Obama Volunteers Transform San Fran Bong Shop To New HQ

An OffTheBus tipster in San Francisco noticed that Obama volunteers have set up shop in the former home of West Coast Growers, your one-stop-shop for 'complete indoor growing'.

The campaign's northern California HQ is in Oakland, but volunteers in San Francisco raised money to rent a local space.

Overheard by our tipster:

While I was there (also took the time to finally register in California) two skateboarders came buy in classic skateboard, SF fashion: "Hey, didn't this used to be West Coast Growers?"

Response: Yes.

Skateboarders: Oh man, what happened to West Coast Growers?

Response: I don't know, they shut down.

Perhaps Team Obama should change their pre-rally cheer 'Fire it up, ready to go!' to 'Fire it up, ready to grow.'

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Comments

[research]

It's a WRESTLING MATCH!

It's got the MOD SQUAD lineup. Newly converted to Kucinich's lifelong gospel of populism, Edwards, the Liar...er lawyer, blocking the Kucinich votes, Hillary , Queen of the Clinton Dynasty, first female president, wow, then Obama the multicultural man, brings the heartfelt renditions of Hope and Unity. Of course the rethugs race is more colorful then clowns in a phone booth!

All Dem candidates are thick with the PNAC.info and DLC.org crowd and credo: "we have a big military stick, and we're going to use it" ...to make the world safer!!! of course, what did you think I meant.

So If you like the constant maximum use of war, invasion and occupation, like the military funded corporations do, why then you'll just love our three DLC.ORG candidates.

Meanwhile Kucinich plays the fool, the only candidate appealing to our intelligence and enlightened self interest, not just our heart strings. He really had no choice in the way the media cast him. Only the Media Barons get to choose the candidate's roles. Like a wrestling match, the "loser" can win over the audience like Dennis does, but unlike the wrestling matches, Kucinich got kicked off the stage, because the Media Barrons don't want to give up the POWER that BushCo has given the Media Conglomerations The DLC.ORG lackeys did as told.

[DudeE]

This whole thread is a testament to the ridiculousness of campaign discourse:

A) Who even cares about the former tenants of Obama's HQ

B) Who cares enough to argue some ridiculous bullshit that "West Coast Growers" was just a gardening supply store.

Check out their display at "Wonders of Cannabis Day" before you post again how it's just old ladies looking to plump their tomatoes:

http://www.weedbay.net/forums/dr-tod-mikuriya-memorial-medical-cannabis-scene/92-wonders-cannabis-day-1-a.html

[newfapalooza]

Oh COME ON! It USED to be a head shop. It could have just as easily have been a coffee shop or a real estate office or a law firm or...
This is the absolute definition of much ado about nothing.

[ceasenake]

A head shop is a good place for Obama's headquarters considering he wants to be the head head.

[ALHayes]

A black guy with dreads on the sign so it must be a bong shop, right?

They sell hydroponic equipment

At best this article is misleading.
At worst, racist.

[Chandidevi]

Bada Bing Bada Bong! Hillary has got to be behind this one. I know that business; this is an out and out lie. Hillary crawl out of that gutter. Show your face, woman!

[caps]

it was not a "bong shop", it was a hydroponics shop... it sold material for growing plants, period. make all the insinuations you want about what kind of plants they were intended to grow, but it's an outright lie to imply that it sold drug paraphernalia. CORRECT THE RECORD.

[CitizenTess]

You people will tear down Obama anyway you can. I might as well read the Drudge report.

[Bocababs]

This is the MOST undecided I have ever been with voting. Can it be that we do have great candidates to choose from this time around. Way to go on the Bing and the Bong.

[kingofscotts]

Fantastic!

We can go from a dry drunk to a former coke head.

What could go wrong?

[lungfish]

Since when is a shop that sells hydroponics a "Bong Shop"?

[CitizenRob]

There are bigger problems here, what you don't see in that photo is that right next door is a pot dispensary. It's so funny this appears on HuffPo today, I just walked past this office over the weekend and thought "What a terrible location, this used to be a bong shop, and it's next door to a pot dispensary..."

I even considered calling their campaign, but then I realized that Obama ironically supports "Separate But Equal" in regards to Gay and Lesbian civil rights and decided I didn't really care. Hell, I should've taken the photo myself and mailed it off to Fox News.

[shanghaislim]

"rock the vote"

"fire up the vote"

[shanghaislim]

Do you think it still smells a little skunky?

[GhostofBillHicks]

cool,man