SFWeekly has weed on the cover again. Weed and President Obama. Because if we, as a country, should be disappointed in any of the promises the President has failed to follow through on it should be the one about not cracking down on pot growers and dispensaries if they followed their state laws properly. Incendiary cover aside, Chris Roberts' piece is a good update on where the medical marijuana industry stands with the government and serves as a reminder that calling to "legalize it" isn't so cut and dry. Suggested reading for all the patients, growers, dispensary owners and potheads out there. That said, we probably wouldn't have gone with the sidebar photo of a "Patient Power" petition next to a couple slices of pepperoni pizza - you're not really helping ease any stereotypes there.

In Food: Kaufman heads to the much-hyped Plate Shop in Sausalito. Kaufman has been getting increasingly cerebral in his reviews, which we like actually. This week, the Plate Shop takes him back to the days he spent wasting his youth eating "starchbound diner meals" in the Midwest, a sentiment pretty much everyone who grew up in a suburb can appreciate. In this case, we're also drawn to the sidebar photo of the restaurant's Winter Salad of wheat berries and sunchokes. But mostly because we have to admit we don't know what either of those things are. They sound like Dr. Seuss edibles. And anyway, it looks like a dish left out to feed a squirrel, but we would very much like to be that squirrel.

In music, Ian Port reviews the Sub Pop debut of local band The Papercuts (who make some wonderful pop songs, you should check them out this weekend at Cafe du Nord). While we haven't heard the band's latest album ourselves, it sounds like the extra support from a revered label like Sub Pop paid off: "Not only is it by far the best thing Papercuts has yet recorded," Port writes, "but the album actually puts the band within striking distance of Beach House." We're a little turned off by using another band as a yardstick, but if you know Beach House or The Papercuts' previous three records, you'll see where this is going. The sound is bigger and more atmospheric, and overall the album is "a gorgeous testament to [Frontmant Jason] Quever's songwriting skill and his band's sonic vision."

In film, Nick Pinkerton reviews Your Highness. Which you might have guessed is a stoner comedy for the Dungeons and Dragons set.

Over at the Guardian, it's a different Green Issue: the alternate alternative weekly printed a nice picture of a stylized tree. On paper even. But you didn't need us to point that out.

Of the "green" pieces, Sarah Phelan's trip to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch stands out, but because it's about 3 years behind the curve on that floating mess of garbage. (See also: Vice Magazine, February 2008.) Still, it's much more thoroughly reported in the Guardian, so it justifies the paper it's printed on.

David Kupfer has a timeline of important Green Moments in Bay Area History starting with John Muir and the Sierra Club in 1892. Rebecca Bowe takes on the toxic side of the Bay Area and the efforts to clean up the Toxic Triangle between Richmond, Oakland and the Bayview.

Getting away from the green and in to the red: In film, Dennis Harvey reviews some "retro gore" that isn't the Scream 4 reboot: Blood Junkie is a "dead-on parody of no-budget VHS horror circa 1987." The ghost of the Gipper is invoked more than once.

And finally, we're taken to the East Bay Express, where our inside contacts confirmed that the ethereal Body & Soul column has, in fact, departed this mortal coil. Sad to see it go, but that's how these things go. Things fall apart and all that.

Speaking of things falling apart in the East Bay, apparently the biggest problem facing Oakland after rounds of cuts to the city budgets isn't fewer cops or more shootings or even transit woes: it's overgrown trees. 250,000 of them are growing "out of control." Out of control! Somehow, Nate Seltenrich, manages to take an impossibly dull topic and grab our attention with this ominous opening paragraph:

On a quiet block in North Oakland's Fairview Park neighborhood, a four-man crew has assembled to trim Chinese elm trees, whose branches overhang the narrow roadway from both sides and nearly meet in the middle. The full canopy gives 63rd Street a stately, peaceful look. But it also poses a safety hazard; untrimmed, top-heavy trees are at risk of dropping limbs on cars, bicyclists, and pedestrians — or, worse yet, toppling during storms.

We're actually a little bit terrified right now?

In Arts & Culture: There's a review of Sara Felder's one-woman show that takes on "blindness, lesbianism, coming-of-age, and the Israel-Palestine conflict." All key ingredients for a successful one-woman show.

Meanwhile, a syndicated Dan Savage tackles Sandwiches, Sex, "worrisome vaginal odors" and nude self-portraits - only one of which would be possible at a one-woman show.

In Movies, we like the juxtaposition of Hanna ("I was a teenage spy") and Bill Cunningham New York ("I was an octogenarian fashionista").

And finally, in Food, we're fascinated by the East Bay's insistence on kiddie food for grownups: First it was the Mac-n-Cheese joint, Homeroom, and now we're on to Cafe Yesterday - a nonprofit restaurant that serves cereal for charity. Apparently, if you'd like to dine like a 4th grader, the East Bay is the place to be.