Entries from SFist tagged with 'drugs'
May 15, 2008
By Joe Kukura Our Bay to Breakers coverage – which kicked off this morning in a post so drunk and confused it had to be deleted – continues without shame as we direct you to this handy Bay to Breakers Liquor Store Locator. Many of you know how long sections of this race course are painfully lacking in places to buy additional smokes and booze for your continued "running." But with knowledge of a......
Continue Reading "Bay to Breakers Race Course Liquor Store Locator "May 5, 2008
Gay men and uppers go together like peanut butter and chocolate. It's just the way God wanted it. But that hasn't stopped Joel Schumacher's "I Lost Me to Meth" campaign from saturating San Francisco, even though meth use is down as of last year, before the campaign began. Addendums to the anti-drug campaign posters have reflected all kinds of sentiments to the most recent effort to get the homosexuals off the crazy crack. Here are......
Continue Reading "Tweaked Anti-Meth Campaign Posters"May 2, 2008
We had no idea. In addition to the How Weird Street Faire, happening this Saturday from 11:11 a.m. to 5:55 p.m., and the Inline Skating Marathon (for reals?), which takes place on Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m in Golden Gate Park, you can also celebrate the art of getting stoned. Dude. This Saturday, May 3, is National Pot Smoking Day, or something like that. It takes place at Civic Center Plaza across......
Continue Reading "SF Cannabis Awareness Day This Saturday"April 30, 2008
Speaking of Santa Cruz, the inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann, died on Tuesday at his Switzerland home. He was 102. ...
Continue Reading "RIP: Father of LSD, Albert Hofmann"April 30, 2008
Young whippersnapper, Santa Cruz resident 18-year-old Matthew Rosenberg, called his mom on Monday to tell her he had "tripped, broke his leg and was lost" in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He was half right. What he didn't tell her was that he was also bombed out of his mind on hallucinogenic mushrooms and a wee bit of acid. Oh yeah, and that he didn't break his leg. An expensive rescue effort ensued, and Rosenberg......
Continue Reading "Missing Santa Cruz Teen Found "Gorked""April 18, 2008
Perhaps due to the many squares of acid or complete the lack of sex, we don't remember UC Santa Cruz demigods coming down so hard on 4/20. But SFBG's crusty-but-benign (and victorious!) Bruce Brugman has word that UCSC officials have pulled a Bevan Dufty, more or less shutting down the campus this Sunday, 4/20, on the sacred day where people get baked. Really, really, reeeeeaaally baked. University of Santa Cruz Executive Chancellor David Kilger's......
Continue Reading "Buzz-Killing UCSC Officials Puts the Kibosh on 4/20"April 18, 2008
Gay mafia don, Marke B., has word that the Powerblouse (TM 71Miles) is hosting a prom night for all of you homosexuals who weren't able to attend your senior prom. The theme is "Leather & Lace." Steamy. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, we should mention, are hosting this night under to remember. Proceeds from the night go to raise funds to fight the proposed butterfly-killing spray that will soon blanket San Francisco, or whatever......
Continue Reading "Have Your Virginity Taken From You at Tomorrow's Queer Prom"April 17, 2008
As if cucumber- and celery-infused vodkas haven't rocked your world enough, the latest trend in intoxication is fruit-flavored blow. The DEA has come across loads of the sweet treat, most recently finding the junk in two Modesto homes that was mixed with strawberry, coconut, lemon-lime (AKA limon), and cinnamon flavoring. While this fruity trend makes disco dust that more tempting to the youth of America, what's worse is that cocaine cut with an additional......
Continue Reading "Fruit-Flavor Infusions Makes Cocaine Even Livelier"April 15, 2008
Boing Boing's wonderful things camp up with this beauty. Antonio Patrinostro, 43, was busted by cops last week after "ramming three cars and causing minor injuries" while driving up in Marin. It seems Patrinostro was "on a mission for Area 51." Naturally. Marin Independent Journal has the scoop: Patrinostro "told the officer that the vehicle could fly if he went fast enough, and basically just started bouncing off of cars," (California Highway Patrol officer......
Continue Reading "Favorite Story of 2008 So Far"April 3, 2008
Take, for example, Sonoma County, which played host to one of the "biggest meth busts in the Bay Area" on Tuesday night. Three people were arrested after a trucking company in Cotati was raided by the DEA....
Continue Reading "We Lost Sonoma County to Meth, Drug Bust Biggest In Years"March 26, 2008
And speaking of methamphetamines, this above always unleashes a big brouhaha in the bent community: to chastise or not to chastise zippy drug use. The most recent ad campaign--a four-month media blitz produced by the California Methamphetamine Initiative called "Me, Not Meth"--can been seen throughout the city, mainly in the Castro and SOMA arrondisments. And those ads you've seen on TV, featuring men sitting at their desks and talking into webcams? Part of the same ad and directed by Joel Schumacher. SF Aids Foundation has more info here....
