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July 15, 2011
Put on Your Sunday Breast And Get On Board the Big Pink Bus
Apparently, other women's causes also like big pink buses. Today, the Department of Public Health spokeswoman sent out a press release with a warning: "No snickering." It turns out the Big Pink Bus will be pulling up to California Pacific Medical Center on Sunday at 3698 California St. No, Prince ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access
Apparently, other women's causes also like big pink buses. Today, the Department of Public Health spokeswoman sent out a press release with a warning: "No snickering." It turns out the Big Pink Bus will be pulling up to California Pacific Medical Center on Sunday at 3698 California St. No, Prince ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Dave Schwartz, "Hero" of Nevada's Pot Movement, to Take Over Michela Alioto-Pier's Mayoral Campaign
Luke ThomasMichela's marijuana manThe days when "gambling" with marijuana on a Las Vegas' Strip could result in lifetime imprisonment are long gone. Reefer now mixes with roulette in the nation's Sin City -- where, it should be noted, one has never needed a medical recommendation to use prostitut ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Most Medical Marijuana Patients Are White, Educated, and Employed, Study Says
Just your average stonerA Californian with a job, an education, and every opportunity this society can afford him (minus perfect health).Meet your typical medical marijuana patient.A study conducted by a sociology professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz has some interesting revela ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Is David Chiu Medical Marijuana's New Best Friend?
Photo by Greg DewarPedaling for potA funny thing happened to Board of Supervisors President David Chiu last night, while making his evening round of speeches.Somebody asked him for pot."You got the compassion? Who's got weed?" asked an attendee of yesterday's monthly dinner/medical cannabis givea ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Sergio Romo, Giants Pitcher, Helps Kids Kick Whooping Cough
Whoop Whoop!Apparently the tried-and-true forms of medical bribery -- a lollipop or a Winnie the Pooh Band-Aid -- just aren't cutting it anymore.But you know kids, these days -- they have such high expectations. Which is why the city has recruited Giants pitcher Sergio Romo to rub elbows with fiv ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Will Kamala Harris Burn the Medical Marijuana Advocates Who Campaigned for Her?
One and the same ... when it comes to potWhile marijuana legalization dominated the news, unity was in short supply last fall during the election season among medical cannabis patients and advocates.It may be hard for nonsmokers to grasp, but Proposition 19 splintered the medical cannabis communi ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Does Your Woman Have Bad PMS? Tell Her to Smoke Some Weed
Let's roll you a joint, madamRecently, we wrote about a study which claimed that a majority of medical marijuana users in California are probably white men. Not included in the study was how many of those men were acquiring marijuana to placate their wife or girlfriend to cure the myriad of "wome ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
Donors Allege Price-Fixing Scheme for Human Eggs by Fertility Clinics
Big business?An Arcata woman is suing national reproductive-medicine groups, alleging that they and their member fertility clinics have engaged in a price-fixing scheme to underpay female donors for their eggs.In her lawsuit, filed this week in San Francisco's federal courthouse, plaintiff Justin ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Vegan Fight! Activist Doesn't Want PETA Getting Credit for Vegan Meals in Jail
takver / flickrLast month, SFoodie discovered that if you're vegan and you go to jail in S.F., you can get vegan meals. Eileen Hirst, Chief of Staff at the Sheriff's Department, told us that vegan food in S.F. County jails came about because of vegan PETA protestors who were arrested in anti- ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
The FDA Wants Your Gluten-Free Cookies to Actually Be Gluten-Free
Mariposa Baking's cinnamon rolls: actually gluten-free, actually good.There are three kinds of people who buy gluten-free products: a) People whose doctor has told them celiac disease is what's making them miserable; b) people whose naturopath has told them they're probably gluten-intolerant; c) ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Board of Supervisors Seem Afraid to Address Medical Marijuana
Supervisors won't acknowledge the green leaf in the room Urban planning in San Francisco is a very big deal -- and so is the city's Planning Commission, the appointed officials who call the shots on urban design. So what does one of the city's more important entities need to do to get some respec ... More >>
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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 >>
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August 19, 2011
Pot Legalization Measure Has Support of Mendocino Growers
Drug Policy AllianceThat's the ideaCan 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 >>
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September 1, 2011
Marijuana Advocates Unsure if New State Law Is Good or Bad
Who's he helping?brokencountry.comEarlier 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 >>
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September 14, 2011
Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owners Facing Criminal Charges for Operating a "Flower Shop"
Pretty flowersThe former owners of Wellness Solutions Group, a Pacifica medical cannabis dispensary ordered closed by city officials on Monday night, will face criminal charges for operating a business under false pretenses, police said Tuesday.The owners, Ruben Salvatierra of South City and Timo ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Senator Lou Correa, Author of Vetoed Medical Marijuana Restrictions Bill, Just Wanted to Help
The LiberalOCHere to helpMedical marijuana advocates celebrated Wednesday with Governor Jerry Brown's veto of SB 847. The brainchild of State Senator Lou Correa (D-Orange County), the bill would have made a 600-foot barrier between medical cannabis dispensaries and homes state law (except in citi ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Free Gluten-Free Cookbook for Three Lucky Readers!
