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By Brooke Staggsbstaggs@scng.com@JournoBrooke on Twitter

During a week when two of the biggest movie releases are “Power Rangers” and “CHIPS,” it’s easy to succumb to the be-lief that there’s truly nothing new under the sun.

Then along comes “The Scratch & Sniff Book of Weed.”

It looks like a children’s book, with a bright yellow cover, hand-drawn illustrations and those thick cardboard pages that lit-tle hands can easily fl ip. But the content is decidedly adult,

with tiny chapters on everything from “The Botany of Buzz” to the legalization movement to weed in the bedroom.

The book, which will of course be released on April 20, was a collaboration between pop culture writer Eve Epstein and marketing guru Seth Matlins, both of Los Angeles.

“I am a big advocate of what the plant can do for people med-ically and recreationally,” Mat-lins said. Plus, ever since he lis-tened to Pink Floyd for the fi rst time, in 1982, he said he has been a “big fan.”

Matlins is one of the minds behind the Rock the Vote move-ment of the 1990s. He spear-headed the Truth in Advertis-ing Act, which aims to curb the use of Photoshop and other de-ceptive practices that contrib-ute to self-esteem issues. Now he works for one of the biggest talent agencies in the country, where he connects big brands to social causes.

So Matlins couldn’t help but emphasize themes of diver-sity and acceptance, even in a scratch-and-sniff book about

MARIJUANA

‘Book of Weed’ has science, statistics – and scented stickers

The Associated Press

California’s governor and legis-lative leaders on Wednesday pro-posed raising $52 billion to fi x the state’s roads through a big gaso-line tax increase, higher car regis-tration fees and a charge on emis-sion-free vehicles.

The 10-year plan would boost gasoline excise taxes for the fi rst time in more than two decades, raising them 12 cents per gallon — a 43 percent increase. The tax

would rise automatically with in-fl ation.

For the fi rst time, owners of zero-emission vehicles would pay a $100 annual fee because they use public roads but don’t pay gasoline taxes that fund highway maintenance.

The plan also includes a slid-ing fee on vehicles, with owners of cheaper vehicles paying less. The fee, separate from annual vehi-cle registration fees, would range from $25 a year for vehicles worth

less than $5,000 to $175 for cars worth $60,000 and up.

Gov. Jerry Brown said the plan would cost most drivers less than $10 per month and would be off -set by reduced vehicle repair ex-penses. The governor and Demo-cratic legislative leaders hope to rush it through the Legislature next week.

“Yes, it costs money. And if the roof in your house is leak-ing, you better fi x it, because it gets worse all the time,” Brown said at a Capitol news conference. “This is mostly about fi xing what we already have. If for some rea-son people try to fi ght this, and God help us if they were success-

TRANSPORTATION

Gov. Brown and Democratic lawmakers propose a 10-year plan to increase excise taxes by 12 cents per gallon, among other fees.

Proposal would raise gas tax to fi x roads

RICH PEDRONCELLI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gov. Jerry Brown, center, answers questions Wednesday in Sacramento concerning a plan to raise $52 billion to fi x California’s roads.

By Alex Grovesagroves@scng.com@AlexDGroves on Twitter

If you have a years-old traf-fi c ticket that you haven’t been able to pay off because it has been too expensive, there may be an option for you to whittle that cost down — but you have to act quickly.

A traffi c ticket amnesty pro-gram that started a year and a half ago can help people to re-duce their qualifying traffi c and non-traffi c citations by 50 per-cent or 80 percent, and to get their driver’s licenses reinstated. However, the program is set to expire Monday .

Not paying traffi c fi nes can re-sult in an extra fee being added to the original fine amount. These are called civil assess-ments and can be up to $300, ac-cording to the California Courts website. Those who don’t pay their fi nes also risk having their licenses suspended.

