Lester Black

Cannabis editor @SFGate Words/photos in @fivethirtyeight @TheStranger @intelligencer @theguardian @highcountrynews
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[Lester Black @leddder]

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[Lester Black @leddder]

@rpyers hey Rob I'd love to connect for a story -- shoot me a DM or an email? [email protected]

[Lester Black @leddder]

So thankful for Sara to have me on to discuss this story!

https://t.co/DwM8NGvFKN

[Sara Payan @SaraMPayan]

It’s Tuesday, and the latest EP of @plantedwithsara is LIVE!

This week, I’m sitting down with journalist, @leddder of @SFGate talking Big Sur Holy Weed.

⛓️‍💥 https://t.co/HkcYmLCie9

@pax_official @FatNugsMag @JVPehrson @radiosmisfits #cannabis #podcasts #weed

[Jeremy Foster Berke @jfberke]

Thanks to @leddder for the @CultivatedNews cite in his SF Gate story on the TSA's medical marijuana policy update:

https://t.co/Wt4ih0xNX0

[Lester Black @leddder]

@jamiecampbell @SFGate Guess I avoided your wrath by not saying it's a "pot policy"?

[UCR Science News @UCR_ScienceNews]

New #study finds evidence #cannabis could treat #obesity, #diabetes https://t.co/G1gaNLxBkd via @SFGate
@leddder @UCRiverside @UCRSoM #marijuana

[Lester Black @leddder]

https://t.co/h9NsVlTe9u

[Lester Black @leddder]

The video you don't want to see before your summer vacation to California...

[VOC Nederland @vocnederland]

This is the best cannabis reporting I've read in a long while. Kudos to @leddder!
Hunting for the world's most mythical cannabis: Big Sur Holy Weed
https://t.co/icezknXvfm via @SFGate

[Grant Marek @Grant_Marek]

"Locals escaped the cold inside Wild Cherries Coffee House, an unofficial town square of Truckee. Most conversations were quiet attempts to process what had just happened."

Tremendous read from @leddder for @SFGate:
https://t.co/sRMqchsQYQ

[Lester Black @leddder]

@Ghitelman @janosmarton there aren't many daily psilocybin users *yet*. The first project of a legal psilocybin industry will be creating habitual use. There are lots of ways that can happen, and the micro-dosing movement is already setting that reality up.

[Longreads @Longreads]

"Half a century had passed between the monk supposedly growing pot in the monastery garden and Fratis getting these seeds. Back to square one."—@leddder for @SFGate #longreads

https://t.co/LdVB5akEyk

[Farley Elliott @overoverunder]

As a person with a complicated relationship to weed, I found this @leddder deep-dive into the myth and foggy future of California cannabis' "holy grail" strain to be FASCINATING
https://t.co/AYfKy7rKHW

[Lester Black @leddder]

Hunting for the world's most mythical cannabis: Big Sur Holy Weed https://t.co/ZjmfHS2Alw via @SFGate

[SFGATE @SFGate]

"I just don't know what they were thinking." https://t.co/6H5mx5SK4Q

[Lester Black @leddder]

This is one of the darkest stories I've read lately.

We can't even ask if people like the president anymore without fear of being punished.

Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings https://t.co/BgAAPhxatx

[Grant Marek @Grant_Marek]

Many news outlets have used a single podcast remark as an indicator ICE agents would be “throughout Levi’s” and have a “major, visible” presence, but SFGATE reached out to 6 law enforcement agencies who haven't heard anything to that effect.

via @leddder https://t.co/y4oEVeaH6C

[Lester Black @leddder]

No one knows who's behind Sacramento Valley billboard message to 80-year-old Democrat https://t.co/HGf0Cn2ily via @SFGate

[Lester Black @leddder]

Read my latest with @stephencouncil here:

https://t.co/QV9N8yoVnb

[Lester Black @leddder]

For decades, America's tech companies have deployed products with little regard to how they harm their users. That could end with ChatGPT.

[Lester Black @leddder]

We could soon see class action lawsuits against LLM chatbot makers similar to lawsuits for defective airbags and asbestos. OpenAI is facing a multi-billion dollar legal risk that no one is talking about.