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Dexter Leader, 05 Jul 2011 – Dexter village residents who exercise their rights under the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act are now covered in the village’s code of ordinances. The Village Council approved the ordinance changes after a silent public hearing Monday evening.

The New Mexican, 18 Jun 2011 – Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration or reflection, others a time for action. Friday marked 40 years since President Richard Nixon, citing drug abuse as “public enemy No. 1,” officially declared a “war on drugs.” A trillion dollars and millions of ruined lives later, the war on […]

Capital Press, 05 Jul 2011 – With most crops, farmers take risks with unpredictable weather and fickle markets. If they grow marijuana, they take risks with the law even if their state has decriminalized it. In Washington state, pro-marijuana activists are promoting two ballot initiatives. One calls for removing all state penalties regarding marijuana.

The Billings Gazette, 19 Jun 2011 – “Huge pot bust proves medical marijuana is a true criminal enterprise!” That is the headline that the DEA was hoping was going to be on the front page.

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, 05 Jul 2011 – Thanks to Kirsten Frandsen for her column in the June 22 issue of The Beachcomber (“Drug and alcohol use among Vashon teens: Let science be our guide.”) As a Vashon resident, physician,Vashon High School graduate and parent, I very much agree with her. In teenagers the brain is […]

The Daily News, 19 Jun 2011 – Earlier this month, sheriff’s deputies were called to a West Longview apartment where people were smoking marijuana. A woman presented a deputy with a medical marijuana card, according to a report, and the deputy left. No citations. No arrests. The deputy later explained to the person who called […]

Record Searchlight, 19 Jun 2011 – We’ve all been there. With the best of intentions, we do something and then discover our actions were a bad idea. It takes courage, maturity and humility to admit one’s mistakes and try to correct the situation. That’s what Redding faces with its medical-marijuana cooperatives.

The Billings Gazette, 05 Jul 2011 – Billings City Council will have a special meeting Tuesday night to consider, for the third time, adoption of an emergency ordinance banning medical marijuana storefronts. The special session will start at 5:30 p.m. on the second floor of City Hall at 220 N.

The Billings Gazette, 20 Jun 2011 – HELENA – A former cancer patient and the husband of an elderly woman with serious health problems told a district judge Monday they worry whether they can still obtain medical marijuana if a new law takes effect July 1 and bans commercial growing operations They, some physicians and […]

The State News, 20 Jun 2011 – Friday marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. “war on drugs,” a policy of zero tolerance first declared by then-President Richard Nixon in 1971, but members of the MSU branch of Students for Sensible Drug Policy hope that this anniversary will be the country’s last. MSU Students for […]