Category Archives: Blog

Record Searchlight, 05 Jan 2012 – Recalls are in style in Shasta County this season – as faddish as Oregon Ducks T-shirts and speculation about when Mt. Shasta might open for skiing. But you know, for fear of minimizing the importance of college football and snowboarding weekends, our democracy is serious business. It deserves more […]

Courier-Post, 06 Jan 2012 – Re: “Camden medical pot site pushed” (C-P, Nov. 26). For the past year, I’ve been working to establish a medical marijuana growing/processing facility and an alternative treatment center (dispensary) here in Camden.

Colusa County Sun-Herald, 06 Jan 2012 – Informal interest in opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Orland has prompted city officials to consider an ordinance that would permanently ban such facilities. The city’s temporary emergency ordinance expired in the fall, and the City Council wants to re-activate it until a permanent ban is approved.

Record Searchlight, 06 Jan 2012 – A medical-marijuana group seeking to recall Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko was unable to gather 20 valid signatures that would have started the process. Cathy Darling Allen, the county’s registrar of voters, said that though the group had submitted 23 signatures, she was able to confirm the legitimacy of […]

The Daily Record, 06 Jan 2012 – Ellensburg’s moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries has been expanded for an additional six months, and the city’s interim zoning regulations on medical marijuana collective gardens also have been extended. The Ellensburg City Council voted for the extensions at its Tuesday meeting after a combined public hearing was held […]

Verde Independent, 06 Jan 2012 – PHOENIX — A federal judge on Wednesday refused to tell Gov. Jan Brewer whether she can legally implement Arizona’s voter-approved medical marijuana law.

East Valley Tribune, 06 Jan 2012 – In Ken Burns’ outstanding PBS documentary Prohibition, it was revealed that alcohol prohibition corrupted all levels of our government — all the way up to the Warren G. Harding White House. The alcohol cartels had hundreds of politicians on their payroll.

Daily Courier, 06 Jan 2012 – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer doesn’t have the best track record with her appeals to federal courts (see: immigration), but she has a point on this latest one. Brewer’s lawsuit regarding the legality of potential state medical marijuana dispensaries was dismissed on Wednesday, further delaying full implementation of the initiative […]

Silver City Sun-News, 07 Jan 2012 – Consider, please, the police officer, the sheriff’s deputy, the state police trooper. They are all that stands between us and the mayhem and chaos of intentional lawlessness. Most of what goes wrong that they must try to contain stems from our insatiable appetites for drugs and alcohol.

The Press Democrat, 07 Jan 2012 – As plastic bottles shuttle along humming conveyor belts in General Hydroponics’ vast Sebastopol factory, a row of nozzles fills the bottles with a bright pink liquid. The production of this proprietary mixture of phosphates, sulfates and potassium is being fueled by the popularity of growing plants indoors.