SF News DEA Can't Go After Medical Marijuana, Says Congress The House voted late Thursday night to stop allowing the Drug Enforcement Administration to spend money going after medical marijuana producers and sellers in states where medicinal mary jane is legal. An appropriations
SF News Bumbling Drug Runners Are Now Just Polluting Beaches With Weed And Garbage In Pescadero, California Monday morning, Sheriff's deputies found a panga boat and a Chevrolet SUV abandoned on a state beach. Both were loaded with an unspecified but "large quantity" of marijuana. Update: the
SF News 4/20 Cleanup Costs Were Incredibly High This Year Due to extra police staffing, Muni re-routing, and trash cleanup, the cost of cleaning up after the annual April 20th smoke-out/celebration in Golden Gate Park soared to over $100,000 this year.
SF News Park Station Police Captain Greg Corrales Still Very Anti-Weed While simultaneously touting the impending crackdown by city leaders on this year's 4/20 craziness, Park Station police captain Greg Corrales included in his typically amusing Park Station Newsletter this week an Associated
SF News Enterprising Teen Facing Deportation After Selling Pot Brownies To Pay For Prom Dress 19-year-old Yuba City Saira Munoz is facing deportation after staging an illicit bake sale to pay for her prom dress. According to CBS, Munoz was a senior at River Valley High School when
SF News Refrigerator Full Of Weed Blazes In Oakland A blazing refrigerator full of weed sent area firefighters to an East Oakland warehouse this morning, but so far, the owner of the pot and the cause of the fire remain a mystery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You Used To Be Able To Buy Weed At The Belmont Baskin Robbins Prompting a barrage of uninspired "32nd flavor" puns from local media outlets, a rather inspired Belmont Baskin Robbins employee was busted this week for selling marijuana on the job. Which makes sense since
SF News Mountain View Teens Are All Hopped Up On Drugs At School These Days According to Mountain View police, students as young as 13 years old have been spotted using and dealing drugs at Mountain View High School in Silicon Valley. After one student overdosed last month
SF News Planning OKs Pot Clubs Opening Closer To Schools The San Francisco Planning Commission voted Thursday to shrink the buffer zone required between new marijuana dispensaries and schools from 1,000 feet to 600 feet. As the Chron reports, the commissioners voted
SF News Southwest Airlines Flight Diverted Due To Hash-Smoking Passenger Praising Jesus A man who admitted to smoking purple hash before boarding a Southwest Airlines flight out of Seattle was arrested on Tuesday after his unruly behavior forced his flight to land in Portland. According
SF News Dogs Make Terrible Stoners, Are Probably Mooching All Your Weed Stash As marijuana use continues to become more and more mainstream, the number of dogs who are accidentally getting high is also on the rise. And, contrary to what you thought in college, dogs
SF News 'Lemon Skunk' Triumphs At Pot Competition The nation has waited with bated breath, and the results are in: a strain of weed called Lemon Skunk has taken the gold at the 10th Annual Emerald Cup, the only outdoor organic
SF News 55 Percent of Californians Now Want Pot Legal In a new Field Poll, and for the first time, officially, in state history, a clear majority of Californians say they support the full legalization of marijuana. The poll, conducted between Nov. 14
SF News Market For Legal Marijuana Could Be Worth $10 Billion By 2018 A new report says that the legal marijuana trade is estimated at $1.43 billion for 2013, and that that number could be 64 percent higher by next year, making it the fastest
SF News Gavin Newsom To Fire Up New Weed Legalization Team Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom will be the new point man on the ACLU's marijuana legalization task force, the civil rights group announced yesterday. Newsom, who reminds everyone he is not a smoker himself,
SF News Santa Cruz Quickly Becoming Nation's Capital For Botched Marijuana Crime After this morning's story about a bumbling crew of nautical drugrunners, the stoney seaside hamlet to our South is really making a name for itself as a place where would-be marijuana kingpins can
SF News Weed-Running Boat Capsizes Near Santa Cruz, Surfers Stoked Today in drug mishaps: a 20-foot boat carrying 80 pounds of marijuana capsized offshore near Four Mile Beach in Santa Cruz Monday morning. Investigators believe the seafaring drug runners set off from Mexico,
SF News Obama Administration Backs Off About State Marijuana Laws (Again) It's been a roller coaster ride for marijuana advocates when it comes to the first and second Obama Administrations, but today we are officially, basically, back to where we started in 2009 with
SF News Visitacion Valley Fire Reveals 60 Plant Pot Grow House A two-alarm blaze that broke out on the 100 block of Tucker Avenue at about 12:40 a.m. this morning summoned firefighters to the scene, where they discovered about 60 marijuana plants
SF News Oakland Pot Advocates Take Case to Supreme Court Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the medical marijuana advocacy group based in Oakland, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court to get pot reclassified as a non-dangerous drug. The group previously brought
SF News Charges Dropped in Case of Marin Shopkeeper Who Gave Pot Cookies to Kids Fairfax shopkeeper Lorie Kulberg accidentally dosed three kids and their art teacher with some marijuana-laced cookies earlier this month, but the DA's office has declined to file charges against her because it was
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SF News Black People Arrested for Pot Possession Way More Than Whites If you think the War on Drugs is mostly about "hard" drugs these days, think again. And when it comes to the War on Pot, it's been a futile war to say the
SF News Haight: Man Punched, Kicked For Saying He Dislikes Marijuana We know you're supposed to be pro-marijuana just to be allowed to live in this town, but maybe a couple of pot dealers took things a little too far over the weekend. A
SF News Highly Intoxicated 'Nincompoop' Faces Off With Fire Truck in the Upper Haight If you don't subscribe to the SFPD Park Station newsletter, you probably should. Phrases like "loathsome louse" and terms like "flower child" and "nincompoop" are de rigeur, and what officers have to deal
