Los Angeles Times, 08 Mar 2013 – L.A.’s Bill Rosendahl says life is ‘worth living’ again thanks to his regimen. But such success stories also show pitfalls of a DIY system. Bill Rosendahl lifts his walker over the threshold and carries it into the grow room before anyone in his entourage – press secretary, pot shop owner, pot consultant and bud tender – can rush over to help.

Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov 2012 – A Group of L.A. Marijuana Users Isn’t Keen on Legalization Well, they’ve finally done it. The potheads will soon be running wild and free in Boulder and Seattle. By becoming the first states to legalize recreational marijuana last week, Colorado and Washington have jettisoned the whole mishmash of medical marijuana cards and dispensary permits that have tied California up in knots. How did they pull that off ahead of us? We gave the world the Emerald Triangle, not to mention a West Los Angeles skate park some clueless bureaucrat named Stoner Skate Plaza.