SF News Fire Breaks Out At Marijuana Grow House In Oakland A three-alarm blaze occurred early Saturday morning, around 4 a.m., in a small industrial space at 3050 Broadway on Oakland's Auto Row. Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting 20 feet in the
SF News Richmond Warehouse Fire Reveals Huge Pot Operation Firefighters dousing a one-alarm electrical fire in Richmond early this morning uncovered a large-scale marijuana grow operation of "possibly over 1,000" plants. According to KTVU, the security guard on duty last night
SF News 'I Want A Marijuana Dispensary Near My Kids' School,' Says Berkeley Mom Like many local medical marijuana dispensaries, the Berkeley Patients Group officially closed its doors last week under pressure from U.S. Attorney General Melinda Haag. For Haag, who's been on a bit of
Arts & Entertainment Meet The People Who Are Currently Flocking To Hippie Hill For 4/20 As is tradition on April 20th, scores of marijuana smokers, legal or otherwise, are currently making their pilgrimage to the hallowed ground of Golden Gate Park's Hippie Hill. Since we live in these
SF News On 4/20, Gavin Newsom Draws Inspiration From Bob Marley Former Mayor and recovering substance abuser Gavin Newsom found some curious inspiration all the way from Kingston, Jamaica on the noted stoner holiday. As the Lite Gov. tweeted, in a surprising plug for
SF News Bicoastal Pot Trafficking Ring Busted In Santa Rosa Today's reminder that the rest of America doesn't quite share San Francisco's loose morals compassionate attitude when it comes to marijuana sales: ten Bay Area residents and two East Coasters were busted in
SF News SoMa Pot Dispensary Vows To Challenge Feds HopeNet, S.F.'s oldest continually operating medical marijuana dispensary at 223 Ninth Street, is not going to take a threat from the federal government lying down. Owners Catherine and Steve Smith are
SF News Oakland's Oaksterdam University Shut Down By Federal Agents [Updated] Federal agents from the U.S. Marshals Service, the DEA and the IRS descended on Oaksterdam University sometime after 7 a.m. this morning, effectively shutting down the cannabis industry trade school school
SF News On Second Thought, The District Attorney Is Totally Cool With Marijuana After issuing the memo that declared all marijuana sales illegal and scared the crap out of local pot smokers last week, District Attorney Gascón would like to make it clear that his office
SF News All Medical Marijuana In S.F. Might Be Doomed SFist has been hearing rumblings from the medical marijuana community of late that that first wave of dispensary closures by the feds was just the beginning, and there were more closures to come.
SF News Rad Old Couple Cited For Smoking Pot In Castro Plaza Robert Blitzer, 66, and his husband, Xenry, 63, were sitting in the Castro Plaza on March 11, doing what every honorable, Goddess-fearing San Franciscan should be doing on a warm weekend day of
SF News Marijuana Found In Peanut Butter At Oakland Aiport Oakland Airport TSA security screeners wasted both time and money busting a guy for carrying a stash of marijuana inside a jar of Skippy peanut butter on Sunday. "Nico Melendez, a TSA spokesman,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joan Rivers Smokes Pot On TV! We can hardly believe the awesomeness of today's palate cleanser, which comes to us straight from the airwaves via Buzzfeed. On the latest episode of the reality show Joan & Melissa, Joan Rivers
SF News Do-Gooder Finds Two-Pound Bag of Weed, Turns It Over To Police A concerned citizen with absolutely no sense of the value of good marijuana spotted an attended bag on the sidewalk near a Richmond District bus stop early Wednesday. Upon inspection, he saw a
SF News Five Busloads Of Bay Area Teens Busted With Enormous Drug Cache Five busloads of Bay Area high school students bound for a ski trip in Utah were busted by cops in Elko, Nevada for a truly impressive drug stash that looks to amount to
SF News TSA Finds Weed in Rapper's Luggage, Lets Him Keep It Anyway What's up with TSA inspectors these days? First they're leaving inappropriate notes for ladies who travel with (ahem) electronic accessories and now Freddie Gibbs, a rapper from Gary, Indiana, received the following note
SF News Attorney General Insists Marijuana Enforcement Still A Low Priority. Wtvr. "No really," attorney general Eric Holder seems to be saying. "We still don't care that much about medical marijuana enforcement. But California's got their own stuff to deal with." In a House Judiciary
SF News Deplorable Teens Busted After Knocking Off Richmond District Medical Marijuana Dealer Two late-stage teenagers from Alameda are in police custody after raiding the Richmond district home of a medical marijuana distributor Saturday afternoon. According to police, 18-year-old Kevin Carey Harvell II pulled a handgun
SF News Members of Congress Pen Strongly Worded Letter About Medical Marijuana Crackdown Nine House representatives, including Alameda County Democrat Barbara Lee, penned a letter to President Barack Obama last week condemning the Justice Department's recently announced crackdown on the medical marijuana industry in California. They
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Artist Creates Snoop Dogg Portrait Out of Joints, Buds San Francisco-based mosaic artist Jason Mecier has gained some critical attention for clever, timely portraits of celebrities like this one of Taylor Lautner made out of Red Vines; and this one of Rosie
SF News Feds Send Threatening Letters to S.F. Pot Clubs [Updated] Just days after we hear about a federal crackdown, via the IRS, on several large California marijuana dispensaries, we learn that three Mission-based pot club landlords received strongly worded letters from the Department
SF News Feds Don't Condone Oakland Pot Dispensary, But Want $2.5M in Back Taxes The largest of the medical marijuana operations in Oakland one of the largest in the world, and the largest on the West Coast, in fact is Harborside Health Center, which posted $22 million
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Free Mary Jane Sample Today Is Mary Jane an outdated term? Oh well, we like saying it, at least in blog post headlines. FunCheapSF, always the first to know about such fun events as these, informs us that
SF News Marijuana Mugging Outside S.F. Dispensary Over on the 900 block of Geary Street, around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a man was robbed of over a pound of medical marijuana while leaving a dispensary. (Presumably The Divinity
SF News Bystanders Rush to Grab Free Weed Spilled From a Crashed Truck in San Jose It goes to show you: Everybody smokes weed! A truck loaded with bags of kind bud crashed near the Oakridge Mall yesterday in South San Jose, and, not wanting to get nabbed by
