Category Archives: Blog

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 02 Dec 2013 – To the editor: Social intervention by the government always brings unintended consequences to the table. Drug prohibition is no different. Cocaine had been around and used for almost a hundred years before the 1970s, when there was demand in the inner city for a cheap drug.

Daily Herald, 03 Dec 2013 – Illinois – Nearly 250 Illinois physicians put their names behind a proposal Tuesday that would legalize marijuana for patients with serious illnesses, hoping to give a boost to the legislation one day before an anticipated vote on the House floor.

Detroit Free Press, 03 Dec 2013 – LANSING — The state Legislature has plenty of thorny issues — including a ban on traditional abortion insurance coverage — to sort out before the end of the year. Here are five other things lawmakers are likely to take up before adjourning for the holidays Dec. 12.

Metro Times, 03 Dec 2013 – The very first time I started reporting for the Higher Ground column in 2009, marijuana activists were outspoken about their opposition to Bill Schuette, then a candidate for state attorney general. Schuette won — and has carried on a vendetta against patients, caregivers and dispensaries operating under the Michigan […]

The Hillsboro Argus, 03 Dec 2013 – In 1969 a Gallup poll revealed that 12 percent of adult Americans favored the legalization of marijuana. Now the figure is drastically higher with 58 percent favoring the legalization, including a jump of 10 percentage points just this past year. Washington state and Colorado have now legalized marijuana […]

Morning Sentinel, 04 Dec 2013 – The new city law legalizes possession of up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana for adults 21 and older, but Police Chief Michael Sauschuck has said police will continue enforcing the state law, since it supersedes local ordinances.

Peoria Journal Star, 05 Dec 2013 – Peoria, IL – Medical marijuana becomes legal in Illinois in January, but Washington resident Adam Frederick has already been to Springfield to get the state law expanded. Frederick and his wife, Kristy, want to see the cannabis program include treatment for epilepsy, a condition that affects their 2-year-old […]

Peoria Journal Star, 05 Dec 2013 – PEORIA – Medical marijuana becomes legal in Illinois in January, but Washington resident Adam Frederick has already been to Springfield to get the state law expanded. Frederick and his wife, Kristy, want to see the cannabis program include treatment for epilepsy, a condition that affects their 2-year-old daughter, […]

Las Vegas Review-Journal, 05 Dec 2013 – To the editor: The Review-Journal’s Monday editorial (“No drugs on you?”), concerning the incarceration of people who do not possess drugs, is a lot of things: infuriating, misleading, inaccurate and irresponsible.

Albany Democrat-Herald, 05 Dec 2013 – It’s interesting that Venice Beach, perhaps the most bizarre place in California, was chosen (“Law enforcement: Don’t let Oregon turn into California,” op-ed page, Dec. 2) to demonstrate an excuse to prolong discrimination against people who choose to use cannabis (marijuana), sick or otherwise.