US NM: Treatment For Teens Lacking

Albuquerque Journal, 12 Aug 2012 – When the Heroin Awareness Committee looked around at what it could do to spare other parents and teens the pain of addiction and death, it would have been easy to get overwhelmed. "There were a lot of needs," Jennifer Weiss, one of the founders, said.

US NM: Deadly Addiction

Albuquerque Journal, 12 Aug 2012 – First in a four-part series This isn’t Detroit. It isn’t Compton, Calif. We don’t have overcrowded and crumbling inner cities. But when the Centers for Disease Control last November announced that death rates for prescription drugs had reached epidemic proportions nationally, New Mexico was at the top of the list.

US WA: Council Rules Out Marijuana Gardens, Dispensaries

Port Orchard Independent, 27 Jul 2012 – The Port Orchard City Council ruled out medical marijuana dispensaries and community medical marijuana gardens at Tuesday night’s city council meetings. Council members directed staff to change city business licensing code to define dispensaries and collective gardens as businesses and then not issue them business licenses, which have become unavailable for businesses that violate local, state or federal laws.