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Seattle Times, 31 Dec 2011 – I’ve never done so much as a puff of MJ, but if America would just do drug control (legalization and taxed-but-cheap sale of recreational drugs to adults) it could forget about gun control. [“Marijuana legalization, regulation move forward,” Opinion, Dec.

The Daily News, 11 Dec 2011 – Efforts to legalize marijuana make for strange politics, as evidenced by a recent request made by Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who want the federal government to recognize the substance’s therapeutic value.

The Times, 31 Dec 2011 – Another reason to allow people who are ill and suffering easy access to cannabis (marijuana) that doesn’t get mentioned (op-ed, “Upper Freehold takes cover behind bad federal drug law,” Dec. 28, and story, “Construction of pot greenhouse put on hold – Upper Freehold vote prevents town from violating federal […]

Record Searchlight, 11 Dec 2011 – Your editorial last Sunday about trying to come to grips with the federal versus the state law regarding marijuana made a great deal of sense. What does not make sense is the anti-marijuana sentiment that pervades Washington, D.C., specifically and law enforcement in general.

Birmingham Eccentric, 11 Dec 2011 – Former Detroit Police Chief Ike McKinnon believes decriminalizing marijuana completely is the best route. Speaking to an audience of about 70 people at the Baldwin Public Library on Dec. 6, McKinnon said in his 33 years as a police officer, drunks were always a bigger problem to deal with […]

Livonia Observer, 01 Jan 2012 – In 2008, 63 percent of Michigan voters approved the use of medical marijuana. Yet three years later, attorneys battle in the state courts over whether communities have the right to prohibit an activity, which in their eyes violated federal law, even when approved by a voter referendum.

Seattle Times, 12 Dec 2011 – It was meant to curb rising overdose deaths. But Washington’s new pain-management law makes it so difficult for doctors to treat pain that many have stopped trying, leaving legions of patients without life-enabling medication. Charles Passantino stared at his doctor in disbelief.

San Francisco Examiner, 12 Dec 2011 – Cmdr. Marc Alcantara of the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force showed a visitor photographs of marijuana bales being hoisted by helicopters onto pickup trucks. This year, task force deputies removed 5,070 plants worth $1.5 million from deep in the county’s Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve just south […]

The Mail Tribune, 13 Dec 2011 – The environmental damage left by drug cartels lingers long after raids have shut down their Southern Oregon plantations Southern Oregon’s forests carry the scars created by drug cartels that abuse them to make money in the lucrative marijuana market.

Verde Independent, 13 Dec 2011 – PHOENIX — A federal judge chided Attorney General Tom Horne Monday, saying he was asking her to do his job: advising state agencies on the law. U.S.