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Point of View from the Haight in San Francisco
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Jack Rikess, a former stand-up comedian, takes the edge off of the world and explains all those unexplained things in a way that will make you either laugh or cry.
Archive
- The Great New Republican Test
- Emerald Triangle Bust
- Comedy Day 2011
- The Tea Party is Destroying this Country
- 'Marijuana Is Sexy': Talking Pot with Mendo Sheriff Tom Allman
- It’s not a bird, it’s not a plane, and it’s nothing to be nervous about.
- So, just to recap: In Republican World…
- We Could Learn From this Kid
- The Tipping Over Point
- Pot Dogs
- Top Eleven Reasons America Doesn’t Want Marijuana Legal
- Eleven Things Eric Holder Could Say That Would Make Me Happy!
- Sarah Palin: Let’s End Obama-Car Now!
- I am totally Fed up
- 100th Running of the Bay To Breakers Race, SF
- Cannabinophobia: The Timing Makes You Wonder
- What is Acceptable?
- President Obama Forgets
- April, 20th, 2011- Hippie Hill, Golden Gate Park.
- Ah One, Ah Two and Ah One Toke over...
- Ten Reasons Dispensaries are Better than going to a Dealer
- Republican Fool’s Day
- Reefer Sadness
- Talking With A Mendo Pot Grower: Seeds of Dreams and Despair
- Should men be allowed to have Viagra?
- Top Eleven Smoking Women
- Wake and Bake with Good Morning America
- Mendocino Farmers Collective-Opens-In Orange County
- Wild in the Streets
- How Can You Miss The Homeless When They Won’t Go Away?
- Family Feud Lights Up
- When Grows Go Bad
- Rush Can't Talk
- Real Housewives of the Weeds Wanna-Be’s
- Who's scared of a little Snow
- Why America needs more Bullets in our Magazines.
- I'm Green, But My Dope Isn't (July 30, 2010)
- Your Kid on Drugs (March 3, 2010)
- Teena Maria 1956-2010
- The Best of the Past Year
- Merry Christmas and Happy Holidaze
- The Top of the Pot’s 2010™
- Net Neutrality, Why it is Good for the Rich and hence, bad for America
- The Perfect Holidaze Gift
- Who Cares?
- Bob and the Baby_____Peace!!!
- Pot Collectives- Road to the Future or Path to Frustration?
- Just Breathe
- Welcome To Kali
- San Francisco’s 4th Annual S.F. Medical Cannabis Competition, The Patient’s Choice
- America's First Family of Hate
- Whose the Enemy?
- The Day After
- Today’s the Day for Straight Talk
- Trim, Trimmers, and Eggs.
- The Bradley Bong-hit Effect
- Let Da Feds In and Bust Everyone, Please
- Why Meg Can’t Say ‘Know’
- POT: The Business Game
- Today’s Stoner Word: Titration
- My thoughts on the Cannabis and Hemp Expo, San Francisco September 2010
- America Needs Bigger Idols
- Lorenzo’s Hash Oil
- What if Karl Rove was for Prop.19?
- Late in the Season
- Robert Schimmel
- Dollars, Potheads and Beds
- Paul, my neighbor who lives at the end of my block
- The Week and the Strong in Review (August 27)
- Take Me Serious as a Pot Smoker, Seriously
- Some Friday Hitz
- Take My Mexicans, Please!
- Do You Have a Dispensary For Sale?
- Lawyers Talk Legalization, and You Are There…
- What’s Wrong with getting my Pot Delivered?
- It’s All Happening
- The Week and the Strong in Review
- I’m Green But My Dope Isn’t
- Paranoia Runs Deep
- Sunday Morning Hits with Kantrite
- Badges, We're Da Feds, We don’t need to show any stinkin’ badges
- California, Warehouse Über-Alles
- Road Dogs, Gift Shops and the End of the Haight
- Just say, “I would prefer not to,” Day.
- Some Morning Hits…
- Meeting one of the Original Ganja Mommas Pt.2
- Meeting one of the Original Ganja Mommas
- Tim Blake of Area 101
- Inside The Emerald Triangle; Pt. II, Area 101 (Cont.)
- Inside The Emerald Triangle; Pt. II, Area 101
- The Emerald Triangle Pt. One -Outdoor vs. Indoor Smackdown.
- The War on Drugs Marches On
- Boycotting the High Times Cannabis Cup
- Ten Things I miss about a Stay-at-Home Dealer
- We’re the Haight, Where’s the Love?
- To All My Readers...
- Ten Reasons Dispensaries are Better than going to a Dealer
- How and Why I became a Medical Marijuana Patient
- Be nice to your Bud-Tender
- What do we want? And when do we want it?
- NDIMB No Dispensary in My Backyard
- WEED MAY 2010
- More on the War on Drugs, PT. 109
- Who Gets What They Want in This World?
- My First House Concert
- More on the Politics of Meaning
- Popular Tarts
- Mayday,Mayday,Mayday, Can You Hear Me?
- Spill, Baby, Spill
- Popping My Own Bubbles
- 420-Hippie Hill 2010
- I'm Still High
- Stoners Don't Have To Forget
- Trade Show of Our Own
- Applauding the Drug War
- Going Forward Never Straight
- GOD Hates Scams
- Rebels without Clues
- Another Brand New Day
- A Barber's Chair Told in Four Acts
- Turning Fears into Hope
- National Weed Dealer's Day
- I Know My Own Dog
- Wake Up and Smell The Gunpowder
- Your Kid on Drugs
- No One's Getting Any Younger
- My Haight Street
- I Want A Gun
- Q. Where Do Agoraphobics Go For Vacation? A. The Living Room
- All Apologies
- Leno, My Funny Roomate's Niece and The So-called Road Warriors
- Last of the Monday Morning Quarters...
- Growing Fears
- Facing Facebook Daily
- I Took a Walk in the Changin’ Fields of America
- Renewing My Card
- The White-Washing of America
- Listen to America's Doctor if you Don't Believe Me
- Just Be Patient, Patients
- Smoking with Heroes
- It’s a Start
- Homelessness and Street People
Friday, April 8, 2011
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