Denver Post, 03 Oct 2010 – Medical-marijuana activists are up in arms over a new policy that requires patients who just applied to the state’s medical-marijuana registry to wait 35 days before they can shop at a dispensary. Matt Cook, the Department of Revenue enforcement official who oversees the state’s new medical-marijuana regulations, said the position paper, written Monday, solves the riddle of how to handle sales at a dispensary to patients without a medical-marijuana card.

Denver Post, 03 Oct 2010 – Some issues can affect voter turnout, but there’s debate on whether Proposition 19 is one of them. Asked by a reporter at the state party convention this summer what he thought might save Democrats at the polls, California Democratic Party chairman John Burton had one word: "Pot."

Denver Post, 03 Oct 2010 – SAN FRANCISCO — The medical-marijuana political movement in America began the night police busted into Dennis Peron’s apartment with a warrant. They twisted Peron’s arms behind his back and placed him in handcuffs. They forced Jonathan West, Peron’s boyfriend, to the ground, and an officer held him there, Peron said, with a boot on the young man’s chest. When officers learned West had AIDS, Peron said, they put on rubber gloves.

Denver Post, 10 Sep 2010 – Chris Bartkowicz, the Highlands Ranch medical-marijuana grower facing federal drug charges for his basement operation, said Thursday that he was panicked and scared when agents confronted him outside his house. In the first time he has publicly said more than a few words about his February arrest, Bartkowicz said he was reluctant to talk to the Drug Enforcement Administration agents who would eventually arrest him and hesitant about letting them search his house. But, he said, he ultimately thought he could address their concerns.