Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative that would legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana, is so god damn commonsensical that it's picked up the support of the cops. Well—not the white cops.

Today in hallucinations turned real: A one-antlered deer ran through two stores in Laguna Beach, was hit by a car, ran to the beach, and swam to a cave. A police officer gave it CPR, and then it died.

California Congressman Duncan Hunter's opponents really want to debate him, enough that they'll starve themselves for at least eight days in protest (they're on day six now.) Will Duncan Hunter have blood on his hands?

This is Michael Kevin Lallana of Fullerton, California, a 31-year-old financial representative at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. He is also, according to the Orange County District Attorney, a sex offender who put his semen in a co-worker's water bottle. Gross.

Gay marriage will be prohibited in California while the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals considers the legal challenge to the state's gay-marriage ban. But don't throw away your invites: They've expedited the process so that oral arguments begin December 6.

eBay CEO Meg Whitman's quest to buy the California governor's seat continues. She just donated another $13 million to her own campaign, bringing her total contribution to $104 million. Her opponent, Jerry Brown, has spent less than $1 million.

California Assemblyman, and former filmmaker, Anthony Portantino has authored legislation that would make crashing high profile Hollywood events a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Oh well, LA parties suck anyway. [LAT]

Get your tuxes out, (gay) ladies and gentlemen (who reside in California). Judge Vaughn Walker, who overturned California's gay marriage ban last week, issued a follow-up ruling today that will allow California's gays to start marrying on August 18.

Dan Schruender is running for school board in the town of Rialto, California. Schruender is a proud member of the Aryan Nations. He might win, because no one's running against him. Don't let this happen!

The Valley Meat Company in Modesto, California has recalled one million pounds of frozen beef products after six people were found to be sick from E. coli. The beef was supplied primarily to stores on the west coast. [FPJ]

Three years ago the National Archives took control of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, and an extensive new Watergate exhibit was due to open on July 1st. But history revisionists from the Nixon Foundation are trying to whitewash it.

Supporters of Prop 8 in California have filed their appeal following Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling yesterday overturning the ban on gay marriage. Now let's just sit back and wait many, many years for this to play out! [Photo: Getty]

[Opponents of Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in California, celebrate in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco shortly after receiving the news that a judge ruled the law unconstitutional. Image via AP]

The ruling is in on California's huge trial against Prop 8, the referendum that passed last year banning same sex marriage. The judge has ruled the ban... unconstitutional!

Police in California over the last three weeks have arrested 100 people and destroyed 432,000 marijuana plants worth $1.7 billion in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Perhaps they should have put it toward the state's $19 billion budget deficit. [BBC]

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called California's $19.2 billion budget deficit a "fiscal emergency." The state could be broke by October.

Christopher Stone, the sleazy owner of the teen gossip/porn websites stickydrama and sticky-n00dz has been bragging recently about how he got into law school. Attention, mysterious law school! This man spends his free time harassing teenagers and videotaping live rapes.

California Senator Barbara Boxer and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina are battling over Boxer's Senate seat. But that's secondary to a more important question—one that an actual, reputable polling firm just asked Californians: Who has better hair?

Today a collection of 65 glass negatives of previously unseen Ansel Adams photographs will go on display in California. Rick Norsigian bought them at a garage sale for $45, and they are now estimated to be worth $200 million.

City officials in San Diego, tired of drunk frat boys littering their pristine coast, in 2007 banned drinking on the beach. But there's a loophole: "If you're floating, you're good," according to police. So thousands get wasted on rafts, brah.