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In The Year When Pot Became Legal, Some NorCal Growers Lose Everything To Fire

Sending love and good vibes to all the #urbanfarmers effected by the fires. 707 stay strong . A post shared by Berner (@berner415) on Oct 9, 2017 at 3:06pm PDT It was supposed

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Westfield Mall Puts Kibosh To Hopeful High-End Cannabis Chocolate Shop

If you were looking to score some high-end weed chocolates at Westfield mall, I'm sorry to say that you're going to have to search elsewhere; Défoncé's brick-and-mortar store just got nixed. On Thursday,

80 Percent Of Medical Marijuana Tested At Recent NorCal Conference Is Tainted With Mold, Other Toxins

Cannabis sold at Bay Area dispensaries is regularly referred to as "medicine," however a lack of regulation and testing around the product has led to significant supply of marijuana on dispensary shelves being

Arts & Entertainment

The Apothecarium Opens Swank New Dispensary In The Marina

The Apothecarium, the popular "upscale" medical marijuana dispensary based in the Castro, has just just opened their second SF location in the Marina as of noon Wednesday. Housed in a former Thai restaurant

Jeff Sessions Begins His Campaign To Kill Legal Marijuana

As he sits testifying today before the Senate Intelligence Committee and as Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee fume because he sent a surrogate to testify before them today Attorney General Jeff Sessions

City Hall's 'Office of Cannabis' Begins To Bloom

What little popularity San Francisco Mayor Ed is able to muster up these days may be contingent on pandering to the emerging local marijuana industry, but Lee might be screwing that one up

SF May Be Getting A Department Of Marijuana

Freshmen Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, whose district includes the Castro, Duboce Triangle, Dolores Park, and Noe Valley, has directed the city attorney to draft legislation to create a Department of Cannabis, a brand new

Weed May Be Legal In California, But You Can Still Get Busted In Yosemite Or On Ocean Beach

You think you can't get busted for smoking or possessing marijuana in California anymore after Prop 64 passed in November? Well, think again. If you're on federal land - which includes all national

Welcome To Legal Weed Boom Town, Where Even Former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Is Cashing In

These are heady times for San Francisco's existing marijuana industry, a loose affiliation of medical dispensaries, cultivators, and consultants who are still tending to their existing clientele of patients with doctors' recommendations while

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Cafe Flore's New Owners Hope To Turn It Into A Cannabis Cafe (Eventually)

So much for keeping things the same. The new owners of the Castro's historic Cafe Flore hope to eventually shake things up at the indoor-outdoor restaurant — partially by turning the corner spot into

Mayor Lee Proposes Limits On Pot Grows In Industrial Spaces

Looking ahead to the full, free-wheeling retail marketplace for recreational marijuana that will be hitting California in just over a year, Mayor Ed Lee introduced legislation Tuesday that would require pot growers to

Stoned Driving Has Actually Killed A Lot Of People In Washington State

A lot of people will try to tell you that they can always drive stoned and marijuana makes you a better driver rather than a worse driver, like alcohol, but that actually doesn't

Federal Prosecutors Drop Lawsuit Against Oakland's Harborside Pot Dispensary

After four years of fighting back and forth, with the City of Oakland, Congresswoman Barbara Lee and many others on the side of the dispensary, the federal government has apparently dropped its lawsuit

Pot Delivery Services Dealt Legal Blow In SoCal; Emeryville Set To Get Its First Dispensary

This week in marijuana news, as the state slides toward the inevitable full-scale legalization of cannabis as soon as next year, and a month after California just hired its first "marijuana czar" to

Legal Weed Gets Big Endorsement From California Doctors; UCSF Study Calls It A Public Health Threat

The effort to legalize marijuana by ballot initiative this year just got a significant boost as the powerful California Medical Association a professional association of some 41,000 physicians statewide formally announced their

City Marijuana Task Force Named Ahead Of Probable State Legalization

This week, the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee, which consists of Supervisors Scott Wiener, Malia Cohen, and John Avalos, voted to appoint 11 out of 48 applicants to a task force that will

Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker To Fund CA Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure

Sean Parker plans to give away all his money before he dies, and he's not just going to blow it on whatever drugs he might have been doing in this picture, taken at

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Black Friday Palate Cleanser: Weed Snobs

We already live in a world of weed connoisseurs who could rattle off a litany of whimsically named indica-sativa hybrids and tell you the relative THC and CBD levels of each. And as

Gavin Newsom To Fire Up New Weed Legalization Team

Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom will be the new point man on the ACLU's marijuana legalization task force, the civil rights group announced yesterday. Newsom, who reminds everyone he is not a smoker himself,

Obama Administration Considers Weed Crackdowns in Colorado, Washington

Following on the statewide crackdown by the Justice Department on medical marijuana in California, the Obama Administration is signaling that they're not going to sit by and watch while the entire states of

Pot Smokers Not Actually Making It to the Polls?

The LA Times blog reports that, via preliminary exit poll data, "only about 1 voter in 10 said that his or her main motivation to vote in this election was Prop. 19." Most

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

Take a Look Inside SPARC, the Apple Store of Pot Dispensaries

A couple of weeks ago, a new medical marijuana dispensary swung open its doors in SoMa, and with its sleek design and unique retail experience will undoubtedly be a game-changer for the local

Why Did Facebook Yank Marijuana Ads?

Although Facebook claims to have removed the pro-marijuana legalization ads so users wouldn't, you know, get baked, public health might not be the real reason. (Shocking.) As Valleywag reports, Facebook, quite possibly, wanted

Montel Williams Looks to Open Pot Business in Oakland

Celebrity talk show host Montel Williams, whose TV show ceased production a couple years ago but who can still be seen on CBS and BET in syndication, met last week with Oakland City