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Public safety and jobs. To a California politician, they are the bread and butter -- if bread and butter means getting elected, that is. There are fewer worse labels for a politician than "job-killer"... More >>
Alcohol is legal, but you won't be seeing any of it this weekend at the now-dry Union Street Fair. Medical marijuana, too, is legal, but you won't be seeing any evidence of that, either. Not after the... More >>
An endless parade of low-level drug offenders, advocates, and faceless bloggers like us could ask for an end to the War on Drugs, but who's going to listen to such nonentitiesr Who can get attention o... More >>
California is the most populous state in the Union. It's where the nation's medical marijuana movement was birthed, and the Golden State is also where the rest of the country gets most of its illegal ... More >>
As if raids from gun-toting Drug Enforcement Agency agents weren't enough to make stoners paranoid, California's medical marijuana clubs can also be shut down real fast by the IRS. That's because the ... More >>
Medical marijuana patients don't seem to care where exactly their cannabis is grown. As long as the pot has been lab-tested and is free of mold and pesticides, they're satisfied. But that information... More >>
We all know that the wheels of government move slowly -- but nine years slowlyr That pace is too lazy for Americans for Safe Access, which just wants answers. So it's going to court to force the feder... More >>
Taxes are Phil Ting's business -- when the assessor-recorder isn't campaigning for San Francisco mayor, that is. But when Ting recently took stock of the Bay Area tax scene on medical marijuana, he r... More >>
You don't need to tell David Eyster about marijuana crime. As Mendocino County district attorney, he deals with pot crimes more than anyone else in the state. Yet the prosecutors in California's "Emer... More >>
Running for mayor is no small feat. It takes endless time, hordes of volunteers, and enormous piles of cash. Just ask Bevan Dufty, who has... More >>
The cofounder of San Francisco's slickest medical cannabis dispensary and a member of the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Task Force has been charged with multiple felonies stemming from a Sonoma Count... More >>
Not just anyone can open up a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco. Aside from the $8,500 dispensary permit fee and consultant, lawyer, and contractor costs, someone has to pay the rent while... More >>
There are many ways to look at the story of two-year-old brain-tumor survivor Cash Michael Hyde, whose father, Michael, secretly slipped him medical marijuana oil in his feeding tube during chemothera... More >>
Alcohol prohibition did little to stop Americans from guzzling booze, though it helped make gangsters rich, cops and courts busy, and encouraged foreign imports of "medicinal whiskey" (sound familiarr... More >>
Dr. Mollie Fry and her husband, Dale Schafer, are ill. Fry is a breast-cancer survivor with severe mental-health issues, and Schafer's hemophilia means he is frequently bedridden. So he will have to b... More >>
Like buying a gift for the rich person who has everything, celebrating 4/20 in San Francisco presents a bit of a conundrum -- of privilege. Tokers will seep out of the woodwork in many cities across t... More >>
Sports fans have long had a litany of reasons to loathe Candlestick Park. Bad for baseball, merely acceptable for football, the 'Stick is old,... More >>
UPDATE 4/16 -- The marijuana-related protests have been pushed to 7:30 A.M. Thursday, 4/21. More info on Monday.For his promises not to use federal resources on raiding legal dispensaries, many medica... More >>
Aside from a January raid of a licensed growhouse -- and a very angry law professor's threats to sue the SFPD -- it's been a quiet year for marijuana busts in San Francisco. Until now.Police said toda... More >>
It's long been the desire of voters and San Francisco lawmakers that the city's peace officers enforce all other crimes before busting adults smoking pot. In light of this, it's hard for pot advocates... More >>
That familiar odor wafting from San Francisco street corners, storefronts, and... More >>
At a fighting gym in Pleasant Hill, there's a gallon of ointment that was originally developed for horses, although David Douglas uses it to fight.It's called Xternal and it's his sponsor, which means... More >>
So you think the federal government prevaricates over what to do in Libyar As mixed as many of the government's messages are, the feds really can't take a solid stance when it comes to marijuana.Earli... More >>
Seizures Rise Under Obama Administration as Cops Bust More Plants Than Ever.The marijuana-related headlines on Wednesday were hogged by a report, issued by a private "cannabusiness" company, that says... More >>
Operating a medical pot farm is no small feat -- especially when we know there are plenty of police and prosecutors who aren't, ahem, kind to the industry. But growing this cash crop could... More >>
