Denver Post, 10 Mar 2013 – Re: "Readers respond to article on growing marijuana at home," March 3 letters to the editor. The outraged responses to The Denver Post’s article about growing marijuana ranged from absurd to reactionary to completely uneducated.

Glenwood Springs Post Independent, 08 Mar 2013 – But Banks Reluctant to Finance a Plant That Is Federally Illegal GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado – A locally based industrial hemp and natural fibers company announced recently that it has earned a place on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s "BioPreferred Program."

Westword, 07 Mar 2013 – Dear Stoner: My wife was telling me that she heard on TV that smoking pot can cause strokes in older folks. I’m 63 and just a little concerned. Any truth to this rumor? Roberto Reefer Roller Dear RRR: Back in February, a New Zealand scientist said he had found a link between cannabis use and certain types of strokes in people under the age of 55. Out of 160 stroke patients, 16 percent tested positive for marijuana. That was twice as high as the number of cannabis users in a control group with similar conditions and signs, but who had not progressed to a stroke. While the scientists and news media made a big deal out of those findings, they downplayed the more important part of the study: All but one of the 16 percent smoked cigarettes, which can more than double the risk of having an ischemic stroke.

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The Tribune, 03 Mar 2013 – Former U.S. Navy Corpsman Jeremy Usher came home in 2003 from Iraq and Afghanistan to sleepless nights and panic attacks, with vivid flashbacks of combat, horrifying nightmares, anxiety and depression, all amid memory loss and a severe stutter. After turning to alcohol to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, Jeremy is serving probation in Weld and Larimer counties for his second and third DUIs. He’s doing well in counseling and school, he says, but he faces jail time for using marijuana medicinally while on probation to manage his PTSD and traumatic brain injury.

Denver Post, 03 Mar 2013 – Re: "Marijuana: The truth about growing your own pot," Feb. 23 Home story. In the Saturday Home section, you placed a large article giving instructions on how to grow one’s own marijuana. It is amazing that you’ve had so many articles about abolishing cigarette smoke in public areas, which I agree with, yet you seem to be an advocate for this deplorable new way to destroy people’s bodies, minds and spirits. Now you have provided a step-by-step guide on how to do this. Perhaps you have even shown some of our teenagers how to grow their own.

Denver Post, 03 Mar 2013 – If it were as hard to grow marijuana as your article suggests, marijuana would not exist in nature. First, you can purchase "feminized" seeds on the Internet. Second, you can plant a seed in a pot, water it, put it in the window sill, and it will grow. Third, the idea that any plant needs exactly 12 hours of sunlight a day and not a bit more is nonsense. It’s called "weed" because it’s a weed. Laura Cary, Denver – — MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

Washington Post, 02 Mar 2013 – Bill on Blood-Level Limit Being Weighed, but Some Say It’s Not That Simple DENVER – When is someone too stoned to drive? The answer, it turns out, has been anything but simple in Colorado, which in the fall became one of the first states in the country to legalize marijuana.

Richmond Register, 02 Mar 2013 – DENVER (AP) – Pot smokers in Colorado were the biggest winners in the vote that legalized the drug. Now state regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax it, so the benefits are shared statewide in the form of increased revenue. A state panel meets Thursday to draft final recommendations based on the voter- approved marijuana legalization question that asked for excise taxes up to 15 percent to fund school construction.