SF News One Year After Raid, Oaksterdam University Still Not Charged With Anything A year ago today, Oakland's pioneering Oaksterdam University was raided by DEA agents. Its vocal founder, millionaire activist Richard Lee, also saw his home raided, and subsequently he stepped down as leader of
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Learn The Business Of Growing Cannabis In S.F. The wildly successful Yerba Buena Community Benefit District’s Arts and Dialogue series gets stoney on Thursday with a panel discussion devoted to the business of growing cannabis in San Francisco. What are
SF News Ammiano Suggests Marijuana Industry Be Policed By Alcohol Board [Updated] There are now rumblings in Sacramento about how the state might start regulating the largely unregulated medical marijuana industry, and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has an idea: Let the ABC do it. The state's
Arts & Entertainment The Bloom Room, A New Pot Club Opens On Jessie Street Look at that. Isn't it gorgeous. Darwin Bell snapped this shot of the exterior of the city's newest pot club (opened in late February), The Bloom Room, over on Jesse Street. The Bloom
SF News Hostage Situation At Bayview Marijuana Grow Concludes With One Arrest [Update] A robbery occurred this morning sometime after 3 a.m. involving three masked suspects at a marijuana grow on the 2100 block of Jennings Street in the Bayview. Police were called to the
SF News CA Supreme Court Appears Likely to Allow Cities to Ban Pot Dispensaries In the ongoing war over medical marijuana, and the legal gray area in which it now sits in the state and several others, California advocates may be looking at one losing battle in
SF News Berkeley Pot Dispensary Reopens In New Location After Fed Shutdown As the quiet war rages on between the Justice Department and the medical marijuana community in California, one casualty of the recent crackdown has turned out to still have some life left in
SF News Obama Makes Some More Vague Remarks About Pot Not Being Priority You all remember 2009, when stoners the nation over rejoiced to the sound of President Obama implying that the war on pot was over? Well, we all know how that turned out in
SF News Obama Administration Considers Weed Crackdowns in Colorado, Washington Following on the statewide crackdown by the Justice Department on medical marijuana in California, the Obama Administration is signaling that they're not going to sit by and watch while the entire states of
SF News Big Oakland Pot Dispensary Gets Reprieve From Fed Crackdown Harborside Health Center, which is the Bay Area's, and the nation's, largest medical marijuana dispensary, has been under threat of eviction and government seizure since July, when U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag served
SF News City of Oakland Sues Federal Government on Behalf of Pot Club The City of Oakland has officially joined the fight to preserve medical marijuana in Northern California. Last week they filed suit against the federal government on behalf of Harborside Health Center, the largest
SF News Corte Madera Bans Marijuana Dispensaries, Again Corte Madera is really concerned about the pot clubs! The Corte Madera town council is expected to vote on a new moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries to replace a previous moratorium that was
SF News Weed Withdrawal Just As Irritating As Quitting Cigarettes, Study Finds A recent study out of the University of New South Wales in Australia has found that habitual marijuana users who try to quit their weed smoking habit may experience many of the same
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: The Vapor Room's Farewell Party Tonight, after an eight year run in the Lower Haight, the Vapor Room Collective will close it's doors due to pressure from the feds. But the beloved cannabis dispensary isn't just disappearing in
SF News Los Angeles Outlaws Pot Dispensaries, May Not Be Able to Enforce Ban The L.A. City Council just voted 14-0 to ban marijuana dispensaries in the city, and it's a move that may or may not mean anything for the 900 or so dispensaries that
SF News Pot Advocates To Protest Obama's Oakland Visit Today President Barack Obama will make an appearance at the Fox Theater today — located in the heart of Oaksterdam, the East Bay's cannabis community — for a fundraiser. While the president shills for dollars for
SF News Bay Area's Largest Pot Club Threatened With Federal Seizure We suppose it was only a matter of time before U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag got around to serving her latest boilerplate warning to Harborside Health Center, which bills itself as "the largest
SF News The Vapor Room To Close Under Pressure From Feds The latest victim of U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag's crusade against medical marijuana dispensaries is the Lower Haight's oft-celebrated Vapor Room Cooperative. As owner Martin Olive tells Haighteration, the Feds have been tightening
SF News Another Couple Blows Up Their Apartment Attempting To Make Hash Blowing up your apartment while making hash oil is the new blowing up your apartment cooking crystal meth, apparently. Recall back in February, when a 33-year-old medical marijuana patient blew up her fiancé's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oliver Stone To Gavin Newsom: 'We Have The Best Weed In The World' Oliver Stone dropped in to Current TV's studios to rap about his new movie Savages with anti-Sacramento Lite Gov Gavin Newsom last week. The film is a new piece of "hypothetical fiction" about
SF News Another Pot Dispensary Down, This Time Due to Fire Remember that fire the other week that gutted the apartment building at Duboce and Valencia? Well, it took with it a neighboring marijuana dispensary, 208 Valencia Street Caregivers, which sustained damage though it
SF News Another Bid for Medical Marijuana Access Rejected By Federal Court A suit brought by four disabled Orange County residents arguing that the closures of marijuana dispensaries in Lake Forest and Costa Mesa violated their rights to access to treatment under the ADA was
SF News 'I Want A Marijuana Dispensary Near My Kids' School,' Says Berkeley Mom Like many local medical marijuana dispensaries, the Berkeley Patients Group officially closed its doors last week under pressure from U.S. Attorney General Melinda Haag. For Haag, who's been on a bit of
SF News Supes, Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally At City Hall Over Fed Crackdown Six members of the Board of Supervisors, along with marijuana activists, dispensary owners, and representatives from George Gascon's and Dennis Herrera's offices gathered for a rally on the steps of City Hall yesterday
SF News Oaksterdam University Allegedly Targeted For Founder's Prop 19 Support Remember Proposition 19? The 2010 California ballot initiative would have legalized marijuana for anyone of drinking age and allowed local governments to regulate pot sales themselves. The initiative failed with support from only
