Marijuana

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Weed delivery, school bonds and mental health ‘care’

By Dan Morain • November 2, 2018

Elections

Majority Report: Milk, Marijuana, and Kool-Aid Edition

In California congressional campaign news this week: new polls, a sexual harassment allegation is chalked up to a misunderstanding, and Devin Nunes buzzes the Fresno Bee. Here’s a quick recap of what happened this week across California’s 53 congressional districts:

By Ben Christopher • October 5, 2018

Newsletters

Housing, Hollywood Forever and weed

California's housing crisis, drug industry donations against Proposition 10, cannabis equity, Hollywood Forever gets spirits and the governor's friends.

By Dan Morain • September 20, 2018

Newsletters

School, Kavanaugh, Tesla and what’s ahead

The California Public Utilities Commission reports that since 2011, the state has paid or will pay $199.3 million to offset consumers’ cost of installing Tesla’s batteries.

By Dan Morain • September 4, 2018

Newsletters

Capitol ends a big session, and head rubs

The criminal justice pendulum continued its swing away from tough-on-crime attitudes as the Legislature sought to end cash bail, increase transparency on policing, and pass a major revision to the “felony murder” rule.

By Dan Morain • September 3, 2018

Justice

Betty Yee to cannabis industry: Grow up and deal with stoned drivers

California Controller Betty Yee, injured in a car crash suspected to have been caused by a driver under the influence of marijuana, says the state’s nascent cannabis industry needs to stop "grousing" about state regulations and “step up” to address pot-related traffic accidents.

By Judy Lin • August 21, 2018

Newsletters

Driving while high; fundraising blitz

Legislators convened Monday to focus on hundreds of bills left to approve or kill in the final four weeks of the session—and raise money from the interests that care deeply about those bills

By Dan Morain • August 7, 2018

Newsletters

Cannabis’ toll on endangered wildlife

Humboldt martens are nearing extinction, in part because of impact of illegal cannabis farms in the redwood forests of the North Coast. Why vets can't discuss animal cannabis use with pet owners.

By Dan Morain • June 26, 2018

Newsletters

Billionaires’ money helps a most unlikely candidate

By Dan Morain • May 23, 2018

Newsletters

California Republicans struggle in age of Trump

Good Monday morning, California. “He then slowly inhaled the Pineapple Thai. It was the first time he’d had cannabis, he said, since 1979. ‘Somebody said I’m overdue,’ he laughed.” — Leafly, quoting Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer at his West Hollywood fundraiser last week. The Los Angeles Democrat chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, which hears bills […]

By Dan Morain • May 7, 2018