Like all US states, California is a collection of dense progressive islands in a sea of sparsely populated and variously conservative space. Any progressive policy still has to get buy-in from moderates and conservatives.
Indeed that's more or less what it looks like, thanks for the explanation though.
Reading the article, what seems even more bonkers is the fact that pharmacies refuse to sell condoms to "underage kids", is that a legal thing or just very conservative using their (admittedly very broken) personal sense of moral duty to not comply ?