Continue Reading "I Lost Me--and Faith In Drug Awareness Campaigns--to Meth"March 26, 2008
Better than a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow or a bowl brimming with Lucky Charms, crack retailers in Marietta, Ohio, dyed their cocaine rocks a festive green for St. Patrick's Day this year. OMG, fun! The Smoking Gun has the full report and mugshots galore, going on to say: Asked by TSG if he had ever seen drugs marketed in such a fashion, Mincks said that several years ago some......
Continue Reading "Colored Crack Lightens Up the Holidays"March 11, 2008
Actress Dawn Wells -- i.e., Mary-Ann from Gilligan's Island -- was busted for smoking the doob, it seems. The Associated Press has the harrowing, mary jane-fueled details: On Oct. 18, Teton County sheriff's Deputy Joseph Gutierrez arrested Wells as she was driving home from a surprise birthday party that was held for her. According to the sheriff's office report, Gutierrez pulled Wells over after noticing her swerve and repeatedly speed up and slow down. When......
Continue Reading "Breaking News: Gilligan's Island's Mary-Ann Sentenced for Pot Possession"February 29, 2008
Today a federal judge told the prosecutors to "re-craft its perjury case against Barry Bonds." The judge on the Bonds case, Susan Illston, claims that they "improperly lumped multiple alleged offenses into each of four counts of its indictment of the former Giants star." Whoops. Illston slammed the Bonds indictment, which was handed up last November, as "duplicitous." According to the Chron: By law, the government can only accuse a person of one crime......
Continue Reading "Make It Work, Bonds Judge Tells Prosecutors"February 27, 2008
Your weekend just got a little sleepier. Ten locations, including two in San Francisco, were busted today in connection with a methamphetamine distribution setup that went from San Francisco and the Bay Area all the way to Mexico. Federal, state, and local law enforcement. In total 13 people were arrested. According to KGO: The raids started simultaneously at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning with 200 agents moving in on the ten locations. Law enforcement was......
Continue Reading "Huge Bay Area Meth Ring Bust"December 13, 2007
Former Senate Majority Leader (and current Boston Red Sox director) George Mitchell just announced the results of his 20-month, $20 million investigation into allegations of widespread steroid usage in baseball. The long-awaited, 409-page Mitchell Report (document here) identifies more than 80 current and former players as being linked to using performance-enhancing drugs. While the report casts blame on the lack of institutional control within baseball as much as the players themselves that cheated, what......
Continue Reading "Breaking News: Baseball is Full of Effing Cheaters"December 11, 2007
Carole Migden's girlfriend (OK then, "wife?" We refuse to use the sterile and patronizing "partner") Cris Arguedas, it seems, now must deal with yet another San Francisco diva: Barry Bonds. According to the Sacto Bee, the letter "h" eschewing lawyer "joined the defense team of baseball star Barry Bonds last week, as the long-time Sam Francisco Giant pleaded not guilty to charges of perjury." Arguedas is now part of a high-profile team that will......
Continue Reading "Migden's Gal Pal Is Also Bonds’ Shark"December 4, 2007
It's like two SFist Finds in one day, isn't it? Lucky you. And you all have been so clever and creative with the images you tag "SFist" as of late. Why, it almost makes us weep with appreciative joy. Thanks, you guys. Anyway, we came across this here. If we had known that drugs were buried in planters across the city -- also, why does this happen? -- we would be walking around this......
Continue Reading "Photo du Jour 06"December 3, 2007
The legendary Cafe Flore might find its way to the obit page of the B.A.R. soon. Why? Because if it doesn't "get permission to have the option to serve food 24 hrs a day, to have the option to have amplified entertainment to allow a background DJ," or to get the chance to serve booze until 2 am, the place might zip up and never call again according to SaveCafeFlore. Noes! Look, Cafe Flore......
Continue Reading "Cafe Flore Closing?"November 20, 2007
(Barry Bonds is on SFGate's Crime page. Ha!) -- A 19-year-old woman was shot -- "in the back today...at 5:39 p.m." Huh?-- during an attempted street robbery in SF's Visitacion Valley. Attacked at Velasco Avenue and Santos Street, she is currently at SFGH and listed in stable condition. And the two suspects? Are still at large. -- UC Berkeley journalism student Kevin Jones, 27, "pleaded no contest today to a misdemeanor charge of vehicular......
Continue Reading "SFist Blotter"October 24, 2007
At the dewy-fresh hour of 6 a.m., Oakland police officers, Alameda County sheriff's deputies, and agents with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI went on an Oakland-wide spree of busts for heroin trafficking (as well as "cocaine and marijuana, " at least according to this morning's Mornings On 2's.)...
