US NM: OPED: Medical Pot Doesn't Lead To Impaired Driving

Albuquerque Journal, 12 Jan 2015 - Marijuana's Negative Effects 'Pale in Comparison' To Alcohol Abuse on Roads We're all concerned about reducing impaired driving, but "Road Warrior" columnist D'Val Westphal consulted only one biased and uninformed source on the topic of cannabis in her Dec. 29th column. Her sole source, Rep. Bill Rehm, R-Albuq., is a retired Bernalillo County sheriff's captain.

US HI: Medical Marijuana For Sale

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.

US WA: OPED: Clean Up The Medical-Marijuana Mess

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.

US WA: Editorial: Jump-starting The Legislature

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.

US WA: Editorial: Legislature Needs To Take Initiative On

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 the will of the people on a particular issue.

US HI: For Sale Medical Marijuana

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.

US HI: Column: 3 Missing Words Trip UP Effort to Scuttle Pot

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.

US WA: Column: Medical-Marijuana Advocates May Howl, but No

Seattle Times, 09 Jan 2015 - City Attorney Pete Holmes has bona fides as the most marijuana friendly prosecutor in the United States. So when he says something is rotten in pot, there's more than just smoke in air. This week, Holmes lit a fire in local pot politics by describing the existing medical-marijuana industry as essentially a giant felony enterprise.

US WA: Local Representatives Support Bill Removing Drug

Bothell Reporter, 09 Jan 2015 - Rep. Luis Moscoso of the 1st District and Rep. Jessyn Farrell of the 46th District have announced their support for a proposed House Bill to remove drug possession as a felony. The bill was filed on Dec. 8 by Rep. Sherry Appleton.

US NJ: Column: Pushing the Pawn With Column Feedback in 2015

The Trentonian, 08 Jan 2015 - Ok new year, new ideas, new pothead thoughts. This is my 24th "Passing the Joint" column and I want to bring something new to it beginning next week. My column is every Thursday, my new idea I want to try out is to be on the streets of Trenton every Thursday, talking to the people of Trenton about my Column that day. I want feed back.