Cannabis was apparently the real winner this Christmas after retail shops in states where the drug is legal saw sales increase by 21-percent leading up to the holiday on Sunday.
November 8, 2016 was a red (green?) letter day for marijuana legalization, bringing the grand total of states allowing medical marijuana use to 28 (plus Washington DC), and the total of states allowing recreational use to eight (again, plus Washington DC).
Outside a Sonoma County Fairgrounds exhibition hall last weekend, hordes of happy pot lovers walked around the Emerald Cup harvest festival, already stoned or about to be.
Two years ago, I happily accepted a business card from a co-founder of the San Francisco-based cannabis delivery startup Eaze as he worked his way through sunning groups at Mission Dolores Park