Out of the six ballot measures, one countywide and five citywide, placed before San Diego voters in the Nov. 8 election, four of them are winning majority support, including a county general tax on cannabis businesses and a $3.2 billion bond for city K–12 schools. San Diegans are evenly split on the remaining two measures,…

In the Nov. 8 election in Los Angeles, three citywide and two countywide measures were on the ballot, with the majority of voters supporting removing hurdles for more affordable housing, adding a real estate sales tax to fund more homeless housing, giving county supervisors the power to remove an elected county sheriff, and imposing a…

Five Orange County cities—including Anaheim, Brea, Fullerton, Irvine, and Orange—received funding this month from the state’s cannabis sales tax revenue for their police officers to be better trained in preventing tragedies caused by people driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol or drugs. This year, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) Cannabis Tax Fund Grant distributed…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—The city council on July 19 voted 5–2 to finalize a cannabis tax ballot measure for the November General Election. The council also unanimously postponed finalizing a second measure that would legalize the sale of marijuana in the city because councilors could not agree on the minimum distance between cannabis businesses and vulnerable…

Although the sale of marijuana is still illegal in Huntington Beach, the city is poised to adopt a ballot measure that would set cannabis tax rates on sales in the city, as early primary election results show. Ballot Measure A—which needed a two-thirds majority vote to pass—would not legalize cannabis sales but would place a…

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif.—Residents in the City of Laguna Woods can expect to see a measure to tax cannabis businesses on the November ballot, despite the city’s current ban on retail cannabis. The Laguna Woods City Council May 18 voted 4–1 to approve an ordinance that places a cannabis retail tax measure on the ballot for…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Surf City could be moving toward legalizing cannabis businesses after the city council voted in favor of a ballot measure that would regulate cannabis in the city. The city council voted 5–2 on March 2 to allow voters to decide in June for an up to six percent tax on commercial cannabis sales…