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.

Sacramento News & Review, 28 Feb 2013 – What are "dabs"? How do you use them? – -Curious Charley It’s pretty simple. A dab is a blob of "errl," as in "Ermahgarrd! Errl dabs!" I hope that clears it up.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 27 Feb 2013 – OROVILLE — In Butte County, few phrases can ignite passion more quickly than the words "medical marijuana." Tuesday proved that point when people on both sides of the issue found things not to like in the ordinance that was the Board of Supervisors’ second try at regulating marijuana cultivation in the unincorporated areas of the county.

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.

Willits News, 26 Feb 2013 – Local officials claim success in shutting down illegal medical marijuana dispensaries but admit tracking them down in the first place is the most difficult task. Most city and county officials praise their own efforts to close down dispensaries they can locate, but sometimes it takes a little luck to find them.

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.

Record Searchlight, 24 Feb 2013 – A lawsuit filed against Shasta County earlier this year in Superior Court by a medical marijuana collective in Burney shuttered by the county’s pot shop ban has moved to federal court. And the Irvine-based attorney representing the county Board of Supervisors and others named as defendants in the lawsuit has already filed a motion seeking to have it dismissed.

Chico Enterprise-Record, 21 Feb 2013 – There have been a number of bizarre hearings over medical marijuana and the Feb. 12 Board of Supervisors meeting was no different. Usually, the strange behavior and wild claims are made by the pro-pot folks. This time, that behavior came from two elected officials. One, a supervisor, claimed that he has talked to many people who are afraid to speak out due to fear of evil neighbor growers. He even included an anonymous letter from a family in his motion to kill the pot law. In over 30 years of public hearings, I have never seen a motion with an anonymous letter included. (His motion died for lack of support.)

The Chico News & Review, 21 Feb 2013 – There have been a number of bizarre hearings over medical marijuana, and the Feb. 12 Board of Supervisors meeting was no different. Usually, the strange behavior and wild claims come from the pro-pot folks. This time, that behavior came from two elected officials. One, a supervisor, claimed that he had talked to many people who were afraid to speak out due to fear of evil-neighbor growers. He even included an anonymous letter from a family in his motion to kill the pot law. In over 30 years of [attending] public hearings, I have never seen a motion with an anonymous letter included. (His motion died for lack of support.)