, Broken Promises: A Times series on the fallout of legal pot in California

California’s legalization of recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion-dollar industry. But many of the promises of legalization have proved elusive.

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In this Aug. 21, 2019, photo, an industrial hemp plant is shown in Clayton Township, Mich. The legalization of industrial hemp is spurring U.S. farmers into unfamiliar terrain, tempting them with profits amid turmoil in agriculture while proving to be a tricky endeavor in the early stages. Up for grabs is a lucrative market, one that could grow more than five-fold globally by 2025, driven by demand for cannabidiol. The compound does not cause a high like that of marijuana and is hyped as a health product to reduce anxiety, treat pain and promote sleep. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

California’s ban on certain hemp products clears early legal challenge

Cannabis businesses sued a California public health agency in September to block the enforcement of emergency regulations that ban certain hemp products.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. -- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019: Joy Cohen of Mt. Washington passes a joint at the Lowell Cafe, a new restaurant and cannabis bar in West Hollywood allows diners to smoke marijuana inside and out thanks to a new license issued by the city in West Hollywood, Calif., on Oct. 1, 2019. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

California will allow eating, drinking and smoking at Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes

FILE - This May 20, 2019, file photo, shows a marijuana leaf on a plant at a cannabis grow in Gardena, Calif. Voters in four states could embrace broad legal marijuana sales on Election Day, setting the stage for a watershed year for the industry that could snowball into neighboring states as well as reshape policy on Capitol Hill. The Nov. 3, 2020, contests will take place in markedly different regions of the country, New Jersey, Arizona, South Dakota and Montana and approval of the proposals would highlight how public acceptance of cannabis is cutting across geography, demographics and the nation's deep political divide. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Reclassifying cannabis as a Schedule III drug only exacerbates a bad situation

LA VERNE, CA - SEPTEMBER 16, 2024: Jacob and Lindsay Dunn with their son Bodhi, 2, own Sow Eden Organics, a CBD-hemp product company September 16, 2024 in La Verne, California. Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing regulations that would immediately render illegal much of the industry and the products it creates. The Dunns are concerned the new regulations will cost them lots of money and might put them out of business.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

‘Catastrophic’: Looming restrictions on popular THC drinks and gummies alarm hemp industry

Nicole Elliott(right), Governor Newsom's cannabis advisor and his appointee to run the Department of Cannabis Control, speaks at a cannabis growers gathering in 2019.
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California legal weed industry in tumult over pesticides in pot

Newsom urges emergency rules to curb sale of hemp products with potent high

Raid finds an illegal weed grow in home owned by Oakland police officer

California lawmakers pass bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes

All charges dismissed against one of four suspects in slaying of Oakland police officer

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