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June 4, 2009
Could Authorities Bust the Mission's Street-Food Party?
Kevin.The.Great via FlickrCreme Brulee Guy in action in Dolores ParkThe Mission's underground street-food scene is heating up as fast as an empty wok over a cranked burner. The Chron took notice last week, and on page A1, no less. Even the LA Times travel blog was caught licking its chops. But while ... More >>
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June 8, 2009
Could Authorities Bust the Mission's Street-Food Party? Part II: The Police
jrodstein/FlickrMagic Curry Kart is a fixture of the new vendor sceneLast week we checked in with the city's director of Health Regulatory Programs to determine how aware city officials were of the Mission's exploding unlicensed street-food scene. This week we checked in with police. Early Saturday ... More >>
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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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November 20, 2009
Hot-Food Vendors Banned from the Metreon Farmers' Market
The Metreon's Island Earth Farmer's Market (101 Fourth St. at Mission) is suddenly feeling rather chilly, and it has nothing to do with the cold front. At an abatement hearing, the Health Department has determined that the market's permit to sell food cooked on site has expired, meaning that only ve ... 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 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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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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October 13, 2010
End Prohibition?
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 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 >>
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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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June 17, 2011
Underground Market Remains Closed; ForageSF to Make Case to City Attorney
slowpoke_sf/FlickrThe underground marketHealth inspectors are holding the line on their decision to shut down the popular ForageSF underground food market, insisting in a meeting yesterday with ForageSF founder Iso Rabins that vendors obtain necessary licenses before the market can reopen.Rabins ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Underground Market Remains Closed; ForageSF to Make Case to City Attorney
slowpoke_sf/FlickrThe underground marketHealth inspectors are holding the line on their decision to shut down the popular ForageSF underground food market, insisting in a meeting yesterday with ForageSF founder Iso Rabins that vendors obtain necessary licenses before the market can reopen.Rabins ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Going Legit, Part 2: Finding a Commercial Kitchen
Albert LawSaucy Dumplings at the April 2011 Underground Market.Part two of a series in which SFoodie asked the question: With the Underground Market now shut down, what would it take for San Francisco's aspiring food microventures to go legit?When I asked Richard Lee, director of the city's Envir ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
Going Legit, Part 3: What's the Minimum an Underground Market Vendor Needs?
Mo Foods at the Underground Market.Part three of a series in which SFoodie asks the question: With the Underground Market now shut down, what would it take for San Francisco's aspiring food microventures to go legit? Before SFoodie gets into the specifics of what it will take to sell your prod ... 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 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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October 26, 2011
City Declares OccupySF A Public Health Hazard, Poop, Piss, and Vomit Sully the Plaza
Residents of Justin Herman PlazaA city health official declared the OccupySF encampment in Justin Herman Plaza an "imminent public health hazard" Tuesday after observing that the site has become a porta potti for protesters, filled with poop, piss, and vomit. Department of Public Health offi ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Nothing's Free: S.F. DPH Cracks Down on Foraged Dinners
Residents of Justin Herman PlazaA city health official declared the OccupySF encampment in Justin Herman Plaza an "imminent public health hazard" Tuesday after observing that the site has become a porta potti for protesters, filled with poop, piss, and vomit. Department of Public Health offi ... More >>