SF News Bombshell Report Says Elon Musk Was Using Copious Amount of Drugs While In Trump's Orbit Blaze one up to check out the biggest scandal of the day, as the New York Times has an exhaustive new exposé on how Elon Musk was hopped up on ketamine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and Adderall on the Trump campaign, and maybe in the White House.
SF News Residents In Hayes Valley and Near 16th and Mission Complain About Approach to Shuffling Drug Trade Around Gatherings of habitual drug users and dealers that used to occur primarily on Sixth Street and in the Tenderloin have shifted to other neighborhoods thanks to the mayor and SFPD's "cleanup" efforts, and neighbors on one Mission alley are protesting.
SF News SFPD and Sheriff's Deputies Do Another Drug Sweep, This Time at Van Ness and Market The Whac-a-Mole games continued Wednesday night with another law enforcement sweep and mass arrest on San Francisco's Mid-Market Street, resulting in 40 more drug users and/or dealers arrested.
SF News RFK Jr. Apparently Coming After Poppers Manufacturers Because of a Long-Discredited AIDS Conspiracy Theory The circus continues out of Trump's Washington, where clown-car cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now apparently wielding the power of the FDA to go after manufacturers of amyl nitrate, or poppers.
SF News Is Sixth Street Worse Than It's Ever Been? San Francisco's Sixth Street, two blocks of it anyway, has been a circus of drug use and general chaos for going on four decades, if not more. But business owners and police say that it's suddenly gotten much worse.
SF News Fatal Drug Overdoses In SF May Be Declining Because Fentanyl-User Population May Be Dwindling Many people seriously addicted to fentanyl have already died in San Francisco, and those who are still alive increasingly have access to Narcan and have learned what their limits are, which experts say are both reasons why the number of fatal overdoses has declined.
SF News Doctors and Users Explain Why Fentanyl Users Are Hunched Over So Often We’ve all observed the tell-tale sign that someone is high on fentanyl in that they’re bent over and frozen in the so-called “fentanyl fold,” and a new Chronicle report speaks to medical experts and users about why this happens.
SF News Cops Bust Mission District Van Packed With Cocaine, Magic Mushrooms, $600,000 in Cash Is it a good idea to have three kilos of cocaine and 600 grand in cash sitting in your van at 17th and Shotwell streets? Probably not, and two people learned that the hard way in a recent Mission District drug bust.
SF News Two Tenderloin Hotels and Four Residents File Lawsuit Against City Over Street Conditions Two hotels in the Tenderloin, the Phoenix and Best Western, as well as a group of residents, have filed a lawsuit against the city that's similar to one filed four years ago by UC Hastings.
SF News City Report Finds Some People Arrested For Drugs In SF Live In Other Cities, But Still Receive SF Welfare A new city report that is conveniently timed before Tuesday’s 'drug screening for welfare recipients' vote finds that some drug users get SF welfare even though they don’t live here, though the report only details 41 people doing this.
SF News Owner of San Jose Yum Yum Donuts Busted for Making and Selling ‘Pink Cocaine’ Out of Shop “Pink cocaine," also known as "Tusi", "Pantera Rosa," or “Pink Panther," is a new synthetic drug cocktail containing a mix of ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine, cocaine, and opioids.
SF News New Law Will Require California Bars to Provide ‘Roofie Testing Kits' Later This Year Starting July 1, California drinking establishments will be required to stock testing kits that tell if your drink has been spiked with common date rape drugs like ketamine or GHB, though bars won’t have to provide the testing strips for free.
Business & Tech Report: Elon Musk’s Alleged Drug Use Creating Problems for Tesla, SpaceX Board Members After a Wall Street Journal report this weekend said Elon Musk has been using cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, ketamine, and magic mushrooms, Musk issued non-denials, but top executives of his companies remain worried about the fallout.
SF News SFPD Says It Has Made Over 900 Arrests for Narcotics Sales Since May The mayor's office and the SFPD put out new numbers this week documenting the success, they say, of efforts to crack down on open-air drug sales in and around the Tenderloin and SoMa.
SF News SFPD Seizes 9.5 Kilos of Fentanyl In Two-Week Span of Drug Arrests In the span of 14 days, the San Francisco Police Department has seized more than one-third of the amount of fentanyl it seized in all of 2022, which is an indication of both the vast quantities being peddled and of stepped-up enforcement efforts.
SF News Report: Many Tenderloin Drug Dealers Hail From the Same Area In Honduras, Which Is Dotted With SF Swag Drug money made in the open-air markets of the Tenderloin and South of Market has fueled a "housing boom" in one impoverished area of Honduras. The Chronicle traveled there and conducted an 18-month investigation into this source of one of the dominant groups running SF's drug trade.
SF News San Francisco Was Declared Dead, and Full of AIDS and Drugs and Homeless People, Multiple Times In the Last 50 Years The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn't aware of that and bought into the "failed city" and "doom loop" narratives too hard.
SF News SFPD Finds Large Haul of Guns and Drugs While Arresting Suspected Illegal Gun Suppliers In North Beach An SF man was arrested for firing shots at police on two occasions in January, and the ongoing investigation led SFPD to the North Beach home of an alleged gun supplier, and boy did they find guns and drugs while searching his residence.
SF News Supervisor Dorsey Confirms That Yes, SF Police Are Arresting People for Being High on Drugs In Public About two weeks after Mayor Breed’s declaration about arresting people who are high, Supervisor Matt Dorsey says that a few people have been arrested, but admits there’s no visible difference in street conditions.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Reportedly Wants to Arrest People for Being ‘Under the Influence of Drugs’ In what sounds like an ACLU profiling lawsuit waiting to happen, Mayor Breed’s newest strategy to combat the fentanyl crisis is reportedly to arrest anyone who appears to be “under the influence of drugs.”
SF News Death Involving New Street Drug 'Tranq' Confirmed In San Jose While public health officials have been warning for months now that the new street drug "tranq" is being mixed with fentanyl and causing deadly results, we now have news of a South Bay death associated with the drug.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Sunset Home Explosion Was Allegedly Making PCP and/or Hash Oil In the House Police arrested a 53-year-old San Francisco man Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, drug manufacturing, and child endangerment, in connection with the deadly explosion in the Sunset District on Thursday that destroyed two homes and damaged several others.
SF Politics Safe Drug-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs' Back on the Table In SF With New Proposed Legislation San Francisco may try to follow the "New York Model" of turning a blind eye and providing some funding for "wellness" centers that allow consumption of illegal drugs under new legislation being put forward by Supervisor Hillary Ronen.
SF Politics Progressive Supes Defy Mayor and Health Department Over Safe-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs,' Say They Will Open Plans to create a dozen "wellness hubs" around the city to replace the Tenderloin Center and permit safer consumption of dangerous drugs like fentanyl are stalled due to legal concerns.
SF News SF Supervisors Vote to Decriminalize Shrooms, Peyote, Other Plant-Based Psychedelics San Francisco joins a movement that’s coming on hard in several other cities and states, decriminalizing “entheogenic plants” like magic mushrooms and ayahuasca, and encouraging research of these for therapeutic purposes.
