Drugs

Taking a Page from Big Tobacco’s Book: States Are Challenging Opioid Manufacturers
they chose to sell those products even though they fully understood why doing so was dangerous, they all amassed gigantic fortunes because of their deception, and now they all have to pay their debt to society.

Oakland Moves Toward Deprioritizing MUSHROOMS!!!
UPDATE: Oakland has now officially decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms. They are the second city in the US to do so. The city of Oakland moved one step closer to deprioritizing arrest and prosecution of adults who use entheogenic plants. At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Oakland’s Public Safety Committee adopted a resolution

You Can Now Take ‘Shrooms’ Legally in Denver
Denver Colorado has become the 1st major American city to make tripping on shrooms, legal. It’s not quite Amsterdam just yet though, you won’t be able to walk into a dispensary and buy magic mushrooms, because selling shrooms is not covered in the new law, but you will no longer

Gallery Party & Concert w/ Phony Ppl & Flower Co
When the Costco of weed throws a party in an art gallery and Brooklyn based Phony Ppl come through to rock it, there’s cause for some excitement. Add to that, 111 Minna Gallery will be decorated with the wonderful artwork of SF artist Emily Fromm, and you got a really nice

Opioid Epidemic at the Start of 2019: Where’s the Progress We Were Promised?
By Kate Harveston When tens of thousands of your fellow citizens die in one year from the same preventable cause, you rightly call it a ‘crisis’. The National Safety Council found in 2017 that for the first time ever, Americans were more likely to die from opioid overdose than from a car accident. You

Ordering Weed is Finally Just like Amazon Prime
It’s crazy how easy it is to get cannabis delivered to your door these days. Far from the shady and unreliable ways you used to ‘score pot’ back in the day, before it became completely legal in CA, remember? Meeting some guy in a parking lot, or having to drive

The ‘Costco of Weed’ Opens in the Bay Area
We got to talk to Flower Company co-founder Tony Diepenbrock at length about their ‘no middlemen’ service, and how they keep prices so low

Thank You Ralph, An Unforgettable Encounter with a Gonzo Legend
Haight Street 2018, a buzzing motorized hallway filled with Ubers and Lyfts, and I’m in one with an eccentric former artist and now, photographer of “women over 50,” Denise, who has lived in San Francisco for 20 years. “What’s going on at the gallery tonight?” She asked, nearly killing a