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The Chico News & Review, 07 Mar 2013 – Growers Got a Good Deal, but What About Non-Growers? Let’s be real: Medical marijuana is a joke. Everybody knows most of it goes to get people high, but still we persist in the pretense that it’s all about sick people getting access to their medicine.

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The Record, 04 Mar 2013 – New Bill Would Redefine Simple Drug Possession From Felony to ‘Wobbler’ Is every drug abuser a felon? Of course not. Many are just addicts. The vast majority are not murderers or rapists or robbers. The threat to the rest of us is pretty minimal.

The Chico News & Review, 28 Feb 2013 – Ruling in San Diego Has Effect on Local Case The charges against former medical-marijuana dispensary operator Rick Tognoli (pictured) have been dropped based on a recent ruling in a San Diego case.

Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb 2013 – Political movements like the tea party may come and go, but the pot party seems to get stronger with every national election, putting the federal government in an increasingly untenable position. To date, more than one-third of the states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana, at least for medical purposes, and, according to Americans for Safe Access, eight other states are considering bills to do the same. As a result, we’re getting close to the point where half the country will have legalized a drug designated a Schedule 1 controlled substance by the federal government, meaning it has no known medical uses and is as dangerous as heroin.

The Press Democrat, 24 Feb 2013 – A letter in Tuesday’s paper echoed a theme we keep hearing since the triple homicide this month in Forestville: It was about money. No, it was about pot. Any other conclusion willfully ignores evidence that illicit drug-dealing is responsible for a large proportion of criminal violence in Sonoma County as well as in other North Coast counties.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 26 Feb 2013 – Our view: Supervisors shouldn’t settle for watered-down pot-growing ordinance. Instead, they should wait and try to refine the old one. The Butte County Board of Supervisors seems poised to approve an ordinance today that allows widespread marijuana growing in unincorporated areas. The supervisors’ rationale for approval is that if both the marijuana advocates and opponents criticize the ordinance, then it must be a good compromise. We tend to believe that if neither side is happy, it’s a failure, not a success.

Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb 2013 – The Highly Useful Weed Has Been Entangled Too Long With That Other ‘Weed.’ That’s Silly. As states of a more liberal bent battle the federal government over the legalization of medical and even recreational marijuana, another cannabis battle has reemerged in the farm states. But if pot smoking raises troubling moral and safety questions, industrial hemp does not.