SF News What's Going On Here, Marijuana Plant In Front of Walgreens? While we head over to Spear and Mission to check out the authenticity of this apparent marijuana plant, please read what a tipster sent to us: There's a giant marijuana plant that looks
SF News North Beach Won't Allow Pot Club On Porn Strip Telegraph Hill resident Bruce Rossignol thought it would be a grand idea to liven things up on North Beach's ho-hum Broadway strip. Bruce Rossignol planned to open up a pot dispensary on near
SF News Need a Little Extra Money? Grow Pot. Young, twentysomething Californians with advanced degrees are figuring out what Nancy Botwin has known since her husband died: growing and selling marijuana on the black market in a down economy is a swell
SF News Pot Dispensary to Open in Rincon Hill Rincon Hill will get a bit more mellow soon (which is a good thing for some people in the area) when the tony San Francisco neighborhood gets its very own pot club. A
SF News Offensively Named Marijuana Wins Pot Award The medicinal, confounding, self-righteous, and needlessly macho world of ardent pot smoking had some sort of award ceremony this past weekend. The High Times San Francisco Medical Cannabis Cup held their first-ever competition
SF News Oakland A.M. Fire Reveals Pot House A house fire was reported a little before 7 a.m. this morning at a house on the 3900 block of Angelo Avenue in Oakland. During the blaze, neighbors and firefighters learned that
SF News Breaking: Californians Like Legal Marijuana CBS and SurveyUSA conducted a poll on April 20 (get it?), asking 500 voters across California for their views on legal weed. The results? It discovered that "56 percent of Californians support legalization
misc Ask SFist: Best SF Bar for Marijuana Smoking? We received two queries today regarding pot, asking us if we knew of any safe bars/clubs in San Francisco in which smoke mary jane. To which we say, The Fillmore circa 1972.
SF News Chron Writer Arrested for Growing Weed In Weed Oh no! Tom Sienstra, cherished Chronicle writer and host of the much-loved Great Outdoors With Tom Stienstra, was pinched last week by the fuzz for growing marijuana for sale. Over 60 pot plants,
SF News Marijuana Legalization Initiative May Qualify for Ballot Today The LA Times is reporting that the "legalize pot" initiative unleashed by local pot baron, Richard Lee (proud owner and operator of nearby correspondence school, Oaksterdam University), may qualify for the ballot today.
SF News High as a Kite: SF Man Attacks US Airways Crew by Rachel Brodsky The Associate Press reported today that a San Francisco man named Kinman Chan, 30, had been accused of assaulting the crew of a US Airways flight on its way to
misc Photo Du Jour 554 San Francisco Giants great Tim Lincecum reaches to shake the hand of Bill Neukom, left, Giants managing partner, while making an appearance at the Clark County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 , in
Arts & Entertainment Prohibition: Then and Now by Rachel Brodsky The age of Prohibition (1920-1933) was a relatively unsuccessful period in American history where the American government sought to ban all alcoholic beverages from being exported, imported or sold. And
SF News Bomb Squad In Richmond Blows Up Dude's Bong Oh gee, this is rich. A "tense" four hour standoff in the city of Richmond last night led to the destruction of some dude's bong. "A police bomb squad safely disposed of what
misc What's Going On Here, Marijuana Enthusiast? Just your average man taking his bong out for a stroll on 16th Street in the Mission.
SF News Marijuana Legalization On 2010 Ballot? Enough signatures have been collected to put marijuana on the 2010 ballot. The effort to get enough John Hancocks, SF Chron reports, "cost more than $1 million." The proposal? Glad you asked. It
SF News Lincecum Busted for Pot According to Columbian.com, Giants star Tim Lincecum was busted on October 30 for smoking and possessing marijuana. "The amount was 3.3 grams, [Washington State Patrol trooper and spokesman Steve] Schatzel said,
SF News Another Sunset Pot Bust More than 100 pot plants were found yesterday afternoon, near St. Ignatius College Preparatory School. This is part of the city's "dismantling of a large-scale pot-growing operation in the city," according to reports.
SF News Bayview Four-Alarm Fire Contained After a rare four-alarm fire ripped through seven warehouses in San Francisco's Bayview district yesterday (check out photos of the inferno here), firefighters finally contained the blaze last night. According to Appeal/BCN,
SF News Marijuana, Nature's Chemotherapy? Noted no-nonsense humor haters Stuff Stones Like came across some revealing pot news. It seems a recent scientific survey suggests that kind bud protects against cancer. Pretty cool, huh? And with that in
SF News Another Sunset District Pot Bust Once again, a home in the city's Sunset district was busted for marijuana cultivation, KRON4 reports. Five people at a home on 40th Avenue, it seems, were arrested this morning after neighbors complained
SF News Dude, Oakland Tries to Legalize Pot With, Like, a Ballot Initiative by Chris Jones A bunch of reefer addicts in Oakland filed a ballot initiative with the California Secretary of State yesterday to legalize the marijuana for fun time recreational purposes. The fine folks
SF News Oakland Approves Tax On Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Part effort to generate revenue and part Bay Area-esque statement, Oakland voters passed a tax on medical marijuana joints, making it the first taxed pot dispensary in the U.S. While the tax
