SF News Oakland Pot Advocates Take Case to Supreme Court Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the medical marijuana advocacy group based in Oakland, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court to get pot reclassified as a non-dangerous drug. The group previously brought
SF News Charges Dropped in Case of Marin Shopkeeper Who Gave Pot Cookies to Kids Fairfax shopkeeper Lorie Kulberg accidentally dosed three kids and their art teacher with some marijuana-laced cookies earlier this month, but the DA's office has declined to file charges against her because it was
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Humboldt County... Of course. Why not, Humboldt. Why not. (Photo by Travis Jensen.)
SF News Black People Arrested for Pot Possession Way More Than Whites If you think the War on Drugs is mostly about "hard" drugs these days, think again. And when it comes to the War on Pot, it's been a futile war to say the
SF News Haight: Man Punched, Kicked For Saying He Dislikes Marijuana We know you're supposed to be pro-marijuana just to be allowed to live in this town, but maybe a couple of pot dealers took things a little too far over the weekend. A
SF News Highly Intoxicated 'Nincompoop' Faces Off With Fire Truck in the Upper Haight If you don't subscribe to the SFPD Park Station newsletter, you probably should. Phrases like "loathsome louse" and terms like "flower child" and "nincompoop" are de rigeur, and what officers have to deal
SF News Yosemite Is America's Most Intoxicated National Park In the scenic vistas of Yosemite Valley, park rangers see more drug arrests per 100,000 visitors than any of the country's most-visited national parks. In the past year, 855 people were busted
SF News Cleaning Up 4/20 Park Mess Costs About The Same As A 2-Pound Joint [Update] Although original estimates for cleaning up the two tons of Funyuns bags and It's-It wrappers left in the wake of Gate Gate Park 4/20 celebrations was initially pegged at 10 grand, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Maybe 50 Pounds' Of Marijuana Found In Joe's Crab Shack Dumpster More possible fallout from this weekend's 4/20 festivities: An employee at the faux-shabby Joe's Crab Shack found three garbage bags filled with marijuana in a dumpster behind the seafood chain's Fisherman's Wharf
SF News Video: Police Confiscate $15,000 Joint During 4/20 Smoke Out At UCSC While things may have gotten violent in Golden Gate Park on 4/20, on the campus of the UC Santa Cruz the annual marijuana celebration was getting heavy in a completely different way.
Arts & Entertainment Four 4/20 Events That Don't Necessarily Involve Smoking Yourself Stupid Tomorrow is April 20th, when suburban stoners across the country will celebrate that time some plucky teens from Marin set out in search of a lost weed treasure. Nowadays International Cannabis Culture day
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Learn The Business Of Growing Cannabis In S.F. The wildly successful Yerba Buena Community Benefit District’s Arts and Dialogue series gets stoney on Thursday with a panel discussion devoted to the business of growing cannabis in San Francisco. What are
SF News Ammiano Suggests Marijuana Industry Be Policed By Alcohol Board [Updated] There are now rumblings in Sacramento about how the state might start regulating the largely unregulated medical marijuana industry, and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has an idea: Let the ABC do it. The state's
SF News Teen-On-Teen Crime: Pot Deal Goes Bad In Park Merced Three suspects in their late teens or early twenties totally harshed some other kids' mellow when they turned a potential weed deal into a home invasion robbery Saturday afternoon at Park Merced. The
Arts & Entertainment The Bloom Room, A New Pot Club Opens On Jessie Street Look at that. Isn't it gorgeous. Darwin Bell snapped this shot of the exterior of the city's newest pot club (opened in late February), The Bloom Room, over on Jesse Street. The Bloom
SF News SF Man Arrested Trying To Get 65 Pounds Of Weed Through Oakland Airport A 21-year-old San Francisco man by the name of Tony Nguyen is out on bail after a random baggage search at Oakland Airport revealed he had stuffed 65 pounds of marijuana into a
SF News There Was Also a Fire at a Marijuana Grow This Morning in the Sunset It's been kind of a bad day for the local marijuana industry, what with that hostage situation at a warehouse grow in the Bayview and all. But on the other side of town,
SF News Hostage Situation At Bayview Marijuana Grow Concludes With One Arrest [Update] A robbery occurred this morning sometime after 3 a.m. involving three masked suspects at a marijuana grow on the 2100 block of Jennings Street in the Bayview. Police were called to the
SF News Police Discover Pot Grow House On Stillman We here at SFist are flummoxed -- flummoxed! -- by the idea that anything drug-related goes down on Stillman Street. See, after a suspected robbery call and a subsequent investigation on February 12,
SF News CA Supreme Court Appears Likely to Allow Cities to Ban Pot Dispensaries In the ongoing war over medical marijuana, and the legal gray area in which it now sits in the state and several others, California advocates may be looking at one losing battle in
SF News Meet Mr. Teeth, The Five-Foot-Long Weed Guarding Reptile Meet Mr. Teeth. As you can see, he is a rather large reptile. So what was this dinosaur doing living in Castro Valley, California? He wasn't lounging about eating chucksteaks at the zoo.
Arts & Entertainment After Skewering Hippie School, Jimmy Kimmel Asked To Be Commencement Speaker In a November 27 Jimmy Kimmel Live episode, the titular host poked fun at the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at HSU, jesting that to get into the school “you have to
SF News Frank Ocean Busted Twice For Speeding, Pot Possession Near Nevada Border Not to get all up in your Frank Ocean news today, but the noted "Sierra Leone" crooner was stopped twice for doing over 90 mph on remote highways in the Eastern Sierra Nevada
SF News SF Dad Argues That Pot Makes Him a Better Parent We've been remiss in not checking the mommy blogs, but just over the weekend there was an Op-Ed in the NYT that's causing a stir from art dealer and San Francisco dad Mark
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Operation Dirty Taco' Brings Down Meth-Dealing Suburban Taco Truck In Olivehurst, California, a Yuba County suburb North of Sacramento, one local taco truck was apparently supplementing its income with some narcotic secret menu items. According to the local paper of record, the
