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June 12, 2009
Chronic City: Let's Vote On It -- Marijuana Legalization May Be On 2010 Ballot
Photobucket.comTo put a new twist on an old saw, desperation is often the mother of invention. When a person, or a state, is in dire straits, it's often an opportunity for the kind of epochal change that, at other times, might not be considered.That's where we are right now with marijuana law reform ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Chronic City: The 'Oaksterdam Model' For Legal Pot In California
Oaksterdam UniversityWith Oakland broke and growing broker (like many other American cities), calls for the city to get into the growing and selling of medical marijuana are being taken more seriously.The idea seems a lot less crazy when you take a look at the potential revenue to be generated, espe ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
Weed Takes Root
Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide
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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 >>
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March 24, 2010
Pot Initiative All But Certain to Qualify for November Ballot
Good news, good news...Math and marijuana may not go together like chocolate and peanut butter -- though chocolate, peanut butter, and pot go together great. But if you do the math, it appears virtually certain that the "Control and Tax Cannabis Initiative" circulated by Oaksterdam University wil ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
How Do Pot Advocates Celebrate Huge Victory? Use Your Imagination.
Neil in Space - Click here for more blooper videosYesterday, we reported that an initiative to tax and regulate marijuana was all but certain to grace the November ballot. Well, guess what? Pro-pot voters, come November, you're hooked up. Needing 433,971 signatures to make the ballot, the initiativ ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
High Times at International Pot Expo
Chris RobertsHardcore pot enthusiasts probably didn't even notice the woman in the background of this photo. Right?VIEW OUR POT EXPO SLIDESHOW HERE California is pot-friendly, but public mass consumption of cannabis is still a feat -- especially when it's on state property. That is partiall ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
Legalization Measure 'Bad for Patients,' S.F. Cannabis Dealer Says
Cookie, NOOOOOOOOO!Legalization threat "putting us in the shadows ... making us dirty again," says head of Green Cross Cannabis DeliveryA couple of years ago Kevin Reed, 36, president of Bay Area Green Cross medical marijuana delivery service, had his mother over. She tried a cookie. This was no ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
Cookie, NOOOOOOOOO!Legalization threat "putting us in the shadows ... making us dirty again," says head of Green Cross Cannabis DeliveryA couple of years ago Kevin Reed, 36, president of Bay Area Green Cross medical marijuana delivery service, had his mother over. She tried a cookie. This was no ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
New Pot Club Would Be Downtown's First
Earlier in the week, Socketsite pointed attention to 527 Howard Street -- just beneath the Bay Bridge -- where a new medical cannabis dispensary wishes to open up shop.SF Weekly visited with applicant Igor Khavin and toured the nascent Igzactly Health Solutions. Khavin will have his permit hearin ... More >>
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July 19, 2010
California Democrats Stay Neutral on Marijuana-Legalizing Prop. 19
DragSupporters 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 >>
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July 27, 2010
Do Black Voters Want to Legalize Marijuana?
As the campaigns for and against California's marijuana-legalizing Proposition 19 heat up, a big question mark still hangs over a vital factor in the initiative's fate: How popular is it among minorities, and specifically among black voters?Notes prince-among-pollsters Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEi ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Pot Baron Steve DeAngelo Calls For More Compassion in World of Corporate Marijuana
Harborside Health CenterSteve DeAngelo says greed, for lack of a better word, is not goodSteve DeAngelo cares. The owner of Oakland's Harborside Health Center -- the largest medical cannabis dispensary in the United States, with some 60,000 patients and counting -- wants to "flip the switch" ... More >>
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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 isThe e-mail came Monday from Oaksterdam University's Richard Lee, the main driving force (at least publicly) behind cannabis semi-legalization measure Propos ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Prop. 19 Backer Richard Lee Not Ready to Count Out Pot Legalization
Say what you will, Richard Lee is no Joe Namath. The New York Jets quarterback, against all odds, guaranteed a Super Bowl victory. Lee, the pot entrepreneur behind Oaksterdam University -- and the driving fiscal force behind Proposition 19 -- was decidedly noncommittal when queried about electora ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Is Marijuana Union Battle Budding?
Meanwhile, over at the pot dispensary...Don't smoke that! Get a union man to smoke that! San Francisco is a famous union town, a reputation won on the docks. But this isn't the 1930s, and "budtenders" at cannabis dispensaries aren't the spitting image of striking longshoremen. Still, organi ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
Marijuana Roundup: The Year In Pot
How was your 2010? For the cannabis community, it was a wild flip of the calendar, with dispensaries opening and closing, police raiding, a medical cannabis luminary thrown in jail for meth charges -- and we vaguely remember something about a legalization ballot measure. There's still time y ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Oaksterdam's Richard Lee Attends Daly Roast, Treated to Wheelchair Joke
No JokeAside from his fleeting visibility in the media during his push to legalize marijuana with Proposition 19, Oaksterdam University's Richard Lee is a loner. Lee is known for keeping a low profile -- both in Oakland and with the media -- so much so that he was described as a ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Ammiano's Cannabis Bill a 'Rumor' -- For Now
Buzz killYou know the old saying: Where there's Tom Ammiano, there's cannabis. California's most cannabis-friendly assemblyman is being connected with an "omnibus cannabis bill" meant to reform, regulate, and clarify the many gray areas in California's medical marijuana laws. Aside from that, som ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
The Most Coveted Job in San Francisco: Tending Bud
You will need to smoke a joint after bud tending....it's a stressful jobIt may not be the best job in San Francisco: starting pay is $15 an hour, it's part-time, and job security? The federal government could lock you up at any moment. On the other hand, at most locations it includes health benefits ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
California: 100 Million Marijuana Plants
You keep growing, they keep seizingSeizures Rise Under Obama Administration as Cops Bust More Plants Than Ever.The marijuana-related headlines on Wednesday were hogged by a report, issued by a private "cannabusiness" company, that says sales of medical marijuana nationwide will top $1.7 billion t ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana
You keep growing, they keep seizingSeizures Rise Under Obama Administration as Cops Bust More Plants Than Ever.The marijuana-related headlines on Wednesday were hogged by a report, issued by a private "cannabusiness" company, that says sales of medical marijuana nationwide will top $1.7 billion t ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Obama to Arrive in S.F. on 4/20: Potheads to Protest President
Obama -- giving 4/20 a new meaningFor his promises not to use federal resources on raiding legal dispensaries, many medical marijuana users voted for Barack Hussein Obama in 2008, as we reported in our cover story last week. Many California medical marijuana users supported Obama for the candidat ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Grass Roots Is First S.F. Medical Cannabis Dispensary to Join Union
Look for the union labelSan Francisco is known as a union town and a city rich with medical cannabis dispensaries. It was only a matter of time before the two intersected. A year after United Food and Commercial Workers began organizing medical cannabis operations in Oakland and Marin County, Gra ... 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 6, 2011
International Cannabis and Hemp Expo in Oakland (SLIDESHOW)
Never one to miss a cannabis-themed "public awareness event," SF Weekly attended this weekend's International Cannabis and Hemp Expo in downtown Oakland on Saturday and Sunday. We present some of our findings, with minimal comment. This monster of a bud is "Diesel Haze," from a San Jose-area di ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Oaksterdam's Richard Lee: Marijuana Legalization Is "Dead" in California -- For Now
Richard Lee says it's all over -- for nowLast 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 >>

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