Stories that you shouldn’t miss:
1. John Russo is the first city attorney in California to publicly support Tax Cannabis 2010, the November ballot measure that would legalize marijuana for personal use, the Trib reports. The Oakland city attorney joins mayoral candidates Rebecca Kaplan, Don Perata, and Jean Quan in backing the measure, which also allows cities to tax and regulate cannabis.
2. The UC Berkeley student hunger strike against Arizona’s new anti-immigration law is continuing as tech-savvy protesters increasingly turn to Facebook and Twitter to gin up support, the Chron reports. Cal Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has refused the student’s demand that the university join the Arizona boycott, but did say he was “horrified” by the new racial profiling law.
