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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
