Two arrests have been made in the "heroin" brownie case that's been rocking Union City's world this week. As a number of SFist commenters suspected when we first posted the story — being the wise and experienced stoners that they are — the brownies were not laced with anything but marijuana. The kids who were sickened and whose eyes rolled into the backs of their heads were in fact not unknowingly high on smack but were just REALLY high on some truly excellent pot butter. more ›

Some kids at James Logan High in Union City have been buying and eating what they thought were pot brownies, going to class, and then succumbing to some crazy mini-seizures and nod-offs and ending up in the hospital. School officials believe (though they haven't confirmed) that the brownies were laced with heroin, and everyone is appropriately up-in-arms. Apparently the going rate for the treats is $7 to $10, which is a fair amount higher than the market rate for similar (non-heroin-laced) baked goods in Dolores Park. Watch ABC 7's full coverage after the jump, and remember kids: You never know what the fuck is in there until you make Stevie the Stoner try it first. more ›

Obama's Justice Department may be loosening up about medical marijuana, but right on cue the DEA just busted a huge marijuana grow operation that was running out of dozens of half-million-dollar homes in the towns of Elk Grove, Lathrop, Modesto, Sacramento, Tracy, and Stockton. A total of 24,500 plants in 50 different homes-turned-grow-houses were seized, and the whole operation was estimated to have grossed about $100 million a year. Federal agents and the IRS had apparently been investigating some individuals at lower levels of the operations for several years, and the 18 people arrested in yesterday's raids were all low-level, gardener-type employees. The DEA has said that these houses were all being run by "a San Francisco-based organized crime syndicate." Who knew we had one of those? Anyway, here are pictures of the four dudes arrested in Elk Grove. more ›

Via friend of SFist, T.N.: "Just saw a drug deal go down in front of an oblivious Guardian Angel at 16th and Mission. Then he held the door open for the drug dealer so he could enter Burger King wile counting his money, thanks for helping out, beret wearing urban mercenary!" Update: Mission Mission had similar observations a few days ago. more ›