California is moving forward with its plan for the interstate trade in cannabis

Thousands and thousands of pounds of cannabis are already leaving California every year thanks to the illegal market. We are America’s number one plug. But can we, for once, legally move something?

The regulator for the world’s largest legal cannabis market believes federal authorities have nothing against it and is now awaiting a possible green light from the Attorney General.

Will America Drop the Charade and Join the Free Cannabis Trade? Will the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause force states to act?

Hear how David Downs, Managing Editor of Leafly, breaks it down for KCRW, a National Public Radio affiliate, in Santa Monica, CA. We did a three-year This Week in Weed gig there. The Interstate segment begins at 4:00 minutes.

Read KCRW’s full post “Food and Live Music Could Come to Cannabis Lounges Under CA Bill.”

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David Downs

Leafly Editor-in-Chief David Downs received a Literary Excellence Award from Oaksterdam University in 2022. Since 2009, he has published three books on cannabis, including the best-selling book Marijuana Harvest, which spans cannabis plant research. Downs has been a visiting professor at the Journalism Law School at Loyola Marymount University Law School, UC Berkeley Extension, and has contributed to the continuing education of the Bar Association’s Marijuana Law Hub, sponsored by the University of California and the State Bar of California. Downs’ work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Scientific American, Wired, Rolling Stone, The Onion, Columbia Journalism Review, High Times, Billboard, and many others. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from UC Santa Barbara and was a fellow at the Academy of Alternative Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism in Chicago.

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