SF News What's Going On Here, Marijuana Plant In Front of Walgreens? While we head over to Spear and Mission to check out the authenticity of this apparent marijuana plant, please read what a tipster sent to us: There's a giant marijuana plant that looks
SF News North Beach Won't Allow Pot Club On Porn Strip Telegraph Hill resident Bruce Rossignol thought it would be a grand idea to liven things up on North Beach's ho-hum Broadway strip. Bruce Rossignol planned to open up a pot dispensary on near
SF News Need a Little Extra Money? Grow Pot. Young, twentysomething Californians with advanced degrees are figuring out what Nancy Botwin has known since her husband died: growing and selling marijuana on the black market in a down economy is a swell
SF News Pot Dispensary to Open in Rincon Hill Rincon Hill will get a bit more mellow soon (which is a good thing for some people in the area) when the tony San Francisco neighborhood gets its very own pot club. A
misc Relevant Twitter Update of the Day Via Brittney Gilbert (she's had some good ones lately!): "San Francisco: The clerk was smoking pot *in* the market while on the clock."
SF News Offensively Named Marijuana Wins Pot Award The medicinal, confounding, self-righteous, and needlessly macho world of ardent pot smoking had some sort of award ceremony this past weekend. The High Times San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup held their first-ever competition
SF News Oakland A.M. Fire Reveals Pot House A house fire was reported a little before 7 a.m. this morning at a house on the 3900 block of Angelo Avenue in Oakland. During the blaze, neighbors and firefighters learned that
misc Relevant Twitter Update of the Day Via Beth Spotswood: "just offered a handful of weed by a toothless man."
SF News Breaking: Californians Like Legal Marijuana CBS and SurveyUSA conducted a poll on April 20 (get it?), asking 500 voters across California for their views on legal weed. The results? It discovered that "56 percent of Californians support legalization
SF News More High School Kids Get Way More High Than They Bargained For From Pot Brownies Seriously, one of our favorite beats here at SFist is the kids-eating-marijuana-baked-goods-and-ending-up-in-the-hospital beat. (See also: the story of the fifth graders and the Fruity Pebbles bars.) The latest case of some high schoolers
misc Ask SFist: Best SF Bar for Marijuana Smoking? We received two queries today regarding pot, asking us if we knew of any safe bars/clubs in San Francisco in which smoke mary jane. To which we say, The Fillmore circa 1972.
SF News Chron Writer Arrested for Growing Weed In Weed Oh no! Tom Sienstra, cherished Chronicle writer and host of the much-loved Great Outdoors With Tom Stienstra, was pinched last week by the fuzz for growing marijuana for sale. Over 60 pot plants,
SF News Potheads to Descend En Masse on Cow Palace The International Cannabis & Hemp Expo comes to the Cow Palace for the first time on April 17th and 18th, featuring a multitude of booths to educate you as to the wonders of
SF News Student Group to Rally for Marijuana Legalization, Say University Police Make Arrests for Medicinal Use As efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use are underway in Sacramento and possibly on the ballot, a large gathering of student activists from across the country will convene in SF this weekend.
SF News High as a Kite: SF Man Attacks US Airways Crew by Rachel Brodsky The Associate Press reported today that a San Francisco man named Kinman Chan, 30, had been accused of assaulting the crew of a US Airways flight on its way to
Arts & Entertainment Prohibition: Then and Now by Rachel Brodsky The age of Prohibition (1920-1933) was a relatively unsuccessful period in American history where the American government sought to ban all alcoholic beverages from being exported, imported or sold. And
SF News Bomb Squad In Richmond Blows Up Dude's Bong Oh gee, this is rich. A "tense" four hour standoff in the city of Richmond last night led to the destruction of some dude's bong. "A police bomb squad safely disposed of what
misc What's Going On Here, Marijuana Enthusiast? Just your average man taking his bong out for a stroll on 16th Street in the Mission.
SF News Marijuana Legalization On 2010 Ballot? Enough signatures have been collected to put marijuana on the 2010 ballot. The effort to get enough John Hancocks, SF Chron reports, "cost more than $1 million." The proposal? Glad you asked. It
SF News Major NorCal Suburban Pot Ring Busted by Feds Obama's Justice Department may be loosening up about medical marijuana, but right on cue the DEA just busted a huge marijuana grow operation that was running out of dozens of half-million-dollar homes in
SF News 1-Year-Old Gets Totally Stoned On His Birthday Check it, check it... A Vacaville boy was about to turn one last week, yo. He and his cuzzes and his parents were going to kick back and chill at a park with
SF News Another Sunset Pot Bust More than 100 pot plants were found yesterday afternoon, near St. Ignatius College Preparatory School. This is part of the city's "dismantling of a large-scale pot-growing operation in the city," according to reports.
SF News Former Pot Club Owner Sentenced to Six Months Of Sitting Home and Getting Stoned Former SF pot club owner Kenneth Hayes (pictured here in 1999), whose Sixth Street dispensary, the Harm Reduction Center, was raided by federal agents in 2002, was sentenced to six months of home
SF News Update RE: Police Cracking Down on Dolo Park Drinking We made it a personal mission to check out the sitch in Dolores Park this past Friday afternoon, following on reports of a police crackdown on "illegal" drinking in the park, and we
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser, 420-Style In light of yesterday's revelation (via the SFBG) that high school kids in SF aren't smoking nearly as much weed as they did a decade ago, we offer up this palate cleanser, featuring
