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Arts & Entertainment Get Your Free Mary Jane Sample Today Is Mary Jane an outdated term?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
SF News Remembering Tupac: Chicken Wings and Blunts Not necessarily local, but in breaking OG West Coast news, friends of behemoth rapper Tupac Shakur have just come out with the details of Tupac’s memorial. According to rapper Young Noble: “[We]
SF News City Councilman in Fort Bragg Shot and Killed After Stumbling Onto Marijuana Farm Fort Bragg City Councilman Jere Melo, 69, was shot and killed Saturday morning as he and another man hiked into the woods about four miles from town, near Highway 1. They were investigating
Arts & Entertainment City's Favorite Marijuana-infusing Chocolatier Now a Cool T-Shirt Dolores Park's Truffle Guy has delivered his special brand of magic to jonesing park denizens for quite some time. Now you can get a t-shirt featuring the noted drug dealer, making you the
SF News Naked Woman Armed with Gun and High on Drugs Threatens Super 8 Motel Staff Early Sunday morning, a nude woman armed with a gun and high on marijuana and ecstasy confronted a motel clerk at the Super 8 in Vacaville. The lunacy started around 2:40 a.
SF News Marin Authorities Destroy Nearly 13,000 Pot Plants On Thursday, Marin authorities eradicated an estimated 13,000 baby marijuana plants found on Bolinas Ridge near Kent Lake. Marin Municipal Water District, National Park Service, California Department of Justice and U.S.
SF News Police Raid Nine Homes In SF and Daly City, Seize $450K in Pot The San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force conducted a coordinated raid of nine homes Monday, in both S.F. and Daly City, all of which are thought to be connected to the same
SF News 'Hippie Hill' 4:20 Festivities Turn Ugly During the annual ode of marijuana at 4:20 on 4/20/2011 in Golden Gate Park, hordes of stoners gathered at Sharon Meadow to partake in some kind bud. But the party
SF News Also in Vallejo: 5th Graders Eat Pot Cookie, Don't Know What Hit Them Because we can't let a children-ingesting-drugs story go untouched, we bring you word of another of a near epidemic of incidents of grade-school kids finding a tasty dessert treat, eating it, and falling
SF News City of Oakland Warned By Feds About Marijuana Law It shouldn't come as a shock that Oakland's recently enacted ordinance allowing for large-scale medical marijuana grow-houses violates federal law, but now a U.S. attorney has written the City a strongly worded
SF News Pot Smoking Is Not for Infants The image/idea of a pot-smoking baby might be amusing -- even hilarious -- to many, but this is no laughing matter, kids. A SoCal couple has been charged with cruelty to a
SF News San Mateo Teen Impersonates Cops, Sells Pot A mischievous San Mateo teen tried and failed multiple times to extort local drivers by impersonating a police officer and threatening them with speeding tickets. 19 year old Alex Grabovetsky used a siren
SF News Oakland City Council backs off plan for wholesale pot farms Apparently spooked by warnings from the Alameda County DA that city officials could face prosecution if they approved permits for possibly-illegal, "industrial-scale pot farms", the Oakland City Council voted 7-1 to put the
SF News Another Day, Another Inane Pot Club Raid In an effort to waste time, or whatever, Santa Clara County authorities on Thursday busted several medical marijuana clubs selling weed in the county. "An official with the County Special Enforcement Team said
misc A Handy Guide to Prop 19 Speaking of stoned all the time, are you having a hard time figuring out how the heck you're supposed to vote on this Proposition 19 thing? Don't worry, because Katie Baker cuts through
misc Local Pot Store Dispensing Love for the Giants We all had a good laugh at the reporter from Texas who discovered "there's some people smokin' weed!" near McCovey Cove before the World Series, but it wouldn't be a hilarious stereotype if
SF News Mexican Officials Burn 134 Tons of Marijuana While we hesitate to post anything that might distract Timmy before tonight's game, Mexican security forces seized 134 tons of marijuana after a shootout Monday night. On Wednesday evening Mexican Officials near Tijuana
misc Take a Virtual Tour of Oakland's Pot Manufacturing Future by Andrew Dalton A month ago, we took you inside the Apple store of Pot Dispensaries, now The Atlantic brings us a preview of something more like the Ikea of weed growers. Behold,
SF News Two Men Sought In Connection With Fremont Murder Alameda Country authorities are looking for Manuel Trujillo, 62, and Mohammed Kahn, 47, who allegedly kidnapped and killed 27-year-old Francisco Lopez "after mistakenly believing Lopez wanted to steal their marijuana." According to AP/
SF News 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
