David Downs

The year ahead: The coming year may seem hard to navigate but getting lost is one of life's joys; finding your way through is one of life's lessons. So argues the man tasked with telling New Zealand's story.

A just-for-fun poll yielded a solid lineup of greatness including Bodhi, CSI Humboldt, Capulator, and Archive Seed Bank.

Matthew Indest, Ph.D., taps his experience in conventional agriculture and horticulture breeding programs and extensive work in cannabis and hemp to share insights into breeding technologies set to change cannabis the fastest, important automation impacts, the science of drying and curing, and more.

Brian Vicente of Vicente LLP talks Schedule III with Cannabis Business Times

A new California bill would ban video games on vapes, resulting in a fine of up to $50,000 for manufacturers.

Moon Valley Cannabis founder Eli Buffalo dives into living soil and Korean Natural Farming, challenges with scaling and more in this candid interview.

Aficionado Seeds' decades-long crusade to spread the “real” Sour Diesel. “Is that the real Sour Diesel?…I remember it differently…It's gone extinct…”

David Downs launches Terp Sherpa, his new monthly column, with the ten hottest flowers to hunt down across legal states this June. From Lobster OG to Toad Venom, here's what's blazing up the charts.

Seven Ospreys attended the Open Meeting at Tenby over the weekend of 13th and 14th June as part of the Tenby Regatta. After weeks of cold and rain Pembrokeshire lived up to its reputation and it was a pleasant weekend of warm and sunny weather.

Mushroom potency has exploded, with some strains testing up to 80 times stronger than others. Oakland's Church of Ambrosia, the world's biggest mushroom church, partnered with a community lab to test hundreds of strains and built an open-source dosage calculator. The goal: fewer "Naked Ninja" emergencies and a end to the old "a gram is a gram" myth.