Newly unsealed documents suggest that state Sen. Susan Rubio was involved in a cannabis bribery scheme when she served on the Baldwin Park City Council and campaigned for the Legislature in 2018.

And cannabis-related corruption is just what is being alleged about local state Sen. Susan Rubio, D-West Covina, from the time she served on the Baldwin Park City Council.

The story was first reported in a blog called The Legal Lens which attached Sen. Susan Rubio to the sprawling probe..

Democratic Sen. Susan Rubio was the Senate Insurance Committee chair for the past six years. As of Wednesday, that committee is the only committee in the entire legislature without a chair.

In a photo taken in San Gabriel on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, California state Sen. Susan Rubio (third from right) poses with (from left) her niece Kirsten Rodriguez, sister Sylvia Rubio, father ...

Two Democrats joined forces with Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones to make sure “public safety is not a political issue” but a “human” one.

It’s time to get to the bottom of the claim. And perhaps it’s time to reconsider the ways legal cannabis shops are licensed in California.