SF News Jean Quan's Outer Sunset Pot Shop Denied By Supes Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and her husband Dr. Floyd Huen, along with partner Ryan Hudson of The Apothecarium, will have to look elsewhere with their hopes to open a medical marijuana dispensary
SF News Proposed Ballot Measure Would Legalize 'Magic Mushrooms' In California Touting their supposed efficacy in treating certain illnesses, a Monterey County man has proposed a measure for California's ballot that would legalize consumption of psilocybins, aka "magic mushrooms." CBS 5 reports that the
SF News SF Now Has An Office Of Cannabis Step right up, aspiring San Francisco proprietors of dime bags, hash oils, pot brownies, and pre-rolled blunts! Your permit process for the recreational sale of schwag is falling into place, in advance of
SF News Two Pot Dispensaries On One Block Grows Grassroots Opposition In Visitacion Valley The 1,000-foot rule for marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco dictates that pot clubs cannot operate with 1,000 feet of a school, playground, recreational center, or substance abuse treatment facility. (Though the
SF News New CA Marijuana Rules Would Raise Cost Of Pot, Eliminate Free Samples The cost of smoking pot is about to get higher, at least in the near term, if draft rules for California's medical marijuana industry move forward, as appears likely. The proposed rules, which
SF News This Year's 4/20 Will Indeed Be City-Permitted For The 1st Time Marijuana clouds are on the horizon: 4/20 approaches in less than a month, and this year, for the first time in San Francisco, the city will be permitting the annual smoke-in at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bake-Off: Girl Scouts Challenge Weed Dispensary To Fundraiser, Winner Gets The Cookies Capitalizing on an association between their popular cookies and ravenous stoners fostered in 2014 when a 13-year-old Girl Scout started selling Thin Mints and Tagalongs in front of Mission District medical marijuana dispensary
SF News California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom Sends White House Nasty Note Over Possible Pot Crackdown Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco who hopes to become California's Governor in 2018, hasn't been shy about his disgust with the White House, speaking out against GOP policies regarding LGBTQ
SF News Be Paranoid: White House Says DOJ Will Crack Down On States With Recreational Pot White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said WHAT? *devolves into uncontrollable, incredulous coughing* "I do believe you will see greater enforcement of it" Spicer says in response to Q about whether DOJ will
SF News San Francisco's City College Prepares To Fire Up Marijuana Curriculum The hits just keep coming for City College of San Francisco, which earlier this month retained its accreditation for the next seven years and recently received a $9 million earmark from the Board
SF News Welcome To Legal Weed Boom Town, Where Even Former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Is Cashing In These are heady times for San Francisco's existing marijuana industry, a loose affiliation of medical dispensaries, cultivators, and consultants who are still tending to their existing clientele of patients with doctors' recommendations while
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 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 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 Disputed Lower Haight Pot Dispensary Approved For Its Remodel A remodel of the space at 473 Haight Street where an expansion of popular medical cannabis dispensary SPARC had caused some last-minute controversy among some neighbors can proceed, the Planning Commission determined. The
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 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 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
SF News Park Station Captain Says SF Needs To Regulate 4/20 Or Shut It Down Even with a plan to manage SF's formally-informal weed-honoring "holiday" of 4/20, the San Francisco Police Department captain whose station takes the brunt of the event's impact is calling for the city
SF News Stoned Driving Has Actually Killed A Lot Of People In Washington State A lot of people will try to tell you that they can always drive stoned and marijuana makes you a better driver rather than a worse driver, like alcohol, but that actually doesn't
