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The Herald, 12 Jul 2011 – Two more cities have banned collective gardens for medical marijuana for now. The Lake Stevens and Marysville city councils unanimously adopted six-month moratoriums on the gardens on Monday. Snohomish did the same last week. And Mukilteo is looking at doing the same next week.

Issaquah Press, 12 Jul 2011 – Issaquah leaders enacted a six-month moratorium on medical marijuana collective gardens June 20, as the city prepares to address a state law meant to clarify the hazy rules surrounding medical marijuana. Now, community members can offer input to the City Council about the moratorium at a public hearing during […]

Times-Press-Recorder, 21 Jul 2011 – The owner of a medical marijuana collective in the Central Valley has high hopes of opening a similar business in her new home town — Oceano. Tammy Murray, director and chief executive officer of Compassionate Cannabis Information Center in Goshen, wants to open shop at a home she purchased in […]

The Press of Atlantic City, 12 Jul 2011 – As a former undercover narcotics detective with the New Jersey State Police, I might be the last person you’d expect to see supporting a new marijuana decriminalization bill in the state Assembly. But my experience on the front lines of the so-called “war on drugs” is […]

The Billings Gazette, 21 Jul 2011 – Yellowstone County commissioners will be considering a ban on storefront medical marijuana sales in the county in the coming weeks. Commissioner Jim Reno has placed the issue on the agenda for the regular commissioner discussion meeting at 2 p.m. Monday.

The Aspen Times, 12 Jul 2011 – ASPEN — A judge on Monday rejected a 23-year-old man’s plea to use marijuana for medicinal purposes while he serves probation for a drug-related conviction in Aspen. Nathan Benner’s attorney, Joseph Saint-Veltri of Denver, had argued that he should be able to take marijuana to help him cope […]

The Mountain Mail, 21 Jul 2011 – A moratorium on changes of ownership for grandfathered operations and location transfers for optional premises cultivation of medical marijuana was imposed Tuesday in unincorporated Chaffee County. Chaffee County Commissioners took the action during their regular meeting in Buena Vista.

San Pedro Valley News-Sun, 12 Jul 2011 – Following a public hearing on June 28, the city Planning and Zoning Commission approved two conditional use permit applications for medical marijuana dispensaries in Benson. The conditional use approval is just the first step in a long process that will need to go through the Arizona Department […]

Spokesman-Review, 12 Jul 2011 – The war is over, and we all lost. We’ve killed each other mercilessly, pitted brothers against mothers and filled our prisons needlessly to become world’s leading jailer in the land of the free. Our beloved USA has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its prisoners.

Washington Times, 21 Jul 2011 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, following a 20-month nationwide investigation, said Thursday it has arrested more than 1,900 members of a Mexican drug cartel as part of an operation known as “Project Delirium.” DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart described the arrests, along with the seizure of $62 million in […]