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US NM: LTE: Be Careful With Any Marijuana Policy
Albuquerque Journal, 21 Jan 2014 – HAVING SPENT 40 years studying and treating addictions, I urge caution in changing New Mexico’s laws regarding marijuana. While it is absurd to incarcerate people for drug use, there are many options between decriminalization and legalization.
Read moreUS NM: Column: Marijuana Debate Ignores Dangers Of Smoking
Albuquerque Journal, 21 Jan 2014 – On Jan. 1, Colorado began permitting the legal sale of marijuana. Even before that, the nation’s news media had swung into action, arguing just about everything – marijuana is dangerous or not dangerous, a gateway drug or just a lot of smoke. Nothing I saw mentioned why I, for […]
Read moreUS CA: Editorial: Supervisors Do The Logical Thing
Chico Enterprise-Record, 21 Jan 2014 – The proposed new marijuana restrictions are a natural reaction to an industry that took advantage of voters’ benign nature. We’ve been arguing for months that Butte County needs to do more to protect rural landowners from the dangers and other impacts of large-scale marijuana growing. Last week, the Board […]
Read moreUS DC: Column: Why I Won't Inhale
Washington Post, 21 Jan 2014 – On Jan. 1, Colorado began permitting the legal sale of marijuana. Even before that, the nation’s news media had swung into action, arguing just about everything – marijuana is dangerous or not dangerous, a gateway drug or just a lot of smoke. Nothing I saw mentioned why I, for […]
Read moreUS AZ: PUB LTE: Legalized Marijuana Is About Freedom
East Valley Tribune, 21 Jan 2014 – The rights of adults to purchase and use marijuana is about personal freedom – the freedom of adults to seek their own happiness the way they want as long as they are not harming someone else. Peanuts are lethal to some, but we don’t cage peanut growers, sellers […]
Read moreUS NM: Pot Suit Claims Conflict Of Interest
Albuquerque Journal, 22 Jan 2014 – PTSD Patient Denied Marijuana A Santa Fe psychiatrist is suing the state Health Department and the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board, alleging the department has improperly denied medical marijuana for a post-traumatic syndrome patient.
Read moreUS CT: Column: Only in America: Obama, Alice And Mary Jane
The Middletown Press, 22 Jan 2014 – President Obama got it just about right when asked recently about marijuana and its use, saying “I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” and that it is also “a bad idea, a waste of time.” Having “been there and done that” myself, I can strongly second […]
Read moreUS WA: Editorial: Cities Wrong To Pre-empt Pot Sales
Seattle Times, 22 Jan 2014 – PRESIDENT Obama’s declaration that marijuana legalization experiments in Washington and Colorado are “important for society” should push more states to tear up prohibition laws and start anew. But someone needs to make sure Obama’s message gets to city and county councils across Washington that are moving in the opposite […]
Read moreUS WA: Column: Pot Talk A Breath Of Fresh Air
Seattle Times, 22 Jan 2014 – Sometimes sea changes come so slowly that when they finally arrive, they barely make it into the news. So it was the other day when President Obama, in a magazine interview, said that marijuana, long classified as one of our worst drugs, is really about the same as alcohol.
Read moreUS CO: Column: Manitou Moves On Marijuana, Palmer Lake Talks
Colorado Springs Independent, 22 Jan 2014 – More info for Manitou With the town of Manitou Springs expected to approve recreational marijuana as we went to press, it’s timely that local retired pharmacist and medical-marijuana patient Dean Frankmore is hosting an informational session at 10 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, at Venue 515 (515 Manitou Ave., […]
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