Arts & Entertainment Video: How 420 (and 4/20) Became A Thing We've given you the history of 420, or 4:20, before, but here, since it's a holiday, is an animated refresher, via Laughing Squid. And yes, it really did all start with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Stoner Foods In San Francisco It's 4/20, y'all, and while hopefully most of you have gotten over the novelty of getting high and won't be joining the throngs at the unsanctioned 4/20 smoke-in on Hippie Hill
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Craft Cannabis Ads Tout 'Appellations, Boutique Genetics' And This Person By the time 4/20 celebrants leave their own brand of fog all over Golden Gate Park, many will have spotted a series of advertisements for a new cannabis brand, one hip to
SF News Pipe Dream: Local Stoner-Rap Icon 'Berner' Fights To Formalize 4/20 On Hippie Hill Hippie Hill, the famed ground zero for high holiday 4/20, will host the annual non-permitted, unsanctioned event next Wednesday, one clouded by marijuana smoke and sometimes poor judgment. Last year's tally of
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Museum Of CA Opening First Mainstream Marijuana Exhibit In US While the only glass many Californians want between them and their marijuana might be in the form of a bong, museum patrons can soon see plenty of pot, presented behind glass like artwork
SF News You Could Be Arrested For Bringing Your Child To 4/20 The SFPD has issued a warning to any stoner parents who were considering letting their kids tag along to the annual smoke-out at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on 4/20: You
SF News CA Lawmaker Proposes Statewide Use Of Roadside Marijuana And Opiate Test Driving while stoned could soon become a much trickier proposition if one California state lawmaker has his way. Republican Sen. Bob Huff of San Dimas (insert Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure joke) yesterday
SF News Supreme Court Won't Allow Oakland To Protect Massive Medical Pot Dispensary The City of Oakland cannot participate, as it has tried to for some years, in a suit to keep the federal government from closing a gargantuan local medical marijuana dispensary. The Chronicle reports
SF News Pot Delivery Services Dealt Legal Blow In SoCal; Emeryville Set To Get Its First Dispensary This week in marijuana news, as the state slides toward the inevitable full-scale legalization of cannabis as soon as next year, and a month after California just hired its first "marijuana czar" to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Harvest Shop, A Bespoke Artisanal Etc. Etc. Dispensary For A Burgeoning Stoner Bourgeoisie For some, an edible marijuana treat is a bite of bliss. For others, it's a ticking panic attack time bomb. But for Harvest Shop, the Richmond's newest boutique medical marijuana dispensary, edibles are
SF News California Hires Its First Marijuana Czar Marijuana policy is often a sticky subject in California, but that may change with the nomination of the state's first ever Marijuana Czar. Governor Jerry Brown yesterday tapped the current Republican head of
SF News Legal Weed Gets Big Endorsement From California Doctors; UCSF Study Calls It A Public Health Threat The effort to legalize marijuana by ballot initiative this year just got a significant boost as the powerful California Medical Association a professional association of some 41,000 physicians statewide formally announced their
SF News NorCal Likes Its Weed Uplifting, While SoCal Wants It Chill California medical marijuana delivery company Eaze served over 100,000 patients in the Golden State this past year in the San Francisco, San Diego, and Orange County markets and data gathered through the
SF News Planning Commission Crushes Sticky-Icky Dreams, Rejects Fisherman's Wharf Pot Dispensary The stoney dreams of bad seafood pungently mixed with the aroma of medical cannabis wafting from the SF-branded fleeces of confused tourists may have died a less-than-glamorous death last week, as the Planning
SF News Smoke OAK: Airport Security Official Busted For Drug Smuggling It seems that for at least one Oakland International Airport security officer the temptation to abuse her position of power was just too (ahem) high. Federal officials have charged the officer with using
SF News Man Refuses To Buy Weed In Dolores Park, Gets Stabbed Multiple Times A 22-year-old man was with a female friend in Dolores Park Tuesday evening when the pair was approached by a group of male suspects, one of whom asked if they wanted to buy
SF News City Marijuana Task Force Named Ahead Of Probable State Legalization This week, the Board of Supervisors' Rules Committee, which consists of Supervisors Scott Wiener, Malia Cohen, and John Avalos, voted to appoint 11 out of 48 applicants to a task force that will
SF News Huge Pot Club Could Be Coming To Downtown SF Downtown San Francisco may be about to get a whole lot more chill. It seems a three-story building for sale at 70 Second Street is being advertised as coming with the permits required
SF News Oakland Startup Pioneers Pot Breathalyzer Soon, pot-doing drivers will have something other than a joint, bong, or vape-thing to wrap their lips around. Oakland-based startup Hound Labs has announced its handheld marijuana breathalyzer, a product developed at UC
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Solidifies Status As Lame Tourist Spot By Opposing Pot Dispensary Members of the Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District would like it known that they are not cool with medical marijuana. Like, no way man. In response to efforts to bring a medical cannabis
SF News Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker To Fund CA Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure Sean Parker plans to give away all his money before he dies, and he's not just going to blow it on whatever drugs he might have been doing in this picture, taken at
SF News Charges Dropped Against Former Crack Kingpin Pulled Over With $100K In Cash A Sonoma County Judge dropped recent charges against former crack kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross today after claims by Ross that his arrest was the result of racial profiling. Ross was arrested last Thursday
SF News Amoeba Records Plays To Type, Applies For Pot Dispensary Permit “There have been, culturally, connections between cannabis and music making [but] that’s not our point,” Amoeba Music co-founder and co-owner Marc Weinstein tells the Daily Californian of the record-pusher's new pot-pushing proposition.
SF News Governor Brown Signs Bills Regulating Medical Marijuana Industry Governor Jerry Brown signed three bills on Friday that mark the state's first move towards regulating the medical marijuana industry. In signing AB 243, AB 266, and SB 643, the governor marked the
SF News Cannabis Study: Indica And Sativa Are Basically The Same Thing At This Point Your friend that only smokes pure indica because sativa 'makes them paranoid?' Scientists have confirmed your sneaking suspicion that these dopers are just blowing smoke. As any serious toker will point out,
