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.
Arts & Entertainment There Will Be Legal Marijuana Sales and Smoking at the California State Fair This Year Another trailblazing moment first for those who blaze up: Next month’s California State Fair will have legal cannabis sales and consumption, the first-ever state fair with pot being smoked legally on-site.
SF News Mike Tyson’s Celebrity-Branded Marijuana Gets Recalled Statewide Because It Has Mold In It Another black eye for boxer Mike Tyson’s attempt to become a marijuana mogul, as the California Department of Cannabis Control has ordered a statewide recall of two of his “Undisputed” cannabis flower products.
Arts & Entertainment Confirmed: 4/20 Hippie Hill Is On For 2023, With Erykah Badu On Stage The biggest free cannabis event in California gets its biggest star yet, and this year’s 4/20 Hippie Hill celebration will feature four-time Grammy winner Erykah Badu, plus D’wayne Wiggins from Tony! Toni! Toné!, though legal cannabis sales are not yet confirmed.
Arts & Entertainment Carnaval SF Might Have Legal Cannabis Sales At Its 2022 Street Fair Later This Month Permit applications have been submitted to bring legal cannabis sales to Carnaval SF on May 28-29, and there’s a high likelihood that Carnaval will be the first California street fair with legal, regulated cannabis use.
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.
Arts & Entertainment World Turned Upside-Down: SF Chamber of Commerce to Ring In 4/20 With a Week-Long Weed Festival The 4/20 bacchanalia has officially transformed from outlaw menace to a squeaky-clean tourist attraction, as SF Travel and the Chamber of Commerce have organized a high-end, “multi-day celebration tied to 420.”
SF News Legal Pot Turns 25: The Sticky Road from Medical Marijauna Raids to a $4 Billion Industry It was 25 years ago today that California voters approved medical marijuana, setting off a nationwide chain of legalization — but hitting hard highs and lows along the way.
SF News Cannabis Company Caused Mendocino Wildfire That Burned 80 Acres Well-funded legal marijuana darling Flow Kana admits one of their lawnmowers sparked last week’s Broiler Fire, which forced 250 evacuations while burning 80 acres and three homes.
Business & Tech Antioch Wants to Become the Bay Area's Next Big Marijuana Hub The East Bay city of Antioch is aiming to be the "cannabis capital of Northern California" with the approval of two major cannabis cultivation and distribution facilities.
SF News Which SF Cannabis Dispensaries are Open, Closed, and Which Ones Deliver The dispensaries are back open! At least, most of them are — here’s a complete list of which marijuana dispensaries are open, closed, and who will deliver to your doorstep.
SF Politics City Could Consider Freezing Or Curtailing New Cannabis Permits Following Report On Declining Sales A new report by SF's Controller's Office shows that individual cannabis retailers are seeing declining sales in the two years since full recreational legalization — and that's due both to there being more permitted stores, and the still flourishing illegal market.
SF News Medical Marijuana Could Soon Be Allowed In K-12 Schools In California Cue the “high school” jokes, as the California State Assembly just passed a law allowing for medical marijuana in K-12 schools.
Arts & Entertainment GrassLands at Outside Lands Stays Cleaner, Chiller Than The Rest Of Festival The festival’s “weed zone” called GrassLands had no arrests or medical incidents. Sales were high, prices were decent, and lines ran as long as 60 people or longer at some booths.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Becomes First Major Music Festival to Allow Marijuana Sales As of late Wednesday, Outside Lands was cleared to become the first major event in San Francisco — and the first big music festival in the country — to sanction on-site sales and consumption of cannabis.
Arts & Entertainment 'Grass Lands' at Outside Lands Still Might Have On-Site Weed Sales, Maybe It's down to the wire for the final permit approval to make Outside Lands possibly the biggest music festival in the U.S. ever to allow both on-site sales and consumption of legal marijuana.
Business & Tech Jay-Z Signs On As Brand Strategist For Bay Area Marijuana Company A San Jose-based weed concern called Caliva has just "partnered" with rapper and Beyonce baby daddy Jay-Z, naming him Chief Brand Strategist.
SF News Oakland-Based Pot Delivery Company Green Coast Lays Off 136 Workers Signs of the market correction in the legal marijuana sphere abound, and now a prominent Bay Area dispensary that is a delivery-only operation is significantly cutting its workforce.
SF News Story About Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana At Last Year's 420 A Hoax An apparently false story about there being multiple cases of people "passing out" at 2018's 420 celebration on Hippie Hill due to fentanyl-laced pot was disseminated by both the SFPD and Supervisor Vallie Brown, but why?
SF News This Year's 4/20 Festivities To Allow 18-Year-Olds, Feature Better Clean-Up 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year, and organizers are expecting a larger than usual turnout for the celebration of all things weed. That will come with added fencing, better security, and a beefed-up cleanup crew being paid for by local dispensaries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Marijuana Stores in SF The days of shady doctors prescribing medical marijuana cards for stubbed toes or back pain are happily over in San Francisco. But as former medical dispensaries, most of these pot shops had a few years before legalization to perfect their merchandising and service games.
SF News SF To Expunge 9,000 Marijuana Convictions Dating Back 40 Years San Francisco is going to be the first city in the nation to expunge decades worth of marijuana-related convictions following the legalization of recreational cannabis.
SF News SF Now Has An Office Of Cannabis Step right up, aspiring San Francisco proprietors of dime bags, hash oils, pot brownies, and pre-rolled blunts! Your permit process for the recreational sale of schwag is falling into place, in advance of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom Debate Legal Weed, Homelessness With A 26-Year-Old Alleged Sinatra progeny and 26-year-old MSNBC on-air personality Ronan Farrow is tackling some tough issues on his recently launched talk show Ronan Farrow Daily. He's already asked Kenyans what they think of President
SF News Southwest Airlines Flight Diverted Due To Hash-Smoking Passenger Praising Jesus A man who admitted to smoking purple hash before boarding a Southwest Airlines flight out of Seattle was arrested on Tuesday after his unruly behavior forced his flight to land in Portland. According
