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An independent journalist based in San Francisco, David Downs has covered, arts, technology and culture since 1996 and appears in Wired, Rolling Stone, and The Onion. He contributes the weekly column "Legalization Nation" to the Express and co-edits the Marijuana Business Report — a twice-a-month trade newsletter... more

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News, Feature, Aug 30, 2006
Hipster Invasion

Downtown Oakland's fledgling art scene is booming — and some artists and residents aren't terribly happy about it.
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Oakland Art Murmur, Art

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News, Feature, Apr 14, 2010
It's Raining Music, Courtesy of Mog

Berkeley tech start-up Mog parties like it's 1999 as part of a multimillion dollar bet on an elusive killer app: cloud music.
- by David Downs

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News, Feature, Mar 4, 2009
The Manhattan Project of Marijuana

If pot is truly medicine, shouldn't it be standardized? Analytical Labs wants to test the potency and safety of Cali cannabis.
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Harborside Health Center, White Rhino, Afgooey Super Melt, THC, Stephen DeAngelo, Analytical Laboratory Project, Rick Pfrommer, Americans for Safe Access, Ecolution, Prop 215, Drug Enforcement Agency, NORML, Cheech and Chong, Journal of the American Medical Association, OG Kush

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News, Feature, Jun 20, 2012
Turning Pot into Medicine

Marijuana strains that provide medicinal relief without getting you stoned are rising in popularity, thanks to the groundbreaking work of cannabis testing labs.
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, 2012 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup, Harborside Health Center in Oakland, El Camino Wellness, Prop 215, Jason David, Andrew DeAngelo, Stephen DeAngelo, cannabidiol, CBD, Steep Hill lab, David Lampach, Addison DeMoura, Analytical Labs, AnnaRae Grabstein, CW Analytical, Pure Analytics, Halent Labs, THC, Dravet Syndrome, David Bienenstock, Kym Kemp, David Goldman, Divinity Tree, Robert Martin, CW Analytical Labs, Jeffrey Raber, The Werc Shop

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News, Feature, Mar 10, 2010
Oakland Pot Doc Is Defrocked

It's hard to get in trouble for running a pot prescription mill in California, but one local doctor was so bad, he lost his medical license.
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Dr. Hany Youssef Assad, NorCal Healthcare System Medical Clinic, California Medical Board, Dr. Philip Denney, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Vacaville, Toradol, Demerol, Phenergran, Vacaville police, Solano County District Attorney's Office, Sergeant Denise Quatman, Candis Cohen, O'Shaughnessy's, Depakote, Dr. Barbara Neyhart, Cannabis Research Group, Ohio University, University of Southern California, Society of Cannabis Clinicians, Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, American Academy of Cannabinoid Medicine, Tax Cannabis 2010

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News, Feature, Mar 9, 2011
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Oakland's Grow House Hazards

The city has been blocked from permitting large pot farms, but small, illegal grows are sparking fires and posing threats to public health and safety.
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Medical cannabis, pot farms, Steep Hill, Harborside Health Center, Adrian Sheppard, John Russo, Nancy O'Malley, Melissa Haag, Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, Kym Kemp, Richard Lee, Jerry Brown, Rick Pfrommer, Oakland Animal Services, James Williams, John McCowen, Emerald Triangle, Drug Enforcement Administration, Meyers Nave, Desley Brooks, Jason Overman, Rebecca Kaplan, Lou Correa, Ron Calderon, Robert Raich, Jean Quan, Slideshow

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News, Feature, Aug 25, 2010
What Proposition 19 Does

Just the facts about the initiative.
- by David Downs

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News, Feature, Dec 12, 2012
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When Will California Legalize Pot?

Now that Colorado and Washington have done it, California reformers are eyeing 2014 or 2016 for another ballot initiative — but their optimism is laced with caution.
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, legalization, marijuana, Washington's Initiative 502, Colorado's Amendment 64, Proposition 19, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Drug Policy Alliance, NORML, Americans for Safe Access, Oaksterdam, RAND

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News, Feature, Mar 21, 2007
Street Flix

Johnny Shaw sleeps in a carport, eats from the trash, and has global distro for his "must-have" documentary. Prepare to redefine "do-it-yourself."
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Johnny Shaw, My Big Fat Homeless Berkeley Movie, DVD, Business

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News, Feature, Aug 13, 2008
Outside Lands Survival Guide

Some of what you need to know to enjoy the shows.
- by David Downs

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News, Feature, Apr 25, 2007
Pirates of the Web: At World's End

Thieving scalawags of the cyberseas, meet your copyright-policing nemesis.
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Gracenote, Emeryville, RIAA, music piracy, Napster, BitTorrent, LimeWire, eDonkey, Compact Disc Database, CDDB, peer-to-peer, MySpace, Business

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News, Feature, Sep 10, 2008
The Evolution of Gaming

The new game Spore from Maxis of Emeryville lets users create life itself. But what if video gamers don't want to evolve?
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Spore, Maxis, Will Wright, Electronic Arts, Lucy Bradshaw, The Sims, SimCity, Dan Moskowitz, Chris Hecker, Sporepedia, PC Gamer, Tim Edwards, Kristen Salvatorre, spornography, Kieron Gillen, RockPaperShotgun.com, Caryl Shaw

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News, Feature, Mar 30, 2005
Roboscalper

The real reason you couldn't score U2 tickets? Turns out some of the buyers at Ticketmaster.com weren't human.
- by David Downs
- Tags: Feature, Longreads, Business

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News, Feature, Aug 31, 2005
A Captive Audience

Things get pretty weird for young cutting-edge muralists when their audience, and their potential funding, are products of the juvenile justice system.
- by David Downs

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Just who intends to puff, puff, pass on Proposition 19?

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Suppressed for one hundred years, Autobiography of Mark Twain has become one of UC Berkeley's biggest literary events of all time.

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Fifteen years after Prop 215, the people who need medical marijuana the most have the hardest time getting it.

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How his Another Planet Entertainment beat the competition to host the epic Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival.

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Green Day electrifies musical theater at the Berkeley Rep with American Idiot.

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Downtown Oakland's fledgling art scene is booming — and some artists and residents aren't terribly happy about it.

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Berkeley tech start-up Mog parties like it's 1999 as part of a multimillion dollar bet on an elusive killer app: cloud music.

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If pot is truly medicine, shouldn't it be standardized? Analytical Labs wants to test the potency and safety of Cali cannabis.

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Marijuana strains that provide medicinal relief without getting you stoned are rising in popularity, thanks to the groundbreaking work of cannabis testing labs.

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It's hard to get in trouble for running a pot prescription mill in California, but one local doctor was so bad, he lost his medical license.

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The city has been blocked from permitting large pot farms, but small, illegal grows are sparking fires and posing threats to public health and safety.

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Just the facts about the initiative.

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Now that Colorado and Washington have done it, California reformers are eyeing 2014 or 2016 for another ballot initiative — but their optimism is laced with caution.

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Johnny Shaw sleeps in a carport, eats from the trash, and has global distro for his "must-have" documentary. Prepare to redefine "do-it-yourself."

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Some of what you need to know to enjoy the shows.

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Thieving scalawags of the cyberseas, meet your copyright-policing nemesis.

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The new game Spore from Maxis of Emeryville lets users create life itself. But what if video gamers don't want to evolve?

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The real reason you couldn't score U2 tickets? Turns out some of the buyers at Ticketmaster.com weren't human.

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Things get pretty weird for young cutting-edge muralists when their audience, and their potential funding, are products of the juvenile justice system.

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