New York Times, 26 Jan 2014 – YAKIMA, Wash. – The momentum toward legalized marijuana might seem like an inevitable tide, with states from Florida to New York considering easing laws for medical use, and a full-blown recreational industry rapidly emerging in Colorado and here in Washington State.

Seattle Times, 27 Jan 2014 – Named After Running Back ‘Bit Slow to Start, Then Kicks In’ With bartenders naming cocktails after Seahawks players, it’s no surprise a local pot grower has come up with a strain called “Beast Mode,” in tribute to Marshawn Lynch.

The Trentonian, 27 Jan 2014 – To be perfectly clear: Ed Forchion is currently in prison stemming from a marijuana charge, and the same judge that sentenced him to nine months in Burlington County Jail allows Forchion 10 days each month to fly to California to smoke marijuana. Again: Forchion is in jail due to […]

Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, 27 Jan 2014 – Defense Says Marijuana Grower Merits ‘Valor’ For Response to Case The attorney for a Brighton-area man who burned marijuana in his chimney when police came to his home said his client “deserves valor,” not jail or probation.

The Austin Daily Herald, 28 Jan 2014 – DENVER — Minnesota’s drug laws have torn the Botker family in half. Seven-year-old Greta Botker suffers from a rare, aggressive form of epilepsy. Seizures wracked her body a dozen or more times a day, and nothing — not drug regimens, not special diets, not even brain surgery […]

Lake Wylie Pilot, 28 Jan 2014 – Denver, CO – The federal government is ready to let farmers grow cannabis — at least the kind that can’t get people high.

Washington Post, 28 Jan 2014 – Newark, NJ – Both teams in the Super Bowl come from states that recently legalized marijuana. Advocates are capitalizing on that to make their case for doing it in the other 48 states too. The Marijuana Policy Project paid for five billboards to go up in New Jersey close […]

The Trentonian, 28 Jan 2014 – Words of wisdom learned from personal experience yielded a rather simple necessity: You have to obey the rules. Obedience is just a part of life although guidelines enforced in one venue may not necessarily serve as laws in some other area.

Asbury Park Press, 28 Jan 2014 – State Sen. Nicholas Scutari, D-Union, is taking the right step for the Garden State by introducing a bill to legalize marijuana for all adults over 21. Other states have either legalized or are in the process of legalizing marijuana.

Today’s News-Herald, 28 Jan 2014 – Phoenix, AZ – Calling it good for agriculture, two Lake Havasu City GOP lawmakers are pushing to allow farmers to grow hemp without running afoul of state marijuana laws. “I’m not a big proponent of marijuana,” Sen. Kelli Ward told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. “I […]