The Craig Daily Press, 15 Oct 2010 – Of the training courses Moffat County Sheriff’s Office deputy Ryan Hess has taken, he said the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program was the hardest. "Seriously," Hess said of the two-week course. "We had 10-hour days, and a minimum of six or seven hours of homework every night."

Summit Daily News, 17 Oct 2010 – Steamboat Springs Has Three Dispensaries, While Neighboring Hayden Prohibits Them STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – Want a feel for the varied response to Colorado’s booming medical marijuana industry? Just take a survey of how some Colorado mountain towns have reacted.

Boulder Weekly, 14 Oct 2010 – ("Oakland goes to pot," The Highroad, Oct. 7.) Hopefully, it isn’t just Oakland going to pot, but rather the entire state of California with all of North America following them. Californian citizens have an opportunity to vote yes on Proposition 19 this Nov. 2, effectively ending cannabis (marijuana) prohibition and extermination.

The Daily Sentinel, 11 Oct 2010 – There will, we realize, be court challenges to any community effort to ban medical marijuana dispensaries under a state law adopted earlier this year. Ultimately, the question of whether such bans are constitutional will almost certainly be determined by the Colorado Supreme Court. But there is another question people should consider as they are deciding whether to vote for Mesa County Referred Measure 1A: What did voters envision when they approved a medical marijuana constitutional amendment 10 years ago?

Denver Daily News, 12 Oct 2010 – Dear Editor: It’s very encouraging to read that Mason Tvert and Laura Kriho are planning (Marijuana legalization on the ballot? Oct. 6, Denver Daily News) a ballot imitative in Colorado to relegalize cannabis (marijuana) again. Hopefully relegalizing the God-given plant will also lead to Colorado farmers growing hemp.

The Steamboat Pilot & Today, 13 Oct 2010 – Regarding your Oct. 6 editorial ("Medical marijuana series aims to educate"), not only should medical marijuana be made available to patients in need, but adult recreational use should be regulated. Drug policies modeled after alcohol prohibition have given rise to a youth-oriented black market. Illegal drug dealers don’t ID for age, but they do recruit minors immune to adult sentences. So much for protecting the children. Throwing more money at the problem is no solution. Attempts to limit the supply of illegal drugs while demand remains constant only increase the profitability of drug trafficking. For addictive drugs like heroin, a spike in street prices leads desperate addicts to increase criminal activity to feed desperate habits. The drug war doesn’t fight crime, it fuels crime.

Vail Daily, 13 Oct 2010 – Medical marijuana? People have told me that to write on this issue is to never work again. Unless you’re against it, of course, which is somehow "mainstream," even though it was approved by a majority vote. Larry Brooks, a local emergency-room physician, or more accurately, the doctor whose company provides all of the physician staff members for our local emergency rooms and many urgent-care clinics, recently expressed his thoughts concerning medical marijuana. Brooks said, "The chances that there are 743 people in Eagle County with debilitating illnesses that require marijuana use are non-existent. Their debilitating diagnoses would not be able to be confirmed by any reputable physician in more than 10 percent of these cases, and many have not tried normal evidence-based therapy." He concluded, "If marijuana is going to be available for care purposes, it should be highly regulated, quality controlled and dispensed by registered pharmacists."

Vail Daily, 11 Oct 2010 – In August 2009 the first pot store opened in Edwards without any notice, local business registration, or county permit oversight. We learned of this new pot business only through a newspaper article telling us that it was providing medical marijuana to 69 registered Colorado permit holders in Eagle County. Prior to this new pot store, patients produced their own pot or picked up the phone and ordered their drugs with free delivery from Boulder. Today there are seven pot shops in Eagle County providing this service for 892 registered patients out of an estimated 50,000 residents as of latest public health records on Jan. 31, 2010. One of the first pot shops is within 300 feet of a church in Edwards, and the county commissioners after approving new zoning laws last year have allowed this pot shop to remain in business with an exception to county zoning. Kids can see the pot shop doing business from their day-care playground.

The Steamboat Pilot & Today, 10 Oct 2010 – Steamboat Springs — "Green Rush," your preceding editorial (it is an editorial) to the series tells a lot about the philosophy of the Steamboat Pilot & Today. An honest headline such as "The Pilot & Today endorses and supports the use of recreational marijuana" would have been appropriate. You will point out that the issue is medical marijuana. Anyone who thinks that medical need is a significant factor in this issue has been using too much recreational/medical(?) marijuana.

Windsor Beacon, 09 Oct 2010 – The Town of Windsor is currently facing a citizen-initiated ban of medical marijuana centers and their various aspects. This proposed ban would eliminate dispensaries, cultivation facilities, and infused products from being able to exist within the town.