The Stranger, 20 Mar 2013 – Is Legalization Actually Driving More Kids to Use Pot? A news article that went national last week sensationally spun the results of a drug-use survey to imply that Washington State students may be smoking more pot due to the state’s new legalization law. But it turns out that pot use isn’t up. It’s steady, even down a little bit.

The Stranger, 24 Oct 2012 – People Will Give You a Lot of Reasons to Vote to Legalize Pot on November 6, but You’re Not Going to Hear Much About the One That Matters Most I grew up near the edge of the Central District, and our house was at the top of a ridge, which served as a sort of racial dividing line. Houses on the eastern slope had spectacular views of the mountains and Lake Washington. They were expensive and their residents were all white. I can’t recall a single black person who lived on that side of the hill. On the other side of the ridge, the houses’ territorial views looked back into the gulch. With only scattered exceptions, those were all African American households.

The Stranger, 19 Aug 2010 – Seattle Is at the Vanguard of Legalizing Pot, So Why Are Arrest Levels Worse Than Ever? These Are the Worst of Times If you thought pot legalization in Seattle had already arrived-think again. Despite voters making pot possession the lowest law-enforcement priority in 2003, Seattle police are arresting more people on low-level marijuana charges this year than any year in the last decade.