Category Archives: Blog

The Trentonian, 13 Nov 2014 – The next time you smoke a joint and pass it to your buddy on the couch, contemplate this: Criminal actions and thefts occur daily all over New Jersey, right in municipal courthouses. And the thieves and hooligans aren’t the ones being put in handcuffs or fined.

Washington Times, 13 Nov 2014 – PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A graduate student has sued a textile company for refusing to hire her for a two-month internship because she uses medical marijuana to treat frequent and debilitating migraine headaches, a decision her attorney calls discrimination.

Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov 2014 – Pot Hedge Funds and Others Join the Frenzy to Turn Legalization into Financial Windfall. HENDERSON, Nev. – The frenzy in the cavernous Green Valley Ranch Resort ballroom might have passed for any confab of entrepreneurs pitching their business plans to pokerfaced angel investors – until an organizer took […]

Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov 2014 – Legalization Opens Paths for Investors HENDERSON, Nev. – The frenzy in the cavernous Green Valley Resort ballroom might have passed for any conference of entrepreneurs pitching their business plans to poker-faced angel investors – until an organizer took the podium for a public service announcement.

Boston Globe, 20 Nov 2014 – AUGUSTA, MAINE (AP) – A group that wants to legalize recreational marijuana is beginning its push to put the measure before Maine voters in 2016. Legalize Maine, a newly formed political action committee, is calling its plan “a home-grown effort” to legalize marijuana in Maine.

The Trentonian, 20 Nov 2014 – A case currently before the NJ Supreme Court (State v. Buckner) challenges the legality of judges age 70+ presiding over cases of life, death, and liberty. The onset of Alzheimer’s disease and senility often strikes around 70. Nonetheless, there are dozens of septuagenarian judges sitting on the bench, arguably […]

Rutland Herald, 21 Nov 2014 – I would like to thank the Rutland Herald for making the Libertarian case for legalizing drugs in the recent op-ed piece. The point of the Herald article was that because of the American craving for drugs, we have allowed the Mexican and Central and South American drug cartels to […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 Nov 2014 – (AP) – New Jersey officials have given a fourth dispensary permission to start growing medical marijuana, so it could start offering it to patients in the spring. The Health Department issued the permit Friday to Breakwater Alternative Treatment Center in Cranbury Township, Middlesex County.

Washington Post, 24 Nov 2014 – South Portland, Maine (AP) – Marijuana advocates want to finally take their legalization drive – so far the province of Western states – to the Northeast, and they say the first state to do it here might be Maine.

Bangor Daily News, 25 Nov 2014 – Last week saw the launch of a second initiative to put a question on the 2016 Maine ballot to legalize recreational marijuana. This effort would run alongside the stated intent of the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project to gather signatures and also put a question on the 2016 […]