Tag: San Francisco


The Sous Vide Weed Chef Out To Decolonize Your Cookbook


How Monica Lo of Sous Weed explores heritage and history, plus her recipe for Kabocha Squash Snickerdoodles. The name of Monica Lo’s food blog isn’t just great wordplay. It’s the culinary cannabis creative’s origin story. Lo worked as an art director and designer for ten plus years, dabbling in food and photography in New York City before landing in San Francisco. Then in early 2015, a brutal herniated disc resulted in an immediate need for…


San Francisco To Ban Tobacco Smoking In Apartments – But Not Cannabis


Measure targets tobacco and e-cigarette smoking in effort to reduce secondhand smoke. San Francisco will ban tobacco smoking inside apartments in an effort to curb the negative health impacts of secondhand smoke. Cannabis smoking, however, will still be permitted. San Francisco’s board of supervisors passed the ban on tobacco and e-cigarette smoking in apartments 10-1 on Wednesday. The amendment exempting cannabis passed 8-3, with the board president, Norman Yee, the overall ordinance’s author, among the…


CCSF Expands Menu with Cannabis Culinary Courses


A trio of non-credit classes taught by notable chefs will be offered this spring. When it comes to learning about cannabis, the options for a higher education have long been few and far between. That’s why, earlier this year, City College of San Francisco made headlines when it announced details for the nation’s first Cannabis Associate of Arts Degree. Designed as a trio of three-unit classes, the program will reportedly explore the plant through the…


CCSF Raises Bar on Higher Learning by Offering Cannabis Studies Degree


In addition to smoking marijuana, college students can now major in it. City College of San Francisco announced on Thursday it is planning to offer a degree in cannabis studies, which it says is the first of its kind in the United States. “The degree is as an introduction to the complex biopsychosocial relationship of humans to cannabis in multiple cultural, institutional and interpersonal contexts,” CCSF officials said in announcing the cannabis studies associate of…


8 LGBTQ+ Cannabis Leaders Tell Us Who Gives Them Pride


Cannabis Pride It’s unlikely we would have a legal cannabis industry in California (or anywhere) without the work of many trailblazing LGBTQ+ advocates. Cannabis has been used for social, religious, stress relief, and medicinal purposes for thousands of years and the plants were (and remain) a critical therapy for AIDS patients. Patient advocates in San Francisco took that message to the people and secured the passage of Prop 215, which legalized medicinal cannabis in California…