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LOS ANGELES — Melanie Senn's father, long dead, appeared to her as she lay back in the dimly lit room at the Santa Monica clinic, a mask over her closed eyes, and the psychedelic trip began.

S.B. 58, which emulates an initiative that Colorado voters approved last month, would legalize the use of five psychoactive substances found in fungi and plants.

SAN FRANCISCO — California nonprofit colleges and faith organizations such as churches, mosques and synagogues would be able to build affordable homes on their land under a bill introduced Tuesday to help alleviate the state's worsening housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Four years after California began issuing nonbinary IDs, fewer than 16,000 people have asked the state for a little piece of plastic with their gender marked by an X rather than an F or M.

Police share little new information on University of Idaho killings, address stalker story

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just days after a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ club killed five people and injured many more, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose Twitter account recently was reinstated by Elon Musk, took to the platform to hurl an anti-LGBTQ slur at California state Sen.…

At least 519 out LGBTQ+ candidates won election this year across US – but Colorado shooting is reminder of extremist threat

Once all of them assume office, California will be the first state where it's believed more than 10% of legislators identify publicly as LGBTQ

Experts call Twitter’s mass layoffs, which came via email less than a week after Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal closed, “infuriating and heartbreaking.”