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March 20, 1996
Drugs, Politics, and Money
The medical-marijuana movement is riled by the generosity of a pro-legislation PAC
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January 10, 2007
Drive-by Reporting
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April 14, 1999
Night & Day
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September 16, 1998
Night + Day
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October 15, 1997
Night Crawler
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April 23, 1997
Night+Day
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April 2, 1997
Night Crawler
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February 5, 1997
The Grid
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December 25, 1996
Slap Shots
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October 30, 1996
State Ballot Measures
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September 11, 1996
The Grid
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August 14, 1996
Blowing Smoke
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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 >>
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April 26, 2010
Marijuana Guru Dennis Peron Suffers Stroke
Dennis Peron says he's on the mend. 'Don't count me out.' With the marijuana movement sparking these days, one of its seminal figures was just nearly snuffed out. Dennis Peron -- a longtime pot activist and the co-author of the 1996 medical marijuana ballot initiative, Prop. 215 -- on Sunday conf ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
High Times Cannabis Cub Rehash: Buy the Green Door's Candy Jack; HopeNet's Hash is Too Strong
Who wants some?They shut down the hash bar.High Times shut down HopeNet's hash bar. SF, your hash is too much for High Times (or at least its legal handlers).
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June 30, 2010
Owners Uncooperative
Personality clashes within the cannabis movement have real-life consequences.
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July 23, 2010
Illegal Pot Delivery Services Can't Be Stopped
Liberty Bell TempleHere comes the pot man! Who's gonna stop him?Lower Haight resident Aaron Chandler is a pot dealer. Or, the erstwhile employee of Project Homeless Connect is the operator of a legitimate medical marijuana delivery service. Which one is it? Neither? Both? It all depends on y ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
Dennis Peron, Pot Guru, Raided by San Francisco Cops
Dennis Peron has been feeling the heat -- from the SFPDThings haven't been going well for Dennis Peron lately. Peron, one of the authors of Proposition 215 -- the 1996 voter initiative legalizing marijuana for medical purposes in California -- is on the outs with some cannabis advocates for h ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Pot Baron Steve DeAngelo Calls For More Compassion in World of Corporate Marijuana
Harborside Health CenterSteve DeAngelo says greed, for lack of a better word, is not goodSteve DeAngelo cares. The owner of Oakland's Harborside Health Center -- the largest medical cannabis dispensary in the United States, with some 60,000 patients and counting -- wants to "flip the switch" ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Prop. 19 Smoked -- Marijuana Supporters Promise New Legalization Effort
Wait 'til next year...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 they were going to do so no matter what happened with Proposition 19, the ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Dennis Peron, Pot Guru, Arraigned on Child Porn, Drug Charges
Dennis Peron, the author of the medical marijuana-creating Proposition 215 and a revered figure in the cannabis community, was arraigned today in San Francisco on drug and child porn charges. The charges stem from a police raid on Peron's "Castro Castle" in August. The "matter depicting a minor e ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
Marijuana Roundup: The Year In Pot
How was your 2010? 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 -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Dennis Peron, Local Pot Guru, Cleared of Criminal Charges
Free and pissedDennis Peron has said it all along. For decades, the Castro District resident -- one of the fathers of the American medical cannabis movement -- has maintained that marijuana is medicine. And for just under a year, Peron has been insisting that he's innocent of narcotics and ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Feds Try to Handcuff Bay Area Dispensaries
Free and pissedDennis Peron has said it all along. For decades, the Castro District resident -- one of the fathers of the American medical cannabis movement -- has maintained that marijuana is medicine. And for just under a year, Peron has been insisting that he's innocent of narcotics and ... More >>