Reno News & Review, 22 Dec 2011 – Federal prosecutors have been conducting a war against California medical marijuana shops, in defiance of President Obama’s stated policy. When he was campaigning for the presidency, Obama said, "What I’m not going to be doing is using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue simply because I want folks to be investigating violent crimes and potential terrorism. We’ve got a lot of things for our law enforcement officers to deal with."

Reno News & Review, 27 Oct 2011 – Re "Dear President Barack Obama" (Guest Comment, Oct. 13): Kudos to publisher Jeff vonKaenel for his outstanding letter to President Obama. I’d like to share with the readers a short letter I wrote to President Obama:

Reno News & Review, 27 Oct 2011 – Re "Dear President Barack Obama" (Guest Comment, Oct. 13): Kudos to publisher Jeff vonKaenel for his outstanding letter to President Obama. I’d like to share with the readers a short letter I wrote to President Obama:

Reno News & Review, 27 Oct 2011 – Re "Dear President Barack Obama" (Guest Comment, Oct. 13): Kudos to publisher Jeff vonKaenel for his outstanding letter to President Obama. I’d like to share with the readers a short letter I wrote to President Obama:

Reno News & Review, 27 Oct 2011 – Re "Dear President Barack Obama" (Guest Comment, Oct. 13): Kudos to publisher Jeff vonKaenel for his outstanding letter to President Obama. I’d like to share with the readers a short letter I wrote to President Obama:

DrugSense

Las Vegas Sun, 21 Sep 2010 – A state senator plans to introduce legislation to allow special pharmacies in Nevada to sell medical marijuana. Sen. Michael Schneider, D-Las Vegas, said he has spent a year working with doctors and talking to state administrators about how to craft the bill that he will bring to the Legislature in 2011.

Record-Courier, 19 Aug 2010 – District Judge Dave Gamble ordered a 25-year-old drug offender to write a report on what the judge called "the nonsensical character" of California’s medical marijuana program. On Tuesday, Gamble told Matthew Palazzolo to submit a paper within 90 days to him and to his counselor also discussing the defendant’s realization that marijuana was a gateway drug that led to use of more powerful narcotics.

Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug 2010 – A judge has an unusual sentence for a 25-year-old Sacramento man who sold marijuana to a police informant in a casino parking lot at Lake Tahoe. District Judge Dave Gamble ordered Matthew Palazzolo to write a report on what the judge called the "nonsensical character" of California’s medical marijuana law the Gardnerville Record-Courier reported.

Las Vegas Sun, 31 Jul 2010 – Veterans Affairs Wisely Relaxes Its Objections to Medical Marijuana Use A growing number of Americans have embraced the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes as a compassionate way to help those who are suffering from AIDS, cancer and other debilitating diseases. There was evidence of that in January when New Jersey became the 14th state to approve the use of medical marijuana, joining a list that includes Nevada. There was even more evidence that month when an ABC News/Washington Post poll was released showing that 81 percent of Americans support marijuana legalization for medicinal purposes, up from 69 percent in 1997.