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David Goldman

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Mayor Ed Lee Finally Breaks Silence on Medical Marijuana

    "If you get Ed Lee on record about medical marijuana," more than one well-connected San Francisco politico has told us, "you deserve a medal."Our best efforts were all deflected, including a situation when we physically blocked Mayor Lee's path to his hybrid Mayoralmobile and still did not win a com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    UPDATED: Medical Marijuana Clubs No Longer Asked to Get Rid of Hash, Kief

    (UPDATE 4:00 p.m.): The Department of Public Health has rescinded an earlier memo in which it suggested San Francisco's medical cannabis dispensaries not provide products made from concentrated cannabis, including hash and edibles, according to Stephanie Tucker, spokeswoman for the city's Medical Ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Crackdown Explained: Feds Are Saving the Children

    ​Melinda Haag finally gave us a reason. The United States Attorney for Northern California broke her media near-silence last week week, granting an extensive, exclusive interview to KQED in which Haag sought to explain the Justice Department's crackdown on medical marijuana.The reasons why Haag's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Should San Francisco Ease Restrictions on Pot Clubs Near Schools?

    The titty bars are fine; it's the pot club that a-fears us.​San Francisco's notorious land-use restrictions and zoning laws send neighbors to court over the construction of a porch, and they also mean that the city known as the birthplace of medical marijuana is tougher on pot clubs than most of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    President Obama Fumbles and Punts Medical Marijuana Question on Campaign Trail

    He forgot what the question was ​For all his Kennedyesque "uhs" and "ahs," President Barack Obama is nonetheless generally regarded as an accomplished public speaker, able to expound extemporaneously on a plethora of topics. But on the campaign trail in Minnesota on Monday -- during what former Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    George Gascon Tries to Back Up Pro-Pot Claims by Dropping Charges on Grower

    sfgov.orgWe know what we're doing​Yesterday, we told you the story of Wayne Kiloh, a 63-year-old Richmond District man who for seven years has grown medical cannabis in his Avenues home for the Green Cross, the city's lone licensed medical marijuana delivery service. After a July 2010 police raid ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 20, 2011

    Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access

    sfgov.orgWe know what we're doing​Yesterday, we told you the story of Wayne Kiloh, a 63-year-old Richmond District man who for seven years has grown medical cannabis in his Avenues home for the Green Cross, the city's lone licensed medical marijuana delivery service. After a July 2010 police raid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    S.F. Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Generate Only 11 Complaints Over Five Years

    That all you got?​Pot clubs. They're boring. You go in, you buy some pot, you leave. For all the clamor with which a new medical cannabis dispensary's opening receives from jumpy John Q Public, with a few notable exceptions, most we see these days resemble dentists' offices, not dens of iniquity ( ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Medical Cannabis Movement Becoming Less Gay

    Chris RobertsHot. But gay unfriendly?​Like Sarah Palin recounting the tale of Paul Revere's ride to warn the British (of their own impending arrival), we Americans often have a fuzzy grasp of our history. This extends to the medical cannabis movement, which was birthed in San Francisco in the 1980 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Congressman Jared Polis Wants to Hear Your "War on Drugs" Horror Story

    Lay it on him​Not every drug user's encounter with police is bad. SF Weekly readers might recall the story when the San Francisco Police Department returned several pounds of marijuana to a medical grower last year. But for every story like that, there's a Clark Freshman -- the UC Hastings law pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    California Has 1.1 Million Medical Marijuana Users, NORML Says

    We pot more than we need politicians​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 pot, judging by law enforcement statistics (lo siento, Britis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Phil Ting Is a Buzz Kill, Talks About Extra Tax on Medical Marijuana

    What does he know about smoking pot?​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 realized that San Francisco could be bringing in more cash. Ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Obama to Arrive in S.F. on 4/20: Potheads to Protest President

    Obama -- giving 4/20 a new meaning​For his promises not to use federal resources on raiding legal dispensaries, many medical marijuana users voted for Barack Hussein Obama in 2008, as we reported in our cover story last week. Many California medical marijuana users supported Obama for the candidat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Medical Marijuana: Is it Good for the Taxman or Is it Good for the Doctor?

