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Drug Policy

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Another Poll Shows Marijuana Legalization Has Overwhelming Support

    If only President Barack Obama was marijuana, then he'd win reelection by a landslide.Marijuana legalization enjoys a 20-point advantage in the polls among American adults, according to a recent survey Rasmussen Reports. Fifty-six percent of Americans polled support the notion of marijuana being tax ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Willie Nelson Says Pot Saved His Life

    Willie Nelson, king hippie of country music and walking THC repository, was recently asked a question about legalizing marijuana. And guess what? He's for it. The fact that ol' Willie thinks weed oughta be legal and taxed is about as surprising as hearing that Ted Nugent acquired his dinner with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    #OpCannabis: Anonymous Pushing Marijuana For 4/20

    Not every innocuous schoolboy joke becomes a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but this one -- 4/20, 4-20, four twenty -- has had legs since it began 41 years ago at San Rafael High in Marin County.This year, the universal code for marijuana use is being co-opted by everyone's favorite "hacktivist" col ... More >>

  • 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 9, 2012

    Wait Until 2014: Marijuana Legalization All But Dead in California

    ​Union Pulls Plug on Medical Reform, Other Ballot Measures Starved For Cash; Legislature, Ammiano Last Hope for Reform NowNobody likes to celebrate with a loss, but for the medical marijuana movement, 2010 and the historic defeat of semi-legalization measure Proposition 19 already look like the go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    San Francisco Might Have More Medical Marijuana Users Than Black People

    ​The medical marijuana movement and hyperbole often go hand-in-hand. It wasn't more than a few years ago that the office of George W. Bush's drug czar spread the rumor that there were more pot clubs in San Francisco than Starbucks coffee shops, a drum they banged loudly and proudly (and one that, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Marijuana Legalization Measure Courts Billionaires for Vital Campaign Cash

    Close. But close enough?​Regulate Marijuana Like Wine, a marijuana legalization measure vying to get onto the November ballot, has only $80,000 in cash on hand, according to finance records. But in a poll released this week, it had potential support from 62 percent of likely voters -- and that, ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Obama Ignores Medical Marijuana During Google Hangout

    ​President Barack Obama again turned to social media to connect with voters -- and again he used it to ignore talking pot.You might have noticed that every time President Obama takes to the series of interactive intertubes, the unwashed masses want to talk, not taxes, and not turkey, but the good ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Is Medical Marijuana a Low Priority for Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Gov. Jerry Brown?

    Blindsided as he was during a "bloodbath" of a House Judicial Committee hearing, in which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hung out to dry over the teeny-tiny issue of injecting American-made weaponry into the Mexican cartel wars, you could forgive the Justice Department head for mincing his wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Makes for Sober, Safer Drivers, Study Says

    ​While medical marijuana advocates will politely ask them to stop talking whenever the subject arises, there are many cannabis users who will claim that the task of operating a motor vehicle is safer when the driver is a bit stoned. Turns out that researchers crunching traffic data from 13 states ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Public Supports Medical Marijuana, but Not Full Legalization of Pot

    growing ... support for the drug​Just as local pot clubs have been closing their doors due to a federal crackdown, a new poll was released showing that a growing number of people actually support medical marijuana. According to a CBS news poll conducted at the end of October, 77 percent of people ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Report: Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests Skyrocketing in California

    Doubling Up​It's a fine time to be a criminal in California. Arrests in every category of crime are down -- way down: Arrests for rape, murder, and theft have all decreased by two-thirds since 1990, according to a study published last week by the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Every cri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    S.F. Pot Clubs Threatened by Government Crackdown Won't Sue

    On defense​It was only a matter of time before the state's medical marijuana collectives went to the courts -- and the time was nigh Monday for Lynette Shaw of the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana to announce at a downtown San Francisco law firm that she's suing the feds. Her deadline to close ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Gavin Newsom, SF Supes Blast Feds' War on Medical Marijuana

    Drug warrior in words only?​Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom shared a Los Angeles stage on Thursday with GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico who wants to end marijuana prohibition and free all nonviolent marijuana offenders from jail.While it's unlikely Newsom would sac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Lawyers Challenge Feds to Bust All Pot Dispensaries or Bust None

