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August 10, 2011
Another Poll Shows Majority Support Legalizing Pot
YesHo-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 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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Culture
July 20, 2011
Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
July 15, 2011
S.F. Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Generate Only 11 Complaints Over Five Years
That all you got?Pot clubs. They're boring. You go in, you buy some pot, you leave. For all the clamor with which a new medical cannabis dispensary's opening receives from jumpy John Q Public, with a few notable exceptions, most we see these days resemble dentists' offices, not dens of iniquity ( ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
Justice Department "Clarifies" Stance on Medical Marijuana: It's Illegal And They Will Arrest You
They gonna getchaPresident Barack Obama's stance on medical cannabis has been a wee nebulous: as candidate, Obama said the drug war was a failure and that doctors prescribing pot as a treatment was "appropriate"; as president, Obama's Justice Department said chasing after pot growers and users wa ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
Medical Cannabis Movement Becoming Less Gay
Chris RobertsHot. But gay unfriendly?Like Sarah Palin recounting the tale of Paul Revere's ride to warn the British (of their own impending arrival), we Americans often have a fuzzy grasp of our history. This extends to the medical cannabis movement, which was birthed in San Francisco in the 1980 ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Leland Yee Promises to Fight for Medical Marijuana, Except When He's Opposing It
Leland Yee REALLY wants to be mayor, even if it means supporting and not supporting medical marijuanaState Sen. Leland Yee will stand up for medical cannabis. Even against his own interests and against the cannabis-opposed Chinese community of San Francisco, the mayoral candidate is your man, he ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Have S.F. Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Reached Critical Mass?
Is there such thing as too much pot?On Monday, The Apothecarium will finally open its doors, making it San Francisco's 26th medical cannabis dispensary. Far from having as many pot clubs as Starbucks, vast swaths of San Francisco are, thanks to restrictive zoning laws, completely devoid of dispen ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Obama's Drug Czar Refuses to Meet With Cops Seeking End to War on Drugs
No you didn't!In what way is Barack Obama similar to Richard Nixon (aside from ramping up someone else's foreign war)? Turns out common ground can also be found between Tricky Dick and BHO II when it comes to the drug war.A few weeks ago we told you about California NORML unhappily celebrating th ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2011
California Has 1.1 Million Medical Marijuana Users, NORML Says
We pot more than we need politiciansCalifornia is the most populous state in the Union. It's where the nation's medical marijuana movement was birthed, and the Golden State is also where the rest of the country gets most of its illegal pot, judging by law enforcement statistics (lo siento, Britis ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Medical Marijuana Patients Sue Federal Government
Stoners aren't the only ones who are slow to react We all know that the wheels of government move slowly -- but nine years slowly? That pace is too lazy for Americans for Safe Access, which just wants answers. So it's going to court to force the federal government to get some response.At issue is ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2011
Phil Ting Is a Buzz Kill, Talks About Extra Tax on Medical Marijuana
What does he know about smoking pot?Taxes are Phil Ting's business -- when the assessor-recorder isn't campaigning for San Francisco mayor, that is. But when Ting recently took stock of the Bay Area tax scene on medical marijuana, he realized that San Francisco could be bringing in more cash. Ev ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
Joseph Erich Pearson, S.F. Dispensary Owner, Arrested After Blaze Burns Marijuana Grow in Rural Sonoma
Marijuna blazeThe co-founder of San Francisco's slickest medical cannabis dispensary and a member of the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Task Force has been charged with multiple felonies stemming from a Sonoma County marijuana grow, according to news reports.Joseph Erich Pearson, 34, co-founder o ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Medical Marijuana: Dad Says It Saved Two-Year-Old Son with Cancer
Cash HydeThere 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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
News
April 6, 2011
Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana
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 >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Pot Dispensary Hurts Hotels, Chronicle Says; But Not at The Luxurious Intercontinental
Intercontintental SFThe pots' eye viewDon't get us wrong: As a person, we genuinely like oft-maligned San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius. As a columnist, however, Nevius has a tendency to confound us, as he did Thursday when he held forth on the proliferation of medical cannabis dispen ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2011
David Campos Pledges to Fix Medical Cannabis Dispensary Act 'Typo'
Playing defenseJust a few weeks after SF Weekly wrote of discord and non-action on the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Task Force -- the city's medical marijuana advisory body -- it has finally responded. It's presenting us with a litany of past accomplishments while taking action to further its reco ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Fake Pot Crime Stats Continue to Gall Police Commissioner, Cannabis Patients
Giving the green lightPetra DeJesus isn't angry -- she's just frustrated. The criminal defense attorney and San Francisco Police Commissioner last year publicly remonstrated then-Captain Denise Schmitt of the SFPD's Taraval Station for Schmitt's claims that medical cannabis dispensaries cause cri ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2011
Cops Raid Pot House First, Ask Questions Later
It's not your landlord knockingOn Jan. 11, someone knocked on the door of Bruce Rossignol's 13th Street home. The investment banker turned medical cannabis cultivator, who, as SF Weekly reported in August wishes to someday open a cannabis club in North Beach, assumed it was his landlord. He was w ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2011
Obama Takes Then Dodges Pot Legalization Question on YouTube
The digital president, Barack Obama held a sort of national press conference following his State of the Union Address this week. As he has done after every SOTU address since he took office, Obama told the nation to query him via YouTube and he would answer questions. The video submissions Obama a ... More >>
News
January 12, 2011
Proximity of Sunset District Pot Club to School Sparks Outrage
The digital president, Barack Obama held a sort of national press conference following his State of the Union Address this week. As he has done after every SOTU address since he took office, Obama told the nation to query him via YouTube and he would answer questions. The video submissions Obama a ... More >>
Culture
December 15, 2010
One Toke Over the Line
Is it legal to smoke in public? Theoretically, almost anywhere in S.F., if you have a card. But there are important exceptions.
