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Gavin Newsom And Marijuana Task Force Want To Regulate Legal Pot-Grows Like Breweries

A Blue Ribbon Commission with a mission to create a policy framework for the eventual (inevitable) legalization of marijuana in California has just released a new "Pathways Report." The report gets specific for

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Marijuana Edibles 'Get Baked Sale' Canceled After City Crackdown

A bake sale for medical marijuana-laced edibles scheduled for August 1 has been quashed by the SF Department of Public Health after a new supervisor there ruled that such events aren't legal, as

Arts & Entertainment

Video: A Bunch Of Russian Hill Ladies Have A Pot Party

It's not quite as funny as the pot party scene from 9 to 5, but these ladies in an apartment in Russian Hill, calling themselves Synchronicity Sisters, have been having these events, almost

Eaze, The Uber of Pot Delivery, Partners With S.F.'s SPARC Dispensary

A new service that delivers marijuana to the door of anyone with a medical marijuana card, via mobile app, just partnered with major San Francisco pot dispensary SPARC in order to create a

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

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

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

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

Seven San Jose Pot Clubs, One More In S.F., Threatened With Closure By Feds

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag is still on her crusade to clean up the medical marijuana scene around the Bay Area, and the latest chapter in the saga features at least seven letters

War on Drugs Won By Marijuana? Business Insider Says Yes

This is what the future could look like. Photo: Sparc This week, Business Insider says that the marijuana legalization effort has already, for all intents and purposes, won the war on drugs in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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