Summit Daily News, 26 Feb 2013 – I’d like to propose a Colorado Revised Statute 2013 CRS 420-7, i.e. state law that combines legal marijuana use/possession and gun control limiting the size of ammunition magazines. Given that new Colorado law allows private citizens to puff herb on their deck on an unlimited basis, and old Colorado law allows private citizens to shoot their guns on an unlimited basis, how does this proposed legal bill sound?

The Macomb Daily, 01 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 set up to regulate marijuana in Colorado agreed Thursday to recommend the highest tax contemplated by voters last year – a 15 percent excise tax, with the profits going to school construction.

Denver Post, 28 Feb 2013 – Re: "Too-stoned-to-drive bill advances," Feb. 27 news story. All this discussion about marijuana impairment as legally defined in terms of "nanograms of active THC per milliliter of blood" is nonsense. It’s no different than saying a 230-pound man and 90-pound grandma are equally full eating just one hamburger.

The Economist, 23 Feb 2013 – TOWARDS A CEASEFIRE Experiments in Legalisation Are Showing What a Post-War Approach to Drug Control Could Look Like Denver, LA Paz, Lisbon and Madrid – FROM the Colorado state capitol in Denver, head south on Broadway, one of the city’s main arteries, and before long you find yourself in "Broadsterdam", a cluster of dispensaries with names like Ganja Gourmet and Evergreen Apothecary. They peddle dozens of strains of pot, as well as snacks, infusions and paraphernalia, to any state resident bearing a "red card": proof of a doctor’s recommendation.

The Steamboat Today, 19 Feb 2013 – In response to Rob Douglas’ Feb. 15 column "Reefer madness": The people of Colorado and Washington state are way ahead of the politicians in Washington, D.C. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize violent drug cartels, prohibition is a grand success. The drug war distorts supply-and-demand dynamics so that big money grows on little trees. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to deter use, prohibition is a catastrophic failure. The United States has double the rate of use as the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available.

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The Steamboat Today, 15 Feb 2013 – Steamboat Springs — As noted by Wikipedia, "Reefer Madness" is a "1936 American propaganda exploitation film revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when high school students are lured by pushers to try marijuana — from a hit-and-run accident, to manslaughter, suicide, attempted rape and descent into madness. "Originally financed by a church group under the title ‘Tell Your Children,’ the film was intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use. … The film did not gain an audience until it was rediscovered in the 1970s and gained new life as a piece of unintentional comedy among advocates of cannabis policy reform."

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