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City Hall's 'Office of Cannabis' Begins To Bloom

What little popularity San Francisco Mayor Ed is able to muster up these days may be contingent on pandering to the emerging local marijuana industry, but Lee might be screwing that one up

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Cannabis Wedding Expo Rings Stoners' Bells

With the passage of legal recreational marijuana use in California, the full marijuanization of each aspect of our lives and culture walks further down the aisle each day. Couples who are engaged in

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4/20 Draws 15,000 to Make Hippie Hill Go Up in Smoke

Hippie Hill lived up to its name like never before Thursday, as the largest-ever iteration of the annual 4/20 bacchanalia in Golden Gate Park pulled an estimated crowd of 15,000 at

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

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

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Cafe Flore's New Owners Hope To Turn It Into A Cannabis Cafe (Eventually)

So much for keeping things the same. The new owners of the Castro's historic Cafe Flore hope to eventually shake things up at the indoor-outdoor restaurant — partially by turning the corner spot into

Video: Black Market Weed Growers Suffer As Medical Growers Go Corporate With Legalization

In the wake of the passage of Prop 64 last week, Vice News has done a piece titled "A Tale of Two Growers," contrasting the fates of Steve DeAngelo, the hugely successful founder

If Prop 64 Passes You Can Start Legally Smoking Weed Right Away, But Employers Can Still Fire You For It

Voters heading to the polls tomorrow face a lengthy ballot and a host of pressing choices on any number of important issues. Honestly, it's enough to stress out even the most mellow of

Women Accused Of Holding Four Brothers As Slaves At Northern California Pot Farm

In a tale straight out of a Northern California nightmare, two women stand accused of kidnapping four brothers and forcing them to work as slaves on a marijuana farm near the Sierra mountain

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,

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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

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?

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

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

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

Stoners Can Now Be Even Lazier With Introduction Of Keurig-Like Vaporizer

Have you ever wanted to get absolutely ripped but, you know, it was just, like, too hard? Enter CannaCloud, a new Keurig-like vaporizer in development by Boston startup CannaKorp. The device employs single-use

Day Around The Bay: Whoopi Goldberg's Marijiuana 'For Women' Hits The Market

Artists have taken the thing we love the most, junk food, and used it to recreate another thing we love. In this case, they made tiny dioramas of California natural landmarks. [Chronicle] It's

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The Dude Abides At 4/20 On Hippie Hill, And Of Course Stanley Roberts Was There Too

The unofficial, unsanctioned, and gigantically popular 4/20 celebration and occupying at Golden Gate Park’s Hippie Hill held it’s annual iteration Wednesday, drawing an estimated 12,000 hippies, stoners, and the

SFPD's 4/20 Plan Includes Road Closures, Extra Bathrooms, Seller Busts

Around 15,000 people are expected to flood Golden Gate Park Wednesday to observe the marijuana-focused "holiday" of April 20th. But while the event is neither permitted nor sanctioned by any San Francisco

CA Lawmaker Proposes Statewide Use Of Roadside Marijuana And Opiate Test

Driving while stoned could soon become a much trickier proposition if one California state lawmaker has his way. Republican Sen. Bob Huff of San Dimas (insert Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure joke) yesterday

Pedestrian Safety Sting Busts Car Full Of Pot

San Francisco Police Department's Park Station busted a driver with a car full of weed on Friday during a "Vision Zero" operation. In the middle of their new pedestrian safety stings — a project

California Hires Its First Marijuana Czar

Marijuana policy is often a sticky subject in California, but that may change with the nomination of the state's first ever Marijuana Czar. Governor Jerry Brown yesterday tapped the current Republican head of

NorCal Likes Its Weed Uplifting, While SoCal Wants It Chill

California medical marijuana delivery company Eaze served over 100,000 patients in the Golden State this past year in the San Francisco, San Diego, and Orange County markets and data gathered through the

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

Smoke OAK: Airport Security Official Busted For Drug Smuggling

It seems that for at least one Oakland International Airport security officer the temptation to abuse her position of power was just too (ahem) high. Federal officials have charged the officer with using