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California bill that would legalize Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes hits Newsom’s desk
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SACRAMENTO – Cannabis cafes could soon become legal in California – that is, if the governor signs the bill into law.
Right now, it’s illegal for cannabis smoke lounges to sell drinks and food that don’t have pot in them. But this new legislation could change that.
AB-374 is now in the hands of Gov. Gavin Newsom after passing through with broad bipartisan support.
The bill would allow local jurisdictions to license Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes at dispensaries.
“It would help us create a more welcoming environment, more of a lounge if you will, for our consumers,” said Haley Andrew, owner of the Dixon Wellness Collective.
Cannabis smoke lounges are already legal in some cities. But selling food and drinks inside is not.
“This would entice people to stay and also help us promote our business with revenue as well,” Andrew said.
There is already concern about California’s cannabis industry. High tax rates and a lack of banking options put small dispensaries at a disadvantage.
Meanwhile, a thriving black market is hurting businesses that follow the rules and pay taxes.
Bill writer, Assemblymember Matt Haney, says this may help reverse the damages to the industry.
“If we can provide an experience that Californians actually want, which is consuming a legal product with other safely, we need to change our laws,” Haney said.
So what would it look like?
Assemblymember Haney says it could be a social experience – something similar you would see at “cannabis cafes” in the Netherlands. That means coffee, food, and even live music.
Andrews says the changes could even help smaller dispensaries grow.
“I really think it would help create more jobs,” Andrew said. “There would be more people there to help our consumers, so that’s always a step in the right direction when it comes to cannabis.”
Meantime, groups like the American Non-Smokers Rights Foundation opposed this bill – saying the proposed law threatens smoke-free protections.
The bill is now on the governor’s desk. If signed, it will go into law next year.
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4-year-old California boy found safe after spending night alone in wilderness
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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. — A 4-year-old boy from Torrance, California was found safe Friday morning after he spent the night in the wilderness in Fresno County, California.
Christian Ramirez went missing Thursday morning from a campground.
Search teams found him Friday about a quarter-mile from where he disappeared.
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Ramirez was hungry and tired, but otherwise found in good condition. He was reunited with his parents.
It’s still unclear exactly how he got separated from his family, but authorities said it appeared he wandered off while they were at the campground.
KFSN-TV contributed to this report.
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An Interview with Retired California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye
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Tani Cantil-Sakauye was the 28th Chief Justice of the State of California. The first Asian Filipina American and the second woman to serve as the state’s chief justice, she is the current president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California. Before sitting on the panel for “What Makes a Great California Idea?,” part of the inaugural CalMatters Ideas Festival, Cantil-Sakauye joined us in the green room to talk about humor, mediation, and the “Sackamenna Kid.”
Q:
In this event description, we referred to California as Tomorrowland. If you could create any land, what land would it be?
A:
I would call it Opportunityland, and I would like it to be a place where people could try out new things, find who they really are, find their passions and their talents instead of finding out too late, or never finding out at all, or being wistful that they had tried something else.
Q:
Can you give us an example?
A:
I was a lawyer at a time when there weren’t a lot of female prosecutors in the courtroom. And I was standing by the elevator once, and the lawyer said to me, Cantil, it looks like you’re gaining weight. And I said to him: you should talk, you have seven hairs on your head and four are loose. And so, we are friends to this day, but I always felt that insulting attorneys going into trial about their hair sort of took them off balance.
Q:
What have you learned as a mediator about navigating conflict?
A:
It takes a while, and it requires multiple steps along the way and then an assessment of how the steps are going with talking to them. So for me, and for contemporary mediation, we meet in separate rooms. It’s about getting to know not necessarily the lawyer, but the client of the lawyer. I think it’s a lot of listening and empathizing, and truly understanding and standing in the shoes of who they are, their experiences, and how it’s feeling to them now.
Q:
Was there a journalist that you particularly admired growing up?
A:
I’m old enough to remember and appreciate Herb Caen, who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle. He was from Sacramento, but he was basically, professionally, in the Bay Area. And he was called the “Sackamenna Kid.” He wrote about current events and insights into politics with humor, and he had his own column. While I was aware of all the other news, Herb Caen was the piece of paper that I would always grab and read. I didn’t understand most of it, frankly, because it was all political insider stuff. But he did it in such a humorous way that was pithy and funny but meaningful; so that was what I remember. When I was growing up, there were like three TV stations. There wasn’t cable. There wasn’t streaming. There wasn’t internet. There wasn’t anything. There was like one or two newspapers, and that was it. So you know, you made your joy wherever you could find it.
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Want to move to Nevada? California-based class teaches how
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Hundreds of thousands of people have moved to Nevada since the pandemic, and a class helps Northern California residents make informed decisions before the leap to relocate to the Silver State.
The class is titled “Exit Strategies for Leaving the Bay Area,” offered by Campbell Adult & Community Education in San Jose. Realtor Punam Navalgund created the class in 2019 and tells FOX5 that the concept was born out of necessity by a demand from clients.
“It was me hearing a need from home sellers to make more informed decisions about making their move,” Navalgund said. “There are people from all walks of life, people looking to retire, people who want to raise a family somewhere else where the cost of living isn’t as high as it is here in the Bay Area. It’s people who have a lot of equity in their homes, who aren’t really sure how much they’re going to have left at the end of the transaction,” she said.
Navalgund said students have moved to states such as Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Texas, Florida and Georgia, but Nevada remains a popular relocation destination.
“We help people build a support team here locally, as well as in their destination. So whether that’s looking for lawyers, looking for real estate agents, looking for tax professionals, financial planners, I really want people to feel secure about making that decision,” she said.
According to data from the Lee School of Business at UNLV, 355,088 people moved from California from 2020 to 2023 and 148,939 people were from California. Data came from licenses surrendered to the Nevada DMV.
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