US WA: LTE: It Makes Patients Guilty of DUI

The Herald, 26 Mar 2012 - IT MAKES PATIENTS GUILTY OF DUI What you are seeing with Initiative 502 is an attempt to end medical marijuana in Washington. I have been running Green Hope Patient Network in Shoreline for over two years. We still don't have safe access points for patients to get their medicine. Yes, there are some places in King County, but even they are holding their breath.

US CA: Higher-Grade Pot

Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar 2012 - 'Master Growers' Are Cultivating Potent, Smooth and Aromatic Marijuana - the Kind Expected by More Discriminating Buyers. Behind the bolted steel doors of an old brick warehouse, Big Wes meets a nutrient company scientist to see if he can increase his crop yield.

US WA: Hard To Rationalize Pot Prohibition

Spokesman-Review, 24 Mar 2012 - Norm Stamper's told the story a lot: He was a rookie cop, working a =93one-man car=94 in an affluent San Diego neighborhood, when he approached a home and smelled =93burning vegetable matter.=94 This was around 1966. Possession of marijuana =96 possession of even a seed or stem =96 was a felony.

US OR: PUB LTE: Marijuana Should Be Made Legal

The Register-Guard, 24 Mar 2012 - Safe and legal access to marijuana is a needed step that helps communicate compassion among human beings who are often dominated by the mind and are taken over by problems and conflict. Any adult, especially severely disabled adults, should never have to face penalties for the personal use of medicine.

US CA: Pot Dispensary Workers Form Labor Union

Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar 2012 - The Move Is Partly Aimed at Defeating LA's Proposed Ban on Marijuana Stores. With the fate of the city's medical marijuana industry in question, workers at more than a dozen Los Angeles pot shops have formed a labor union in part to help ward off a proposed citywide ban on dispensaries.

US CA: Hotboxing The Capitol

Sacramento News & Review, 22 Mar 2012 - This Year, the State Legislature Packed a Full Bowl of Marijuana Bills The oft-maligned gridlock in the California Legislature may cut both ways for medical-marijuana patients this year. Currently five bills under the rotunda deal with medical marijuana or adults using the plant for nonmedical purposes.

US WA: State: Potential I-502 Pot Revenue Double What

Seattle Times, 22 Mar 2012 - State Budget Staff Crunched Numbers in an Attempt to See How Much a State Marijuana Monopoly Might Bring In. A marijuana-legalization initiative on the November ballot could raise at least $560 million a year in new taxes - well more than double what the Initiative 502 campaign itself had predicted.

US VT: PUB LTE: Disappointed Bill Is Blocked

Rutland Herald, 22 Mar 2012 - I was disappointed to read recently that legislation to decriminalize marijuana was "stalled" in the House. Legalization and regulation of marijuana would be the most reasonable approach to this public policy issue, but decriminalization would have been a step in the right direction.

US CA: Redding Council Won't Appeal Court Ruling

Record Searchlight, 21 Mar 2012 - Marijuana Dispensaries Can Continue to Operate Redding City Council will not appeal a judge's ruling that rejected the city's request for a preliminary injunction on medical marijuana storefront collectives.

US MI: Column: Drug War's Dangerous Side Effects

Metro Times, 21 Mar 2012 - Did Cop's Use of Informant Lead to Her Death? This is an ugly story. It's tragic and damning of the War on Drugs. The story seems like the plot of a television detective series such as The Closer or Law and Order but it is sadly a true tale of law and disorder. Michelle "Shelley" Hilliard went missing in the early hours of Oct. 23.