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The Columbian, 26 Jan 2014 – Questions Persist, Details Remain Unresolved As State Prepares To Begin Retail Sales Of Recreational Marijuana Licensed marijuana growing and processing businesses will begin operations in Washington shortly before the first sales licenses are issued, possibly by the end of March.

The Columbian, 26 Jan 2014 – In his Jan. 22 letter, “Local moratoriums shortsighted,” Rory Bowman protested the moratorium on pot processing and mentioned that 93,000 Clark County voters helped pass Initiative 502. How many Clark County voters disapproved of I-502?

New York Times, 26 Jan 2014 – YAKIMA, Wash. – The momentum toward legalized marijuana might seem like an inevitable tide, with states from Florida to New York considering easing laws for medical use, and a full-blown recreational industry rapidly emerging in Colorado and here in Washington State.

Seattle Times, 27 Jan 2014 – Named After Running Back ‘Bit Slow to Start, Then Kicks In’ With bartenders naming cocktails after Seahawks players, it’s no surprise a local pot grower has come up with a strain called “Beast Mode,” in tribute to Marshawn Lynch.

The Trentonian, 27 Jan 2014 – To be perfectly clear: Ed Forchion is currently in prison stemming from a marijuana charge, and the same judge that sentenced him to nine months in Burlington County Jail allows Forchion 10 days each month to fly to California to smoke marijuana. Again: Forchion is in jail due to […]

Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, 27 Jan 2014 – Defense Says Marijuana Grower Merits ‘Valor’ For Response to Case The attorney for a Brighton-area man who burned marijuana in his chimney when police came to his home said his client “deserves valor,” not jail or probation.

The Austin Daily Herald, 28 Jan 2014 – DENVER — Minnesota’s drug laws have torn the Botker family in half. Seven-year-old Greta Botker suffers from a rare, aggressive form of epilepsy. Seizures wracked her body a dozen or more times a day, and nothing — not drug regimens, not special diets, not even brain surgery […]

Lake Wylie Pilot, 28 Jan 2014 – Denver, CO – The federal government is ready to let farmers grow cannabis — at least the kind that can’t get people high.

Washington Post, 28 Jan 2014 – Newark, NJ – Both teams in the Super Bowl come from states that recently legalized marijuana. Advocates are capitalizing on that to make their case for doing it in the other 48 states too. The Marijuana Policy Project paid for five billboards to go up in New Jersey close […]

The Trentonian, 28 Jan 2014 – Words of wisdom learned from personal experience yielded a rather simple necessity: You have to obey the rules. Obedience is just a part of life although guidelines enforced in one venue may not necessarily serve as laws in some other area.