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Medical marijuana

DA and pot clubs set to team up, hash out rules

Eager to back up District Attorney George Gascón’s recent public support for medical marijuana, prosecutors from his office plan to meet soon with San Francisco medical marijuana providers to flesh out a set of rules agreeable to both sides. Read More

Dispensary threatened with closure plans to challenge feds

A San Francisco medical marijuana collective plans to fight the law after receiving a shutdown notice from the U.S. Department of Justice. Read More

Patient punishment: Medicinal pot user weeded out of work

A plumber with a valid medical marijuana prescription was denied work on a city project after testing positive for the drug, prompting a prominent San Francisco union boss to demand changes to a labor agreement. Read More

San Francisco businessman Gus Murad seeding pot club

A prominent Mission district businessman is leaving the restaurant and real estate industries for the medical marijuana trade. Read More

Delivering medical marijuana under the law in San Francisco

It's not easy to open a medical cannabis dispensary in San Francisco, but it's very easy for patients to purchase their medicine from the comfort of home — even if the service is illegal.Delivery services operating in seeming violation of city law advertise in print and on the Web, and operate in full knowledge of city officials, who say their hands are tied. Read More

New medical marijuana dispensaries approved for Excelsior district

Three new medical cannabis facilities in the Excelsior district were approved by the Planning Commission on Thursday despite increasing interest from the federal government to shutter such businesses across California. Read More

Weed charged in alleged home hash-manufacturing blast

A second person is being charged in connection with the hash-manufacturing explosion inside an Ingleside home last week that severely injured a 12-year-old boy. The new suspect: Thomas Weed.Authorities say Weed, 26, is the boyfriend of 32-year-old Angelic Cisneros, the medical marijuana advocate who is facing charges after a butane tank exploded at 1228 Capitol Ave. on Feb. 7. The blast caused a small fire, and Cisneros and the 12-year-old were hospitalized. Read More

DEA digging into San Francisco's medical marijuana dispensaries

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has asked The City’s Department of Public Health to turn over records for 12 of San Francisco's remaining 21 medical cannabis dispensaries, according to emails obtained by The San Francisco Examiner. Read More

San Francisco medical marijuana licensing program resumes

San Francisco's medical cannabis dispensary program resumed licensing and inspecting medical marijuana collectives, Department of Public Health officials announced Monday. The move comes after the agency said last week that the application process was suspended. Read More

Marijuana legalization measure certified

A measure to legalize the recreational use of marijuana is likely to be on the November ballot, after the secretary of the state's office certified the initiative Friday, saying the campaign had turned in enough valid petition signatures. Initiative 502 now goes to the Legislature, but lawmakers are not likely to take up the issue during the short 60-day session that ends on March 8, meaning it would automatically appear on the ballot in the fall election. Read More
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