Albany Democrat-Herald, 07 Jun 2013 – Approached from the federal view, pot prohibition is a rousing success. With a veritable alphabet soup of government agencies involved in preventing marijuana from getting into the hands of U.S. adults, the drug war is a bureaucrat’s dream. A massive bureaucracy that creates the very problems it was created to eliminate can go on forever.

Albany Democrat-Herald, 11 Apr 2013 – As usual the Democrat-Herald editors get it right on pot. Your April 6 editorial, "Oregon needs panel to start writing pot bill," is pretty close to spot on. When cannabis gets properly relegalized in Oregon, our prospering craft beer industry is the perfect business model.

The Register-Guard, 16 Dec 2012 – When I woke up on Dec. 6 I was surprised to find the sky was still there. It didn’t fall as predicted after Washington became the first state to once again have legal marijuana. Oregon didn’t fare as well. Measure 80 was defeated, but not by much. In Lane County 60 percent of voters said yes to legal weed (thank you, Lane County!). The statewide tally of 47 percent shines when we consider that the campaign raised only $60,000 while more than $6 million was received from supporters in Washington for their proposal, Initiative 502.

The Oregonian, 14 Oct 2012 – Regarding the editorial: "Hooray for medical pot fees" (Oct. 9): I fail to understand The Oregonian’s continued belief in cannabis prohibition. I remind these editors that in 1998, recriminalization was rejected the same year that voters approved the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act. Oregonians apparently know what Oregonian editors don’t — marijuana is safe for adults and should not be illegal for adults.