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Although California Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal of eliminating cannabis cultivation taxes has received a lot of support, it also has its detractors.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers this year set out to advance bills that would require COVID-19 vaccines for more people and would make them easier to access.

California Senate Committee gave the green light to a bill that restores voter-created access to medicinal cannabis by requiring cities to provide patients access to purchase medicinal cannabis via delivery.

Senate Bill 1186 which aims to put back voter-created access to medical cannabis across California, sponsored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) recently passed the Senate Business and Professions Committee by a vote of 8-3.

A year after the creation of sweeping laws to increase the construction of duplexes and small apartment buildings, California lawmakers have turned their attention to money for affordable housing and easing the burdens of homeownership for first-time buyers.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are responding to a surge in fentanyl overdoses and deaths in their cities with a list of bills that include imposing stronger penalties for distributing the synthetic opioid and easing access to safer consumption and treatment.

A.B. 2179 would stop some local-level eviction moratoriums from going into effect, while leaving untouched ones that have been in place since the beginning of the pandemic.

LOS ANGELES — The landmark 1970 law for preserving California’s beauty has a long history of backfiring.

A California Supreme Court decision freezing enrollment at the state's flagship university is focusing the public's fury on the normally obscure, but incredibly consequential, California Environmental Quality Act.