Sonoma County Gazette November 5, 2018 While we still have to figure out where to grow this product people want - and need - finding it is less challenging than it used to be. Regulations mean people can purchase products that are clean, grown without chemicals, grown...

Julie Ann Soukoulis September 14, 2018 It is far exceeding nearly all pharmaceutical agents.  America is changing its view on marijuana. For the last 80 years marijuana has been treated as a dangerous drug, a public health menace and an illegal addictive drug. By the...

The Press Democrat | So Sonoma County Best of 2018: Thank you so much to everyone who voted and support us! We are humbled and will continue to strive to provide Sonoma County clean medicine and safe access. Thank you Sonoma! Best Medical Marijuana Dispensary: Mercy...

Leilani Clark June 1, 2018 Mercy Wellness of Cotati will deploy advanced LED lights and the Korean Natural Farming system in their new cannabis cultivation warehouses. Will these methods cut their carbon foot print and help them stay ahead of the pack? Cannabis...

Deborah Taylor-French February 3, 2018 “…recalled an extempore prayer of a well-meaning but incoherent curate, heard once and never forgotten: “Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.” Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey...

Katherine Minkiewicz January 26, 2018 The Cotati City Council voted 5 to 0 Tuesday evening to amend several changes to the city’s cannabis regulations, where the most changes were made to the adult and caregiver cultivation aspect of the regulations, nixing the...

Julie Johnson January 23, 2018 California hopes to rake in $1 billion in annual tax revenues from cannabis sales, and nowhere is that more clear than at dispensary cash registers. It’s sticker shock for marijuana customers since Jan. 1, when clerks began adding a...

Christina Cassen January 23, 2018 The DOPE Magazine team solicited nominations from the community and set out to meet the heroes of the wildfires that took place starting on October 8, 2017, in the Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and Lake Counties in California. The wildfires...

Heather Irwin January 2, 2018 Less than 24 hours before the doors to Sebastopol’s Sparc cannabis dispensary were slated to open for recreational marijuana purchases CEO Erich Pearson still hadn’t gotten the official green light. For more than a decade the iconic...

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | January 1, 2018 : Brian Jordan set out early New Year’s Day to do something he’d been sneaking around to do since the 1970s — buy some pot. The retired Novato postal worker drove to a Cotati’s Mercy Wellness dispensary and just after 9 a.m. became...

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | January 1, 2018: An end to cannabis prohibition has arrived in California, and the best advice around for newcomers involves moderation. In other words, don’t eat the whole cookie. Starting Monday, adults can buy cannabis without physician...