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America's most tedious weed blogger. political reporter @mjbizdaily . lout @olscbrooklyn . DMs open, cbloggy @gmail . my posts are my own problem(s)
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Imagine thinking the war in Afghanistan "failed." Brother it was the best 20-year racket since this country's adventures in the Philippines and Central America!
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tonight, many of you will receive messages from friends, acquaintances, or even coworkers you don't normally talk to. they will be effusive, maybe even heartfelt and touching. no matter what, do not be alarmed. this is how you identify the cocaine users in your life.
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Marvel at the magnificence of this three-layer cake of brainwormed goo
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Heard from a passenger on the coronavirus cruise Grand Princess, quarantined off the coast of San Francisco. They'll dock in Oakland tomorrow but meanwhile here's the ship's holding pattern. Passenger says some aboard have nicknamed the captain Jackie Treehorn.
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The Louis Vuitton in SF loses $10k of stuff. All arrested. National media feeding frenzy & Union Square goes on military alert.
In Oakland, 25 cannabis businesses are robbed in 2 weeks, $5 million in losses--and it's like it didn't happen. No arrests, city barely acknowledges.
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@charliekirk11
i work at the democrat fraud center and I can confirm: this house was supposed to receive TEN ballots, something is very wrong, thank you for flagging
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Someone in a small airplane is flying over New York harbor with a banner reading "Congratulations Federal State of New China!" I'd ask who's trolling whom but honestly who gives a shit at this point
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Raytheon and other contractors were the biggest presences at my expensive, values-driven college's Jobs Fair. Pretty neat to think how much better an investment it would have been to sink my tuition into defense stocks
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Make no mistake: "Fare cheats" are a non-issue on BART, which has one of the best "fare box recovery ratios" (ie how much of its costs are covered by fares) in the United States. This is not about money. It's about poor people.
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@NYPDCT
@NYPDnews
@NYPDShea
@NYPDFIRSTDEP
@NYPDChiefofDept
@NYPDDCPI
Did you shove it into a van and drive away
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i would also move to california and do shrooms in LA if this was my family
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hearing, as some others are, rumors that the DEA's decision on rescheduling
#marijuana
is coming possibly as soon as next week.
talked to a couple people in a position to know and they have confirmed: they are also hearing rumors.
that's all so far.
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im old enough to remember when bored SF billionaires learned to play the banjo and put on a little concert instead of trying to subvert the democratic process
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the mayor of san francisco is officially taking a tougher stance on the tenderloin than she is on the coronavirus
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hey, remember when
@KamalaHarris
ruined a man's life for a crime he didn't commit and cost San Francisco $13.1 million in the process?
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Iraq veteran on
#Ferguson
"police" weaponry, gear: "We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone."
http://t.co/7y1uGPP3XM
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@NYPDCT
@NYPDnews
@NYPDONeill
@NYPDFIRSTDEP
@NYPDChiefofDept
@nycgov
@notredameparis
neat, glad you have the internet too
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i won an award for the public-records equivalent of "let me speak to the manager"
I am just lucky there was a manager to harass. My only other option was hiring a lawyer--which means the Hunters Point story would never have happened.
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for
@CurbedSF
, which is a good website, I wrote about how San Francisco's 75 billionaires can't be bothered to donate to COVID-19 relief, but were real happy to contribute to a (failed) political campaign to dodge taxes!
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Someone will complain about Rabbi Lerner turning
#AliFuneral
political. They will have missed the point of Ali's life entirely.
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Lol this website is the Chesa recall now
so my understanding is at twitter HQ, the folks running things in the “war room” are Musk, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis (VCs/Elon pals) Sriram Krishnan (exTwitter/current a16z), Elon’s legal and finance head guys (Spiro, Birchall) and a fleet of Tesla/BoringCo engineers
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NEW, SCOOP, STORY, WOW, READ: Big Weed is pushing government to enshrine a near-oligopoly of only big publicly traded cannabis companies. Here's their game plan to do it, according to a source who leaked it.
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Absolutely no one wants to hear this right now, but the Supreme Court case that "allowed" or at least encouraged police to bust down Breonna Taylor's door, an act that resulted in her death and led to this march and many others...
Unbelievable crowd for Breonna Taylor at Barclays Center in NYC right now.
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im sorry, what??
there is a very good chance the writer the new york times chose to critique weed store aesthetics has never once been inside a weed store
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@ggreenwald
@jessesingal
freelancers are definitely the worst thing about 2020, absolutely Glenn
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i kicked that longest night of the year's ass! (stayed awake until 3 am with anxiety)
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Dianne Feinstein was the pro-cop, anti-pot, pro-business mayor of San Francisco... 30 years ago. The power brokers in town have almost always been corporate-friendly pseudo libertarians. SF values haven't changed, they've just found their national moment.
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new york's cannabis laws are so good. the maximum penalty for sales is a $250 violation. so small-time that police don't bother to begin to enforce. so, there's a weed truck parked outside katz's from the morning until 10 p.m. at night lol. i hope this never changes.