Karen Morgan, author of "Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free: 75 Recipes for Irresistible Gluten-Free Desserts and Pastries," is in town Friday for a book-signing event. SFoodie asked her to sign three of those books for our readers and mail them to you for free. We ask a lot, but only on your beha ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Meat and Greet: The Local Butcher Shop
From the Local Butcher Shop's Facebook pageBy Katie Fleeman Many conversations in the foodie world involve the V word: vegetarianism. It comes with a number of arguments: it's more sustainable, it's healthier, and how could you possibly eat another living thing? The folks over at the Local ... More >>
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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 >>
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October 5, 2011
Unemployed Still? Cannabis Jobs Fair at Cow Palace This Weekend
And you wouldn't have to pay taxes!This being election season also means it's jobs season -- as in jobs-talking season. Jobs are on the lips of every politician worth his or her soft money -- from Barack Obama's jobs plan, to Mayor Ed Lee's own Wilsonesque 17-point jobs plan (in some ways eerily ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Feds Now Fight War on Medical Marijuana with Passive Aggressive Strategies
US Attorney Melinda Haag, weed-killerHard to believe it's been only two years since Attorney General Eric Holder shocked -- and relieved -- California's medical marijuana users when he said the federal government had no interest in prosecuting state-legal cannabis activities. The Bush Era was ove ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
Introducing the Bay Area Gluten Free Buying Club, a CSA for Celiacs!
Jonathan KauffmanLa Boulange's walnut peasant bread. Not gluten free but maybe one day!?Sheryl Davies is a self-described foodie. She also has Celiac disease, a condition that prevents the small intestine from fully absorbing food. The damage is due to a reaction to eating gluten, and that me ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
Is Nancy Pelosi Too Powerful for Pot?
Right Behind YouMinority Leader Nancy Pelosi -- who, despite no longer being House Speaker, is arguably still the most powerful resident of San Francisco -- is a very busy politician. Just this week, the highest-ranking woman in American political history had her fingers in everything from the Ch ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
HIV Activist Calls Mayor Ed Lee a Name the Chronicle Would Never Print
Wonder how he feels about Jeff Sheehy ... In this election, Mayor Ed Lee has been called many charming names -- crooked, double-crossing, sneaky, Republican. Now he can add "dick" to that growing list of insults. According to the Bay Area Reporter, Jeff Sheehy, who was the HIV czar f ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Obama's Medical Marijuana Crackdown: Two S.F. Pot Clubs to Close
And Divinity Tree, and Green Door Sacramento, and maybe MedithriveLombard Street is in the city's oft-posh Marina District, but that stretch of US-101 that leads from the Golden Gate Bridge down through Van Ness Avenue includes seedy motels as well as high-end boutiques. It might have also contai ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana
And Divinity Tree, and Green Door Sacramento, and maybe MedithriveLombard Street is in the city's oft-posh Marina District, but that stretch of US-101 that leads from the Golden Gate Bridge down through Van Ness Avenue includes seedy motels as well as high-end boutiques. It might have also contai ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Thomas Keller's Cup4Cup Gluten-free Flour Put to the Test
Thomas Keller has jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon. Everything that Chef Keller touches turns to gold, so it is no surprise that his new flour has created quite the buzz among the gluten-free community. And the TV food world, too: Here he is cooking on Martha Stewart's show this morning: ... More >>
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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 >>
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November 8, 2011
S.F. Pot Clubs Threatened by Government Crackdown Won't Sue
On defenseIt 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 >>
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November 9, 2011
Pros and Condoms: S.F. Emphasizes HIV Treatment, but a New Generation Advocates Bareback Sex
On defenseIt 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 >>
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November 15, 2011
Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana Dodges Federal Threat -- for Now
Praise LegalistsSecond SF Dispensary Closes Under Federal PressureAn eviction notice was never so welcome.Last Wednesday, California's oldest storefront medical marijuana collective, Fairfax-based Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, received an eviction notice from its landlord -- which means t ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Medical Marijuana: Landlord Evicts Pot Club at Behest of Feds
tokeofthetown.comMAMM's Lynette ShawThe choice offered by the Justice Department was clear: Select California medical cannabis dispensaries needed to close up shop or have their properties seized and operators thrown in prison.This was the ultimatum issued in September by United States Attorney f ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Pot Club Crackdown Continues, Judge Rejects Demands to Stop Feds
Up in smoke A judge has ruled that she would not interfere with the feds' efforts to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries across California. Oakland U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong ruled on Monday that pot clubs failed to show that the federal government was violating their ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
