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2010 Stories by Chris Roberts

• Pot Dispensary in the Sunset Galls School District. In the Mission, Not So Much.

  published Dec 29, 2010

  Kids these days have plenty to worry about, not the least of which is the threat posed by medical cannabis. Recent studies show more high schoolers in America use pot than smoke cigarettes, and San Fr... More >>

• David Chiu could land mentor Aaron Peskin's dream job: mayor

  published December 22, 2010

  Aaron Peskin, the former S.F. Board of Supervisors president, buys and sells water rights in arid Western states as director of an... More >>

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  Arizona More Progressive Than Californiar When it Comes to Marijuana, Yes.

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Arizona's taken quite the beating from Californians recently, what with the red state's anti-immigrant, anti-civilization stance creating both headlines and policy. But Arizona's not all bad -- in fac... More >>

• Strong Medicine

  published December 15, 2010

  Six months on, and they're still talking about it. Before HopeNet was San Francisco's longest continuously operating dispensary, the South of... More >>

• One Toke Over the Line

  published December 15, 2010

  San Francisco's reputation as a cannabis-friendly city is well-earned. Cannabis clubs operated in public in the 1980s and 1990s in open... More >>

• Dude, Stop That Coughing

  published December 15, 2010

  Medical marijuana patients, advocates, and recreational users alike hail cannabis as a miracle plant, but even the staunchest dyed-in-the-hemp... More >>

• Why Tom Ammiano really doesn't want to be mayor

  published December 15, 2010

  There was a time when Tom Ammiano wanted to be mayor of San Francisco. In 1999, when he was president of the Board of Supervisors, he mounted a... More >>

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  Marijuana Roundup: The Year In Pot

  published Dec 10, 2010

  How was your 2010r For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges --... More >>

• Bevan Dufty's mayoral bid fizzling just as the race is really getting started.

  published December 8, 2010

  Bevan Dufty's bid for mayor started strong: The outgoing Castro District supervisor raised $100,000 before any of the rivals he'll face in... More >>

• Is Marijuana Union Battle Buddingr

  published Nov 30, 2010

  Don't smoke that! Get a union man to smoke that! San Francisco is a famous union town, a reputation won on the docks. But this isn't the 1930s, and "budtenders" at cannabis dispensaries aren't the s... More >>

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  Bumbling Marijuana Dispensary Bandits 'Left a Trail of Spilled Weed Out the Door'

  published Nov 23, 2010

  A Richmond District medical cannabis dispensary was robbed last Friday (when elser) by a pair of assailants, who made off with less than $1,000 worth of cash and leafy green medicine, dispensary staff... More >>

• Marlene Tran's success shows strength of Asian voters

  published November 17, 2010

  Before she became supervisor-elect in District 6, School Board president Jane Kim was the subject of an SF Weekly cover story in which... More >>

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  San Francisco 'Cannabis Competition' Ruined By The Man

  published Nov 09, 2010

  Kevin Reed can't catch a break. Reed, the CEO of medical cannabis delivery service The Green Cross, has for the past three years hosted an annual pot party/fundraiser called the SF Cannabis Cup (re-d... More >>

• Prop. 19 Smoked -- Marijuana Supporters Promise New Legalization Effort

  published Nov 03, 2010

  As the national media will gladly tell you, people are smoking weed in San Francisco. People -- with and without medical marijuana recommendations -- smoked weed yesterday and they'll do so today, and... More >>

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  The Identity Card

  published October 27, 2010

  Jane Kim is nervous. The 33-year-old president of the San Francisco Board of Education has just dragged herself into a function room, where... More >>

• Sunday Streets Hits The Tenderloin on Sunday. Should Be Interesting.

  published Oct 22, 2010

  Among the better ideas which Mayor Gavin Newsom shamelessly ripped off from other cities is Sunday Streets, wherein stretches of pavement are declared verboten to automobile traffic and taken over ins... More >>

• Feds Say Fuck No to Lincecum-Themed T-Shirts

  published Oct 22, 2010

  The federal government is not your friend. Barry Bonds knows this -- the home run king will be in federal court next year not for using steroids, but for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury about ... More >>

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  Tonga Room Execution Stayed. Does Anyone Carer

  published Oct 22, 2010

  Like smoking at work, camel hair coats and a budget surplus, tiki bars are relics of a bygone era, of when Cesar Chavez Street was called Army, when nobody in San Francisco knew what a bike lane was, ... More >>

• Not Tried BART Yetr Now's The Time To Do It.

  published Oct 22, 2010

  Have you heardr There's a thing called BART in this here Bay Area. And BART wants to make sure you know about BART -- that's why this week was 'Try BART Week.' If you haven't yet sampled the public tr... More >>

• Two Cops Crash Into Pole, Reasons Unknown

  published Oct 22, 2010

  Two San Francisco police officers are in the hospital after their marked cruiser crashed into a light pole in the "Bernal Cut" on Thursday night, the Examiner reported. Their injuries were not life-th... More >>

• VIDEO: Win or Lose, Our New Giants/Lincecum Anthem (fuck yeah)

  published Oct 21, 2010

  We admit it: at first, we weren't huge fans of Ashkon Davaran's Journey-fueled Giants anthem (mostly because we really, really don't like Journey). But it grew on us. And who cares what we think -- ne... More >>

• Lefty O'Doul's Schedules Giants Celebration For Tomorrow. Jinxr Don't Bet On It.

  published Oct 21, 2010

  One thing we like about Giants fans -- in addition to their prime physical condition -- is their reckless abandon when it comes to superstition. No worrying about curses here in San Francisco, especia... More >>

• Gas Leak in Castro, Area Residents Should 'Shelter-in-Place'

  published Oct 21, 2010

  A gas leak, reported around 1 p.m., has shut down much of the Castro District since, according to reports in SF Appeal. No injuries have been reported, but officials have ordered a "shelter-in-place."... More >>

• 'Machine gun'used in 101 California Shootings seen in Potrero Hill

  published Oct 21, 2010

  Alarm swept through The Snitch's world headquarters today, when we read a report in which San Francisco police warned of a suspect toting a "machine gun" in Potrero Hill.A 29-year old man was robbed a... More >>

• Hear That Sirenr Did Your Train Stopr It was the 'Shake-Out' Freak-Out.

  published Oct 21, 2010

  San Franciscans without clock or calendar can set their internal timing devices by the weekly emergency sirens, which test every Tuesday at noon. Other than the Tuesday test, these blare only when an ... More >>