Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 10 Jan 2015 – Harold Rogers, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, says a rider in the omnibus spending bill that Congress enacted last month stops the District of Columbia from legalizing marijuana. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s congressional delegate, disagrees.

Yakima Herald-Republic, 11 Jan 2015 – Citizen initiatives have proven a popular feature of state politics ever since they won approval in 1912, less than a quarter century after Washington became a state. It’s true that the initiatives serve a valuable function when our elected officials – for whatever reasons – – refuse to acknowledge […]

Seattle Times, 11 Jan 2015 – THE Legislature reconvenes Monday with such a large challenge on education financing that the lead budget writers in the Republican-led state Senate and Democratic-led state House cannot even agree on what constitutes a baseline level of spending, as they showed at an Olympia briefing last week.

Seattle Times, 11 Jan 2015 – AS medical marijuana heads back to Olympia, legislators are bracing for a rerun of last session’s drama of makeshift dispensary operators and self-appointed patient advocates decrying any effort to rein in abuses of the law. Lawmakers face many competing priorities, but it’s important they clean up Washington’s medical-marijuana mess.

Garden Island, 11 Jan 2015 – Nearly 14 years after the use of medical marijuana was legalized in Hawaii, medical marijuana patients may have a legal way to purchase it, rather than just grow it themselves, within the next few years.

Garden Island, 11 Jan 2015 – State Trying to Determine How to Provide Licensed Cannabis Patients With Their Medicine Nearly 14 years after the use of medical marijuana was legalized in Hawaii, medical marijuana patients may have a legal way to purchase it, rather than just grow it themselves, within the next few years.