On World AIDS Day, No Talk of 'Barebacking' in San Francisco
Today is World AIDS Day, and the men and women who have devoted themselves to fighting this pandemic -- from Bono to former President George W. Bush -- can justifiably take credit for a lot of progress.The day has particular resonance in San Francisco, which was at the forefront of formulating a ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
A Gluten-Free Cook Book for Foodies At Last
Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free by Karen Morgan (Chronicle Books $24.95) We usually don't review cookbooks by non-local authors here at SFoodie, but sometimes we'll make an exception in the case of something exciting or different that catches our eye. There's no way around the fact that glut ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Weed Wars: Watch a 5-Year Old Smoke Medical Marijuana Tonight
If it makes parents tolerable ... A few common schools of thought persist in the medical marijuana debate -- on one end, doubters point to young men at dispensaries and say that the drug is widely abused by people who are "not that sick." On the other hand, believers say that you don't need to be ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
UCSF Medical Center, SF General Fined for Surgical Screw-Ups
UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital have both been fined tens of thousands of dollars for operating-room mishaps, the California Department of Public Health announced today.The two are among 14 major hospitals against which state health officials issued sanctions, including top ... More >>
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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 >>
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December 16, 2011
Vegan Hanukkah, Year End Animal News, and Beyonce is Partially Vegan!?
• Beyonce is preggers and so she's eating a vegan diet. Or is it, a partially vegan diet? Which is what EVERYONE ON EARTH EATS. It's like, did you eat anything that wasn't a steak today? Unless it was an egg milkshake, you're partially vegan! Welcome to the club, asshole! • Need some last m ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Medical Marijuana Patients Opposing Federal Approval of ... Medical Marijuana
umpp.orgStanding Up Against... Medical MarijuanaMedical marijuana can be good for the brain. No less an authority than the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services says so: HHS awarded to a group of doctors in 2003 a patent titled "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotect ... More >>
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December 26, 2011
Sperm Donor Smack-Down: Trent Arsenault vs. the Gay-Hating Bill Johnson
You, too, can have a Trent Arsenault baby.The SF Weekly newsroom boasts the strange distinction of sitting above a fertility clinic. That means the morning elevator ride is often shared with anxious females gripping the hand of their nervous sperm donor/partner. It also means that in dull mo ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Strike a Pose
You, too, can have a Trent Arsenault baby.The SF Weekly newsroom boasts the strange distinction of sitting above a fertility clinic. That means the morning elevator ride is often shared with anxious females gripping the hand of their nervous sperm donor/partner. It also means that in dull mo ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
S.F. Begins Issuing Medical Marijuana Dispensary Permits Again
It's a go -- for now.San Francisco has begun issuing medical marijuana dispensary licenses again, following a recent state Supreme court decision that will allow local pot dispensaries to do business -- for now. The city's Medical Cannabis Act permitting process had been on hold for several month ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
BREAKING: San Francisco Suspends Medical Marijuana Licensing Program Indefinitely
San Francisco city officials indefinitely suspended the city's medical marijuana dispensary permitting program on Wednesday, according to the Department of Public Health.Pending permits had been on hold since December, after a ruling in a state appeals court case halted similar permitting program ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Facebook vs. Nursing Moms: Bay Area Breastfeeders Protest Deleted Photos
Grow up, Facebook!You don't want to piss-off nursing mothers, who are already sleep-deprived. But Facebook is braving a fight with breastfeeding women who are joining a worldwide protest this morning, calling on the Bay Area company to stop deleting their nursing photos on Facebook. As we write, ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Tea Party Warrior: Report Medical Marijuana Clubs to the IRS and Get Rich
facebook.com/pages/Paul-Chabot-for-Assembly/Paul Chabot Wants YOU to Call the IRS on Pot ClubsFor Paul Chabot, the War on Drugs is personal indeed: Before he became a Navy man, a campus cop, and a former National Drug Control Policy staffer, he was in drug rehab for alcohol and marijuana addictio ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
San Francisco Is a Hotbed of STDs
Do you need someone from the health department to slip it in for you?Just a year ago, the city's Health Department proudly released the female condom 2 with forceful fanfare. But after reviewing some preliminary stats on STD cases over the last year, we've concluded that those touted contraceptiv ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
Keep VD Out of Valentine's Day, Use a Condom
While they have the attention of lovers and horny people everywhere, health officials are camping onto Valentine's Day to promote National Condom Week. And that's probably a good idea, considering the news last week detailing San Francisco's STD problem. Today, the California Family Health Counci ... More >>
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