The amnesty program was de-signed to help people get out of such situations. Since it took ef-

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Fines can be reduced by up to 80 percent for some old citations — until Monday

Ticket amnesty program ends soon

From secretaries to principals to teachers, Riverside County offi cials will salute the county’s top educators. LOCAL 1

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County to give educators the praise they deserve

A popular trail has been closed temporarily because hordes of fl owerphiles have been getting too close to the blooms. NEWS 7

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Offi cials at Diamond Valley Lake say don’t hit the trail

PHOTOS: WATCHARA PHOMICINDA — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Judith Hernandez, a 22-year-old Menifee resident who is dying of cancer, gets an oncology massage from massage therapist Heidi Franklin as she spends the day with her family and her boyfriend at Glen Ivy Hot Springs on Wednesday .

By Stephen Wallstwall@scng.com@pe_swall on Twitter

For a few hours, Judith Hernandez forgot she was dy-ing of cancer.

She’s 22 years old, with fewer than six months to live.

But on Wednesday , she relaxed with a massage, a moisturizing treatment and a soak in a salt pool.

Hernandez, her family and her boyfriend enjoyed a spa day at Glen Ivy Hot Springs near Corona. The red-carpet treatment came courtesy of the Costa Mesa-based nonprofi t Southern

California Hospice Foun-dation, which grants fi nal wishes, meals and other ser-vices to terminally ill pa-

tients.The group spent nearly

$2,000 for a limousine, spa treatments and lunch for

Hernandez and the others.Some dying patients want

to meet a celebrity or take a trip somewhere exotic.

Hernandez’s last wish was simple: She wanted quality bonding time with her loved ones in a peaceful setting.

“I’ve always wanted to go to the spa my whole life,” Hernandez said while loung-ing in a cabana before lunch. “I knew my parents would really love it. It’s an opportu-nity to thank them for all the help they’ve given me and all the times they’ve taken care of me when I’m sick.”

Hernandez, who lives in Menifee, was diagnosed nearly seven years ago with

COMMUNITY

ONE LAST WISH

As cancer patient Judith Hernandez faces her fi nal days, she dreamed of relaxing with her family one more time

Maria Hernandez, center, kisses her daughter Judith Hernandez at Glen Ivy Hot Springs near Corona.

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START YOUR DAY HEREGood morning! 1867

U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal ridiculed by critics as “Seward’s Folly.”

1822Florida became a United States territory.

1870The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. Texas was readmitted to the Union.

1964The original version of the TV game show “Jeopardy!” hosted by Art Fleming, pre-miered on NBC.

TODAY IN HISTORY

Game show host Peter Marshall is 91.Actor John Astin is 87.Actor-director Warren Beatty is 80.Rock musician Graeme Edge is 76.Rock musician Eric Clapton is 72.Actor Justin Deas is 69.

Actor Paul Reiser is 60.Rap artist MC Hammer is 54.Singer Tracy Chapman is 53.Actor Ian Ziering is 53.TV personality Piers Morgan is 52.Actress Donna D’Errico is 49.

Singer Celine Dion is 49.Actor Mark Consuelos is 46.Actress Bahar Soomekh is 42.Actress Jessica Cauffiel is 41.Singer Norah Jones is 38.Actress Fiona Gubelmann is 37.

Rossum thanks LAPD amid burglary report Actress Emmy Rossum is thank-ing Los Angeles police amid reports of a jewelry heist at her home.

The Los Angeles Times reports that $150,000 worth of jewelry and other items were taken dur-ing a break-in at Rossum’s home last week.

The LAPD confirmed to The As-sociated Press the amount and a time frame of the burglary taking place between Wednesday and Friday of last week at a home in the city’s Beverly Park section, but wouldn’t say if Rossum was the victim.The 30-year-old star of Show-time’s “Shameless” tweeted Tuesday: “Thank you to the LAPD. I fully support the police efforts and dedication.”Rossum’s publicist didn’t im-mediately return a request for comment.