Continue Reading "6 a.m. Oakland Drug Raid: One of the Largest Busts Ever"October 17, 2007
-- Halloween in the Castro, or lack thereof. [The Snitch] -- 50K a year and living in SF? How vulgar. [SFGate] -- Jarring and attractive LSD-y visuals. [SFBG] -- Marquee preservation. [CurbedSF] -- RIP: One-time Harvey Milk campaign manager Jim Rivaldo dies. [FCJ] -- Bart worker gets a cool $1.27 million for on-the-job racism. Bitchin. [SFGate] -- If you like drugs, pussy, punk-rock, and suicide, have we found the band for you to join!......
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"September 27, 2007
At left: barf We couldn't get though this article about today's bust of the East Bay operation Tainted Inc., which produced "marijuana-laced candies, cookies, ice cream, peanut butter, barbecue sauce, granola bars and brownies," without gagging. (We can't even re-read that sentence.) Why? Because the taste to pot is vile. We know that after time one starts to develop a taste for the drugs to which they are addicted, but we can't see that......
Continue Reading "Marijuana Is Disgusting"September 26, 2007
Oh, this is so mean. And yet so funny. The guy who purchased Bond's 756th home run ball, Marc Ecko (a fashion designer, so girl doesn't really need a baseball), set up a site to poll people as to what to do with it, and the decision? To brand it with an asterisk, because of Bonds performance-enhancing drugs scandal, and send to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ecko said that the marking of the......
Continue Reading "Bonds' 756th Ball Gets Asterisk Tramp Stamp"September 23, 2007
You know we usually try to hoard up all the crime-type news for the Tuesday and Friday blotters, but there was enough vaguely unsettling news this weekend to warrant a post a little early, we thought. To wit: --Fernando Gonzalez, an 18-year-old Redwood City man, died after he fell into a vat of sulfuric acid. Gonzalez was working the early-morning shift at Coastal Circuits Factory this weekend, without a protective face mask, when he appeared......
Continue Reading "Weekend Blotter"September 14, 2007
-- Jonathan Coulton: "Code Monkey" has gained a heavy, cult-of-nerd following. Yay! Join the club tonight at 9 p.m. at Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell; $18. -- The Legend of Billie Jean (1985): And with the power of conviction? There is no sacrifice. The situation? It's a do or die. No one knew that better than Billie Jean Davy. Screens at midnight at the Castro Theatre, Castro and Market Streets; $10. -- Craig......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"August 24, 2007
You know you've made it in San Francisco as a marginalized group when you start getting in fights with other marginalized groups -- so a local bisexual advocacy/social group is under fire for their policies excluding certain transgender persons. Namely, the Chasing Amy Social Club (which you may remember from Gay Pride this year, complaining about the lack of bi visibility at the Pride Parade) has gotten called out by local literary doyenne and transgender......
Continue Reading "A Bi-Transgender Fight "August 17, 2007
It's the latest in the Tsk Tsk Supervisorial codes of conduct battle front! You've got sex, you've got drugs, all you need now is some rock and roll: Supervisor Chris Daly went and introduced the code of conduct regulations he's been waving around ever since his fellow supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier said she was going to put in some rules about (his) offensive language. Daly's code would prohibit sexual relationships between managers and subordinates at City......
Continue Reading "Tsk Tsk: Sex. Drugs, And Good Attendance With Chris Daly"August 15, 2007
So, we just got word today that our passport application has been approved and that our new passport is (allegedly) in the mail. We’ve been sitting here sweating bullets for the past two weeks wondering when or if we were ever going to receive our passport. You hear so many horror stories these days about screwed up travel plans and missed trips because of the severe delay in passport processing. We practically have to......
Continue Reading "Passport Woes"August 2, 2007
Dodgers 6 Giants 4- Before we begin the fun, we'd like to draw your attention to a pretty interesting article by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke who writes how that two game series in '97, the Brian Johnson series, completely ruined the Dodgers for ten years. Long story short, the series devastated the team that season and knocked them out of the playoffs, making it easier for Fox to buy the Dodgers and promptly trash the franchise. Good stuff. Anyhoo, the Enchanter got Cained (our new verb for when a pitcher pitches a good game only to lose due to the Giants ineptitude) as the bullpen gave up four runs in the eighth to lose the game. The damage was done by Messer’s Kline and Messenger and is it us or does Randy Messenger look like a taller, skinner Turtle from "Entourage." As for Bonds, he did nothing of much importance but we couldn’t help but notice that when he hit what looked like a decent shot at hitting the homer, the fans stood up in excitement only to see it turn into just another fly out. When he was taken out, a huge portion of fans left the stadium and yes, it is fairly typical of Dodgers fans, but it was still a 3-2 game at the time. ...
Continue Reading "It's Got to Be the Morning After"