SF News SoMa Pot Dispensary Vows To Challenge Feds HopeNet, S.F.'s oldest continually operating medical marijuana dispensary at 223 Ninth Street, is not going to take a threat from the federal government lying down. Owners Catherine and Steve Smith are
SF News Oakland's Oaksterdam University Shut Down By Federal Agents [Updated] Federal agents from the U.S. Marshals Service, the DEA and the IRS descended on Oaksterdam University sometime after 7 a.m. this morning, effectively shutting down the cannabis industry trade school school
SF News On Second Thought, The District Attorney Is Totally Cool With Marijuana After issuing the memo that declared all marijuana sales illegal and scared the crap out of local pot smokers last week, District Attorney Gascón would like to make it clear that his office
SF News All Medical Marijuana In S.F. Might Be Doomed SFist has been hearing rumblings from the medical marijuana community of late that that first wave of dispensary closures by the feds was just the beginning, and there were more closures to come.
SF News Sacramento Judge Tells Pot Advocates To Shove It A federal judge in Sacramento has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a marijuana dispensary up there that argued that the federal government broke its promise in launching its recent crackdown on the medical
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joan Rivers Smokes Pot On TV! We can hardly believe the awesomeness of today's palate cleanser, which comes to us straight from the airwaves via Buzzfeed. On the latest episode of the reality show Joan & Melissa, Joan Rivers
SF News CA Supreme Court To Weigh In On Pot Dispensaries The California Supreme Court voted unanimously yesterday to consider both the continued conflict between state and federal authorities over medical marijuana, and whether local governments have the authority to ban dispensaries despite the
SF News Marin Medical Alliance, One of the Oldest Pot Dispensaries in the State, Closes Its Doors The Marin Medical Alliance, which was founded in 1990 as the Hemp Renaissance Council of West Marin and opened at 6 School Street in Fairfax in 1996, was forced to close over the
SF News Pot Dispensary Hosts Pot Giveaway As It Shuts Its Doors A marijuana dispensary near Sacramento, under pressure from the federal government during the current crackdown on medical marijuana in California, is hosting a going-out-of-business party of sorts Friday complete with pot giveaways for
SF News Attorney General Insists Marijuana Enforcement Still A Low Priority. Wtvr. "No really," attorney general Eric Holder seems to be saying. "We still don't care that much about medical marijuana enforcement. But California's got their own stuff to deal with." In a House Judiciary
SF News Three S.F. Pot Clubs Close on Eve of Federal Deadline Three San Francisco medical marijuana dispensaries -- Divinity Tree, Medithrive, and Mr. Nice Guy -- closed over the weekend after receiving threatening letters from federal prosecutors, due to their proximity to schools and
SF News Southern California Appeals Court Rules That Cities Can Ban Pot Dispensaries The Fourth District Court of Appeal in Riverside, California has ruled in favor of the City of Riverside, upholding its right to enforce a citywide ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. The case stems
SF News Deplorable Teens Busted After Knocking Off Richmond District Medical Marijuana Dealer Two late-stage teenagers from Alameda are in police custody after raiding the Richmond district home of a medical marijuana distributor Saturday afternoon. According to police, 18-year-old Kevin Carey Harvell II pulled a handgun
SF News Medical Marijuana Patients, Dispensaries File Suit Against Feds Over Crackdown Well, the opening volley by the Justice Department going after the medical marijuana trade in California was met first with an over-net return in the form of a letter from a group of
SF News Members of Congress Pen Strongly Worded Letter About Medical Marijuana Crackdown Nine House representatives, including Alameda County Democrat Barbara Lee, penned a letter to President Barack Obama last week condemning the Justice Department's recently announced crackdown on the medical marijuana industry in California. They
SF News Senior Citizens Hospitalized After Eating Pot Brownies at Funeral Fast on the heels of the statewide federal crackdown on the medical marijuana industry, the Orange County Register finds not one but TWO reasons to remain up-in-arms over the rampant abuses of the
SF News Make No Mistake: The Feds Are Coming After Medical Marijuana [Updated] For those naysayers who want to believe that this new round of letters to a few S.F. pot clubs and the IRS audit of a huge dispensary in Oakland are isolated incidents,
SF News Feds Send Threatening Letters to S.F. Pot Clubs [Updated] Just days after we hear about a federal crackdown, via the IRS, on several large California marijuana dispensaries, we learn that three Mission-based pot club landlords received strongly worded letters from the Department
SF News Feds Don't Condone Oakland Pot Dispensary, But Want $2.5M in Back Taxes The largest of the medical marijuana operations in Oakland one of the largest in the world, and the largest on the West Coast, in fact is Harborside Health Center, which posted $22 million
SF News Marijuana Mugging Outside S.F. Dispensary Over on the 900 block of Geary Street, around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a man was robbed of over a pound of medical marijuana while leaving a dispensary. (Presumably The Divinity
SF News Pot Club 'Clustering' a Problem? The Planning Commission has a pile of pending applications for new medical marijuana dispensaries, and the president of the commission, Christine Olague, is putting pressure on the Board of Supervisors to relax rules
SF News City of Oakland Warned By Feds About Marijuana Law It shouldn't come as a shock that Oakland's recently enacted ordinance allowing for large-scale medical marijuana grow-houses violates federal law, but now a U.S. attorney has written the City a strongly worded
SF News Another Day, Another Inane Pot Club Raid In an effort to waste time, or whatever, Santa Clara County authorities on Thursday busted several medical marijuana clubs selling weed in the county. "An official with the County Special Enforcement Team said
SF News CNN Discovers Just How Easy It Is to Get a Medical Marijuana Card Oh, this is amusing: CNN does some hard-hitting reporting today on the topic of how easy it is get a medical marijuana card, and whether we should all be outraged that "90 to
misc Take a Look Inside SPARC, the Apple Store of Pot Dispensaries A couple of weeks ago, a new medical marijuana dispensary swung open its doors in SoMa, and with its sleek design and unique retail experience will undoubtedly be a game-changer for the local
