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  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Medical Marijuana: Dad Says It Saved Two-Year-Old Son with Cancer

    Cash Hyde​There 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 >>

  • News

    April 27, 2011

    A Rat's Life: MS-13 Snitches Run Wild While Turning State's Evidence

    Cash Hyde​There 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

    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 4, 2011

    Cops Raid Pot House First, Ask Questions Later

    It's not your landlord knocking​On 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 >>

  • News

    August 25, 2010

    Asylum Denied

    Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

  • Articles

    April 28, 2010

    A Report From Juarez, the Front Line of the War on Drugs

    Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

  • News

    April 28, 2010

    A Report From Juarez, the Front Line of the War on Drugs

    Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Police Will Still Bust Drug Dealers Despite Crime Lab Closure

    Still in business...​Police Chief George Gascon ensured in a Thursday afternoon press conference that police are continuing to bust drug dealers even as the department crime lab's narcotics unit went dark this week after accusations one of the civilian lab technicians was skimming drugs from evide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    US Attorney Spars with Hastings Law Students Over Pot Laws

    The most compelling question from the Hastings panel on pot: How could two guys with such different opinions on marijuana think so similarly about fashion? Was this planned?Hastings law students with the munchies and a keen interest in how changes in federal priorities on marijuana enforce ... More >>

  • News

    April 16, 2008

    An Inconvenient Plant

    One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    Straight to Video

    Dog Bites turns into a film critic to help us understand the Bayview police video scandal

  • News

    July 13, 2005

    Blind Eye Unto the Holy See

    Pope Benedict XVI named him Roman Catholicism's top doctrinal watchdog -- even though, as San Francisco archbishop, William J. Levada resolutely looked away from sex-abuse complaints against a renowned priest and legal scholar

  • News

    June 11, 2003

    Hey, Man, Got Any ID?

    Why the Legislature shouldn't extend the city's medical marijuana identification system statewide

  • News

    May 8, 2002

    The Perfect Crime

    For 20 years, South American thieves have been stealing millions of dollars in gems and jewelry from traveling salespeople in San Francisco. And no one -- not the cops, jewelers, or insurance companies -- has the slightest idea how to stop them.

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    Too Close for Comfort

    The weird coincidences between last week's terrorist attacks and David Hagberg's novels have been keeping the author up at night

  • News

    August 5, 1998

    The Fairfield Wives

    Dr. John Parkinson, a civic and religious leader in the perfectly suburban town of Fairfield, told women they needed pelvic exams. Long exams. Several times a week. For years. And they believed him.

  • News

    July 22, 1998

    The Housing Authority's Dirty Dozen

    Twelve convicted drug dealers and other major felons have recently been employed by the San Francisco Housing Authority. But are there even more criminals on the public payroll?

  • Music

    July 30, 1997

    Tragic Bus

    Dope(s), guns, and urine on the Brian Jonestown Massacre's summer tour

  • News

    March 26, 1997

    Portrait of the Soul-Jacker

    Police call Bernard Temple the meanest hit man ever to roam the gang-infested streets of Bayview-Hunters Point. Temple calls himself a soul-jacker -- someone who kills to steal the spiritual power of his victims.

  • News

    August 7, 1996

    Ghetto Blasting

    A cop's doodle travels to Washington, D.C., and returns as a warm-and-fuzzy crackdown on S.F.'s projects

  • News

    May 15, 1996

    Dog Bites

    A cop's doodle travels to Washington, D.C., and returns as a warm-and-fuzzy crackdown on S.F.'s projects

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