Seattle Times, 13 Jan 2014 – With 2,035 Applications for Just 334 Retail Pot Stores, the Culling Includes Vetting and Then a Lottery to Pick the Winners. With business booming in Colorado’s new legal pot shops, a license for a retail pot store in Washington state is a coveted prize, a “golden ticket,” said pot […]

Seattle Times, 13 Jan 2014 – I strongly disagree with what David Brooks writes about Colorado and Washington’s legalization of marijuana.

Washington Times, 13 Jan 2014 – Federal Laws Trip Booming Business DENVER – A week after Colorado’s ballyhooed retail marijuana launch, the line at Evergreen Apothecary is still out the door. That comes as both good and bad news for co-owner Tim Cullen.

The Record, 13 Jan 2014 – Northern Valley Regional High School parents will be able to see 14 documents the district had labeled privileged as well as the personal emails of board members regarding a proposed random drug testing policy.

Alaska Dispatch, 13 Jan 2014 – Opposition to the marijuana legalization initiative in Alaska will ramp up in coming months. Kevin Sabet, co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), said Monday that the organization was approached by a “handful of leaders” in Alaska’s medical and scientific communities expressing their concern over the legalization of marijuana […]

Albuquerque Journal, 14 Jan 2014 – THE EDITORIAL SLANT evidenced by your use of the cartoon with two “stoned” parents making snow angels and neglecting their hungry child – – compounded by your editorial statement – is so stupidly cliched and disingenuous it must be challenged. Marijuana prohibition was born of lies and maintained by […]

Albuquerque Journal, 14 Jan 2014 – MY BELIEF IS that the proposal to legalize recreational use of marijuana is wrong. My family has experienced, and continues to experience, severe substance abuse problems. The illegality of marijuana and other drugs has not prevented my family from obtaining these drugs and thereby compromising their health and productivity.

The White Mountain Independent, 14 Jan 2014 – The state of Colorado has been in the news a lot lately due to the legalization of recreational marijuana. On Jan. 1, stores opened statewide offering high grade marijuana to anyone age 21 or older who had the asking price. Lines of customers waited in front of […]

The Columbian, 14 Jan 2014 – Regardless of whether or not marijuana is legal, consumption patterns of current users are unlikely to change, especially without education and treatment programs funded under Initiative 502. Underage children already have access to marijuana, and I-502 could help to make it unprofitable for drug dealers to do business in […]

Albuquerque Journal, 14 Jan 2014 – I APPLAUD SEN. Ortiz y Pino in stepping up to legalize recreational marijuana! New Mexico needs to be one of the first and not the last to realize the war on drugs is futile! The governor’s stance on being against it because of her dislike for illegal drug use […]