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Los Alamos, CA - September, 5, 2024: Raw Garden's CEO and co-founder, Thomas Martin, with his cannabis crops at their cultivation facility, Central Coast Agriculture, tucked into a hillside of the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara's wine country. Martin began funding tests for pesticides found in California's top 20 brands. The results confirm widespread contamination but brands are not removing those products from shelves, and Martin faces lawsuits if he publishes his findings. Accompanies story on pesticides in cannabis products. (Al Seib / For the Los Angeles Times)

Contamination fears drive push to remake state cannabis agency

Amid criticism of California’s oversight of its legal cannabis industry, calls are now mounting to strip many responsibilities from the agency in charge.

Snoop Dogg hosting the Olympics and starring in campaigns for the Hot Pockets, SodaStream, Solo Stove, and Beyond Meat.

10 Snoop Dogg deals that prove he can sell anything, ranked

Collage of West Hollywood cannabis dispensaries, consumption lounges and donation box for marijuana paraphernalia

Cannabis community rallies to help fire victims one bong and one fundraiser at a time

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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

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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

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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

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

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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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Siskiyou County marijuana task force members dump out hundreds of pounds of processed cannabis flowers into a trench.

California hails $544 million in illegal weed seizures. But it’s just a drop in the bucket

Some $544 million worth of illicit weed has been seized, but those on the front lines say the black market is ‘big and bad as ever.’

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

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)
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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

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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

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California lawmakers pass bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes

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