SF News Inner Richmond Dispensary Robbed by Thieves Who Sledgehammered Their Way Through the Windows The Inner Richmond location of the California Street Cannabis Company was hit by burglars in the wee hours Thursday morning, who smashed through the front window with sledgehammers, and got away just as police were arriving.
SF News Governor Newsom Has Signed the Bill to Legalize Cannabis Cafes Across California Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill to legalize food and beverage sales inside dispensary lounges has gotten by on the second try, and Amsterdam-style cafes and performance venues could be popping up in your local pot shops next year.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Hopes to Have Legal Cannabis Sales and Smoking at Civic Center Plaza Party A highly historic feature could be puffing up at this year’s SF Pride celebration, with Civic Center Plaza planning to host SF Pride’s first-ever legal marijuana sales and consumption area — though the permit has technically not been approved yet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matt Haney’s ‘Cannabis Cafe’ Bill Cruises to State Assembly Approval Assemblymember Matt Haney’s latest attempt to bring Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes to California just overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly, and hopes to avoid getting vetoed by Gavin Newsom as it was last year.
SF News Debt-Ravaged Dispensary Chain MedMen Closing SF Store, They Claim ‘Temporarily’ The dispensary chain MedMen was once the largest pot shop franchise in the US, but they’re closing their Cow Hollow shop in SF today, amidst widespread closures of their stores across California.
Business & Tech SF Pot Dispensary CEO In Hot Water Over Video Where He Brags About Not Paying His Bills The CEO of the Off The Charts dispensary chain, which has one location in San Francisco, has gone viral for the wrong reasons, in a video where he’s caught blustering to his colleagues he doesn’t pay “these f*cking mom and pops” vendors who supply his stores.
Business & Tech SF Rapper and Local Pot Icon Berner Gets Lengthy New York Times Feature on His Cookies Dispensaries Local rapper Berner has become the Pied Piper of marijuana, with his Cookies brand now boasting 70 dispensaries globally, and he celebrated his recent New York Times profile by posting “I smoked a 10 gram joint in the @nytimes lol!”
SF News Matt Haney Back On It With Trying to Legalize Cannabis Cafes In California Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bid to legalize Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes went up in smoke after a Gavin Newsom veto in October, but Haney has high hopes that the governor will take a kinder view of his new version of the bill.
SF News New Details on Killing of OPD Officer: He Was a Four-Year Veteran, Shooting Was Over Dispensary Robbed Twice Friday We still don’t know the identity of the undercover Oakland police officer who was shot and killed this morning, but at a Friday press conference, we learned he was shot by suspects who robbed an Oakland cannabis dispensary for the second time in one night.
SF News California’s Largest Dispensary Chain Stiiizy Accused of Running Illegal, Underground Pot Shops After an LA Times investigation connected the co-founder of huge dispensary chain Stiiizy to nine illegal marijuana shops in Southern California, a new lawsuit accuses Stiiizy of operating twice as many illegal, unlicensed dispensaries.
SF News City Hall Hits the Brakes On New Pot Dispensary In What Used to Be a Lutheran Church A cannabis dispensary chain wants to start selling weed in what used to be Saint Paulus Lutheran Church at Polk and Sacramento Streets. But the SF Planning Commission refused to grant them a permit Thursday, over concerns they are “Big Canna” formula retail.
SF News Thieves Use a Forklift to Break Into and Rob Oakland Cannabis Business There were three attempted robberies of cannabis dispensaries and businesses in West Oakland early Tuesday morning, and in one particularly brazen pot burglary, the thieves rammed their way into the storefront with a forklift.
SF News SF Supervisors Declare Moratorium On New Pot Dispensaries In Town The Board of Supervisors put the kibosh on accepting any more new cannabis dispensary applications Tuesday, though existing retail applications will still be processed. The moratorium expires in 2028.
SF News Matt Haney’s ‘Cannabis Cafe’ Bill Has Passed the State Assembly With a Landslide Majority Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill to allow Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes in California was approved by the state Assembly with high numbers, though we may not see many of them in SF because of a possibly impending dispensary moratorium.
SF News SF Cannabis Dispensaries Can Now Have Non-Transparent Roll-Up Security Gates, Which They Couldn’t Before Today I learned that marijuana dispensaries are not allowed to have roll-up security gates that are not transparent. But also today, the SF Planning Commission removed that restriction for pot shops.
SF News Convicted Real Estate Investor Victor Makras’s Son Trying to Open Pot Shop In Ingleside Just after SF real estate magnate Victor Makras was found guilty of bank fraud, we learn his son is trying to turn over a new leaf with a proposed Ingleside-Mission Terrace cannabis dispensary.
Business & Tech High Times on the Hook For $5 Million In Unpaid Rent at Failed Union Square Dispensary Space High Times magazine’s foray into cannabis dispensaries has been fraught with troubles, and a judge just ruled they have to pay up the $5 million in back rent they’ve racked up on the former John Varvatos space in Union Square.
Business & Tech Oakland's Cannabis Delivery & Dispensary Industry Plagued By Crime; Leaders Fear Loss Of Minority Business Owners Some local leaders say that crime plaguing Oakland's cannabis delivery and dispensary industry over the past few years puts minority business owners at greater risk of closure.
SF News The Biggest Cannabis Dispensary Chain Yet to Arrive in SF, MedMen, Opens Store in Cow Hollow The largest, nationwide legal marijuana retailer San Francisco has seen yet, MedMen, just opened a Cow Hollow outpost. But the former high-flying Green Rush “unicorn” arrives in SF awash in red ink and restructuring after a high-profile flame-out.
SF News SF Cannabis Dispensary Smoking Lounges Get the Green Light to Start Blazing Up Again The SF Department of Public Health gave pot dispensary lounges the “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” signal on Tuesday, and you’d better believe that some of those lounges were firing up come Wednesday morning.
SF News City Investigating SFPD for Lax Response to Dispensary Robberies, Pot Shop Owners Unsatisfied Tensions are high between cannabis dispensaries and the SF police department, after cops seemingly watched a dispensary get robbed without taking action, but the Department of Police Accountability says it's launching a probe.