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@maxdubler
@depinto
@PostCultRev
...peter thiel is a board member.
still oligarchs destroying a decent path to the middle class, replacing it with gigs, and repackaging it onto a smartphone to sell it back to us at a profit
but boy that pink mustache sure was cute
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Whoever called it a circular firing squad, and not a j'accuzzi
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...was a unanimous decision. SCOTUS held that police and lower courts could make exceptions to the Fourth Amendment. That's the drug war, and liberals were always part of the problem. 🤷♂️
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being in cannabis right now is sort of like knowing exactly what you are getting for Christmas, but having no idea when Christmas is
Two more sources today told me the word is Biden administration wants a Schedule III announcement from DEA by the end of Q1 or before the State of the Union on March 7.
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Among the six prosecutors fired Friday by new SF District Attorney Chesea Boudin: Linda Allen, the prosecutor who committed misconduct and used ginned-up evidence to put now-free Jamal Trulove away for life -- costing San Francisco more than $13 million.
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@mitchellichtman
Serious question: why don't the landlords band together and refuse to pay their bank mortgages until this blows over? Why is the burden on the tenants to prop up this pyramid scheme?
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cannabis's leading voice in Congress, Earl Blumenauer, thinks the DEA will approve marijuana rescheduling: "this is the last 420 celebration with cannabis on Schedule 1"
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@kapstatz
@brent858
@MonicaCKlein
@RayForMayor
@ShaunDonovanNYC
...who owns a home, in Brooklyn, that he bought for $2.3 million
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"the US federal government acknowledged one of marijuana legalization advocates' core claims -- cannabis is less harmful than many other more widely available drugs" is not a sentence i could definitively write until today
feels pretty good tbh
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never gonna cease to amuse that some cannabis investors sunk money into a heavily regulated, labor intensive agricultural product, seeking drug war-era profits on a silicon valley timeline (and the same ability to scale)
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quick cheat sheet for San Francisco's "intractable street problems"
1. there are needles on the street because there aren't enough drop boxes. (some city agencies have rejected boxes.)
2. there is shit on the street because there aren't enough public bathrooms.
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Been back in SF trying to report a story on Kamala Harris's record as DA and it is both amazing and chilling how terrified people are of being seen as criticizing her -- or supporting another presidential candidate. That, friends, is San Francisco politics: ruthless AND petty.
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#Marijuana
banking reform should clear the Senate Banking committee tomorrow -- Chuck Schumer wouldn't have made such a fuss otherwise. But after that, the outlook is less clear, especially if there's a shutdown. The latest in federal
#cannabis
:
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til how many successful podcasts are just ripping off investigative journalism from like 30 years ago
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bought some legal weed here in nyc over the weekend (since it is sort of my job), and I regret to report that this -- queuing up in a converted Chase bank branch location to fork over $90 for stale pre-rolls -- just isn't going to work out.
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@Benial20
@ampol_moment
one could argue it was extremely cool-ass that an alliance of native tribes wiped his ass out
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@conor64
i believe this is why john madden always took the bus, in order to avoid preposterous hypothetical exercises
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Nearly half of the cleanup at San Francisco's biggest redevelopment project in a century, at a radioactive toxic waste dump, may have been faked and needs to be redone.
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this rationale has killed people which, I am fairly sure, is a thing criminals do
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Making the world more open and connected, with literal redlining
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Marijuana could be officially moved to Schedule III "before November," former FDA top enforcement official Howard Sklamberg believes. That's faster than ever before, but precedent doesn't matter too much in this unprecedented situation.
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7,000 people attended
#SB50
Super Bowl City in SF on opening day. Only 993,000 more to go before projections met.
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#bayareastorm
is apparently blowing off manhole covers in mission terrace
http://t.co/iYQaL03ygr
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Dan Bilzerian, the internet's gun-toting playboy, is phenomenally good at lighting money on fire. Bilzerian's company managed to lose $50 million last year, according to its annual report. How? And whose money? I try to explain, in the Forbes dot com:
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NEW: today's my first day on staff at MJBizDaily, where I'll be covering state and federal cannabis policy. So after six years (!) freelancing, very little will change! As usual, please share your tips, your leaks, and your scandals. 🥰
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looking at who donated to the recall campaign of Gov. Gavin Newsom in California, it's all LA real-estate developers, Silicon Valley VCs... and Mike Huckabee. Wasn't direct democracy supposed to be a bulwark against oligarchs, not another method of empowerment?
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In the wild and weird world of cannabis I've encountered pirates, hustlers, and thieves along with some of the most genuine and generous people I've ever known. Cheers to the rebels and to the unruly. May your packs sail through the mail and may you confound the chads.
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now is a good time to remember what the 49ers did to Kaepernick, and how a team with "San Francisco" in its name bent the knee to Donald Trump and the worst angels of the American nature. They tried to end a man's economic power for speaking his mind. It all began with Jed York.
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TL;DR: Californians are dying because Jerry Brown, the forward-thinking climate change-fighting governor, was in fact just preposterously and criminally cheap as well as myopic
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Breaking: several businesses within ten minutes drive will sell me legal marijuana but there is nowhere I can get a bagel
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I asked the Navy to tell me when, exactly, they found this hunk of hot soil underneath a home on Treasure Island, if the home was occupied, and what the radioactive element was. You know, basic stuff.
