US CA: PUB LTE: Illegal Marijuana Environmental Damage

Times-Standard, 08 Sep 2012 – Your article on the environmental damage from illegal marijuana growing (" ‘A huge, huge mess’," Times-Standard, Sept. 2, Page A1) was good as far as it went. However, you overlooked the real issue: that damage is not caused by the marijuana, but by the laws prohibiting it.

US VT: Woman Can’t Tell Jury She Grew Pot To Save Son’s Life

Rutland Herald, 21 Aug 2010 – An East Wallingford woman will not be able to tell a jury that she needed to grow 30 marijuana plants in her backyard to save the life of her ill son, following a split decision by the Vermont Supreme Court released Friday. Sue Thayer was driving her son, Winter Maxwell Thayer, to college Friday and could not be reached.