Las Vegas City Life, 22 Jul 2010 – Will Dems’ Shift On Medical Marijuana Pave The Way For Legal Pot Dispensaries? For the first time in Nevada history, a major political party has endorsed the creation of a safe, legal medical marijuana industry — a move that could ease the suffering of thousands of patients and finally legitimize the state’s black market network of pot dispensaries.

Reno News & Review, 22 Jul 2010 – Re "Drug tests" (Feature story, July 8): Drugs have been around far longer than governments and will continue to be long beyond them. Some do drugs to escape, party, get laid or have other juicy times.

Reno News & Review, 22 Jul 2010 – Re "Drug tests" (Feature story, July 8): I’d like to thank you for this article. I feel it is an unbiased explanation on what’s happening with these legal drugs, and I’d like to thank you for providing factual information as well as opinion. Good article! Keep up the good work.

Reno News & Review, 22 Jul 2010 – Re "Drug tests" (Feature story, July 8): Well done, sir! I think it’s high time that we start engaging our community and society as a whole in conversations like the one you started. While the ultimate backlash for this type of article will likely be ignorance, disgust and disdain for you even writing it, I must make a couple key points beyond the obvious compliments.

Reno News & Review, 15 Jul 2010 – A Nevada ballot initiative petition is now circulating to make marijuana legal and set up a regulatory system akin to tobacco or alcohol. The petition would go first to the 2011 Nevada Legislature, and if the lawmakers fail to act on it, voters in 2012 would decide whether to enact it. There are a number of unknowns surrounding the issue, but a new study may suggest questions that need to be addressed. The Rand Corporation, a leading think tank, has issued a report on the possible results of making marijuana legal in California. The report found:

Reno News & Review, 15 Jul 2010 – Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I’m still getting a hard time over last week’s cover story, "Drug tests," in which I sampled some of the legal substances available at local head shops. It’s not from the expected sources–you know, I expected my dad to call, "What do you mean you took coke in the early `80s?" or from some distraught parent, "I never heard of this stuff. Why are you doing telling my kids about it?" (And by the way, I’d never heard of some of this stuff, either, but I’m willing to bet any kid who’d be inclined toward experimenting already knew about it.)