Business & Tech Twitter Relaxes Cannabis Ad Rules, Becoming First Platform to Allow Them Twitter made a big announcement that they’ll allow cannabis ads on the platform, but surprise surprise, companies can only do so if they’ve bought a blue-check subscription.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 4/20 Blankets Hippie Hill With Pot Smoke, Erykah Badu Exhorts Crowd To Smoke Even More Erykah Badu hit high notes at the most entertaining 4:20 countdown yet at Hippie Hill, as what appeared to be 20,000 happy stoners blazed up a gargantuan cloud of marijuana smoke for a blissed-out 4/20 celebration.
Arts & Entertainment How 4:20 Came to Mean 'Smoke Weed' and Inspire SF's 4/20 Celebration It was never California police code for marijuana, and it had nothing to do with the date of April 20th. But the origins of "420" as the codeword of stoner culture lie here in the Bay Area, with a group of five teenagers — now men in their 60s — living in Marin.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 20,000 Stoners Expected to Crowd Hippie Hill For 4/20 20,000 people are expected to descend on Hippie Hill for 4/20; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe says he fears for his safety amid a police scandal; and this morning's SpaceX Starship launch was a failure, but not an abject failure.
SF News Haney's New Bill Would Allow Amsterdam-Style Cannabis Cafes that Serve Food, Drinks With Weed The Amsterdam-style cannabis cafe could be coming to California under a new Assembly bill from Matt Haney, and you’d be able to have regular food and beverages while toking up, but alcoholic drinks would not be in the mix.
SF News Study: Marijuana-Related Senior Citizen Emergency Room Visits Have Skyrocketed Over The Last 18 Years A just-published UC San Diego study says that senior citizen visits to the emergency room for cannabis-related reasons in California have increased by more than 1800% since 2003.
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Garcia’s Marijuana Pipe, Lost for 30 Years, Has Been Found and Procured by Antiquities Collector I’ve heard of losing your bowl, but this is ridiculous — Jerry Garcia’s favorite marijuana bowl was last seen in 1991, but it has been found and acquired by a relics collector.
SF News Off-the-Job Marijauna Use Will No Longer Get You Fired in California, Thanks to New State Law The old “marijuana pee test” will soon be effectively a thing of the past in California, as Gavin Newsom just signed a law saying cannabis users cannot be fired from their jobs over enjoying their marijuana off-the-clock.
SF News Three People Shot In Unsuccessful Robbery Attempt at San Leandro Marijuana Grow What may or may not have been a legal indoor cannabis grow facility suffered an armed robbery attempt where plenty of gunfire was exchanged Sunday morning, with one of the suspects and two facility workers now hospitalized.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands’ Weed Area Grass Lands Will Be More Lit Than Ever, With Dub Mission’s DJ Sep Spinning They’re finally making the stage at the cannabis area Grass Lands a music destination, with Dub Mission’s DJ Sep on Saturday, and six-piece tiki band Ape on Sunday.
Sponsored The OG Cannabis Delivery Service Eaze Turns 8, and It's Still Growing Like a Weed The first-ever online cannabis delivery platform Eaze was born right here in San Francisco, so we’re blazing up some candles to look at the first eight years of its high life. Plus, they are offering up some discounts.
Arts & Entertainment California State Fair Announces Cannabis Competition Winners, Here’s Where to Buy Them in the Bay Area 60 different strains of weed just won official competitive honors in the California State Fair’s extremely awesome new marijuana category, and several of these winners can be found on SF and Oakland dispensary shelves.
Business & Tech High Times on the Hook For $5 Million In Unpaid Rent at Failed Union Square Dispensary Space High Times magazine’s foray into cannabis dispensaries has been fraught with troubles, and a judge just ruled they have to pay up the $5 million in back rent they’ve racked up on the former John Varvatos space in Union Square.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Hippie Hill Blazes Up in Smoke as Nearly 20,000 Stoners Celebrate First 4/20 With Legal Weed Sales in Park The first-ever 4/20 with dispensaries legally selling pot in Golden Gate Park was the bomb, and Goapele wowed the crowd with a surprise set, though Berner seemingly did not realize it was 4:20 when the clock struck 4:20.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 4/20 Billboard Promises ‘Get Free NFTs When You Buy Weed’ We have reached Peak 2022 San Francisco, as a fresh, new 4/20 billboard at Mission and Geneva Streets declares “Get Free NFTs when you buy weed.”
Arts & Entertainment A San Francisco 4/20 Event Guide (For People Who Have No Interest In Going to Hippie Hill) A San Francisco 4/20 Preview (For People Who Have No Interest In Going to Hippie Hill) Plenty of SF dispensaries and venues are counterprogramming against the Hippie Hill high jinks with live music, comedy, and even “Wings, Weed & Waffles.”
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 Authorities Seize $7 Million Worth of Black-Market Marijuana In Lake County Bust Lake County Sheriff's deputies this week busted a large pot growing and processing operation that spanned three residential buildings.
SF News Westfield Mall Gets a Cannabis Store — Without Any Cannabis The Westfield San Francisco Centre has just seen a marijuana dispensary of a sort open in the mall, but there is no marijuana there — just “non-medicated cannabis replicas and empty packaging.”
SF News SF Dispensaries Gear Up for Green Wednesday, the ‘Black Friday of Weed’ The day before Thanksgiving is the second-busiest cannabis shopping day of the year, and we recommend you shop early, or pre-order online.
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 SF Just Quietly Overhauled Its Cannabis Laws, Hoping to Help Small Local Operators The city tweaked the rules for cannabis business permits, in hopes of helping smaller businesses get licensed more easily, but also added a loophole that could hasten Big Marijuana buying up smaller shops.
Cannabis 420-Friendly Date Ideas in San Francisco Here are some of the best dank-friendly date ideas for summer 2021.
Cannabis 19 Best Cannabis Delivery Services to 'Medicate' in SF With the pandemic came a sharp increase in all things delivery. Cannabis was no exception. If you recently became a cannabis delivery customer, you might have forgotten that marijuana delivery has been a