Dylan will finally accept literature Nobel Prize After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoff-ishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swed-ish Academy in Stockholm this weekend.Sara Danius, the Swedish Acade-my’s permanent secretary, broke the news Wednesday in a blog post titled “Good News About Dylan,” and a spokeswoman for the Academy confirmed it. A rep-resentative for Dylan did not im-mediately respond to a request

for comment.Danius wrote that Dylan — who greeted news of the prize last fall with two weeks of silence and skipped the De-cember ceremony because of

“pre-existing commitments” — would meet with members of the Academy while in town to play two concerts at the Stockholm Waterfront. She said that those behind the prize will “show up at one of the performances”

and “hand over” Dylan’s com-memorative diploma and medal in person.“The setting will be small and intimate, and no media will be present; only Bob Dylan and members of the Academy will attend, all according to Dylan’s wishes,” Danius added.Yet some uncertainty remains. Nobel laureates, who are awarded 8 million Swedish krona, or about $900,000, are required to give a lecture on their subject within six months of the prize ceremony, which was held Dec. 10. Dylan will not deliver his this

weekend. His deadline is in June.Danius wrote: “The Academy has reason to believe that a taped version will be sent at a later point. (Taped Nobel lectures are presented now and then, the lat-est of which was that of Nobel Laureate Alice Munro in 2013.) At this point no further details are known.”For the ceremony in December, Patti Smith performed a ver-sion of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” while the U.S. ambassador to Sweden, Azita Raji, read a gracious acceptance speech from the singer.

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DEAN MUSGROVE – STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Pulitzer Prize winner: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, who took this famous “Napalm Girl” image during the Vietnam War, celebrates his retirement Tuesday at The Perfect Exposure Gallery in Los Angeles.

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Cool fact: Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.

ful, they won’t defeat this, they’ll just delay it and make the expenses go up.”

The proposal aims to ad-dress a $59 billion backlog in deferred maintenance on state highways and $78 billion on local streets and roads.

It includes a constitu-tional amendment requir-ing that the money be spent only on transportation proj-ects, and it would create an inspector general to make sure money isn’t misspent.

Critics long have com-plained that money raised

by transportation taxes has been siphoned off for other uses, something the consti-tutional amendment is de-signed to prevent.

Republican lawmak-ers renewed that objec-tion, arguing that Cal-ifornia already collects enough money with some of the highest gas taxes in the country but spends it on the wrong projects.

“Californians deserve better,” Assembly Republi-can leader Chad Mayes of Yucca Valley told report-ers after the Democrats unveiled their plan. “The state government has mis-managed our transporta-tion system now for de-cades and the only answer,

the only response to that, is that the Democrats — the ruling party here in Califor-nia — want to raise taxes.”

Brown announced the proposal alongside Assem-bly Speaker Anthony Ren-don of Paramount and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de LeÓn of Los Ange-les, both Democrats. Brown said Wednesday the success of the proposal isn’t guaran-teed, but he expressed con-fidence it would pass.

It’s the third time Brown has tried to address the multibillion-dollar backlog in transportation repairs and upgrades through tax increases. Brown’s previ-ous plans and others calling for tax increases repeatedly

have stalled in the Legisla-ture, with Republicans and moderate Democrats re-luctant to back the higher taxes.

Democrat s control enough seats for the pro-posal to pass the Assembly and Senate with the two-thirds majority required for tax increases. Brown will need nearly all of them unless he can pick up sup-port from Republicans.

A number of Assembly Democrats eked out wins in the November election and could be vulnerable in the next campaign if they vote to raise taxes. Moder-ate Democrats, many from inland districts where vot-ers are generally poorer

and face long commutes to work, may be concerned about raising gas prices.

Members of the Fix Our Roads Coalition, a group representing business, la-bor and local government interests that is lobbying for a transportation fund-ing deal, said they sup-ported the plan unveiled Wednesday.

“We understand the next few days will be crit-ical, and legislators should rest assured that members of the Fix Our Roads coali-tion support this package, and we will stand behind legislators who vote for it,” Virginia Bass, a Humboldt County supervisor and a member of the coalition,

said in a statement. Jon Coupal, president of

the Howard Jarvis Taxpay-ers Association, said the state has plenty of money that could be redirected to transportation fund-ing without raising more money from residents.

He suggested redirect-ing money from high-speed rail and reducing staffing at the state Transportation Department, among other sources.

“It is unnecessary and insulting to the taxpay-ers of the state of Califor-nia,” Coupal said. “There is so much money sloshing around in California that could pay for this; we don’t need another tax.”

