US WA: Sammamish Urges Reducing Marijuana's Classification

Sammamish Review, 17 Feb 2012 - The Sammamish City Council threw their support behind Gov. Chris Gregoire's push to have the federal government reclassify marijuana -- a potential step forward for its medical use.

US OR: School District Proposes Drug Testing Policy

Bandon Western World, 16 Feb 2012 - BANDON - Students may soon be required to participate in a drug-testing program in order to play on a sports team or participate in an activity at Bandon High School. The policy, if adopted, would be one of only two used in high schools on the South Coast.

US OR: Pot Protocol To Get Hearing In Carlton

News Register, 15 Feb 2012 - CARLTON - The city is considering an ordinance designed to protect both the grower and the public in the legal growing of medical marijuana. "This is not to take away anyone's right," said Mayor Kathie Oriet. It is, she said, "designed to put security and safeguards on growers and make sure it's where kids can't get to it."

US HI: PUB LTE: Target Meth Not Pot

Hawaii Tribune Herald, 14 Feb 2012 - Marijuana is in the news. Now the focus is too many people have medical marijuana permits (Tribune-Herald, Feb. 11). Too many are too young. Too many do not have the correct diagnoses. Is this a threat to the community? Is this really where our focus should be? Is this where our resources should be spent? Methamphetamine has a severe impact on our community.

US OR: Moving Toward Acceptance

The Register-Guard, 13 Feb 2012 - The Liberalizing of State Marijuana Laws Continues Sixteen U.S. states, including Oregon, and the District of Columbia now allow the cultivation and distribution of marijuana for medical purposes, which some view as a foot in the door to eventual legalization of pot for recreational use. Some states are headed in that direction, and Oregon is likely to follow.

US CT: Editorial: Smoking Out The Real Motives

Republican-American, 11 Feb 2012 - Smoking marijuana is "moderately effective in treating nausea and vomiting, appetite loss, and acute and chronic pain," says the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Sixteen states have bought into the argument that marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes, and Connecticut may be next.

US NJ: OPED: Going Nowhere On Medical Marijuana

The Record, 11 Feb 2012 - Jeffrey Pollack is a physician who practices in Atlantic County. MARY E. O'Dowd, commissioner of the state Department of Health and Senior Services, attempted to defend the state's actions, or lack thereof, in "Medicinal pot program must be done right" (Other Views, Jan. 25).

US NJ: S Jersey Pot Farm Crop Due In Fall

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 09 Feb 2012 - The Harvest and Dispensary for the Gravely Ill Will Be in Egg Harbor Township. South Jersey's first pot farm and dispensary is expected to open in Egg Harbor Township in the fall, 21/ 2 years after the state legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The Philadelphia Inquirer

US AZ: PUB LTE: GOP Priorities Based On View Of Morality

Verde Independent, 09 Feb 2012 - Editor: Reading about the most recent bills before our state legislature makes me wonder what is it about morality that makes the Republicans think they can impose theirs on everyone else?

US AZ: Column: The State Legislature Tries to Rain on the MMJ

Tucson Weekly, 09 Feb 2012 - A lot of things are happening with Arizona's medical-marijuana program--judges are ruling right and left in federal and state court; a humbled Will Humble is moving ahead with dispensary applications at the Department of Health Services; and Gov. Jan has leaped off her MMJ high horse for the time being and moved on to eating presidential crow.