    Whereas California needs money from pot​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 become even more costly and no safer under new legislatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Cops Raid Pot House First, Ask Questions Later

    It's not your landlord knocking​On Jan. 11, someone knocked on the door of Bruce Rossignol's 13th Street home. The investment banker turned medical cannabis cultivator, who, as SF Weekly reported in August wishes to someday open a cannabis club in North Beach, assumed it was his landlord. He was w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Obama Takes Then Dodges Pot Legalization Question on YouTube

    The digital president, Barack Obama held a sort of national press conference following his State of the Union Address this week. As he has done after every SOTU address since he took office, Obama told the nation to query him via YouTube and he would answer questions. The video submissions Obama a ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2011

    Proximity of Sunset District Pot Club to School Sparks Outrage

    The digital president, Barack Obama held a sort of national press conference following his State of the Union Address this week. As he has done after every SOTU address since he took office, Obama told the nation to query him via YouTube and he would answer questions. The video submissions Obama a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

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

    It turns out the San Francisco Unified School District doesn't always say no...​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 Francisco public ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 15, 2010

    One Toke Over the Line

    Is it legal to smoke in public? Theoretically, almost anywhere in S.F., if you have a card. But there are important exceptions.

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    SOMA Pot Club Surprised to Learn of Ban on SOMA Pot Clubs

    The city would prefer HopeNet's Steve Smith -- and his buddy -- to stay right where they are. And only there.​South of Market's been a de-facto "containment zone" for medical cannabis dispensaries for a variety of reasons: The still-gritty neighborhood has cheaper rents, more vacant storefront ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    S.F. 'Cannabis Freedom Day' Is Coming -- Isn't It?

    PacdogHow will you celebrate Cannabis Freedom Day? ​It seems 4/20 isn't the only holiday on a marijuana aficionado's calendar -- in fact, around these parts there's a more important -- if more obscure -- fete just a few weeks afterward. That'd be Cannabis Freedom Day, which is traditionally the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Legalization Measure 'Bad for Patients,' S.F. Cannabis Dealer Says

    Cookie, NOOOOOOOOO!​Legalization threat "putting us in the shadows ... making us dirty again," says head of Green Cross Cannabis DeliveryA couple of years ago Kevin Reed, 36, president of Bay Area Green Cross medical marijuana delivery service, had his mother over. She tried a cookie. This was no ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2010

    An Education

    Cookie, NOOOOOOOOO!​Legalization threat "putting us in the shadows ... making us dirty again," says head of Green Cross Cannabis DeliveryA couple of years ago Kevin Reed, 36, president of Bay Area Green Cross medical marijuana delivery service, had his mother over. She tried a cookie. This was no ... More >>

  • News

    March 24, 2010

    Drug policy: Pot-club paranoia

    Cookie, NOOOOOOOOO!​Legalization threat "putting us in the shadows ... making us dirty again," says head of Green Cross Cannabis DeliveryA couple of years ago Kevin Reed, 36, president of Bay Area Green Cross medical marijuana delivery service, had his mother over. She tried a cookie. This was no ... More >>

  • Film

    October 14, 2009

    An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks

    Cookie, NOOOOOOOOO!​Legalization threat "putting us in the shadows ... making us dirty again," says head of Green Cross Cannabis DeliveryA couple of years ago Kevin Reed, 36, president of Bay Area Green Cross medical marijuana delivery service, had his mother over. She tried a cookie. This was no ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2009

    An Education

    Cookie, NOOOOOOOOO!​Legalization threat "putting us in the shadows ... making us dirty again," says head of Green Cross Cannabis DeliveryA couple of years ago Kevin Reed, 36, president of Bay Area Green Cross medical marijuana delivery service, had his mother over. She tried a cookie. This was no ... More >>

  • News

    February 6, 2008

    Harvey Milk Killing Story Draws Fact-Checkers, Old Campaigners

    Cookie, NOOOOOOOOO!​Legalization threat "putting us in the shadows ... making us dirty again," says head of Green Cross Cannabis DeliveryA couple of years ago Kevin Reed, 36, president of Bay Area Green Cross medical marijuana delivery service, had his mother over. She tried a cookie. This was no ... More >>

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