Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, September 22, 2025…Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law Monday, lowering state cannabis taxes from 19% to 15%. But youth groups who are funded by this tax say kids are being betrayed. But on the other side of the aisle, more than a hundred youth and environmental groups funded by cannabis tax revenues said kids are being betrayed. Proposition 64 promised to create a marijuana tax fund, with 60% of revenues benefitting youth groups. But over the years, that financial bargain has come into conflict with another promise in that proposition: one that allows cities and counties across the state to apply whatever local cannabis taxes they wish on top of the state taxes.