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Marijuana Legalization Efforts Fail in California, Thanks to The Feds

Few successful political movements count their finest hours a loss. Yet 2010 will remain the high water mark of the marijuana legalization movement for at least another two years -- or longer, if the federal situation worsens.Buoyed by Oaksterdam University founder Richard Lee's cash and energy, Pro ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Steve Kubby, Prop 215 Author, Drafts New initiative to Decriminalize Marijuana

Steve Kubby, would-be freer of marijuana Steve Kubby has earned his stripes: Before he was a Libertarian Party candidate for governor of California and President of the United States (and South Lake Tahoe City Council), Kubby was a model activist and poster child for the medical cannabis movement. T ... More >>

As Interim Mayor of S.F., Ed Lee Can Shake Things Up

Steve Kubby, would-be freer of marijuana Steve Kubby has earned his stripes: Before he was a Libertarian Party candidate for governor of California and President of the United States (and South Lake Tahoe City Council), Kubby was a model activist and poster child for the medical cannabis movement. T ... More >>

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 >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide

Rec and Park Spokeswoman to Leave Department for Cash-Flush Democratic Group

Recreation and Park Department Spokeswoman Lisa Seitz Gruwell will be leaving city government after just over a year on the job, department General Manager Phil Ginsburg announced today.The spokeswoman goes. The pagoda abides​Speaking at this afternoon's Recreation and Park Commission meeting, Gin ... More >>

Filling the Civic Gap

Meet Donald Fisher, the private billionaire with unprecedented sway over ordinary San Franciscans' lives

Greening the Left

Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results

Housing Democrats

Why Democratic mayors must build America's cities by establishing an urban real estate cartel

Hey, Man, Got Any ID?

Why the Legislature shouldn't extend the city's medical marijuana identification system statewide

Dog Bites

Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com

God, Antimatter, and Magritte

An exclusive, existential interview with designer Bill Blass

Desperately Seeking Citizenship

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

Nonprofits Put to the Test

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

Mulch

With the advent of new federal welfare rules for elderly immigrants, S.F.'s oldest and poorest are running out of time

Drugs, Politics, and Money

The medical-marijuana movement is riled by the generosity of a pro-legislation PAC