Category Archives: Blog

Daily Pilot, 30 Jul 2011 – On Sept. 1 you will have a chance to help us make history. On this date there will be an event to support the Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Initiative that will be on the November 2012 ballot. Please join us.

Washington Times, 07 Aug 2011 – Candidates to grow medical marijuana in the District risk wasting their time, energy and a non-refundable $2,500 if they’re not prepared to meet the strict demands of the application process about to get under way. The D.C. Department of Health issued strict rules Friday that govern how qualified applicants […]

The Daily Inter Lake, 08 Aug 2011 – A 35-year-old Whitefish man has pleaded innocent to federal charges related to coordinated raids of medical marijuana dispensaries across Montana in March. [name1 redacted], former owner of the Black Pearl dispensary in Olney, was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C.

The Billings Outpost, 30 Jul 2011 – When Sen. [Jeff] Essmann discovered that there might be people holding cannabis cards who did not have excruciating pain or a terminal illness, he thought he had better take cannabis away from everyone, possibly especially the sick people.

Washington Times, 08 Aug 2011 – Legalization of Marijuana Would End Drug Profiteering and Violence Imagine you are a drug lord in Mexico, making unfathomable profits sending your illegal product to the United States. What is the headline you fear the most? “U.S. to build bigger fence”? “U.S. to send troops to the border”? “U.S. […]

Manteca Bulletin, 31 Jul 2011 – The war, as they say, is going badly. This week’s massive marijuana raid in the Mendocino National Forest is a clear indicator we’re in deep trouble. Legalizing marijuana isn’t going to do the trick and reduce crime.

Daily Courier, 08 Aug 2011 – Sometimes voters can really screw things up for ideological politicians. But elected officials get the last laugh. They can – and do – derail the voters by throwing passed legislation into gridlock. Take Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s efforts, with support from Gov. Jan Brewer, at shutting down Prop. […]

Chico Enterprise-Record, 31 Jul 2011 – Our view: Caught between the feds and marijuana users, local government just can’t win. There are a couple of stories in Friday’s newspaper that provide a wonderful snapshot of the situation that has afflicted California since the passage of the incredibly vague Proposition 215 in 1996.

Arizona Republic, 08 Aug 2011 – Edward Gogek has reached a conclusion based on his surmise from favorable data (“Medical pot just a smokescreen,” My Turn, Friday). He is wrong all round. He went out to support his belief that marijuana is not medicine. There may be recreational users in the state’s medical-marijuana program.

The Record, 31 Jul 2011 – More patients claim hospital in Lode pressured them to sign form SAN ANDREAS – Additional medical-marijuana patients have come forward to say they were told they were unwelcome at clinics operated by Mark Twain St. Joseph’s Hospital.