Category Archives: Blog

Asbury Park Press, 28 Jan 2014 – State Sen. Nicholas Scutari, D-Union, is taking the right step for the Garden State by introducing a bill to legalize marijuana for all adults over 21. Other states have either legalized or are in the process of legalizing marijuana.

Today’s News-Herald, 28 Jan 2014 – Phoenix, AZ – Calling it good for agriculture, two Lake Havasu City GOP lawmakers are pushing to allow farmers to grow hemp without running afoul of state marijuana laws. “I’m not a big proponent of marijuana,” Sen. Kelli Ward told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. “I […]

Albuquerque Journal, 28 Jan 2014 – I AM COMPELLED to write a response to the Rev. Thomas J. Mayefske’s op-ed, “‘If voters want marijuana, they get it’ is horrible policy” in the Jan. 12 edition of The Sunday Journal. Mayefske takes issue with Albuquerque Democrat Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino’s proposal to amend the constitution […]

Washington Post, 29 Jan 2014 – Lock-‘Em-Up Policies Can Do More Harm Than Good. TEXAS GOV. RICK Perry (R) said last week that he favors decriminalizing marijuana in his state, which used to define law-and-order politics.

East Bay Express, 29 Jan 2014 – Although pot is still not fully legal in California, here are seven reasons why the state’s weed scene still beats Colorado and Washington. Proponents of reforming California’s marijuana law appear to be a bit jealous of the wildly successful launch of legal pot sales in Colorado this year […]

Washington Times, 29 Jan 2014 – The Stigma of Addled Stupidity Goes Up in Smoke President Obama says smoking pot is no big deal. Not every man who has lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has been a paragon of virtue, nor is perfection expected there (or anywhere else). But it’s jarring when the president of […]

New Haven Register, 29 Jan 2014 – Malloy: Facilities to Bring 100 Jobs; West Haven, Portland, Simsbury, Watertown Selected WESTHAVEN – State officials Tuesday announced the sites of four medical marijuana-growing facilities, which they say will serve patients who cannot find relief from other treatments.

Metro Times, 29 Jan 2014 – Pot’s Tipping Point. The public debate over marijuana has finally reached the highest levels in our government. President Obama, in an interview that ran in The New Yorker, said that while he believed marijuana use is a “bad habit and a vice,” he doesn’t “think it is more dangerous […]

Reno News & Review, 30 Jan 2014 – Re “Out damned pot” (Upfront, Jan. 16): Too bad pot can’t be mined or fracked, for the Legislature would be behind it 100 percent. But we would have to hire Texans or other foreigners to run the business.

Reno News & Review, 30 Jan 2014 – Re “Gone to pot” (Feature story, Jan. 23): After a relapse of leukemia, I had a bone marrow transplant and applied for a Nevada medical marijuana card. The State Medical Marijuana website asked for a request letter along with a $50 application fee, which I sent along […]