SF News D.E.A. Roid Rage in the Castro Well, it's about time. The Castro district -- notorious for being "too body conscious," or whatever the technical term for it is that the spherical gays always toss about, angrily -- played host
SF News $7 Million Worth of Heroin Seized in East Palo Alto Be prepared to pay more for your tar this weekend. Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced today that agents from the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement nabbed a Mexican resident, Adam Alfonso Herrera,
SF News New App Allows iPhone Users Find A Pot Dealer A new iPhone application will allow marijuana aficionados and medicinal mary jane recipients to find a pot dealer on their phone. Yay! "Cannabis," according to , "lets users search by city for their nearest
SF News O Noes! Vicodin and Percocet to Be Banned? Jesus Christ. As if this week could get any worse: A federal advisory panel has recommended that the FDA issue a ban on Vicodin and Percocet due to their damaging effects on the
SF News Pot Smoke Causes Cancer / Marijuana Poll Bad news, folks. The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment ruled yesterday that marijuana smoke causes cancer. Stemming from a "review of more than 30 scientific papers" state agency spokesperson Sam Delson said
SF News Cocaine Production Down in Colombia, Up in Bolivia and Peru The U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime is reporting a sharp drop in cocaine production in Colombia -- down 28% in 2008 over the previous year. Apparently the value of the coca
SF News Alameda County Sheriffs Confiscate 22,838 Pot Plants Alameda County Sheriffs busted the largest outdoor marijuana growing facility they had ever seen last Thursday. They had launched an investigation after a driver East of Sunol on Calaveras Road reported seeing a
SF News Scenes from a Mission District Dope Bust SFist contributor Travis Jensen came across an exciting scene in the Mission district the other day. While "bullshitting about skateboarding, photography and other stuff," Jensen and his journo pals, Isaac Mckay Randozzi and
SF News "My Daddy Ate My Eyes," Bakersfield 4-Year-Old Tells Cops There are many reasons to fear parts of California not near the coast. So much so, in fact, that LAist editor Zach Behrens and your SFist editor tend to argue about which of
misc Photo du Jour 313 While heading to best computer store in San Francisco, Central Computers, we came across these special people blocking the entrance. Anti-psychiatry ilk, it seems, were out in force on Saturday across the street
SF News 'Time for Debate' On Legal Marijuana, Says Schwarzenegger While not all out advocating the legalization of marijuana, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said it's time for California to "study whether to legalize and tax marijuana for recreational use." today, according to the Sacramento
misc Film du Jour: iSnort This one goes out to SFist commenter mcgordonliddy... Here's another damn application for that damn Apple mobile communication device you all seem to love so damn much. Behold the iSnort. It's like doing
Arts & Entertainment Ju$t Another Rich Kid Unveiling Limited Edition Set of Designer Coke Spoons in SF <strike>Tonight</strike> Next Week It may not be the best moment to be celebrating the blind indulgence of American consumer (and drug) culture, but fashion designer Ken Courtney of Ju$t Another Rich Kid is nonetheless forging
SF News Cop Killer's Sister Arrested Enjoli Mixon, 24, the brother sister of the man who shot and killed four Oakland police offices being being gunned down, was arrested over the weekend for "being under the influence of a
SF News C.W. Nevius Published On Tenderloin Billboard SFist commenter Oskarv sent us the above image taken from that famous billboard at Larkin and Turk. Why? Because weblog naysayer and SF Chronicle scribe C.W. Nevius's golden nuggets of wisdom made
SF News Opium found in drums near SFO More than twenty pounds of sweet, pain-alleviating opium were discovered "wrapped in plastic and concealed inside false walls of drums" arriving from Thailand, found at SFO. The incident, which happened in "mid-February," prompted
SF News Media Circus at Ammiano 'Legalize Pot' Press Conference this AM at State Building With support from Supervisor David Campos, CA Superior Court Judge James P. Gray, and SF Sheriff Mike Hennessey, Tom Ammiano held a frenzied press conference at the State Building this morning. The topic
misc Gay Men and Uppers SFist received the following hot tip this morning. 'Gay men and uppers''just the way God wanted it'!!!! Gay men and uppers are two things that God most certainly does not want. Thankfully He
SF News Evidence Against Bonds Unsealed Today in San Francisco, a federal judge opened up hundreds of pages of court documents against disgraced Giants slugger Barry Bonds. According to reports, "The documents released included ... a transcript of a taped
SF News Update: FBI Raids Hayes Valley Den of Iniquity After this morning's FBI raids in San Francisco and Oakland, a total of five people were arrested. For what, you ask? Well, not human trafficking. Not treason. Not even hardcore gang activity. The
SF News Huge Gang Crackdown Underway in Richmond Attorney General Jerry Brown will announce a major crackdown on street gangs today. Early this morning, agents presented more than 40 search warrants and 43 arrest warrants at Richmond locations -- e.g.
SF News Attorney General Jerry Brown Harshes Mellow for California Prescription Drug Abusers Former California Governor Jerry Brown is cracking down on prescription-drug abusers. Specifically, those of you you who enjoy the sweet, opiate-y release of drugs like Valium, Vicodin, and Oxycontin. "In addition to costing
SF News Glide Memorial Church Food Line's New Menu Items Results in Two Arrests Two unidentified East Bay men (one on probation, the other on parole) were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after an undercover sting caught them dealing crack-cocaine in the food line for the homeless/hungry
SF News Sarah Palin, Meth Kingpin OK, not really. But while VP candidate Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, the area (specifically the Matanuska-Susitna area) won the title of Meth Capital of Alaska. (An aside:
misc Bomb Scare at Bayer Building in Berkeley Berkeley police responded to a menacing looking suitcase sitting in front of a Bayer AG-owned building on Seventh Street between Dwight and Parker. Jackson West informs us that said drug company has "its
