Category Archives: Blog

The Daily Campus, 02 Feb 2012 – The Office of Community Standards equalized the penalties for small amounts of marijuana and underage possession of alcohol after a meeting between university administration and student government leaders.

New York Daily News, 06 Feb 2012 – Washington: Re “Google’s smoke and mirrors” (Op-Ed, Jan. 20): Not only has President Obama dodged marijuana legalization questions that rise to the top of every electronic town hall, but he has reneged on a campaign commitment to respect state medical marijuana laws.

The Billings Gazette, 06 Feb 2012 – While Montanans have been fiercely debating medical marijuana, another kind of marijuana has become a national trend. Nearly one in nine U.S. high school seniors has used “synthetic marijuana,” according to a 2011 survey conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The Maui News, 08 Feb 2012 – In my Aug. 6 letter, “Hawaii medical marijuana law confuses, contradicts,” I asked if anyone could answer the decade-old question: Is there any legal procedure to acquire medical marijuana in Hawaii? Six months later, I still have not discovered the answer.

The Trentonian, 08 Feb 2012 – See that Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, the one about the end of Prohibition? It was meant to be – and it was – an attempt to stir our emotions about how wonderful a nice, cold beer tastes, and how silly it was this all-American beverage was kept […]

The Press of Atlantic City, 08 Feb 2012 – Medicinal marijuana may be coming to Egg Harbor Township later this year, as a nonprofit group is planning to open one of the first treatment facilities in the state more than two years after the treatment was signed into law.

Daily Targum, 08 Feb 2012 – Former Gov. John S. Corzine signed the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act in January 2010, effectively making the state the 14th in the country to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. Yet in the two years that followed, little progress was made regarding efforts to open up dispensaries […]

Missoulian, 08 Feb 2012 – To The Editor: In regard to the petition to legalize marijuana. Well, here we go down the wrong road again. We legalized alcohol finally, and what happened? It was supposed to be in moderation and for social purposes. It really had no medicinal purpose that I know of other than […]

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 […]

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?