US CA: Pot-bust Flashback

The Chico News & Review, 08 Nov 2012 – District Attorney Finally Files Charges in 2010 Medical-Marijuana Raid Nearly two and one-half years ago, Rick and Donna Tognoli were proud owners of the medical-marijuana dispensary Scripts Only Service (SOS), growing and dispensing cannabis to hundreds of members with doctors’ recommendations. That all came to a crashing halt in June 2010 when SOS was raided, along with seven other Butte County dispensaries.

US CA: Bath Salts And Spice

The Chico News & Review, 16 Aug 2012 – Drugs With Growing Notoriety Are Right Here in Chico In May, a naked Florida man, Rudy Eugene, was found eating a homeless man’s face along a public roadway. Police ordered him to stop, but shot him to death when the crazed attacker only growled and continued to cannibalize his living victim, even after being shot once.

US ME: OPED: Medical Marijuana Needs Federal Oversight

Portland Daily Sun, 15 May 2012 – President Obama tried again to do the right thing and let states alone to regulate and enforce medical marijuana laws, keeping federal law in place in case they’re needed to clean up any danger to the industry. For now it looks like the plan is mostly working. California and Colorado have become perps for federal agents to clean out. I’m a liberal Libertarian and proud of our President and his staff, for in a conservative way are successfully being pro-active before people making too much money get more greedy. I have a license, if you will, to purchase legal marijuana when presenting my recommendation for prescription is up to date. I’m 59 years old and have been buying illegal dope with what-all in it from bikers and poor folk and street vendors, sharing between friends. Now I walk out of a store with a tiny lunch bag containing the 8th or a quarter of an ounce of nearly FDA approved, sort of, real clean, no additives, choices between many varieties that each have their own characteristics. My prescription is because of chronic pain.