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Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf reflects as time in office comes to a close Oakland's 50th mayor, Mayor Libby Schaaf, has done a tremendous job in the last eight years compared with those who preceded her, a community leader...

California is awash in pot, the illicit market is flourishing, and the legal market is overtaxed and overburdened If one wants to understand the current state of the California legal-pot business, one can read all the market analyses,...

Loving nature or profiting from it It’s fascinating how “interests” interfere with survival. Humans prepare for—and, of course, wage—war with an overwhelming percentage of their resources (to the benefit of the profiteers), but they plead poverty when it...

Joshua Chase and Oakanna stand out when the smoke clears The Oakanna cannabis store bears quite a few distinctions. For one, it’s the first cannabis dispensary approved to be on Oakland’s busy Lakeshore Avenue promenade. Oakanna owner Joshua...

Transcending the morality police I have been haunted by a phrase: “morality police.” The news has been global. A 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, was arrested as she was leaving a subway station in Tehran on Sept. 13 by an Iranian police...

Will this be the most diverse California Legislature ever? Leading up to Election Day, advocacy groups were predicting—or at least hoping—that California voters would elect record numbers of women and LGBTQ+ people to the Legislature. Based on the results...

People still prefer plain old weed  If you wanted to get high in 1979, and you didn't live near pot farmers in California, you might buy yourself a "a lid of Mexican." For you young sprigs out there,...