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  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Users Don't Need to be Marijuana Farmers, Court Says

    It doesn't take much to join a collective or cooperative in California, be it a grocery store or a medical cannabis dispensary. In the former, perhaps all you need is a small fee; in the latter, a doctor's recommendation and the scrill required to purchase some medical bud.It certainly doesn't requi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Activists Occupy the Capitol

    As the pleasant Sacramento spring turns into the furnace of the Central Valley summer, so too is the heat turned up in the corridors of the state Capitol: It's budget season, and it's also last call for certain bills stalled in the Legislature to get a hearing before a June 1 deadline sends them int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Cops Fight Clarity of Medical Marijuana Sales

    Police in California have long expressed displeasure with the state's medical marijuana laws. And with good reason: Cops just might have the legal right to haul into court medical marijuana merchants who exchange cash for cannabis. But then again, they might not. Much police behavior depends on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Curtis Whitley: NFL Is to Blame for Former Raider's Death, Lawsuit Claims

    Retired football players have died young at an alarming rate and each death repeats the question: Exactly how culpable is the NFL? In May 2008, Curtis Whitley, an offensive lineman who played in the league for six years, died from a reported drug overdose. He was 39, and in the years before he died ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Meet the California Lawmakers Who Are Enabling the Marijuana War

    Losing efforts sometimes score wins. Medical marijuana scored such a moral victory late Wednesday, when 163 members of Congress voted in favor of not allowing federal dollars to be spent on busting pot growers, distributors, and dispensaries in states with medical cannabis laws.The brainchild o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Advocates Petition Nancy Pelosi to End Federal Crackdown on Pot Clubs

    Pot patients are marching to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco office as we type to deliver a petition demanding she do something to stop the ongoing and significant crackdown on local pot clubs. The petition, which you can find here, asks Pelosi to defend medical marijuana users who rely o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Obama Explains Medical Marijuana Crackdown -- Sort Of

    Mystery accompanied the federal Justice Department's crackdown on California's state-legal medical marijuana industry since Oct. 7, when prosecutors formally declared their war on weed. Who was behind the feds deciding it was time to shut down hundreds of California dispensaries -- rogue prosecutors ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Local Democrats Ask Obama to Leave S.F. Marijuana Clubs Alone

    San Francisco Democrats turned on one of their own as they issued a scathing rebuttal to President Barack Obama's explanation of his unpopular crackdown of medical marijuana clubs.The local Democratic Party passed a resolution yesterday, demanding that President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Anti-Marijuana Rally Draws Chinese Families, Supervisor Candidates

    Medical marijuana is not a political issue for Leon Chow. Or so the labor organizer insisted Saturday morning, when he led about 100 mostly Chinese men, women, and children on a mile-long march in opposition of three proposed medical cannabis dispensaries down the main drag of Mission Street in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    How You Can Get Tested for STDs in the Comfort of Your Own Home

    As we've noted before, San Francisco is a hotbed of sexually transmitted diseases, and it's not just because we aren't regularly using condoms. It's also because we aren't regularly getting tested for STDs.But Bay Area health departments are making it so that you really have no excuse to not get tes ... 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 12, 2012

    Mayor's Office Says Medical Marijuana Is a "Nuisance" Akin to Liquor Stores, Strip Clubs

    It took some doing, but Mayor Ed Lee at last gave medical marijuana the lip service it had been seeking for months with a statement where Lee dubbed state-legal medical cannabis "legitimate," and expressed "concern" over more city-licensed dispensaries risking federal closure from the United States ... 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

    April 9, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Stay Open Despite Federal Deadline

    On the day the federal government wished HopeNet to close, the operators of San Francisco's oldest licensed and taxpaying medical marijuana dispensary prepared accordingly: They grilled hot dogs."We made about 220," said Catherine Smith, whose Ninth Street medical cannabis dispensary is one of the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    AIDS Activistis Use Good Friday to Shame the Catholic Church

    The only thing that might make Good Friday even better for some is a loud protest of the Catholic Church. We'll leave that one to San Francisco's AIDS activists who have made a long list of institutions they plan to shame today, including banks, cops, and Catholics.To remember the 20,000 San Francis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Oaksterdam University Pledges to Re-open After Federal Raid on Marijuana Leader

