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Over the years, our commitment and expertise in the cannabis industry have been highlighted by numerous media outlets.

Keep It Simple in San Francisco: Eat, Shop, and Dance on Divisadero Street

A quick trip to San Francisco can certainly feel like a tease. The city’s sprawl of wildly cool areas—from Mission and Valencia Streets to Dolores and Presidio Parks—make it near impossible to experience it all.

Pot blocks: obstacles keep small business owners from a multibillion-dollar market

This year’s election may have been dominated by Donald Trump, but it was also about marijuana. California, Massachusetts and Nevada made recreational use legal as a bunch of other states moved to legalize medical use.

How One Medical Cannabis Dispensary Is Planning For A Legal Future

There’s a lot for marijuana consumers to celebrate tomorrow, the annual 4/20 holiday.

Legal risks that have plagued San Francisco’s cannabis dispensaries for decades have finally been receding. Meanwhile, optimism about full legalization is at an all-time high.

SF’s Prop. D would tax recreational cannabis sales

Top-of-the-line cannabis at BASA on Grove Street used to cost much less. But when the 15 percent state excise tax kicked in this year, Tariq Alazraie had to hike his prices and now an eighth-ounce of his premium product…

Pot dispensaries closing under threat of feds

Medical marijuana in San Francisco may be going up in smoke. In late December, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sent letters to landlords of buildings that housed medical cannabis dispensaries in the city…

Medical marijuana flashback

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — Tariq Alazraie wants to open the county’s first medical marijuana dispensary across the street from City Hall.

Like many others pot club owners, Alazraie, a San Bruno resident and father of three, said he wants to bring…

Police Appear to Just Sit and Watch as NoPa Dispensary Gets Burglarized

Here’s a new wrinkle in the ongoing smash-and-grab robbery chronicles, as security video indicates SFPD sat and watched the robbery of a dispensary, not intervening until after the getaway vehicle drove off.

San Francisco police just watch as burglary appears to unfold, suspects drive away, surveillance video shows

San Francisco police responding to a 911 call about a possible burglary at a cannabis dispensary last week arrived at the location in the neighborhood north of the Panhandle in what would appear to have been the perfect moment to make an arrest.

Was Ethan Crumbley On Prozac?

If Ethan Crumbley was a marijuana user, that fact would have been publicized by now — or will soon become known. If he was on Prozac or some other pharmaceutical concoction, we may never know because “medical privacy” trumps public health and public safety.

Compassionate Cannabis

Some people are ahead of their time. New chamber member Tariq Alazraie, founder of BASA— Bay Area Safe Alternative, is one of those people. Formerly a fighter pilot for the Jordanian air force, Tariq moved to the United States and got into the cafe and restaurant business in the early 2000’s.

SF Cannabis Vet Tariq Alazraie Has Seen It All, Including Cops Standing By As His Shop Was Robbed

San Francisco first approved the use of cannabis in 1992. Over three decades the industry has evolved into a much different beast, and Tariq Alazraie, who opened his first SF dispensary in 2003, has witnessed much of that evolution.

'You would think police were in on it': SF cops under fire for response to dispensary burglary

San Francisco police officers are under investigation after surveillance video shows an apparent lack of response to a burglary at a marijuana dispensary in the city, angering the store’s owner and his daughter, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Following Louis Vuitton Burglary, SF’s Oldest Cannabis Dispensary Questions Police Inaction

Surveillance footage of the fifth burglary to take place at BASA, a cannabis dispensary on Grove Street in San Francisco, depicted officers remaining in their car as suspects exited the business with stolen property in hand.