Sacramento Bee, 05 Jan 2013 – Re "Suit says shops sell a dangerous inhalant" (Page A1, Jan. 3): Thank goodness that Jason Starn is getting his story out. I will surely remember this hazard next Thanksgiving, when I am in the kitchen preparing pumpkin pie for serving. It will add a bit to the giggle. And to think that up till now, I thought the only hazard was whipped cream out the nose. – — Jay Bergstrom, Forest Ranch – — MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

The Chico News & Review, 15 Nov 2012 – Re "Pot-bust flashback" (Newslines, by Vic Cantu, Nov. 8): It would seem that DA Ramsey is not reading his mail. If he were, he’d be aware of the decision published on Oct. 24 by the state appellate court in San Diego. The People v. Jovan Jackson shows Butte County’s decision to prosecute the Tognolis as nothing but vindictiveness. Jovan clearly states that storefront dispensaries are legal under certain circumstances.

Record Searchlight, 25 Jul 2012 – Reading your story of Deputy Mark Potts, and the suppression of his First Amendment rights by Trinity County, I was shocked and amazed by the actions of his superiors. His thoughtful constitutional interpretations on firearms, drugs, and county sheriff’s jurisdiction should be welcome in a free country such as this. I’d hope that he wins declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as punitive damages from Trinity County. Trinity needs a sting to make the message real.

Record Searchlight, 25 Jul 2012 – Reading your story of Deputy Mark Potts, and the suppression of his First Amendment rights by Trinity County, I was shocked and amazed by the actions of his superiors. His thoughtful constitutional interpretations on firearms, drugs, and county sheriff’s jurisdiction should be welcome in a free country such as this. I’d hope that he wins declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as punitive damages from Trinity County. Trinity needs a sting to make the message real.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 21 Jul 2012 – Regarding Tuesday’s story headlined "Police: Marijuana motive for most home-invasion robberies": Early in the last century, home invasion robberies of this sort started. Thirteen years later they stopped, along with the concomitant exploding neighborhood stills and drunk waterfowl along the Pacific flyway.

The Chico News & Review, 21 Oct 2010 – Pushing 60 now, I’ve long been tired of the cat-and-mouse game that using cannabis invokes. I totally lost any respect for the law at a tender age. Faith in government? What, the government that wants to see me in a cage? The prohibition has been quite corrosive on my and many of my comrades’ patriotism. We can restore respect for law, and law enforcement, as well as faith in the American way by ending this prohibition. We could even end up like the Dutch–who’ve managed to make pot boring in the eyes of that country’s youth and whose rates of use are but a small fraction of ours.