Category Archives: Blog

The Hill, 28 Jun 2011 – Lawmakers for the first time have introduced legislation in Congress to end the federal criminalization of the personal use of marijuana. The bipartisan measure — H.R. 2306, the ‘Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011’ and sponsored by Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank and Texas Republican Ron Paul along with […]

Las Cruces Sun-News, 11 Mar 2011 – LAS CRUCES – A police chief, a mayor, a village trustee and eight others, including a Mexican citizen, have been indicted for allegedly trafficking firearms in Do-a Ana and Luna counties to Mexico, U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales announced Thursday.

Daily Cardinal, 24 Mar 2011 – Members of the UW community attended a lecture to learn about the legal, medical and physical environment of medical marijuana at an event sponsored by the UW Horticultural Society.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 29 Jun 2011 – Our view: A special election would be an expensive but necessary way to prove county supervisors made a wise decision on marijuana growing. Democracy can be messy sometimes.

The Blade, 06 Apr 2011 – In 2008, Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment that legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes, making their state one of more than a dozen that have done so. But the amendment didn’t spell out how legalization would work, and state officials haven’t done much better […]

The Chico News & Review, 30 Jun 2011 – Supervisors Expected to Discuss Medical-Cannabis Outcome August 9 Butte County’s medical-marijuana-cultivation ordinance is on hold after the Citizens for Compassionate Use group spearheaded a petition drive that collected 12,308 signatures. The petition calls for the Board of Supervisors either to repeal the ordinance or put it […]

Isthmus, 29 Apr 2011 – Don’t Want to Get Your Pot From Criminals? You Have a Choice: Become A Criminal Yourself It is a clear early spring evening, and Jack is walking along the perimeter of his south Madison property, pointing out where he grows marijuana. “You really have to look to see it,” says […]

The Chico News & Review, 30 Jun 2011 – Just What We Need If you’ve been losing sleep because of the scarcity of tanks in Butte County, you’re in luck. According to a recent article in the Oroville Mercury-Register, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office and the Chico Police Department plan to use a pending Homeland […]

Kennebec Journal, 30 May 2011 – More news and wrangling about marijuana and growers, who is, who isn’t. Still, it’s the American profit motive at work. Everyone wants to grow marijuana for money, and lots of both. Who wouldn’t want to get rich? The news is that someone else wants a piece of the pie […]

The News-Messenger, 31 May 2011 – Michigan medical-marijuana patients and the entrepreneurs who supply them with the drug say they’re being driven underground by police raids. Americans for Safe Access, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C., held workshops around Michigan this month advising people how to avoid police attention and what they should — or […]