Tucson Weekly, 20 Feb 2014 – Tucson’s Economy Is Suffering Because the City Has Capped Commercial Marijuana Farms In 2003, a factory owned by doorknob manufacturer Weiser Lock closed in Tucson. The company, which employed more than 1,000 people here in its 1990s heyday, was sending its last 150 factory jobs to California, because it […]

Chicago Sun-Times, 21 Feb 2014 – When the Illinois Legislature is of two minds on a hot topic, the result is often a law that has not been thought through. Chicago Ald.

The Middletown Press, 21 Feb 2014 – A new conventional wisdom is on the rise: Drug prohibition, or “the war on drugs,” is a costly flop. It not only failed to cut drug use and associated social ills significantly but has also imposed additional social costs – or “catastrophic harm,” as my colleague Radley Balko […]

The Bakersfield Californian, 21 Feb 2014 – A judge’s decision to strike down Kern County’s medical marijuana dispensary law may generate more litigation than it settled. Now that voter-approved Measure G has been invalidated, county officials are likely to start trying to shut down the handful of collectives and cooperatives operating in unincorporated Kern.

Daily Courier, 21 Feb 2014 – It is ironic in two ways that marijuana continues to make headlines. Arizona has been working for some time now to fully implement the voter-approved medical marijuana law. First, we must remember this is not Colorado – where recreational use of the drug has been approved, in addition to […]

The News-Times, 22 Feb 2014 – Drug-related deaths in Connecticut hit their highest point in nearly 10 years last year, according to statistics from the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. It’s a development that is not surprising to law enforcement and treatment providers throughout the state.

New Haven Register, 24 Feb 2014 – Prohibitionist government and politicians orchestrated cannabis (marijuana) prohibition and citizens don’t care how it ends (Editorial: States Should Determine Own Pot Laws, Feb. 5, 2014), as long as it is immediately. It’s one of America’s worst policy failures in history.

Washington Post, 24 Feb 2014 – Sacramento – The Canna Care dispensary, an evangelical medical marijuana provider renowned for doling out buds with Bibles, is waging a public fight with the Internal Revenue Service over an $873,167 tax penalty sought under a tax code aimed at drug traffickers. On Tuesday, the U.S.

Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb 2014 – They Tout Effective Epilepsy Treatment; Some Experts Wary Nicole Gross was so desperate to find relief for her son’s near-constant, debilitating seizures that she moved him from Naperville to Colorado so he could receive medical marijuana.

New Haven Register, 25 Feb 2014 – In response to Cindy O’Neill’s belief that marijuana will only benefit addicts: Cindy you’ve obviously never watched a loved one die a slow, excruciating death; or known someone who did receive relief from your so-called stronger pills, but was still left with nausea and drastic weight loss from […]