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Proposition 19

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Another Poll Shows Marijuana Legalization Has Overwhelming Support

    If only President Barack Obama was marijuana, then he'd win reelection by a landslide.Marijuana legalization enjoys a 20-point advantage in the polls among American adults, according to a recent survey Rasmussen Reports. Fifty-six percent of Americans polled support the notion of marijuana being tax ... 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 9, 2012

    California Congressmen Push Spending Cuts on Federal Marijuana Enforcement

    Budget hawks incensed over San Francisco's supposedly profligate spending ought to spend a few minutes at Congress, observing the dollar requests submitted by federal departments.Take the $28.2 billion, 111,998-employee federal Department of Justice, for example. The country's 12,000 employees in Un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Marijuana Day: San Francisco's Guide to Music, Comedy, and Protest on 4/20

    If you're reading this, it's arrived: The marijuana holiday, the tokiest of tokies, the Christmas/Chinese New Year/Yom Kippur of cannabis use. The 20th day of April, the beloved 420.Woot.Today, every medical cannabis dispensary in town will be offering specials and discounts, and many will be offeri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Oaksterdam University Goes Volunteer-Only, Future Uncertain

    The federal Justice Department does not yet have Richard Lee's head. But in the wake of a multi-agency raid on Oaksterdam University, they have his business.The "cannabis college," Oakland's best known institution of higher learning -- sorry, Mills, but you don't teach people to grow weed -- is now ... 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 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

    February 2, 2012

    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 >>

  • 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 1, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Makes for Sober, Safer Drivers, Study Says

    ​While medical marijuana advocates will politely ask them to stop talking whenever the subject arises, there are many cannabis users who will claim that the task of operating a motor vehicle is safer when the driver is a bit stoned. Turns out that researchers crunching traffic data from 13 states ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Pot Beer, Pot Vodka, & Pot Wine: A Psycho Dad Says You Deserve It

    ​ Sometimes weed just isn't enough. Sometimes, daddy wants to get fucked up. Just like the first two sentences of this post, you alienate people. Your kids are buckwild and rude. Your boss won't go to bat for your paycheck. The pigs stuck you trying to hop a free ride on MUNI again. Can I get a wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Pot Legalization Measure Has Support of Mendocino Growers

    Drug Policy AllianceThat's the idea​Can 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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Another Poll Shows Majority Support Legalizing Pot

    Yes​Ho-hum. Another day, another poll showing a majority of Americans are sick of the War on Drugs and favor marijuana legalization.Of 1,003 Americans nationwide contacted by Canadian firm Angus Reid Public Opinion, 55 percent said they support the legalization of marijuana while 40 percent were o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Will Kamala Harris Burn the Medical Marijuana Advocates Who Campaigned for Her?

    One and the same ... when it comes to pot​While 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 >>

  • Culture

    July 20, 2011

    Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access

    One and the same ... when it comes to pot​While 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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    SFPD, On Hook to Release Marijuana Arrest Stats to City Hall, Fails to Do So

    Another anonymous, unknown statistic​Running a city is not easy. We get it. It'd be foolish to expect a place as complex and sometimes-provincial as San Francisco to always-smoothly operate, yet occasionally there's a municipal breakdown that defies easy explanation. And, it's quite possible, city ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Dianne Feinstein Tells Francisco to Go Smoke a Fat One

    Put that in your pipe and smoke it, San Francisco.​Wait, not all of your tax dollars are wasted in San Francisco. Your local bureaucrats make it part of their job to send a letter every February to state and federal politicians restating the city's desire that the government legalize marijuana. No ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

    Put that in your pipe and smoke it, San Francisco.​Wait, not all of your tax dollars are wasted in San Francisco. Your local bureaucrats make it part of their job to send a letter every February to state and federal politicians restating the city's desire that the government legalize marijuana. No ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Gloating 101: What Banners to Fly Over Dodgers Stadium Tonight

    Joe EskenaziDon't stop believing (or rubbing their face in it).​It's been four months and 29 days since millions of Giants fans and players paraded through the Orange and Black-decked arteries of San Francisco, dangling red thongs, airing Prop 19-related grievances, spraying champagne, and rag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Ammiano's Cannabis Bill a 'Rumor' -- For Now

    Buzz kill​You 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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Oaksterdam's Richard Lee Attends Daly Roast, Treated to Wheelchair Joke

    No Joke​Aside 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    The Five Dumbest Songs About Weed (To Blame For Prop 19's Failure)

    ​There might be no excuses in rock 'n' roll, but politics, as we've heard this week, is made of little else. Pundits and the wonkocracy hint that Prop. 19's failure, like every other Election Day disaster, was due to the hordes of scared-shitless elderly voters driven to the polls last Tuesday by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Legalize It So Wiz Khalifa'll Come Party With Us In California

    In arguably the least surprising development in the lead-up to next Tuesday's general election, Wiz Khalifa -- promising Pittsburgh rapper and successor to the weed-rules-everything-around-me mantle of Devin the Dude -- has come out in support of Proposition 19. 