    Pretty sure Hamilton was a pot head ​It's rarer these days, but you can still find some medical marijuana purveyors fond of saying how much they welcome the federal government throwing them in prison for decades. Each dispensary in San Francisco, for example, violates the Controlled Substances Act ... More >>

  • News

    October 26, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana

    Pretty sure Hamilton was a pot head ​It's rarer these days, but you can still find some medical marijuana purveyors fond of saying how much they welcome the federal government throwing them in prison for decades. Each dispensary in San Francisco, for example, violates the Controlled Substances Act ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Record Number of Americans Want to Legalize Marijuana

    The new patriotism​It seems that marijuana -- and what people think about it -- is constantly dominating the news, whether it's California's doctors calling for the magic plant's legalization, or the country's law enforcement establishment reminding us it is in fact verboten. Proving that even the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Oaksterdam's Richard Lee: Marijuana Legalization Is "Dead" in California -- For Now

    Richard Lee says it's all over -- for now​Last year's Proposition 19 was quite a wild ride, but marijuana legalization in California is over.  That's according to Richard Lee, the Oaksterdam University founder and chief sponsor of Prop. 19, which won its place on Californians' November 2010 b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Marijuana Advocates Unsure if New State Law Is Good or Bad

    Who's he helping?brokencountry.com​Earlier this summer, medical marijuana advocates sounded the legislative alarm over a bill penned by a Southern California assemblyman that gives local governments the right to ban medical cannabis dispensaries, as many a Bay Area burgh from Danville to Daly City ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Pot Legalization Measure Has Support of Mendocino Growers

    Drug Policy AllianceThat's the idea​Can Protections for Medical Patients Help Succeed Where Proposition 19 Failed?Cannabis advocates promised they'd be back at the California ballot following marijuana legalization measure Proposition 19's historic failure in November 2010 (the measure received mo ... 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

    August 10, 2011

    Another Poll Shows Majority Support Legalizing Pot

    Yes​Ho-hum. Another day, another poll showing a majority of Americans are sick of the War on Drugs and favor marijuana legalization.Of 1,003 Americans nationwide contacted by Canadian firm Angus Reid Public Opinion, 55 percent said they support the legalization of marijuana while 40 percent were o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Petition Drive to Legalize Marijuana Approved

    When are we going to stop toking ballot initiatives?​Pot advocates are taking another stab at legalization with a proposed measure that would dictate pot growers be regulated in the same way as microbrewers and vintners. Home growers would be be left alone, sales would be taxed, and nobody would b ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 20, 2011

    Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access

    When are we going to stop toking ballot initiatives?​Pot advocates are taking another stab at legalization with a proposed measure that would dictate pot growers be regulated in the same way as microbrewers and vintners. Home growers would be be left alone, sales would be taxed, and nobody would b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Obama's Drug Czar Report Debunks Medical Marijuana, Feds Are on a Pot-Hating Roll

    They have one thing in common, anyway​The rule of three -- you can't escape it. Not in religion, not in anatomy, not even in Barack Obama's War on Drugs.First, there was the June memo from the Justice Department in which the White House decided the 16 states with medical cannabis laws be damned. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Justice Department "Clarifies" Stance on Medical Marijuana: It's Illegal And They Will Arrest You

    They gonna getcha​President Barack Obama's stance on medical cannabis has been a wee nebulous: as candidate, Obama said the drug war was a failure and that doctors prescribing pot as a treatment was "appropriate"; as president, Obama's Justice Department said chasing after pot growers and users wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick Is Selling Art to Help Legalize Pot

    Grace SlickWill someone please give Grace Slick a light?​ And for today's Most Typically San Francisco news item, we bring you this: No, it's not a new ban on kittens. Rather, Grace Slick, singer of the famous '60s S.F. psych-rock band Jefferson Airplane, is selling new artwork tomorrow night ... More >>

