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Quintin Mecke

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    California DA's Association Is Fighting Bill to Make Pot Growing a Misdemeanor

    Mesage received​You don't need to tell David Eyster about marijuana crime. As Mendocino County district attorney, he deals with pot crimes more than anyone else in the state. Yet the prosecutors in California's "Emerald Triangle" pot-producing region all sponsor AB 1017 --  the bill in the st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Ammiano Bill: Growing Pot Would No Longer Be Automatic Felony

    Turns out, you might not be considered a felon​Californians caught growing cannabis without a medical recommendation -- and indeed, some marijuana cultivators with medical recommendations -- are on their way to becoming felons. Law enforcement has no choice -- cultivation is a felony.Although that ... 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 24, 2011

    Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Questions State's Sex Registration Laws

    This is consensual sex​No two sex offenders are the same, which is why Assemblyman Tom Ammiano wants California to consider a tiered system to categorize those who break the state's sex laws.As he points out, there is a gradation of offenses. It's true that a consensual, sexual relationship betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Fiona Ma Refuses to Use State-Subsidized Cars Amid Looming Budget Crisis

    Giving, not getting, free rides​Not every executive feels entitled to perks in the face of a financial fiasco. Assemblywoman Fiona Ma is one of a handful of lawmakers in Sacramento who refuses to use taxpayer dollars to get to and from work. Ma has decided not to use state leased vehicles, one of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Tom Ammiano Wants to Regulate Crime Lab, Calls for New Legislation

    Backlog Breaktrhrough ​In December, we reported that a San Francisco crime lab employee skimming cocaine from the lab for personal use was only a small part of the larger overlooked problem with the county's DNA lab. It's no secret that the crime lab is in need of some serious overhaul, but here i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Matt Gonzalez Endorses John Dennis -- Nancy Pelosi's Republican Opponent

    Matt Smith illustrationCome on in to my big political tent​Former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez is endorsing Republican Congressional candidate John Dennis to highlight "points of agreement" between anti-war liberals and libertarian Republicans."There are points of agreement, and we ought ... 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

    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

    April 20, 2010

    Will Tea Partiers Kill Pro-Marijuana Measure?

    Fibonacci BlueSo paranoid. So uptight. So stiff. What could cure this? Hmmm...​On today of all days, marijuana is on everyone's mind. But that goes doubly for politicians: Just last week, state Democratic Party chairman John Burton told media that he and fellow Dems (like that Jerry Brown guy) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Great Moments in Marijuana History: Ammiano's Legalization Bill Up For Vote Today

    ​In a move proponents are billing the "first formal consideration of marijuana legalization in American history," the public safety committee of the state assembly will today vote on Tom Ammiano's ganja bill. The San Francisco assemblyman last year earned his place in the pot pantheon by authoring ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Marijuanupdate: What's Up Next for Ammiano's Legalization Bill?

    In the weeks following his introduction of an Assembly bill that would legalize -- and tax -- marijuana, the always quotable Tom Ammiano became one of the nation's most sought-after sources of quotes. His bill was discussed in every major paper in the state, and many nationally (including Zig-Zag, y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2008

    Violet Blue, the Guardian, and the “politics of personal destruction”

    In the weeks following his introduction of an Assembly bill that would legalize -- and tax -- marijuana, the always quotable Tom Ammiano became one of the nation's most sought-after sources of quotes. His bill was discussed in every major paper in the state, and many nationally (including Zig-Zag, y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2007

    Quintin Mecke: Hot or Not? SFist Decides

    In the weeks following his introduction of an Assembly bill that would legalize -- and tax -- marijuana, the always quotable Tom Ammiano became one of the nation's most sought-after sources of quotes. His bill was discussed in every major paper in the state, and many nationally (including Zig-Zag, y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2007

    Castro Halloween: ‘100,000 People are Coming. Where Will They Urinate?’

    In the weeks following his introduction of an Assembly bill that would legalize -- and tax -- marijuana, the always quotable Tom Ammiano became one of the nation's most sought-after sources of quotes. His bill was discussed in every major paper in the state, and many nationally (including Zig-Zag, y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2007

    Newsom Re-Election Campaign Coffers to Benefit from Injunction

    In the weeks following his introduction of an Assembly bill that would legalize -- and tax -- marijuana, the always quotable Tom Ammiano became one of the nation's most sought-after sources of quotes. His bill was discussed in every major paper in the state, and many nationally (including Zig-Zag, y ... More >>

  • News

    September 19, 2007

    Newsom Snubbed by Democrats

    Even without a major opponent, Mayor Gavin Newsom fails to get a Democratic Club's endorsement

  • News

    August 29, 2007

    The Daly Show

    Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2007

    SF Mayor Gavin Newsom vs. Everyone Else: Covering the Doomed

    Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

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