Category Archives: Blog

Reno News & Review, 27 Nov 2014 – Patients Must Be Patient a Little Longer Medical dispensaries for marijuana will soon appear in Nevada, but they are not likely to be accompanied by the free-swinging procedures that once characterized the California industry.

The Virgin Islands Daily News, 03 Dec 2014 – LAS VEGAS – After decades helping lead the fight against the national war on drugs, Ethan Nadelmann recently joined thousands of marijuana entrepreneurs here celebrating legalization – and found the scene kind of irritating.

Reno News & Review, 04 Dec 2014 – Re “Legalize marijuana for recreational use” (Let Freedom Ring, Nov. 27): In Colorado, sales of retail marijuana have reaped about $18.9 million in state taxes from January through June. Crime is down. Housing prices up. Unemployment down. Sales tax revenue up.

The Trentonian, 11 Dec 2014 – I’m proud of the Ferguson protesters in most communities, people of color say nothing. A bunch of my white weed-smoking activist friends on Facebook are upset with me for talking about Ferguson and the national race issue it inspired. They’re unfriending me in droves, and I myself have unfriended […]

The Trentonian, 12 Dec 2014 – The federal spending bill now pending before Congress includes a provision that bars the Justice Department from spending any money to undermine state medical marijuana laws. It also includes an amendment that prohibits the Drug Enforcement Administration from interfering with a federal law that allows industrial hemp research in […]

Albuquerque Journal, 13 Dec 2014 – When you send your children off to school, you hope for a teacher who not only fills their minds but inspires them to make their lives extraordinary. Our schools are full of such wonderful teachers. But some of these teachers are burning out or being beaten down with the […]

Albuquerque Journal, 13 Dec 2014 – Marijuana May Follow in Footsteps of Cigarette Industry in Luring New Users Last month, people voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia. As the movement toward marijuana legalization continues, lawmakers and policy experts are looking to the experiments in Colorado and […]

Lewiston Sun Journal, 15 Dec 2014 – BANGOR – A local group of medical marijuana patients is renting a space downtown where they can smoke or ingest their medicine.

Bangor Daily News, 15 Dec 2014 – BANGOR, Maine – A local group of medical marijuana patients is renting a space downtown where they can smoke or ingest their medicine.

The New Mexican, 16 Dec 2014 – Budget Bill Sent to Obama Calls for Backing off State-Run Programs For the first time ever, Congress has gone on record opposing federal intervention against state-sanctioned marijuana businesses in states like New Mexico that have medical marijuana programs.