SF News Marijuana Use Rises 8%, Ecstasy Up 37% A new report shows illegal drug use across the country sharply increased last year to the highest rate of the decade. Marijuana legalization proponents point to the 8% rise in pot use as
SF News What's Going On Here, Marijuana Plant In Front of Walgreens? While we head over to Spear and Mission to check out the authenticity of this apparent marijuana plant, please read what a tipster sent to us: There's a giant marijuana plant that looks
SF News North Beach Won't Allow Pot Club On Porn Strip Telegraph Hill resident Bruce Rossignol thought it would be a grand idea to liven things up on North Beach's ho-hum Broadway strip. Bruce Rossignol planned to open up a pot dispensary on near
SF News Need a Little Extra Money? Grow Pot. Young, twentysomething Californians with advanced degrees are figuring out what Nancy Botwin has known since her husband died: growing and selling marijuana on the black market in a down economy is a swell
SF News Pot Dispensary to Open in Rincon Hill Rincon Hill will get a bit more mellow soon (which is a good thing for some people in the area) when the tony San Francisco neighborhood gets its very own pot club. A
misc Relevant Twitter Update of the Day Via Brittney Gilbert (she's had some good ones lately!): "San Francisco: The clerk was smoking pot *in* the market while on the clock."
SF News Salinas Couple Arrested for Attempting to Sell Infant Outside Walmart A Salinas couple faces child endangerment charges today, according to the Chronicle, after they allegedly "tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 outside a Walmart store." While riding high on meth, Patrick
SF News Offensively Named Marijuana Wins Pot Award The medicinal, confounding, self-righteous, and needlessly macho world of ardent pot smoking had some sort of award ceremony this past weekend. The High Times San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup held their first-ever competition
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via D.P. in the Tenderloin: "I saw this written on a wall on my way home tonight, 'I will do whatever to whoever for however long for one hit of crack'."
SF News Second Death After Cow Palace Rave Trung Nguyen, 25, died on Sunday at Washington Hospital in Fremont, making him the second fatality after Memorial Day weekend's infamous Cow Palace rave. Nguyen was a graduate of Overfelt High School and
SF News Brown Announces Arrests of NorCal Gang Members Attorney General Jerry Brown announced today that narcotics agents pinched a total of 59 gang members during a sweep, "including one who bootstrapped his way from foot soldier to local commander by committing
SF News Authorities Talk 'OD' In Re: Cow Palace Death, But Overdose of What? Though toxicology reports are still two weeks off, the San Mateo County Times wants to be the first to shout it from the rooftops that last weekend's post-Cow Palace, drug-related death and multiple
SF News Are Mushrooms to Blame For the Violently Bad Trips Up North? The case of mixed martial arts fighter Jarrod Wyatt who, up in Crescent City, CA, murdered his friend by drilling a hole in his chest and ripping out his heart, makes us wonder:
SF News Eleven Ravers Have Bad Trip at Cow Palace Apparently, raves are still going strong, as 20,000 people attended the "POP 2010: The Dream" party on Saturday night at Cow Palace. Eleven attendees ended up in the hospital due to taking
SF News Peppy Folks Noted Daily On Local Site A tipster writers in to tell us that Auweia of Bluoz (and occasional SFist commenter) has a nifty new feature: Crackhead of the Day. He snaps these daily shots from infamous Sixth and
SF News Meth-Infused Driver Arrested Near Amgen Tour of California Oh dear. This fractured face here is in all sorts of trouble after allegedly trying to mow down pedestrians near the Amgen Tour of California route on Tuesday afternoon. According to BCN (via
SF News Oakland A.M. Fire Reveals Pot House A house fire was reported a little before 7 a.m. this morning at a house on the 3900 block of Angelo Avenue in Oakland. During the blaze, neighbors and firefighters learned that
SF News Peter Getty's Late-Night Ramblings On SFist Explained In addition to abuse, indie rock member of the Getty clan, Peter Getty, is being accused of late-night porn viewing parties fueled by piles and piles of cocaine -- at least so says
misc Photo du Jour 621 "Goddamn the Pusher Man, San Francisco" by Travis Jensen (via Caliber). He reports what went down: Crack sting on Mission Street, San Francisco. This UFO (Undercover Five-O) was quite proud of the bust.
SF News Breaking: Californians Like Legal Marijuana CBS and SurveyUSA conducted a poll on April 20 (get it?), asking 500 voters across California for their views on legal weed. The results? It discovered that "56 percent of Californians support legalization
misc Ask SFist: Best SF Bar for Marijuana Smoking? We received two queries today regarding pot, asking us if we knew of any safe bars/clubs in San Francisco in which smoke mary jane. To which we say, The Fillmore circa 1972.
SF News Bay Area Lab Workers Pinched In Quaaludes Bust After a "three-year investigation into illegal Quaalude trafficking, federal authorities have announced the arrest of two Bay Area lab workers," Kevin Yan and Thomas Fairley, who helped make the drugs. Also, Quaaludes are
SF News Chron Writer Arrested for Growing Weed In Weed Oh no! Tom Sienstra, cherished Chronicle writer and host of the much-loved Great Outdoors With Tom Stienstra, was pinched last week by the fuzz for growing marijuana for sale. Over 60 pot plants,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: LCD Soundsystem's "Drunk Girls" If Dakota Fanning's bone-shatteringly electric portrayal of Cherie Currie in The Runaways has taught us one thing, it's this: drunk girls are shockingly entertaining. So, it should come as little surprise that LCD
