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Foster Winans

Doylestown
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Foster Winans’s Biography

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Fierce, fast reporter, journalist (WSJ, NYTimes), and editor with a keen instinct for the big story; a gimlet eye for detail and accuracy; and a knack for turning out tight, compelling copy on deadline.

After a decade as a staff reporter on local papers in New Jersey, Texas, Washington, and elsewhere, I landed at The Wall Street Journal as co-writer of the best-read stock market column in the world. "Heard On The Street" reached six million subscribers (print and wire) in the days before CNBC,…

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Inside America's Failing Pot Experiment - Foster Winans - Medium

Inside America's Failing Pot Experiment - Foster Winans - Medium

Last year’s bright future for cannabis is this year’s regulatory clown car, only less funny, more dangerous, …

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Pesticides in Illegal Pot: A Budding Health Crisis

Pesticides in Illegal Pot: A Budding Health Crisis

First published on The Marijuana Times] A page one story in the L.A. Times last week reported on the whack-a-…

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Marijuana Has Conquered America, But The War on Pot Is Far From Over

Marijuana Has Conquered America, But The War on Pot Is Far From Over

The steady drumbeat of news about legalization, decriminalization, and mass expungements of old convictions s…

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The Coming Cannabis Crash: The Green Rush May Hit A Wall in 2019

The Coming Cannabis Crash: The Green Rush May Hit A Wall in 2019

This may be the year that the cannabis green rush hits the wall. Like other good ideas that blew up into fren…

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Let Everyone Use What Wall Street Knows

Let Everyone Use What Wall Street Knows

Being against insider trading is like being against sin, the libertarian Harry Browne once observed. Like mos…

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An appreciation: Doylestown institution Bagel Barrel turns 30 - The Bucks County Herald

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By Foster Winans
| Bucks County Herald Verified
October 13, 1993: A gregarious 26-year-old lad from a local Catholic family opened the doors for the first time on an authentic (but not kosher) Jewish bakery and deli at 60 W. State St. in Doylestown. Today that same gregarious, now graying lad, Patrick J. Murphy opened the doors to begin his 31st year getting up at 3 a.m. to bake the bagels. Along the way, Murphy’s jovial, wisecracking personality and arguably the best bagels between here and Philadelphia created a de facto community center.
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The Great Cannabis Crash of 2019: A Status Report

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By Foster Winans
| The Marijuana Times Verified
The headlines have been telling us all year that marijuana is now legal in one form or another across the country. Pot possession has been decriminalized or the penalties reduced in more than two dozen states. As of this month (October), in only 10 states is it still “fully illegal”. The convictions of tens of thousands are being expunged. Congress has been inching toward easing banking restrictions for cannabis companies.
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Labs Give Legit Cannabis A Clean Bill of Health, But CBD Is "Wild West"

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By Foster Winans
| The Marijuana Times Verified
Image Courtesy of Bill Griffin Two leading cannabis testing companies in California are reporting that analysis of a total of 200 different vape devices sold through that state’s dispensaries and other licensed sources turned up no traces of the two principal agents suspected of playing a role in the vaping illness epidemic.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Reporter for local daily newspaper in my hometown.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, many!

How is social media changing news?

Important stories pop up in unexpected places. Less experienced journalists gin up weak stories and overlook or miss the big story.