Category Archives: Blog

Westword, 09 Jan 2014 – Dear Stoner: It’s legal to grow up to six plants and gift an ounce of herb to anyone 21 and up, and it’s legal to buy it in a store. But is it illegal for patients to share product given to them or purchased from a store? Once a product […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 09 Jan 2014 – Diane Fornbacher, a nationally recognized marijuana legalization activist from Collingswood, is moving her family to Colorado. She says she needs cannabis to alleviate a health condition that New Jersey’s medical marijuana program doesn’t cover.

Philadelphia Daily News, 09 Jan 2014 – THE GRASS ISN’T greener a mile high up in Colorado, but now that it’s legal there, a longtime local marijuana activist is hitting the road with a heavy heart and heading west. Diane Fornbacher, 36, of Collingswood, N.J., has been trying to change marijuana laws since she got […]

Sacramento News & Review, 09 Jan 2014 – I live in Nevada County and was wondering if you could help. I started my own outdoor-grow operation last year with my father’s prescription. It was late in the season, and I had very little experience, so needless to say, the yield was quite small. It was […]

The Parkersburg News, 10 Jan 2014 – An Ohio legislator said this week that he will not continue the push for recreational marijuana legalization after a resolution to give Ohioans a vote in the matter was sidelined last year in the Ohio House of Representatives. However, he said legalizing medicinal marijuana in the state is […]

The Day, 10 Jan 2014 – Stiffer Penalties for Those With Drugs Within 1,500 Feet of a School, Day Care Center or Public Housing Unfairly Targets Those in Urban Areas, Where Spaces Are Far Tighter Than in the Suburbs.

Albuquerque Journal, 10 Jan 2014 – WASHINGTON – I have no desire to smoke marijuana, partly because doing so might drive me back to the cigarette habit I broke two decades ago. I don’t want to be one of those “cool parents” who pretend to be as culturally advanced as their kids. In my case, […]

Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 11 Jan 2014 – On Monday, less than a week after Colorado’s state-licensed marijuana shops began serving recreational consumers, the anti-pot group Project SAM thanked three public figures who “have galvanized our movement.” One of them was Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The Daily Beast, whose contribution […]

The Times Herald, 11 Jan 2014 – Pot Prices Double As Retailers Roll Out the Green Carpet SAN FRANCISCO – At Medicine Man Denver, a shop in Colorado’s capital that began selling marijuana for recreational use last week, people waited in line to get their first taste of legal weed. Some shouted “Freedom!” to the […]

Register Citizen, 11 Jan 2014 – It seemed like a good idea at the time: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 allowed Californians to use marijuana with a doctor’s permission to alleviate pain. The act was put on the ballot and California voters passed it 56% to 44%, making California the first state to legalize […]