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David Downs

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Award-winning freelance journalist and best-selling author David Downs is the former Leafly.com Senior Editor. He authors the Fire Follower genetics newsletter on Substack. His work appears in High Times, Leaf Magazine, GreenState, Cannabis Now, Cannabis Business Times, and beyond. Downs’ work has appeared in San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, Scientific American, Wired, Rolling Stone, The Onion A/V Club, Columbia Journalism Review, Billboard, and many more. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from UC Santa Barbara, and was a Fellow at the Medill School of Journalism’s Academy of Alternative Journalism in Chicago. 

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