The Columbian, 19 Jan 2013 – The Columbian’s Jan. 10 editorial "Perplexed About Pot" is long overdue. More than 20,000 scientific studies about marijuana/cannabis exist and none give it a clean bill of health. I’ve often sent copies of PubMed’s monthly list of published studies on marijuana to The Columbian, hoping someone would bother to take a look at them, and I’ve also sent the long list of studies linking marijuana to psychosis and schizophrenia. All to no avail. At least 99 percent of advocates for pot legalization are, I suspect, users – and rarely is it for any perceived or misconceived "medical" reason. Unfortunately, a number of these pot users are also extremely wealthy and have been buying media space and supporting hempfests and drug culture conferences for years.

The Columbian, 07 Sep 2012 – Many of those involved in drug-prevention efforts are individuals, like me, who have had the lives of loved ones destroyed by drug use. Most of these tragedies began with marijuana as the first illegal substance used. In the newspaper coverage of issues pertaining to drug use, the cost figures always reflect only law enforcement and incarceration, they never reflect the cost of treatment, of families on welfare because of money diverted to drug use, or the loss of employment due to drug use. And the cost figures do not reflect the lost productivity due to drug-using employees or the cost to our schools due to drug use.