North County Times, 02 Aug 2012 – The San Diego Museum of Art said Thursday that it helped fund and facilitate an elaborate hoax by activist groups that earlier this week sent various media organizations fraudulent news releases that appeared to be from the U.S. attorney in San Diego. Americans for Safe Access, a medical marijuana advocacy group that is active in San Diego County, eventually claimed responsibility for the hoax, which involved an actor, a made-up government watchdog group, and two phony news releases purportedly from U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy. The first fake release announced that Duffy’s office intended to close local pharmacies where there were high rates of prescription drug abuse.

Daily Pilot, 02 Aug 2012 – Orange County Cannabis Alliance Wants Nonprofit Collectives to Operate Storefronts in Costa Mesa. Measure Could End Up on the November Ballot. Medical marijuana advocates on Wednesday submitted nearly 6,800 signatures to the Costa Mesa city clerk in hopes of placing an initiative on the November ballot that would legalize nonprofit collectives citywide.

North County Times, 02 Aug 2012 – Please, someone explain to me why it is necessary to establish dispensaries for marijuana? If it is such a "wonder drug" and it is said to be a cure-all for many ills and also needs a prescription from a doctor, we already have those dispensaries. They are called pharmacies. Anything else leaves too many chances for abuse and criminal activity, and we need no more of that. William Schlitz

North County Times, 02 Aug 2012 – Please, someone explain to me why it is necessary to establish dispensaries for marijuana? If it is such a "wonder drug" and it is said to be a cure-all for many ills and also needs a prescription from a doctor, we already have those dispensaries. They are called pharmacies. Anything else leaves too many chances for abuse and criminal activity, and we need no more of that. William Schlitz

Highland Community News, 03 Aug 2012 – I am not sure who wrote the editorial "Pot Shots," but whoever wrote this article needs to do a little research on the "recreational use" of marijuana and its effects on users and the public. Marijuana is a "gateway" drug that leads to use of stronger and more addictive drugs. Check with countries like England, Canada and Australia which have a 20-year record with "medical marijuana." They ALL agree that they should not have legalized marijuana.

North County Times, 02 Aug 2012 – The San Diego Museum of Art said Thursday that it helped fund and facilitate an elaborate hoax by activist groups that earlier this week sent various media organizations fraudulent news releases that appeared to be from the U.S. attorney in San Diego. Americans for Safe Access, a medical marijuana advocacy group that is active in San Diego County, eventually claimed responsibility for the hoax, which involved an actor, a made-up government watchdog group, and two phony news releases purportedly from U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy. The first fake release announced that Duffy’s office intended to close local pharmacies where there were high rates of prescription drug abuse.

Daily Pilot, 02 Aug 2012 – Orange County Cannabis Alliance Wants Nonprofit Collectives to Operate Storefronts in Costa Mesa. Measure Could End Up on the November Ballot. Medical marijuana advocates on Wednesday submitted nearly 6,800 signatures to the Costa Mesa city clerk in hopes of placing an initiative on the November ballot that would legalize nonprofit collectives citywide.

Los Angeles Times, 31 Jul 2012 – Groups have donated more than $16,000 to Paul Koretz and Bill Rosendahl campaigns. Medical marijuana advocates suffered a bruising political setback last week, watching helplessly as the Los Angeles City Council moved to shut down hundreds of pot shops.

Merced Sun-Star, 30 Jul 2012 – Regarding your July 19 editorial "Wildlands threatened by drug war": If marijuana were fully legal there would be no illegal marijuana farms threatening California wildlands. Legitimate farmers would produce it by the ton at a fraction of the current cost. There is a reason you don’t see Mexican drug cartels sneaking into national forests to cultivate tomatoes and cucumbers. They cannot compete with a legal market. The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican migration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association. Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive. White Americans did not even begin to smoke pot until a soon-to-be entrenched federal bureaucracy began funding reefer madness propaganda.

Long Beach Post, 30 Jul 2012 – If you want to get attention in Rainbow Harbor, hovering over the sea with a water-propelled jetpack is a pretty effective means of doing so. And that’s just the tactic deployed Friday afternoon in an effort to promote drug use. That drug is alcohol — specifically, Air (Alcohol Inspired Refresher), a mixture of alcohol and carbonated water with citrus and berry flavors, according to the product’s website. But the fact that alcohol is a society-sanctioned multibillion-dollar industry doesn’t make it any less a drug than crack and heroin — the two substances directly behind alcohol in a 2010 study published by The Lancet naming alcohol as the drug responsible for the greatest amount of combined personal and societal harm (While the study focused specifically on the United Kingdom, there is no evidence suggesting that harms caused by alcohol don’t translate across the Pond).