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Nov 28, 2023

Who’s Calling? The DEA Wants to Know

Just over 10 years ago, reporting by The New York Times and ABC News revealed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had for several years been collecting billions of American phone records. The government was paying AT&T to do the work. The DEA and other agencies could then collect whatever...
Nov 14, 2023

No Going Back

‘Time, Paperwork, Letdowns’
Oct 18, 2023

‘Time, Paperwork, Letdowns’

On a warm, spring day in March, I took my first tour of Rose Mary Jane, a Black-women-owned dispensary on Harrison Street which has since closed due to burglaries and increased rent prices. The general manager, Sway...
Newsom Vetoes
Oct 11, 2023

Newsom Vetoes

Gov. Gavin Newsom, perhaps taking his presidential ambitions into account and trying to appeal to “moderates,” last weekend vetoed two bills favored by drug reformers: one to decriminalize a limited number of psychedelics, and the other to...
Highs and Lows
Oct 3, 2023

Highs and Lows

In its latest session, which wrapped up last week, the California Legislature approved several cannabis-related bills and sent them along to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature … or veto. Conspicuously missing from this clutch of would-be...
Make Us Whole
Sep 19, 2023

Make Us Whole

Vanessa Gonzales is a special services aide at Lafayette Elementary School and a member of the California School Employee Association, the union for non-credentialed educators. Gonzales may already have a union contract that she’s satisfied with, but...
Long Strange Trip
Sep 12, 2023

Long Strange Trip

It’s been a long and fraught struggle, but to the surprise of even some advocates, the chances are now decent that California is about to decriminalize several psychedelic substances, including psilocybin—that is, “magic mushrooms”—DMT and mescaline. It...
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Aug 30, 2023

Unsurprising

Officer fired for killing Sean Monterrosa is reinstated The officer who was fired for shooting and killing a man during George Floyd protests in Vallejo in 2020 could get his job back after prevailing in arbitration. Michael Rains, attorney...
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Aug 30, 2023

Town Biz

Oakland residents defend city amid rise in crime, political backlash Despite a resurgence of political bashing of their city over rising petty crime, residents and criminal justice researchers say a sudden crime wave is no reason to devalue...
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