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"Miracle" Cannabis Oil: May Treat Cancer, But Money and the Law Stand in the Way of Finding Out

Medical Marijuana Advocates to Protest at Obama HQ Tonight

Cannabis advocates have been mad as hell for almost a year now. And as the first anniversary of the war waged on state-legal medical marijuana by President Barack Obama's Justice Department approaches, they'll have you -- and him -- know that they're not going to take it anymore.Across the country, ... More >>

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 >>

An Intergenerational Cookie of Success

​Edna's Success of Mountain View bakes from recipes that have been in the family for three generations, all the way back from when company muse Edna Hickman baked for her own Montana eatery. (With its single table, Hickman's Success Cafe was once listed as the Smallest Operating Cafe in the Guinne ... More >>

Out of This World

Where Have All the Stoners Gone?

Hey stoners, do you really want Sarah Palin as an ally?​It's hard to say exactly where the American marijuana movement is at present. For every Alabama, where a Republican state legislator will sponsor a medical marijuana bill to legalize medical cannabis, there's an Arizona or a Montana, where la ... More >>

Environmental Groups Fight to Put Gray Wolf Back on Endangered Species List

Gary Kramer, US Fish and Wildlife Service​Environmental groups appealed to the Ninth Circuit to reinstate the northern rocky mountain gray wolf on the Endangered Species List, after Montana judge Donald Molley reluctantly upheld Congress' move directing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist ... More >>

Newsom Baby Arrives ... and His Name Isn't Weird

Hunter S. Thompson makes "Hunter" a pretty cool name​Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and wife Jennifer Siebel announced the arrival of their new baby boy, Hunter Siebel Newsom. We hear mother and son, who was born yesterday morning, are doing well. So congrats ... on giving him a normal name. Aft ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Dad Says It Saved Two-Year-Old Son with Cancer

Cash Hyde​There are many ways to look at the story of two-year-old brain-tumor survivor Cash Michael Hyde, whose father, Michael, secretly slipped him medical marijuana oil in his feeding tube during chemotherapy last fall. You could assume that the plant is an effective drug. Chemotherapy left ... More >>

Trying to Review a Restaurant That's Never the Same

Lara HataVinyl Wine Bar: drawing in customers with a low-pitched but persistent buzz.​For this week's restaurant review, I visited two of the more accessible popup restaurants in town: the new residency of 18-month-old EAT Restaurant at The Corner, which hosts a different restaurant every day of t ... More >>

Marijuana Raids: It Could Happen Here -- At Any Time

Paranoid about potential pot raids? You should be.​It's been nearly two years since Drug Enforcement Agency agents raided a medical cannabis dispensary in San Francisco. So while a raid might not be fresh on our minds, this week's bust in Montana and Southern California have served as a sobering r ... More >>

Newsom Baby No. 2: The 25 Worst/Least Likely Names

Jim HerdThis one's mine. Get your own.​It seems Mayor Gavin Newsom will soon have something else to distract him from elected office: Another kid on the way! It's impossible to guess the naming propensities of a couple who saw fit to christen their first child "Montana." But we offered the 25 wors ... More >>

California's Marijuana Laws Now Nation's Most Liberal

Your governor, in action​After Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger affixed his signature on a Sen. Mark Leno-authored bill yesterday, California's marijuana policy became the nation's most progressive, pot activists tell SF Weekly. While existing law calls for anyone busted with an ounce or less of pot to ... More >>

Let's just drain the Lily Pond and kill the frogs

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List: The year in news

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Pony P of West Addy/ Get down, Get down/ L.O.W.

​Look Out Weekend (L.O.W.) has spent the summer throwing free Friday happy hour pool parties, waiting for the weather to catch up with their event. Well this weekend it seems like the sunshine's gonna throw them a favor. Head over to the Bambuddha Lounge tonight between 4 and 9 p.m. and you can ca ... More >>

Sweet Beat: Edna's Cashew Cookies

 A fabulous hybrid of cake and cookie -- plus generous amounts of whole cashews and cashew buttercream to further reel you in -- equals the kind of cookies you find yourself not wanting to share with anyone. Edna's Success of Mountain View uses a recipe that's been in the family for th ... More >>

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Knockoff

A German New Waver resorts to tired old tricks

Split Decision

Republicans want to break up "the 9th Circus," the San Francisco-based liberal federal appeals court. Whose side are you on?

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Animal House Organ

Q: How many animal stories does it take to make a Chronicle? A: 30, in two months.

Industrial Light and Magic

Yves Béhar designs ordinary things that meet our needs in extraordinary ways

Growing Pains

Ryan Gosling attempts to become a man while evading The Slaughter Rule

Paint Your Wagon

Music for movies: Better a dramatic feature than the "wall-to-wall talking" of a documentary

Zoom Lens

Hanging with the chic riffraff at the 25th anniversary Mill Valley Film Festival

The Fortune Teller

A former writer of fortune-cookie aphorisms pens a compelling first novel about the trials of a Montana ranch family

Northern Composure

Tired of downers? In Big Eden, life is full of happy twists

Dance to the Music

Two local choreographers bring the songs onto the stage

What a Musical Web They Weave

Silkworm

South to the Future

Sam of Son Unabomber victims sue to profit from their attacker's crimes

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The latest price for a free lunch

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