Our mission: celebrate the fine art of California cannabis with a curated, week-long series of citywide activations in the run-up to April 20, 4/20 in Golden Gate Park on Hippie Hill.
The core of SF Weed Week is 7 world-class growers releasing 7 amaze-balls strains at 7 dope lounges over the course of the 7 hot nights leading up to 4/20. SF Weed Week 2024 is produced by award-winning cannabis journalist David Downs.
SF Weed Week’s debut is made possible by Founding Advisors Sunset Connect‘s Ali Jamalian, Chronic Culture’s Neil Dellacava, Shannon McInerney (PAX), Sabrina Pacheco (Chronic Culture), Ben Grambergu (7 Stars Richmond) as well as artist Conor Buckley (Outside Lands), Eric Lister, and technologist Keith Woody. Event coordination, and Sales: Sabrina Pacheco. Media and Community liaison: Bram Goodwin. Staff: Loren Solomon, Isaac. Hotels: Jackie Simion. Compassion: Recompass.
Disclaimer: The name “SF Weed Week” is being respectfully used with permission from Alex Halperin and his cannabis industry newsletter “WeedWeek“. WeedWeek has been essential reading for industry leaders since 2015. Subscribe to WeedWeek for all your cannabis industry news. Thank you, Alex.
“Get to the Bag” Exhibition supervisors: Peosia, Chelsea Robot.
Gift shop prints by Matt Jackson, Stony Xochi.
SF Weed Week’s print, digital, and experiential marketing campaign is sponsor-funded and includes:
- Collectible posters around the city
- Flyers at dispensaries
- An SF Weed Week website with Events Calendar
- A social media campaign including Instagram Lives
- Earned media outreach to print, radio, and broadcast
- Events listings on Eventbrite, FunCheap, SF Station and more.
2024 Sponsors
Sunset Connect, Solful, Mills Nutrients, Cure Injoy, Professor Seagull’s Smartshop, SPARC on Polk, Brownie Mary Democratic Club, California NORML, Team Elite Genetics, Hyrba, WeedWeek industry newsletter, UpNorth, Bosky Genetics, Ember Valley, Sauce, Meadow, PAX, Hyrba, Organicann, Hendrx Nursery, Element 7, Flywheel Coffee.
Compound Genetics, Permanent Holiday, Sticker Farmer, Grove Bags, Kanha edibles, Seven Leaves, Holysmokes, Snowtill, Moon Valley Cannabis, UpNorth, Bloom vapes, CHA Genetics, Fault Line Seeds, Cutie Pipes, The Lotus Church, Zeed Vault, James Loud Genetics, Happy Trails, Uncle Dad Vibes, Stay Up Movement.
SF Weed Week 2024 growers
Sunset Connect, Cipher Genetics, Purple City Genetics, Uncle Dad Vibes, Sonoma Hills Farm + Lost Farm, Fig Farms, Sense, Greenshock Farms, Moon Made Farms, and MOCA Humboldt.
Guest interviewers
Photography
Michael Tebbs, Mike Rosati, Bram Goodwin.
Special Thanks
Paul, Phoenix, Jay, Saane, Santos Alferez, Mayor London Breed, Porous Walker, Lance Lambert, Jondo, Emilio at Sticker Farmer, Eli Melrod, David Hua, Sunderstorm. GreenState, KCBS, KTVU, KRON4. Super-special thanks to Marisa Lagos.
SF Weed Week venues
SF Weed Week neighborhoods
SOMA, The Mission, Nob Hill, Civic Center, Inner Sunset, Mid-Market, The Castro.
About the creator
David Downs
Cannabis Journalist
SF Weed Week began in 2023 when award-winning cannabis journalist and best-selling author David Downs learned about SF Beer Week, and thought, ‘I want to go to there, but for weed.’ Downs has covered tech for WIRED, music for Rolling Stone, and The Onion, New York Times, and marijuana for Scientific American. He is the senior editor for the popular cannabis app Leafly (2018 to present), and the former Cannabis Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle (2016-2018). Downs is also a 2024 Emerald Cup judge for pre-rolls.