US CO: PUB LTE: To The Point

Denver Post, 20 Jan 2013 – Get it straight, anti-marijuana crusaders: No one wants minors using pot any more than we want them using nicotine and alcohol. Legalization and regulation will help prevent underage use more than the policies of the past did. Jimi Bernath, Englewood – — MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

US CO: PUB LTE: Pot Legalization Vote Deserves Mention

Denver Post, 11 Aug 2012 – Re: "Colorado’s medical pot industry fuels illegal trade, review shows," Aug. 2 news story. In your article on how medical marijuana is trickling down to unregistered users, couldn’t you have balanced it a bit by at least mentioning the legalization initiative that is on the state ballot in November? I believe it deserved mention because it would render a lot of this irrelevant, at least as far as in-state self-medicators are concerned.

US WA: Medical Pot Center Contemplates Its Future

The Wenatchee World, 02 Aug 2012 – WENATCHEE — Joe and Tamara Amendolare plan to do what they’ve done at every legal barrier to their crusade for easily available medical marijuana: comply and adapt. "We’re gonna go ahead and stabilize ourselves as not so much a resource site, but an information center," said Joe, 31, whose Compassionate Care Collective was defined as an illicit drug trafficking operation July 24 in a letter from U.S. Attorney Michael Ormsby.