    What many saw as the inevitable hit Oaksterdam founder Richard Lee on Monday, when federal agents came knocking at the home and businesses of the man who has become the marijuana movement's de-facto figurehead.After Lee revived a moribund part of downtown Oakland with a school dedicated to the pot t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Ban in Daly City Means More Business for S.F. Pot Clubs

    ​It's not often that a police department will recommend -- by name -- a medical marijuana delivery service.Yet the Daly City Police Department did just that this week, endorsing the Purple Dinosaur delivery service as a preferable alternative to permitted medical marijuana dispensaries in our neig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Marijuana-Like Compounds Stop Spread of AIDS, Study Says

    ​In many ways, without AIDS, there would be no medical marijuana. But there could be a twist, according to new research: With medical marijuana (or synthetic marijuana-like compounds), there could be less AIDS.Researchers believe there's a link between cannabis use -- or at least drugs that share ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Pot Grows on File: Bill to Force Medical Marijuana Users to Register with the State

    ​Whatever scent you may detect on street corners on a sunny day in the Mission, know this: Marijuana users aren't exactly out of the closet. The city's medical marijuana activist groups continue to struggle to organize and turn out supporters, who have proven less than eager to go public.Folks who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Restaurant Critic Gets Gout

    ​Seems about as obvious a chain of events as Paula Deen getting type 2 diabetes, doesn't it? Wait, didn't gout disappear in 1782? (The restaurant critic writing this post grows a little sweaty, flexes toes to make sure they're not producing burning, stinging pain.) Unfortunately not. Yesterday, f ... 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

    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

    March 2, 2012

    The Craziest Anti-Planned Parenthood Ads

    Planned Parenthood doesn't shy away from provocative gimmicks in its efforts to promote sex education and reproductive health; earlier this week, we brought you the news that the nonprofit has launched a new campaign encouraging people to "check in" to a special social network when they don condoms ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Feds Dismiss Medical Marijuana Lawsuits Without Hearings "Because They Know They're Wrong"

    ​Medical Marijuana Fight May End Up At Supreme Court ... By The Time We Are All Really Old.San Francisco attorney Matthew Kumin was defeated this week, when his lawsuit that challenged the feds' recent crackdown on state-legal medical marijuana dispensaries was dismissed by a federal judge in Sacr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Ammiano Bill to Allow Marijuana Businesses and Sales That Are Already Legal

    Mr Fix-It​Call it an industry, call it a movement, call it a gigantic scam. Law enforcement and politicians can't agree what to call California's medical marijuana scene, except to say it exists in a legal gray area.And how. A dispensary operator in Vallejo was arrested last week -- twice -- becau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Taste Test: Gluten-Free Dumplings from Feel Good Foods

    Despite the recent explosion of gluten-free products everywhere, Chinese dumplings have remained largely off limits for those with gluten intolerance -- until now. Feel Good Foods, a San Francisco-based company, is manufacturing and selling a line of gluten-free, frozen dumplings.

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Tea Party Warrior: Report Medical Marijuana Clubs to the IRS and Get Rich

    ​For 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 addiction himself -- at the young age of 12, according to his online bio.In his latest tactical maneuv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Facebook vs. Nursing Moms: Bay Area Breastfeeders Protest Deleted Photos

    ​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, Bay Area mothers a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 11, 2012

    Strike a Pose

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Five Things to Do in 2012 That Aren't
    Radical Weight-Loss Surgery

    An acquaintance traveled to Los Angeles recently and saw the ubiquitous 1-800-GET-THIN billboards. "It was like, 'Welcome to LA ... You're fat!'" said Jennifer Yendes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took note of the notorious billboards in early December. Regulators officially told marketing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Patients Opposing Federal Approval of ... Medical Marijuana

    umpp.orgStanding Up Against... Medical Marijuana​Medical 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • 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 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    A Gluten-Free Cook Book for Foodies at Last

    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 gluten-free cookbooks tend to be boring and bland. They are often written by unski ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Pot Club Crackdown Continues, Judge Rejects Demands to Stop Feds

    ​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 rights by cr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Medical Marijuana: Feds Move to Forfeit Marin Pot Club's Property

    ​The 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 for Northern California Melinda Haag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana Dodges Federal Threat -- for Now

    Praise Legalists​Second 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 >>

  • News

    November 9, 2011

    Pros and Condoms: S.F. Emphasizes HIV Treatment, but a New Generation Advocates Bareback Sex

    Praise Legalists​Second 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 >>

  • 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 >>

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