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Today on the SF Space Walk site:'1st annual Clonetopia powered by CANNA breaks records, blazes a new trail'With coverage from GreenState and High Times.***Recently:GreenState: From blinkers to video games: California targets next-gen weed vapesCannabis Business Times: Is This Award-Winning Grow Style Too Scary to Scale?Cannabis Business Times: The Biggest Things About Schedule III

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 KCBS Radio has San Francisco cannabis journalist and author David Downs on for "Ask an Expert" on the federal government ordering medical cannabis to Schedule III.

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The world's first and only cannabis genetics intelligence service—"Fire Follower"—is now comfortably above 200 free subscribers and adding paid ones weekly. Subscribe now. Target: 1,000 paid subscribers.San Francisco's week of elite weed drop parties—SF Space Walk—readies its 3rd annual poster for printing.  A list of partners is below.We got some cool new giveaways:Upcoming—announcing our

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 This week we profiled the surging breeder Twenty20 Mendocino as the feature in my weekly genetics intel service, Fire Follower. Subscribe today and save over 30%.My latest on Biovortex, Moe Greens, and El Rock is in Leaf Magazine this month.Our schedule for San Francisco's flower week—SF Space Walk—has firmed up. And we opened our first clone reservation for Clonetopia 2026.I got my first

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 Thanks to all who voted. Please grab a Fire Follower PRO subscription to never miss a big drop from these greats. Read more details on Fire Follower today.Karma Genetics' Zowahh 2.0

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 Read 'Fire Follower' genetics advisory free version on Substack.Subscribe to Fire Follower PRO and never miss a big drop on my website.Also, David Downs in Hiii Magazine with 'A Noble Hunt'Photos by Kandid KushAlso: David Downs in High Times with The Terps of TerpnamiPhoto by Kandid Kush

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 Plus, the Xerox PARC of hydro growing; Top 50 Breeders of 2025 Poll opensRead David Downs' "Fire Follower" weekly genetics advisory here.

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The latest edition of "Fire Follower" is live with 'New drops from Aficionado Seeds, Biovortex, and Night Owl Seeds' and much more.More recent clips:'5 Ways Cannabis Harvesting Has Changed in the Last 8 Years''Inside the Greenshock Farms 2025 pheno hunt''6 hash trends coming to your sesh from Puffcon 2025''Here’s why Cookies put 3 vapes in your vape''The essential flavors of Puffcon 2025''Fire

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 Read the free excerpt of David Downs Presents "Fire Follower" on Substack. Pay $5 for the Pro version, or save 30% off a full year of issues.Mark Greyshock, Greenshock Farms, Grass Valley, CA, 2025. (David Downs)Upcoming assignments: '5 ways marijuana harvesting has changed in the last 8 years' for Ed Rosenthal'Humboldt Seed Co's 2025 Pheno Hunt' for Hiii MagazineA piece on the Cookies

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Hi, gang, our 'Fire Follower' genetics intelligence service for Sept. 16 is live. Free excerpt on Substack. Buy the full Fire Follower PRO version direct from me for $5. Subscribe to a year for 30% off.Next week, I head to Grass Valley for the Humboldt Seed Co 2025 Pheno Hunt. I get put up for 3 nights and report it for Hiii Magazine. They asked for a Hunter S. Thompson meets Conde Nast Traveler

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Thanks for landing on the website of David Downs, award-winning journalist and best-selling author in San Francisco. You can contact me at:david [dot] downs [at] gmail [dot] comMy cell is 415-240-2742I receive mail at: David Downs Presents1728 Ocean Ave. PMB #142 San Francisco, CA 94112This is my blog where I post recent clips and news.Pay for the Pro version of my genetics

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David Downs' 'Fire Follower' Sept. 9 EditionOff to Santa Rosa, CA tomorrow for a couple days.