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    Attention, Guardianistas: Here are your endorsements.

    In arguably the least surprising development in the lead-up to next Tuesday's general election, Wiz Khalifa -- promising Pittsburgh rapper and successor to the weed-rules-everything-around-me mantle of Devin the Dude -- has come out in support of Proposition 19. 

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Make a Famous Musician -- Wayne Coyne! Bob Weir! -- Remind You To Vote

    Russ Harrington (russharrington.com) for Harp MagazineGrace Potter gets intimate with democracy​So you're the kind of person who forgets to vote. And in such a democracy-happy burg as S.F., where voters are asked to weigh in frequently on such trivialities as the mix of recycled material in the to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Poll: Dems Abandoning Pelosi. Does Nancy-Challenger John Dennis Have a Chance?

    Still just a dream​John Dennis may live in Pacific Heights, but his similarities to fellow posh neighborhood resident Nancy Pelosi end there. The Republican challenger to most-powerful San Franciscan Pelosi supports Proposition 19, wants a repeal of the Defense of Marriage act, and is even OK with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Nancy Pelosi's Libertarian Opponent, John Dennis, Imagines Privatized Sidewalks

    John Galt, er, Dennis, for Congress.​Nancy Pelosi's Republican opponent to represent her San Francisco congressional seat is the subject of a Chronicle profile today claiming he "runs to the left of" the House Speaker.But John Dennis, who says he's raised $2 million to unseat Pelosi, is a "Liberty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Feds Seize Grow Equipment, Cash from Oakland Pot Factory

    Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assets​Backers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2010

    End Prohibition?

    Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assets​Backers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 is​The e-mail came Monday from Oaksterdam University's Richard Lee, the main driving force (at least publicly) behind cannabis semi-legalization measure Propos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 good​Steve 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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Tom Ammiano Tries, Tries Again With Marijuana Bill

    Will Tom Ammiano's latest marijuana legislation puff, puff, pass? ​Everybody knows California is broke, and those same everybodies know that thar's a gold mine waiting to be unearthed -- when and if the state starts taxing adult-use recreational marijuana (everybody *could* also be wrong, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Workers of the World Unite -- Around a Joint -- as SEIU Endorses Prop. 19

    Karl Marx would be proud​California's largest labor union is getting behind a ballot initiative that would allow governments within the state to regulate and tax marijuana, as the Service Employees International Union announced today that it would back Proposition 19 on this November's ballot.Obse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    'Marijuana Legalization Measure' Won't Legalize Marijuana

    Say what? ​Should it be approved by voters in November, the Tax, Regulate and Control Cannabis Act of 2010 - also known as Proposition 19 - would do many things. It would allow adults 21 and over to possess small amounts of cannabis, it would allow law enforcement to pursue new penalties again ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Barbara Boxer Aide Marcus Stanley Busted for Pot

    ​Marcus Stanley, a senior economic adviser to Sen. Barbara Boxer, was busted for alleged marijuana possession as he walked into the Hart Senate Office Building in the nation's capital yesterday. He was, remarkably quickly, an ex-senior economic adviser. "Marcus Stanley is no longer with this offic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Facebook Spurns Pro-Pot Ads. But You Still May See Them on Muni.

    You won't be seeing this ad on Facebook anytime soon...​Pot delivery service owner says Muni has accepted his ads Facebook's not so special. Updates to your Farmville aside, the de rigueur social networking platform is behind the curve, at least when it comes to denying cannabis-related busin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Facebook Nips Marijuana Legalization Ads In the Bud

    Facebook banned ads like these​Facebook may have unrivaled access to young, liberal voters, but the social networking site is now ensuring those potential supporters of pot legalization never see a marijuana leaf in political ads on the site. While critics are pulling out the online petitions and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Marijuana Legalization Endorsed by San Francisco Democratic Party

    ​It may not be easy being green. But it was very easy for San Francisco's Democratic Party to give the official thumbs-up to a state proposition that would legalize the green. Proposition 19, aka Tax Cannabis 2010, won an overwhelming endorsement after San Francisco Democratic County Central Commi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Dennis Peron, Pot Guru, Raided by San Francisco Cops

    Dennis Peron has been feeling the heat -- from the SFPD​Things haven't been going well for Dennis Peron lately. Peron, one of the authors of Proposition 215 -- the 1996 voter initiative legalizing marijuana for medical purposes in California -- is on the outs with some cannabis advocates for h ... More >>

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