Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct 2010 – POT GROWERS ARE A NEW CROP They’re Indoors, Upscale and With Values Their Parents Shunned About the time the wholesale price of pot hit $4,000 a pound, Tony Sasso bought a bulldozer and an excavator and dug a massive hole on his ranch in eastern Mendocino County.

Sierra Sun, 15 Oct 2010 – NEVADA CITY, Calif. – On Nov. 2, campaigns will be won or lost. Weary campaign workers may raise champagne glasses in celebration. Or, if some polls are right, the slow, smoky spark of a marijuana bowl may replace the quick pop of the cork in California.

Sacramento Bee, 14 Oct 2010 – Re "Legal pot would hurt state" (Letters, Oct. 13): Ben Sanacor writes that ending marijuana prohibition with Prop. 19 would be "very bad" for California. But how has prohibition (aka the "War on Drugs") been working?

Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct 2010 – At the Annual Cypress Hill Smokeout, Patients Can Legally Smoke Marijuana. By its very name, the Cypress Hill Smokeout, a single-day rap and rock music festival, is engineered with a red eye toward the narcotically inclined. But this Saturday, for the first time in the event’s dozen-year history, medical marijuana patients will be permitted to roll it up, light it up and inhale. And for those who don’t have a card, a doctor will be on duty to issue one.

San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct 2010 – Los Angeles – In 1969, Carol McDonald was 28, married and the mother of two young children, out for an evening of fun with a couple who smoked marijuana. By the end of the evening she was on her way to a 19-year addiction. "Within a few months, I was smoking every day," said McDonald, a retired bookkeeper, now 69. "I had to smoke before going to work. If something was upsetting, I smoked over it. If there was a celebration, I smoked over it."

Anderson Valley Post, 14 Oct 2010 – Hoping to sway the minds of some voters in the Nov. 2 General Election, the five members of Anderson’s City Council unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday, Oct. 5, opposing Proposition 19, also known as the "Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010." Such a course of action was recommended by Anderson Police Chief Dale Webb.

The Chico News & Review, 14 Oct 2010 – Dispensary Advocates and Law Enforcement Officials Agree Californians approved the state’s medical-marijuana law, Proposition 215, on Nov. 5, 1996. That’s back when President Clinton was serving his first term in the White House and Friends was just a couple of years into its decade-long run on NBC.

Sacramento News & Review, 14 Oct 2010 – Will Proposition 19 Be a Boon for Democrats on November 2? D.C.-based website Politico reported last week that the initiative–which would decriminalize recreational cannabis for adults and give local governments the option to tax and regulate marijuana–might be overlooked advantage that will put state Dems such as Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer over the top this election.

Appeal-Democrat, 13 Oct 2010 – Regardless of what the governor did to change the state laws on marijuana, drug use is extremely detrimental to all people. All drug use should only be allowed under the strict control of a licensed doctor. Federal laws will continue to be enforced and many, many people will pay a high price for violations. In less than a month voters will go to the polls and vote on Proposition 19. This proposition, as written, must be defeated. If this proposition wins, tens of millions of federal dollars will be lost, employers will not be able to enforce a drug-free work place, and the vague language in the proposition could result in endless litigation. Police, fire and drug court judge organizations are urging a no vote on Prop. 19

Sacramento Bee, 13 Oct 2010 – I have read the arguments in favor of Proposition 19 to legalize marijuana, and they fail to make the case for legalization. Legalization will be very bad for California. If legal drugs are any indication (alcohol, tobacco, etc.), by their more prevalent use, particularly by the young, marijuana use will increase as it gains social acceptance. When harmful drugs are legalized, commercialized and made more affordable, they will be abused more.