The Daily Times-Call, 01 Oct 2010 – Colorado officials are considering implementation of a tracking system to make sure legal purchases of medical marijuana don’t end up being resold on the black market. Matt Cook, senior director for medical marijuana enforcement for the Colorado Department of Revenue, is right when he says the danger for misuse of the system exists.

Vail Daily, 02 Oct 2010 – Ballot Question Asks If Dispensaries In Unincorporated County Should Stay Open EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado — Medical marijuana dispensary owners throughout Eagle County are mobilizing to try and convince Eagle County voters to vote "yes" on ballot issue 1B.

Denver Post, 03 Oct 2010 – SAN FRANCISCO — The medical-marijuana political movement in America began the night police busted into Dennis Peron’s apartment with a warrant. They twisted Peron’s arms behind his back and placed him in handcuffs. They forced Jonathan West, Peron’s boyfriend, to the ground, and an officer held him there, Peron said, with a boot on the young man’s chest. When officers learned West had AIDS, Peron said, they put on rubber gloves.

Delta County Independent, 29 Sep 2010 – Dear Editor: Presently I know of two people who are suffering from life threatening illnesses who have benefited greatly from using medical marijuana. The first is my sister-in-law who is sure that it saved her life while receiving chemotherapy for her stage 4 breast cancer.

Aurora Sentinel, 29 Sep 2010 – While a proposal to track medical marijuana sales is far from being the unreasonable intrusion critics are making it out to be, the notion certainly points out how arcane the country’s anti-marijuana laws are. An Associated Press story on Wednesday spelled out how state officials hope to monitor who’s buying medical marijuana and just how much. Some officials say they believe that some patients are buying up large quantities of pot and then selling it on the black market.

Vail Daily, 27 Sep 2010 – Some Say The Time Is Right To Allow Pot Shops In Minturn; Others Say They Don’t Belong In Town MINTURN, Colorado — Legalize it. That’s how some people feel about pot shops in Minturn.

The Daily Sentinel, 26 Sep 2010 – Although I didn’t vote in favor of Amendment 20, which amended the state Constitution to permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes, I don’t support Ref 1A, which bans medical marijuana centers in unincorporated Mesa County. As an elected official, I took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and I don’t get to pick and choose the parts of it I like. Likewise, the voters of one part of the state shouldn’t be allowed to opt out of the Constitution on a county-by-county basis.

Summit Daily News, 27 Sep 2010 – Here’s a fact even drug policy reform advocates can acknowledge: California’s 2010 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana does, indeed, pose a real threat, as conservative culture warriors insist. But not to public health, as those conservatives claim. According to most physicians, pot is less toxic – and has more medicinal applications – than a legal and more pervasive drug like alcohol. Whereas alcohol causes hundreds of annual overdose deaths, contributes to untold numbers of illnesses and is a major factor in violent crime, marijuana has never resulted in a fatal overdose and has not been systemically linked to major illness or violent crime.

The Gazette, 25 Sep 2010 – RAMAH – For more than 100 years, the only weed that posed an issue to this town was tumbleweed. But the sudden growth of medical marijuana has changed that. Ramah is the smallest town in El Paso County. The tidy clutch of houses anchored in the windswept prairie by mature, shady cottonwoods is home to between 119 and 125 people, depending whom you ask. There are no cafes or gas stations. There are no businesses at all.

The Mountain Mail, 22 Sep 2010 – Chaffee County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the temporary moratorium on Medical Marijuana until Dec. 31, using the time to consider permanent regulations for zoning and licensing. The action came during their regular meeting in Buena Vista.