Kitsap Sun, 08 Mar 2013 – BREMERTON – Seeking a new career following economic hard times, Christy Stanley is hoping to set up shop in what one man referred to at a forum Thursday night as "The Green Market." Around 200 residents, including Stanley, converged on the Kitsap Conference Center, many to voice their concerns and opinions on the state’s fledgling effort to regulate the sale of marijuana following its legalization.

Kitsap Sun, 01 Dec 2012 – GORST — Perhaps it was just curiosity. Or a misunderstanding. Maybe even hopefulness. But a few visitors to Herbal Healing Safe Access, a medical marijuana cooperative, have inquired about getting pot without having the state credentials necessary. They’ve been turned away.

Kitsap Sun, 25 Aug 2012 – PORT ORCHARD — A bad wreck four years ago left Raymond Alloway with chronic pain in his back, neck and legs and triggered migraine headaches. A year after the accident, he discovered marijuana as medicine and got authorized to use cannabis to relieve pain and headaches.

Kitsap Sun, 19 Aug 2012 – SILVERDALE — "Cannabis," someone once told Ezra Eickmeyer, "is a gateway drug to natural medicine." The 36-year-old lobbyist-turned-entrepreneur has been a big believer in natural remedies for ailments much of his life, and he was only bolstered in those beliefs after trying cannabis as a teenager. He sees the plant as having healing properties as opposed to certain pharmaceutical drugs that merely suppress symptoms.