  • News

    June 15, 2011

    Giving Marijuana Away? The Taxman Wants a Cut

    Grace SlickWill someone please give Grace Slick a light?​ And for today's Most Typically San Francisco news item, we bring you this: No, it's not a new ban on kittens. Rather, Grace Slick, singer of the famous '60s S.F. psych-rock band Jefferson Airplane, is selling new artwork tomorrow night ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Obama's Drug Czar Refuses to Meet With Cops Seeking End to War on Drugs

    No you didn't!​In what way is Barack Obama similar to Richard Nixon (aside from ramping up someone else's foreign war)? Turns out common ground can also be found between Tricky Dick and BHO II when it comes to the drug war.A few weeks ago we told you about California NORML unhappily celebrating th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Marijuana Prohibition Turns 100 Today. What Is There to Celebrate?

    Celebrate the birth of prohibition -- get high!​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 familiar?)That experiment was short-lived -- ratified in ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

    Celebrate the birth of prohibition -- get high!​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 familiar?)That experiment was short-lived -- ratified in ... 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 >>

  • 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

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2010

    End Prohibition?

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Napster's Sean Parker Showers $100K on Marijuana Measure

    RamaScreenNapster's Sean Parker -- yes, the guy played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network -- put his pot money where his mouth is​The e-mail came Monday from Oaksterdam University's Richard Lee, the main driving force (at least publicly) behind cannabis semi-legalization measure Propos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Facebook Nips Marijuana Legalization Ads In the Bud

    Facebook banned ads like these​Facebook may have unrivaled access to young, liberal voters, but the social networking site is now ensuring those potential supporters of pot legalization never see a marijuana leaf in political ads on the site. While critics are pulling out the online petitions and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Dennis Peron, Pot Guru, Raided by San Francisco Cops

    Dennis Peron has been feeling the heat -- from the SFPD​Things 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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Legalize Marijuana, Says Former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara

    'We're doing far more damage with the war against marijuana than any good that could possibly be coming out of it,' says the chief​Ask former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara when he began to support the notion of legalizing marijuana, and you don't get a short answer. It began half a century ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    California Democrats Stay Neutral on Marijuana-Legalizing Prop. 19

    Drag​Supporters of Proposition 19 -- the Control and Tax Marijuana 2010 initiative -- can be forgiven for feeling a little paranoid these days. After the move to regulate marijuana like alcohol was lambasted by state politicians ranging from Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Mayor Gavin Newsom to Kamala Ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Marijuana Legalization Opposed by Californians, New Field Poll Shows

    Most Californians will pass, thanks​Poll Also Reveals Strong Support for Reform of State Budget ProcessA Field Poll released today shows that efforts to legalize marijuana in California have lost ground since last year, and that state residents currently oppose Proposition 19 -- a November ballot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Will State Bill Criminalize AIDS Patients' Pot Closets?

    'Get the pot out of the closet! Get it out now!' ​ "Unintended consequences" is a well-worn phrase for folks familiar with the legislative process. It's one that certainly applies to Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo), author of a bill that would create statewide restrictions on keeping med ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Like Drugs? Like Unions? Join the Drug-Users Union.

    ​On Tuesday, we reported how, in San Francisco, even drug-users have a union. The nascent drug-users union got a major jump-start this year thanks to a one-year, $35,000 grant from the Drug Policy Alliance. The union exists, ostensibly, "to organize drug-users and help them have a voice and a say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Great Moments in Marijuana History: Ammiano's Legalization Bill Up For Vote Today

    ​In a move proponents are billing the "first formal consideration of marijuana legalization in American history," the public safety committee of the state assembly will today vote on Tom Ammiano's ganja bill. The San Francisco assemblyman last year earned his place in the pot pantheon by authoring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Puff, Puff, Pass: Ammiano's Pot Bill Clears Assembly Committee

    ​Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's bill to legalize -- and tax the hell out of -- marijuana scraped through the assembly's public safety committee this morning by a 4-3 vote. Today's tally was, according to Ammiano's staff, the "first formal consideration of marijuana legalization in American history." Wh ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2010

    Weed Takes Root

    Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide

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