By Steven T. Jones Originally published as “Partying Down the Apocalypse” on the weekly newsletter Scribe’s End Notes. Times are tough, but take heart: it’s the golden age for beer, booze, and marijuana. So things could be worse — at least we’re not facing The End sober. We in California

Northern California is historically home to the best cannabis grown in the world, and everyone knows it. But the reason everyone knows it is that Northern California has also produced the coolest cannabis superstars of pop culture and politics who spread the good word about our great weed. Let’s take a look at the Bay Area’s contribution to this, with our most famous figures from music, sports, and activism who’ve served as cannabis ambassadors for our quality Northern California kind bud.

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

This is a different kind of 4/20. For a second year in a row, the pesky pandemic has decimated the celebration vibe. There are no plumes of sweet skunk billowing over Golden Gate Park, no baked masses huddled together on hills and there’s definitely no passing to strangers. Weed has

The smell of 4/20 is in the air, and big Hollywood stars would like you to buy your weed from them instead of the local activist brands who made legal cannabis possible. Seth Rogen has taken a break from buddy movies with sexual predator James Franco, so he can sell

In honoring the HIGH holiday, Urbana is bringing the people what they want: more essential cannabis! This 420, Cannabis is having its online debut, but there’s a surprise…the party is at your house!

The high holy holiday of 4/20 falls on a Saturday this year, so it will be San Francisco’s biggest and craziest 4/20 ever. And there are crazy-good 4/20 deals at dispensaries and delivery services across the Bay Area to help celebrate. We’ve rolled up a roundup of the best 4/20 marijuana deals in San Francisco, to make sure your wallet doesn’t choke when you smoke up in observance of 4/20.

This week is all about the cool, the cunning and the cannabis. We’re diverging from the national news update in order to leave your stomach in tact for California’s first legal 420. You can thank me later. Trees here, trees there, trees everywhere In case you live under a rock,

Weed is legal, 4/20 is on a Friday, and this year’s San Francisco 4/20 will be more off the hook than any single-day marijuana event ever. We’ve got your chron-prehensive guide to every good 4/20 party, event, and dispensary discount happening all across town, to get you ‘ready to roll’ but still remember what time  it is.