David Futch

Civil disobedience never smelled so good, tasted so fine or felt so naughty. A few days before Christmas, in the Mid-City shadow of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an estimated crowd of 125 or so Angelenos of all ages and backgrounds drifted in and out of Hit Man......

As marijuana legalization looms on California’s horizon, employers are conflicted about their policies of drug testing. If voters agree to legalize pot on November 8, business leaders and employment experts say employers can find themselves in trouble for asking an underling to pee into a cup. That common pre-work screening......

Housed in a non-descript, brick building in West Los Angeles, there’s a revolution brewing in marijuana media. And Snoop Dogg is at the helm. In late 2015, with the help of media entrepreneur Ted Chung, the hip hop star launched MERRY JANE, an entertainment company that creates pot-centric editorial and......

Behind every counter at L.A.’s medical marijuana dispensaries is an expert who knows what strains are best for pain relief and which brownies best quell nausea caused by chemotherapy. These experts are called “budtenders,” and their profession is a new career choice, whether they’re stocking the shelves and studying labels,......

Dabbing is a recent marijuana craze that’s creating new highs — and new dangers, according to experts both inside and outside California’s growing pot industry. Dabbing is the "flash vaporization” of a marijuana concentrate — an oil that is between 50 and 90 percent pure THC. Dabbers generally smear the......

There’s a kaleidoscopic offering of new pot products on the market – the result of entrepreneurs dedicated to developing new ways to deliver THC into the human body, our lunch boxes, and our sex lives. While condoms infused with marijuana aren't available yet, there are new products that heighten sensations by......

When Tracy Ryan’s daughter Sophie was just 8 months old, doctors found a tumor in the newborn’s brain. Doctors told Ryan that the slow-growing Optic Pathway Glioma cyst near her daughter’s left eye would never go away. And if the cyst continued to grow, Sophie could lose vision in that......

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants Americans to jump off the dangerous OxyContin train. Instead, the CDC is advising people suffering chronic pain to take ibuprofen and commit to physical therapy. Ibruprofen? Nonsense, says Dr. Gene Dorio, a Santa Clarita physician who specializes in geriatrics and internal medicine......

To hear Troy Dayton tell it, California is on the brink of a gold rush — or, more specifically, a green rush. While insiders are working behind the scenes to put the question of recreational marijuana to voters on the November ballot, investors and business owners throughout the Golden State......

As is the case with humans, pets suffer side effects — including liver and kidney damage — from the medication they’re prescribed. But L.A. veterinarian Dr. Tim Shu says there’s a safe alternative for some of these prescriptions: medical marijuana. The marijuana extract Shu created for pets, called VETCBD, is......