They told me to fuck off. Wanna see?
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here is a take: "cannabis tourism" isn't a thing now that you can buy legal weed all over the country (and illegal weed from california, too). nobody is going to fly to Miami to sit inside an anodyne air conditioned "lounge" and smoke MSO mids when they can get better pot at home
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Long story short: Almost half of the $1 billion cleanup of the Hunters Point shipyard, the single largest source of housing in San Francisco, may have been faked or is questionable enough to require a do over.
More than eleven years' of work that we're now told we can't trust.
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How a charismatic founder talked his way into raising $200 million to become the king of cannabis and start the Whole Foods of marijuana -- and then lost it all. The story of Flow Kana is a marijuana legalization cautionary tale, by me in
@AltaJournal
.
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@jonbernhardt
@AthertonKD
it's amazing how he gets away with portraying South Bend, a university town, like it's Gary, Indiana. South Bend's second-largest employer is Notre Dame--his father's employer.
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Black cannabis entrepreneurs are calling for marijuana taxes divested from police budgets.
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New York marijuana regulators today voted to open up the licensing process to ALL applicants, including big publicly traded multi-state operators -- this despite the catastrophic rollout of the CAURD equity program & small farmers sitting on two years of harvest they can't sell.
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if you're in weed world, your group chats today are buzzing with the latest Biden Administration marijuana rescheduling rumor.
This one's from well-connected DC law firm Porter Wright partner Adrian Snead, who used to work for SAFER Banking sponsor Sen. Jeff Merkley.
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i mean, i, too, strongly dislike the psychological blow of empty shelves--but isn't this just a description of what being broke and/or working class is like, in the United States, in normal times?
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if your cannabis business is struggling, don't feel bad: right about the time Berner was onstage at MJBizCon, Cookies was clear out of cash and desperately trying to raise more capital, as *yet another lawsuit brought by Cookies investors* claims.
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anyway since I think this is what one does when this happens: I need to credit Marie Harrison and Greenaction for saying for years this was a story when no one would listen, the whistleblowers who did the same thing, and
@BrockKeeling
and everyone at Curbed for publishing it.
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here's the latest from my ship-bound source, stuck inside his windowless cabin since Thursday.
You can see the ahem holding pattern the captain traced over the weekend.
Freud might have something to say about pent-up frustration but sometimes a course is just a course.
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Congrats everyone, we did it. Weather Twitter will never be more insufferable for everyone else
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anyway, this is why a coalition of hard-hit weed businesses led by social-equity heroes Supernova Women are asking Oakland for tax amnesty. they have a point! story to come.
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@AlexBerenson
@laurawags
@VICE
serious question: after "weed will kill you" and "covid is no big deal," what's the next and (automatically) Greatest Grift going to be?
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oh well if DPH says something is safe what's the problem
@MattHaneySF
Vaccination is not required to reopen schools. The scientific consensus from public health experts at
@CDCgov
,
@CAPublicHealth
and
@SF_DPH
is that it’s safe to reopen schools with proper precautions, like masks, distance and proper ventilation. Vaccination is not a prerequisite.
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@lukeoneil47
the idea of a "leftwing bubble in the united states" existing, beyond like a hermetically sealed chamber in the verso loft, is ha ha funny
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i am sure there's a reason why the Times's story on the fatal Bronx fire includes a blind quote from a city official blaming residents for running space heaters when the heat was working, and not a mention of the No Heat complaint filed by a resident a month ago
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Oakland is the trippiest big city in America. Full City Council just unanimously voted to decriminalize "entheogenic plants": psilocybin mushrooms, ibogaine, ayhuasca, and some others.
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@mattyglesias
@Yascha_Mounk
"The end of the end of history: really, I'll get it right this time. Subscribe!"
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Here is *another* strange one: there appears to be a fake union running around the California cannabis industry, claiming to have members and promising to fulfill state licensing requirements. But nobody's heard of them and I couldn't find a single member!
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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon and San Francisco secretly began negotiations for the company's $200 million last-mile delivery center back in September, backroom talks seen as signaling Mayor London Breed's support for Amazon (and its $17.25 an hour jobs).
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Scoop a doop: states are sending vital info about medical cannabis use and results to federal health officials as part of the Biden-ordered review of marijuana's status under federal drug laws.
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Former Hill staffer in position to know dismisses notion that SAFE Banking ever had 60 votes: Says SAFE Banking by itself topped out at 59 votes; the sticking point was Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell and the Republican caucus. Only GOP senators in support were the cosponsors.
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My 420 story is, if you are a weed media company and owe your writers money, you should pay them immediately
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@aubrey_huff
cool, i always wanted to know who the Moneyball-inspired Discount Curt Schilling would be
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Maryland is permitting up to 50 marijuana consumption lounges, but they can't legally cultivate cannabis, nor can they sell it.
so imagine a bar that doesn't sell drinks, but allows you to bring your own booze and mixers. Please explain to me how that's a viable business model.
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why does the weed industry hate weed so much
Cannabis Vapes Becoming Dominant Force on Dispensary Shelves
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