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synovial sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that started in her neck and spread throughout her body.

Over the years she had four surgeries and two rounds each of chemother-apy and radiation. But the cancer kept coming back.

She and her boyfriend, Tim Reynolds, were get-ting a couple’s massage at a massage business on Val-entine’s Day in 2014 when Hernandez had a panic at-tack and couldn’t breathe. She was rushed to the hos-pital. Doctors found the cancer had reached her lungs.

Last spring, Hernan-dez and her parents stayed nine weeks in a Tijuana, Mexico, hotel and received immunotherapy, which used her own immune system to fight the can-cer. The tumor in one lung shrank a small amount, but the family couldn’t af-ford to continue living there and returned home.

The situation worsened a few months later. She now has three tumors in her diaphragm, four inside her right lung, one push-ing on her heart and an-other pushing on her liver.

Last summer, Hernan-dez decided she wanted to

stop suffering.Doctors told her that

chemotherapy and radia-tion could damage other organs and were unlikely to work.

She chose not to take part in a research study that doctors said offered slim hope of improving her condition.

“I figured why would I do a clinical trial that would keep me in the hos-pital, in bed and sick when it had a 30 percent chance of helping me,” she said. “I chose quality over quan-

tity.”Hernandez, who uses

morphine to control the pain, recently went to Disneyland and Univer-sal Studios. She spent last weekend in Palm Springs with her boyfriend. She loves eating sushi, din-ing at Guadalajara Mexi-can Grill in Temecula and going to see new movies. Her favorite films include “Clueless,” “The Notebook” and “Across the Universe.”

Sometimes, she thinks about living a normal life, studying psychology and

working as a therapist or counselor. After graduat-ing from Murrieta Valley High School in 2012, Her-nandez enrolled and com-pleted the dental-assisting program at San Joaquin Valley College in Temecula last February.

She looked forward to the spa day to put her wor-ries behind and get closer to her family before she can no longer walk or get out of bed.

Relaxing, restingThe experience began in

the morning when a black stretch limo picked every-one up at her parents’ Menifee home.

After stopping briefly in their air-conditioned cabana, they walked past the ponds and lounge pools amid the lush land-scaping on the way to the massage rooms.

Hernandez got a spe-cially designed oncol-ogy massage to meet her medical needs. Because the cancer has affected her neck and back, she couldn’t lie on her stom-ach during the therapy.

“My mom says I have a lot of knots,” Hernan-dez said as the masseuse glided oil-covered hands behind her head.

Hernandez closed her eyes as the masseuse gen-tly moved her hands across her face and pulled the skin back with her fingers.

“I could sleep,” she said.Next was a trip to The

Grotto, a cave-like setting where she and the group were painted from neck-to-toe in green moistur-izing lotion. The experi-ence continued with a visit to the nearly 100-degree hydration chamber and ended with a cool shower.

“Our bodies feel like ba-bies,” Hernandez said as they sipped tea afterward.

Back at the cabana, the family members talked as

they munched on nachos. Hernandez or-dered a chicken and avo-cado sandwich and a non-alcoholic piña colada. The day ended with a brief stop at the mud bath and the salt water pool.

“This means a lot,” Maria Hernandez, her mother, said before lunch. “Maybe it will be one of the last good and relaxing times we will be together as a family with Judith. I know that sounds cruel.”

Maria Hernandez said the family has received help from a therapist and sought strength from a higher power.

“I meditate a lot,” she said. “I think about God. I believe in angels. Maybe she’ll be happier” in heaven.

Judith Hernandez said there are days when she questions her fate.

A good cry helps her get over it, she said.

Rather than feel sorry for herself, she wants to encourage others strug-gling with different ill-nesses.

“Sometimes I’m grate-ful to have had cancer be-cause it made me who I am today,” she said. “I re-ally love who I am. It made me very compas-sionate and understanding of others and taught me to be more loving.”

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WATCHARA PHOMICINDA — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Cancer patient Judith Hernandez, 22, and her boyfriend, Tim Reynolds, soak in a saltwater pool while spending the day at Glen Ivy Hot Springs in Corona on Wednesday.

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