Sacramento News & Review, 23 Jun 2011 – Robbie Waters Has New Job As Medical-Pot Consultant Former Sacramento City Councilman Robbie Waters is now lobbying local governments on behalf of medical marijuana. Robbie Waters has tried his hand at many, many things. The 75-year-old was a cop for two decades, and the sheriff of Sacramento […]

SnoValley Star, 23 Jun 2011 – The North Bend City Council has banned medical marijuana dispensaries in the city’s limits for one year. Concerns about the state law’s large gray areas, especially regarding production and distribution of medical marijuana, prompted the city’s administration to recommend the ban.

Montana Standard, 23 Jun 2011 – Representative (Jeff) Essman (R-Billings) is indeed in the hands of big “pharma.” How noteworthy that he has no problem if the active ingredient is supplied by them does he. Is he going to to see to it that they supply the pill at no profit as well? Of course […]

Seattle Times, 24 Jun 2011 – While cigarette packages are getting the graphic makeover to discourage smoking, Washington lawmakers are promoting decriminalization of marijuana [“Government’s gory labels aim to extinguish smoking habit,” [page one, June 22].

Helena Independent Record, 24 Jun 2011 – Three Helena men were arraigned in federal court in Missoula Thursday on 25 counts, including charges of manufacturing, distributing and possessing marijuana, as well as money laundering and conspiracy.

The Union, 24 Jun 2011 – Nevada County officials are one step away from uniformly banning medical marijuana dispensaries throughout the county. On Thursday, the county’s planning commission voted 3-0, with two members absent, to recommend its board of supervisors adopt a ban on storefront dispensaries.

Ahwatukee Foothills News, 24 Jun 2011 – Medical marijuana has come to the forefront of several legal battles, both local and federal. The most significant is the state’s lawsuit against the U.S. government — a suit that is holding up applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries.

Seattle Times, 24 Jun 2011 – Editor, The Times: The state of Washington, with some of its citizens attempting to legalize marijuana, is digging a hole deeper into the criminal abyss [“McKay joins push to make pot legal,” page one, June 22]. It is as if they want the state to give up on the […]

Helena Independent Record, 25 Jun 2011 – It would be “unprecedented and unwarranted” if a Helena district judge temporarily prevents the entire new, more restrictive medical marijuana law from taking full effect July 1, the attorney general’s office has said.

Vail Daily, 25 Jun 2011 – The Soonest a Shop Could Open Would Be Next Year, in One Spot In Town MINTURN, Colorado — Voters last year essentially asked the Minturn Town Council to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in town. Nearly nine months later, the council hasn’t yet voted on a measure that would allow […]