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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser, 420-Style: "When You're Low" Ever wonder what musical theater people do when they move to L.A. to make it big? They smoke/eat a lot of pot and make YouTube videos containing big production numbers about
SF News Former Pot Club Owner Sentenced to Six Months Of Sitting Home and Getting Stoned Former SF pot club owner Kenneth Hayes (pictured here in 1999), whose Sixth Street dispensary, the Harm Reduction Center, was raided by federal agents in 2002, was sentenced to six months of home
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser, 420-Style In light of yesterday's revelation (via the SFBG) that high school kids in SF aren't smoking nearly as much weed as they did a decade ago, we offer up this palate cleanser, featuring
SF News Walnut Creek Freaking Out Over First Pot Club Permit The fine folks in the Walnut Creek City Council scheduled an emergency meeting (!) this morning to deal with their very first permit request to open a medical marijuana dispensary. It seems their city
