SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Flore's New Owners Hope To Turn It Into A Cannabis Cafe (Eventually) So much for keeping things the same. The new owners of the Castro's historic Cafe Flore hope to eventually shake things up at the indoor-outdoor restaurant — partially by turning the corner spot into
SF News Video: Black Market Weed Growers Suffer As Medical Growers Go Corporate With Legalization In the wake of the passage of Prop 64 last week, Vice News has done a piece titled "A Tale of Two Growers," contrasting the fates of Steve DeAngelo, the hugely successful founder
SF News Mayor Lee Proposes Limits On Pot Grows In Industrial Spaces Looking ahead to the full, free-wheeling retail marketplace for recreational marijuana that will be hitting California in just over a year, Mayor Ed Lee introduced legislation Tuesday that would require pot growers to
SF News SF Pot Task Force Recommends 1% Tax, Legal Pot Smoking Lounges, And More Pot smoking lounges for those 21 and over? Weed smoking areas or tents at permitted events? Those are some of the items on the to-do list created by San Francisco’s Cannabis Legalization
SF News Marijuana Totally Legal In California, Dudes; Prop 64 Passes As was well predicted by polls, Prop 64, the legalization of recreational marijuana has passed in California, with KTLA reporting that the initiative will pass. The AP is saying that only 20 percent
SF News If Prop 64 Passes You Can Start Legally Smoking Weed Right Away, But Employers Can Still Fire You For It Voters heading to the polls tomorrow face a lengthy ballot and a host of pressing choices on any number of important issues. Honestly, it's enough to stress out even the most mellow of
SF News When Would The 2016 Ballot Measures Go Into Effect? An Analysis [Update: This post has been updated with additional detail on whether you can keep a pot plant on your front porch.] Fans (and foes!) of marijuana, soda, cigarettes, plastic bags, and pornography have
SF News San Jose Bans Recreational Pot Sales Ahead Of State Vote On Legalization San Jose is getting out in front of California Proposition 64, which, if passed, would legalize recreational marijuana in the Golden State. Recalling the headache of medical marijuana legalization two decades ago — "At
SF News Pot Grow Investigated As Source Of Loma Fire #LomaFire [update] 10 miles NW of Morgan Hill (Santa Clara County) is now 1085 acres and 5% contained. https://t.co/7WH7ZEHR5G pic.twitter.com/YeL5em6CmH— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) September 27, 2016
SF News Women Accused Of Holding Four Brothers As Slaves At Northern California Pot Farm In a tale straight out of a Northern California nightmare, two women stand accused of kidnapping four brothers and forcing them to work as slaves on a marijuana farm near the Sierra mountain
SF News Ninth Circuit Rules Medical Marijuana Card Holders Can't Buy Guns Possessing a medical marijuana card may allow you to buy, posses, and consume marijuana in one of 25 states (plus DC!), but as CBS 5 reports, it also comes with some limitations: Namely,
Arts & Entertainment Competition Ran High At Saturday's 420 Games On any given Golden Gate Park Saturday morning, you’ll find people already out enjoying some marijuana, as well as people already out for their morning jog. There is never much Venn diagram
SF News Bourgeois Meets 420 At SF's First Exclusive Marijuana Country Club Love getting stoned, but hate being around common folk while high? Wish you could just blaze and read The Nob Hill Gazette in peace, but annoying parkgoers always asking to borrow your lighter?
SF News Ninth Circuit Rules Feds Can't Prosecute Medical Marijuana Sellers Complying With State Law In a new ruling shoring up the strength of state laws permitting the growing, selling, and possession of medical marijuana, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that federal prosecutors can not
SF News Oregon Police Seize Porta-Potty Filled With Weed Porta-potties always present a surprise of some kind, usually disgusting and terrible ones. But weirdly, in Rogue River, Oregon, the surprise was a shitton of pot plants. The AP reports that local police
SF News New Lower Haight Medical Pot Dispensary Has Local Merchants Bickering, Possibly Lobbing Threats When local medical cannabis dispensary SPARC opened its elegant glass doors in SoMa six years ago, it was greeted with design awards and a flattering nickname for its chic aesthetic and professional atmosphere:
SF News Report: San Franciscans Smoke The Most Weed In The Country Congrats, everyone, we did it. Residents of San Francisco smoke more weed than those of any other city in the country. According to data released today by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monterey-Based Marijuana Edible Company Sued For Fraud By Investor A Northern California medical marijuana edibles maker, Altai Brands, is being sued for securities fraud by one of its investors. BuzzFeed has the news about the July 18 lawsuit, which accuses CEO Robert
SF News Day Around The Bay: Police Destroy 38,133 Marijuana Plants Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. Real estate company Paragon just released its July report
SF News New Study Says Pot Could Protect Brain Cells From Alzheimer's Forget everything you think you know about the effects of marijuana. A study published in the journal Nature proposes that THC, the main active ingredient in the devil's weed, may help prevent Alzheimer's
SF News Puff, Puff, Vote: Recreational Marijuana Will Be On California's November Ballot Californians will once again have the chance to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The Sacramento Bee reports that the Secretary of State’s Office yesterday verified that supporters had turned in the required
SF News Elon Musk Wants To Send You To Mars By 2024 Elon Musk went full-on epistemological at Recode's Codecon conference, suggesting that we might be in a videogame kind of simulation! Wow! This, you might know, is a theory originally posited by Descartes, then
SF News The Blunt Truth About SF's 'Pot-Friendly Gym' Stoners who follow local news may have heard some smoke blowing around lately about a pot-friendly “cannabis gym” set to open soon in San Francisco. Intrigued by the notion of ‘diesel’-powered workouts,
SF News Stoners Can Now Be Even Lazier With Introduction Of Keurig-Like Vaporizer Have you ever wanted to get absolutely ripped but, you know, it was just, like, too hard? Enter CannaCloud, a new Keurig-like vaporizer in development by Boston startup CannaKorp. The device employs single-use
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Councilmember Wants To Erase Marijuana-Related Offenses From Criminal Records Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. An 80-year-old woman who was facing eviction from the
