Pot luck: I get the inside dope on Haight-Ashbury

Gannett Blog TV goes undercover in San Francisco's famous Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where tie-dye clothing, head shops -- and some of the city's finest medical marijuana -- keep 1967's Summer of Love smoking, more than 40 years later.



Young Japanese tourists jostled with camera-toting, sixty-something hippies on pilgrimages yesterday afternoon, when I visited shops selling incense, "magic" crystals, and every manner of hand-crafted, artisanal bongs you can imagine -- all near the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets.

Stores in San Francisco and across California sell high-grade pot for medical use, under a measure voters passed in 1996; doctor's permission required. Indeed, Haight Street is home to one of San Francisco's better-known cannabis dispensaries: The Vapor Room. (Yelp gives it four stars -- although reviewer Eric P. of San Francisco groused, "The budtender was baked out of his mind.")

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