Results tagged “potclubs”

Ever wonder what musical theater people do when they move to L.A. to make it big? They smoke/eat a lot of pot and make YouTube videos containing big production numbers about smoking/eating pot. Today's palate cleanser comes to us from Jake Wilson's YouTube series, The Battery's Down (as in "the Bronx is up and the Battery's down...") in which a young actor's struggle to make it big in New York has led him, inevitably, to L.A.. This latest song called "When You're Low" was penned by Micah Schraft and John Hill.

Former SF pot club owner Kenneth Hayes (pictured here in 1999), whose Sixth Street dispensary, the Harm Reduction Center, was raided by federal agents in 2002, was sentenced to six months of home confinement today by a federal judge. Hayes' co-defendent, Oakland marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal got probation, despite a federal law stating that he should get at least five years in prison for supplying Hayes with his pot. Both men existed in murky legal territory, having worked with local authorities to set up their businesses and believing they were acting within the law -- just not the federal one.

In light of yesterday's revelation (via the SFBG) that high school kids in SF aren't smoking nearly as much weed as they did a decade ago, we offer up this palate cleanser, featuring the classic pot-smoking sequence from the late John Hughes' The Breakfast Club. This comes from back in the day (1985) when 26% of high school seniors smoked pot habitually, and comes to us via new GenX-themed blog John Hughes Is Dead -- which is, full disclosure, the latest side project by SFist co-editor Jay Barmann.

The fine folks in the Walnut Creek City Council scheduled an emergency meeting (!) this morning to deal with their very first permit request to open a medical marijuana dispensary. It seems their city doesn't yet have any laws permitting, regulating, or disallowing pot clubs, so the intent of the meeting is to pass a 45-day moratorium, renewable up to two years, while they figure out what the fuck they're going to do about these quickly encroaching marijuana maniacs!