SF News Inner Richmond Dispensary Robbed by Thieves Who Sledgehammered Their Way Through the Windows The Inner Richmond location of the California Street Cannabis Company was hit by burglars in the wee hours Thursday morning, who smashed through the front window with sledgehammers, and got away just as police were arriving.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matt Haney’s ‘Cannabis Cafe’ Bill Cruises to State Assembly Approval Assemblymember Matt Haney’s latest attempt to bring Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes to California just overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly, and hopes to avoid getting vetoed by Gavin Newsom as it was last year.
SF News Debt-Ravaged Dispensary Chain MedMen Closing SF Store, They Claim ‘Temporarily’ The dispensary chain MedMen was once the largest pot shop franchise in the US, but they’re closing their Cow Hollow shop in SF today, amidst widespread closures of their stores across California.
Business & Tech SF Pot Dispensary CEO In Hot Water Over Video Where He Brags About Not Paying His Bills The CEO of the Off The Charts dispensary chain, which has one location in San Francisco, has gone viral for the wrong reasons, in a video where he’s caught blustering to his colleagues he doesn’t pay “these f*cking mom and pops” vendors who supply his stores.
Business & Tech SF Rapper and Local Pot Icon Berner Gets Lengthy New York Times Feature on His Cookies Dispensaries Local rapper Berner has become the Pied Piper of marijuana, with his Cookies brand now boasting 70 dispensaries globally, and he celebrated his recent New York Times profile by posting “I smoked a 10 gram joint in the @nytimes lol!”
SF News Matt Haney Back On It With Trying to Legalize Cannabis Cafes In California Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bid to legalize Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes went up in smoke after a Gavin Newsom veto in October, but Haney has high hopes that the governor will take a kinder view of his new version of the bill.
SF News New Details on Killing of OPD Officer: He Was a Four-Year Veteran, Shooting Was Over Dispensary Robbed Twice Friday We still don’t know the identity of the undercover Oakland police officer who was shot and killed this morning, but at a Friday press conference, we learned he was shot by suspects who robbed an Oakland cannabis dispensary for the second time in one night.
SF News California’s Largest Dispensary Chain Stiiizy Accused of Running Illegal, Underground Pot Shops After an LA Times investigation connected the co-founder of huge dispensary chain Stiiizy to nine illegal marijuana shops in Southern California, a new lawsuit accuses Stiiizy of operating twice as many illegal, unlicensed dispensaries.
SF News City Hall Hits the Brakes On New Pot Dispensary In What Used to Be a Lutheran Church A cannabis dispensary chain wants to start selling weed in what used to be Saint Paulus Lutheran Church at Polk and Sacramento Streets. But the SF Planning Commission refused to grant them a permit Thursday, over concerns they are “Big Canna” formula retail.
SF News SF Cannabis Dispensaries Can Now Have Non-Transparent Roll-Up Security Gates, Which They Couldn’t Before Today I learned that marijuana dispensaries are not allowed to have roll-up security gates that are not transparent. But also today, the SF Planning Commission removed that restriction for pot shops.
SF News Convicted Real Estate Investor Victor Makras’s Son Trying to Open Pot Shop In Ingleside Just after SF real estate magnate Victor Makras was found guilty of bank fraud, we learn his son is trying to turn over a new leaf with a proposed Ingleside-Mission Terrace cannabis dispensary.
SF News Which SF Cannabis Dispensaries are Open, Closed, and Which Ones Deliver The dispensaries are back open! At least, most of them are — here’s a complete list of which marijuana dispensaries are open, closed, and who will deliver to your doorstep.
SF News Union Square Pot Dispensary OK’d After ‘Private Agreement’ with Suspicious Neighbor Chanel A cannabis dispensary got approval to move into the former John Varvatos space in the ‘Luxury Zone’ of the Union Square shopping district, despite months of opposition from its bougie retail neighbors.
SF News Planning Commission Crushes Sticky-Icky Dreams, Rejects Fisherman's Wharf Pot Dispensary The stoney dreams of bad seafood pungently mixed with the aroma of medical cannabis wafting from the SF-branded fleeces of confused tourists may have died a less-than-glamorous death last week, as the Planning
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Solidifies Status As Lame Tourist Spot By Opposing Pot Dispensary Members of the Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District would like it known that they are not cool with medical marijuana. Like, no way man. In response to efforts to bring a medical cannabis
SF News Pot Smokers Not Actually Making It to the Polls? The LA Times blog reports that, via preliminary exit poll data, "only about 1 voter in 10 said that his or her main motivation to vote in this election was Prop. 19." Most
SF News Schwarzenegger: Not Only Can You Not Use Your Welfare Cards at Casinos, You Can't Use Them at Psychics Either In a bold move to stem the inappropriate use of state welfare funds, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued a letter to county welfare directors that state-issued welfare debit cards will no longer work
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
SF News Mother Charged With Endangerment After Kid Eats Pot This morning SFist returns to one of our favorite beats: local children consuming marijuana and other drugs by accident or on purpose. 19-year-old Marisela Guadalupe Barraza of South San Francisco pleaded not guilty
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
SF News Oakland City Council Approves Large-Scale Marijuana Farms The Oakland City Council last night voted to approve the licensing of four large-scale grow operations in industrial areas of the city to supply marijuana to the growing dispensary concerns in Oaksterdam. This
SF News Historical Hideaways: The Both/And Club For your history lesson today, Haighteration takes us to 350 Divisidero, a vacant storefront that once played host to the Ike and Tina Turner Revue and Miles Davis when it lived an earlier
SF News Pot Dispensary to Possibly Open Way Downtown A new medical marijuana facility is looking to open at 527 Howard Street, between First and Second, and the Examiner points out that this would make it the closest weed place to downtown
