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    Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian

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    Brooke Edwards Staggs covers cannabis for The Cannifornian, the Orange County Register and other Digital First Media publications.

    The Big Bear native earned her bachelors degree in English from California Baptist University, then got her masters in education as she taught high school English in Riverside County. After four years in the classroom, she left to be a student again herself, earning a masters in journalism from New York University while interning and freelancing for a variety of publications.

    Before coming to the Register to cover south Orange County in January 2013, Staggs spent five years as a community reporter then city editor at the Daily Press in Victorville. She won several awards for her work there, including best breaking news story from the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

    Staggs took top honors in the Best of the West contest's explanatory writing category for her 2016 reporting on California's cannabis legalization efforts. The judge noted: “Reporter Brooke Edwards Staggs is clearly among the nation’s preeminent reporters on this subject."

    Staggs has ghostwritten several nonfiction books and occasionally teaches community college courses. She lives in Corona with her husband, who shares her love for travel and new adventures.

    Recent Posts

    Special Sections

    A beginners guide to safely trying edibles

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian

    California News

    California cannabis conference highlights justice, compliance issues

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Oct 24, 2018Oct 24, 2018

    California News

    California marijuana policies at play on Election Day, even in Republican strongholds

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Oct 22, 2018Oct 21, 2018

    Southern California

    Riverside County supervisors will vote Tuesday on host of marijuana issues

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Oct 22, 2018Oct 21, 2018

    Nation & World

    Canada is about to legalize marijuana; here’s why Californians should care

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Oct 15, 2018Oct 14, 2018

    Politics

    California needs more time to vet and license marijuana businesses

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Oct 9, 2018Oct 9, 2018

    Business

    Marijuana merchants, growers squirm as state gets into seed-to-sale tracking system

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Sep 19, 2018Sep 20, 2018

    Business

    Marijuana stinks. Here’s what cities, businesses and neighbors can do about it.

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Sep 11, 2018Sep 11, 2018

    News

    This man will spend life in prison for a marijuana conviction unless Donald Trump or the Supreme Court helps him

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Sep 10, 2018Sep 10, 2018

    Southern California

    Los Angeles charges 515 people with running illegal marijuana businesses as part of black market crackdown

    By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Sep 10, 2018Sep 10, 2018
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