News
November 17, 2010
Ibogaine has helped addicts kick meth and heroin. Is it the trip that does the trick?
Is it legal to smoke in public? Theoretically, almost anywhere in S.F., if you have a card. But there are important exceptions.
Blogs
November 9, 2010
Kevin Reed's Pot Party Ruined By The Man
Kevin Reed may have been better off having his pot competition in the bushes Kevin Reed can't catch a break. Reed, the CEO of medical cannabis delivery service The Green Cross, has for the past three years hosted an annual pot party/fundraiser called the SF Cannabis Cup (re-dubbed the "Cannab ... 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
October 15, 2010
Axis of Love, 'Medical Cannabis Community Center', Faces Eviction
When is a pot club not a pot club? When you walk in the establishment in question but cannot buy medical cannabis, that could be a clue. When you can't walk in at all, that says something, too. That's what Shona Gochenaur thinks: The proprietor of Axis of Love, a "medical cannabis community ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2010
Feds Seize Grow Equipment, Cash from Oakland Pot Factory
Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assetsBackers 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 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 >>
Blogs
September 21, 2010
Workers of the World Unite -- Around a Joint -- as SEIU Endorses Prop. 19
Karl Marx would be proudCalifornia'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 20, 2010
Emergency Marijuana Legislation Proposed to Save 'Mom-and-Pop' Dispensaries
'Big-box' dispensaries? That the city's planning and zoning laws are complex is well-known; that the city's laws permitting medical cannabis dispensaries are even more Byzantine is news even to dispensary owners, -- as SF Weekly reported last week. Of particular concern to the city's pot clu ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
SOMA Pot Club Surprised to Learn of Ban on SOMA Pot Clubs
The city would prefer HopeNet's Steve Smith -- and his buddy -- to stay right where they are. And only there.South of Market's been a de-facto "containment zone" for medical cannabis dispensaries for a variety of reasons: The still-gritty neighborhood has cheaper rents, more vacant storefront ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2010
Pot Ads on Muni? They're Already on BART -- So Why Not?
Coming to a Muni bus near you?SF Weekly's Chris Roberts yesterday reported that a local medical marijuana delivery service impresario has gotten his ads cleared to run on Muni vehicles. Not so fast, says Muni spokesman Paul Rose. Yes, Kevin Reed of the Green Cross has approached Titan Outdoor, wh ... More >>
News
August 11, 2010
Pot club not allowed on North Beach porn strip
Coming to a Muni bus near you?SF Weekly's Chris Roberts yesterday reported that a local medical marijuana delivery service impresario has gotten his ads cleared to run on Muni vehicles. Not so fast, says Muni spokesman Paul Rose. Yes, Kevin Reed of the Green Cross has approached Titan Outdoor, wh ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2010
Marijuana Dispensary Kneecapped by Disability Access Rules
Greg Schoepp is feeling a bit beaten down by the city... Handicapped dispensary owner told his dispensary isn't handicapped-accessible Greg Schoepp knows what it's like to be disabled -- the owner of Crown Lock and Hardware on Balboa Street has been in a wheelchair for almost 30 years since ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2010
Is Berkeley Marijuana Dispensary's Maine Investment 'Cannabusiness' as Usual?
"Cannabusiness" is a term thrown around plenty these days, what with medical marijuana dispensaries and delivery services a ho-hum regularity in California, and the prospect of full-blown legalization looming on the horizon via the ballot box. But "cannabusiness" is also a dirty word for some in ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2010
Marijuana Legalization Opposed by Californians, New Field Poll Shows
Most Californians will pass, thanksPoll Also Reveals Strong Support for Reform of State Budget ProcessA Field Poll released today shows that efforts to legalize marijuana in California have lost ground since last year, and that state residents currently oppose Proposition 19 -- a November ballot ... More >>
News
July 7, 2010
The High Road
Growers who cashed in on illegal pot now welcome legalization and taxation.
Music
June 16, 2010
Herbal Melodies
Choice moments in the surprising history of medical marijuana and music
Blogs
May 27, 2010
Will State Bill Criminalize AIDS Patients' Pot Closets?
'Get the pot out of the closet! Get it out now!' "Unintended consequences" is a well-worn phrase for folks familiar with the legislative process. It's one that certainly applies to Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo), author of a bill that would create statewide restrictions on keeping med ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Cops Can't Link Crimes Near Pot Clubs to Pot Clubs
Is he robbing you because there's a pot club 100 feet away? Or just because he's robbing you? The cops have no idea.Glide Memorial Church is an oasis in the Tenderloin, a sanctuary amidst some of the starkest examples of human wreckage many of us will ever see. Nobody would call Glide dangero ... More >>
News
March 24, 2010
Drug policy: Pot-club paranoia
Is he robbing you because there's a pot club 100 feet away? Or just because he's robbing you? The cops have no idea.Glide Memorial Church is an oasis in the Tenderloin, a sanctuary amidst some of the starkest examples of human wreckage many of us will ever see. Nobody would call Glide dangero ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2010
Hope You Enjoyed CMCR Report, Because That's All, Folks
It's not news that marijuana may have healing qualities: after all, medicinal cannabis has been (sort of) the law of the land since 1996, when California voters passed Proposition 215 . Still, it was a very big deal when the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research released the results last Wednesday ... More >>
News
February 10, 2010
Medical marijuana growers score a defense
It's not news that marijuana may have healing qualities: after all, medicinal cannabis has been (sort of) the law of the land since 1996, when California voters passed Proposition 215 . Still, it was a very big deal when the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research released the results last Wednesday ... More >>
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