Lester Black
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Lester Black
@leddder.bsky.social
Journalist, stoner, malcontent, cannabis editor at SFGATE.com
hemp market never ceases to amaze me
August 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A single cannabis company is usually a maze of different LLCs, like this diagram of one major California cannabis company.

This is why it's often impossible for the public (and reporters) to follow which aspect of a pot company owns and does what...
May 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Playing acoustic and solo in a hollow church left his performance exposed like a Catholic in confession, yet I walked out of the concert convinced it was flawless.
March 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Always wild to me that SF residents are fine dumping raw sewage into the ocean as soon as it rains moderately hard: webapps.sfpuc.org/sapps/beache...
February 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's truly incredible how bad sun grown cannabis is if you shop at the vast majority of legal stores in California.
January 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Celebrating SFGATE's expansion into the National Parks with a photo of myself at my most feral, when I was 24, living out of a Subaru Forrester, and intent on visiting as many National Parks as I could.
January 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Am I still cannabis editor? lol
December 30, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Wrote a pretty much meaningless blog today about a YouTube influencer BUT our senior photo editor C. RUSSO managed to grab the archetypal "I'm smoking pot" screengrab so that, my fellow skeeters, makes it worth sharing.
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/youtube-influencer-dad-weed-19926910.php
November 20, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Met a new neighbor yesterday, quiet enough but didn't want to stop and say hello.
November 19, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Petition to make all conferences camping conferences.
September 29, 2023 at 9:26 PM
Airport trail mix just hits different
August 31, 2023 at 12:45 AM
5/5
July 4, 2023 at 4:10 PM
I still think it's hilarious how LinkedIn became America's premium wholesale drug marketplace.
July 3, 2023 at 10:01 PM
Drove through a Windows 95 background in Wyoming yesterday🖱
July 3, 2023 at 4:11 PM
50/50 chance this account becomes a blog about sardines
July 2, 2023 at 4:29 AM