The Chico News & Review, 17 Jan 2013 – Why Do We Continue Spending Billions on a Losing War on Drugs? Our cover story this week, "Taking the high road," is about Washington and Colorado voters’ decision to allow residents to use marijuana recreationally, and what that might mean for California. But there are other important matters at stake on the marijuana front, including the future of the "war on drugs."

The Chico News & Review, 03 Jan 2013 – Solitary Confinement Can Drive Men Mad One of the positive consequences of California’s fiscal distress has been its reconsideration of its over-reliance on prisons. State officials and the public at large have begun to realize that, when schools and universities and programs for the poor and elderly are being cut, it makes no sense to pay $44,000 a year to imprison, say, a low-level drug dealer.

The Chico News & Review, 29 Nov 2012 – Two States Have Now Legalized Marijuana-Another Sure Sign That Attitudes Are Changing Slowly but surely, America is abandoning its failed war on drugs, beginning with marijuana. Voters in 18 states and the District of Columbia have approved the medical use of marijuana, and on Nov. 6 Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize marijuana for personal use.