But it has admitted the majority of people consulted disagreed with the decision to stop providing up to eight units of gluten-free bread or flour on prescription.

From Sacramento to San Diego, he’s in search of a prescription for California’s ailing urban cores.

It would be best, he said, to just give them prescriptions for the drugs they crave.

Porter said Willis had been hospitalized twice since late 2022 on involuntary psychiatric holds and had a history of abusing prescription painkillers and other drugs.

They even recruited a pharmacist from nearby Brawley to fill prescriptions for three hours a day.