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Hello, Blogger gang. Big moves afoot as always. Here's the details.Status update: I'm going for the 'Robert Parker of Pot' moniker, and aiming for the first Pulitzer Prize for cannabis criticism.—I am freelancing after parting ways with Leafly after seven years. Here's my latest High Times clip on the Terps of Thailand—I publish a weekly genetics intelligence newsletter for breeders and growers:

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 San Francisco has a Beer Week, and a Restaurant Week. And for the second year in a row an SF Hash Week from July 8 to July 14. Featuring Kalya, Nasha, 710 Labs, Fire King, Errl Hill, Jetty, Kalya, Oakland Extracts, Moon Valley, Solful, Trichome Gold and more—it's the world's only week-long citywide hash festival.Guests RSVP for the Hash Drop Parties—which are like record release

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(SF Space Walk concept art)SF’s week of cannabis returns for year 2 as “SF Space Walk” with a slew of big flower drop parties cooking from brands including Alien Labs, 710 Labs, UpNorth, Sunset Connect, Snowtill, Sense, and Bosky.SF Space Walk is like SF Beer Week or SF Restaurant Week—featuring 7 world-class growers releasing 7 superb batches at 7 pretty lounges over 7 nights.Thousands of

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Hey hey, toss me a vote, thanks!2024 Emjay Award — 'Cannabis Journalist of the Year'https://a.cstmapp.com/login/983750/?vote=196438_724606318

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(Courtesy Humboldt Seed Co)RSVP now to San Francisco's most elite genetics drop of all time—͕T͕͕e͕͕r͕͕p͕͕n͕͕a͕͕m͕͕i͕. It's Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7-8 at San Francisco Gallery, 888 Marin St. I can't believe the drop lineup we already have:New drops from:Cipher Genetics (Blue Lobster crosses)Humboldt Seed Co (Blueberry Muffin, Jelly Donutz, Poddy Mouth, OG Triploid)Purple City Genetics

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SF Weed Week flyer concept. (SF Weed Week)The 1st annual San Francisco Weed Week sponsored by Sunset Connect arrives April 13 to 21, 2024.It's just like SF Beer Week, only for weed—featuring 7 consecutive nights of 7 cannabis releases at 7 dispensaries/lounges with 7 world-class farmers in the week-long run-up to April 20th on Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park.Here is the preliminary Press

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Today, the US Health and Human Services Agency released its historic recommendation that marijuana be moved to schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act. Among the substantive review, a citation for "(Downs, 2016)".  The HHS has cited a 2016 piece I wrote for Scientific American: "The Science behind the DEA's Long War on Marijuana."HHS' recommendation now sits with the Drug Enforcement

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We're over here cranking in the new year as Senior Editor for Leafly.com. We're adding 1,000 strains to the Strains Database again this year.We're doing hundreds of branded flower ratings to become the Wine Spectator of cannabis.And we're assigning, editing, and writing over 100 new posts or refreshes for Leafly News.And we got our whole travel budget approved. On deck: Barcelona in March, 4

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 Hey, hey, superfans.Sorry for four years with no blog posts. Most of the action is on my Leafly account where I am the Senior Editor, celebrating five years at the company. (And I post to Twitter @davidrdowns, or Instagram @daviddowns pretty much daily.)Anyhoo, hope to see you Thursday, June 29, in Hollywood at what used to be called Mann's Chinese Theater for a film

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Wed. Jan. 30 @ 6 p.m., 1256 Mission St., SF Office Hours @SPARC On any given month about 30 people want to meet me for coffee or beers and pitch me a story or product or hang. This is where to do it. Come to the lounge. Hit the Volcano. Talk. Ask questions. Learn stuff. Giveaways. Laughs. Hosted by award-winning journalist and 'Marijuana Harvest' co-author David Downs. Free. 21+ w/ valid

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I’ve come aboard Leafly.com as their California Bureau Chief. We’ve got a lot of exciting stuff planned, so out look out for the next event announcement, and more. And go ahead and bookmark Leafly, for me, eh? Some recent work: CANNABIS CUP California Has Set the Cannabis Curve—Again Here’s Where To Buy California’s Cannabis Cup Winners of 2018 POLITICS Pro-Cannabis Candidates Clean Up

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I've been on the beat for nine years. Which means I've outlived some of my favorite sources. And friends. Not cool. [sigh] This shrine is on Telegraph Ave. near 19th St. BART and is part of a photo retrospective of cannabis freedom fighters called "Stories from the Underground". Many living, some not to much ... Office Hours was a hoot at Harvest Monday and will be back next month. Last night

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