Snoop Dogg has participated in an event in his home city of Los Angeles in which he helped to hand out 1,500 turkeys to families in need ahead of the American holiday thanksgiving this coming Thursday (November 26).

Mayor of Inglewood, California James Butts announced to TV channel KNBC-TV that Snoop had participated in the annual event for the second year running, taking hundreds of photos with fans. The event also handed out 800 turkeys to families last year.

According to Butts, the collaboration came about after the rapper asked the city what he could do to give back to the community last year.

HelloMD is a pioneering digital healthcare platform that might set a precedent for the medical cannabis industry.

In California, where brick and mortar cannabis dispensaries have been permitted to sell pot since 1996, its assumed ubiquity has sewn a fabulist notion that the state is an idyllic playground for weed smokers.

Carlos and I are bombing around San Francisco in his 1999 Maxima, delivering marijuana to people who have ordered it from Eaze, a company that many have called the "Uber of cannabis." I had forgotten how fast 25-year-old guys like to drive.

But this is good, because Eaze boldly promises customers, all of whom must have medical marijuana cards, that they will receive their weed in 15 minutes or less.

Our first delivery of the afternoon, about $200 worth of sweet-looking bud, goes to a woman who lives in the Mission. She comes out to the sidewalk to meet us. She looks as if she's in her early 30s, is in the retail wine business, and does not want to give her name.

On a warm September evening, about 70 women gather at The Peg House, a famed roadside burger joint on Northern California’s Highway 101. They arrive in a stream of 4x4 trucks and carpools of Subarus; some have driven hours from remote hillside homesteads. At the state park across the road, there’s plenty of room to pitch tents under the redwoods.

The 420 Games - the brainchild of entrepreneur Jim McAlpine - is a series of events in legalized states that includes some form of athletic challenge or race. By linking cannabis use with athleticism, McAlpine is challenging cultural stereotypes about stoners as unmotivated individuals.

"The 420 Games does not advocate that everyone should use cannabis," says McAlpine. "We are focused on teaching those who choose to do so how to do so in a healthy and responsible manner [...] The 420 Games participants are not 'stoners'. While some of us use cannabis, some of us do not use it at all." 

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Tribes across the U.S. are finding marijuana is risky business nearly a year after a Justice Department policy indicated they could grow and sell pot under the same guidelines as states.

Federal raids on tribal cannabis operations in California followed by a South Dakota tribe's move this month to burn its crop amid fears it could be next have raised questions over whether there's more to complying with DOJ standards than a department memo suggested last December.

When California begins issuing licenses to medical marijuana businesses, the first on the list will be those that had played by the rules of their local governments.

To get this priority status, the operators must show they were in “good standing” with their local jurisdiction, according to the state’s new marijuana laws. But “good standing” is currently undefined in Humboldt County, and operators only have until Jan. 1, 2016 to prove they fall under it.

Faced with this fast-approaching deadline, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors called on staff to create a new Commercial Cannabis Activity Registry that will allow operators seeking county compliance to register.

On a dimly lit street in SOMA, black drapes hung from the windows of a popular lunch spot for techies. A spunky brunette woman, dressed in a short black dress, welcomed me as I pulled the curtain back. Before I could take another step, she asked for my name and what color pen I’d like to have. As a self-proclaimed rookie smoker—someone who has never experienced a commendable stoner phase in high school or college—I wondered why she was offering me a pen.

“Vaporizer. You get to keep it after the party,” she said.

“Of course I do,” I thought to myself, irritated by my own ignorance. I chose a blue one and quickly entered the room.

For a certain generation, Joe DiMaggio was San Francisco's greatest citizen. The son of a Sicilian fisherman, whose people gifted the city cioppino and christened Fisherman's Wharf, DiMaggio never forgot his roots. Even after the Hall of Fame baseball career with the New York Yankees and the marriage to Marilyn Monroe — whose legend eclipsed his own during his lifetime — he spent much of his retirement at the family's waterfront restaurant on Jefferson Street. Located next to the docks where, when Joe was a boy, the clan would gather on Sundays to help repair his father's fishing nets, the restaurant's two story building — now named after his younger brother, Dominic — is still in the DiMaggio family.