Times Argus, 03 Jun 2011 – MONTPELIER — Gov. Peter Shumlin on Thursday signed into law a bill that allows up to four medical marijuana dispensaries to set up shop in Vermont. The bill passed the Legislature this year amid opposition from some leaders in the state’s law enforcement community, and Vermont is now the eighth state in the country to give registered medical marijuana users a place to get the drug.

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Rutland Herald, 21 Aug 2010 – An East Wallingford woman will not be able to tell a jury that she needed to grow 30 marijuana plants in her backyard to save the life of her ill son, following a split decision by the Vermont Supreme Court released Friday. Sue Thayer was driving her son, Winter Maxwell Thayer, to college Friday and could not be reached.

Rutland Herald, 21 Aug 2010 – An East Wallingford woman will not be able to tell a jury that she needed to grow 30 marijuana plants in her backyard to save the life of her ill son, following a split decision by the Vermont Supreme Court released Friday. Sue Thayer was driving her son, Winter Maxwell Thayer, to college Friday and could not be reached.

Rutland Herald, 21 Aug 2010 – An East Wallingford woman will not be able to tell a jury that she needed to grow 30 marijuana plants in her backyard to save the life of her ill son, following a split decision by the Vermont Supreme Court released Friday. Sue Thayer was driving her son, Winter Maxwell Thayer, to college Friday and could not be reached.

Rutland Herald, 21 Aug 2010 – An East Wallingford woman will not be able to tell a jury that she needed to grow 30 marijuana plants in her backyard to save the life of her ill son, following a split decision by the Vermont Supreme Court released Friday. Sue Thayer was driving her son, Winter Maxwell Thayer, to college Friday and could not be reached.

Rutland Herald, 21 Aug 2010 – An East Wallingford woman will not be able to tell a jury that she needed to grow 30 marijuana plants in her backyard to save the life of her ill son, following a split decision by the Vermont Supreme Court released Friday. Sue Thayer was driving her son, Winter Maxwell Thayer, to college Friday and could not be reached.

Brattleboro Reformer, 31 Jul 2010 – Of all of the claims in print about marijuana, this is the most revealing, yet the most ignored quote of all: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." — administrative law, Judge Francis L. Young (1988), Drug Enforcement Administration. I envy the day when we can say with certitude that freedom, though inconvenient to the powers that be, has found its way into the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans. That day is not now. Instead, we live under an entrenched and tyrannical coalition of prevention, prohibition, incarceration and probation that continues to dominate U.S. drug policy despite the fact that the majority of marijuana consumers are moderate and responsible adults.

Rutland Herald, 24 Jun 2010 – BURLINGTON — Most of those vying to become the next governor have been in many candidate forums around the state. But in an election dominated by talk of the economy, jobs and the state budget, Wednesday morning’s version stood out for its subject matter. The forum at the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County was about substance abuse in Vermont, and candidates fielded questions on alcohol use, drug addiction and the problem of illegal substances in prisons during the event, co-hosted by Friends of Recovery Vermont.

Rutland Herald, 24 Jun 2010 – BURLINGTON — Most of those vying to become the next governor have been in many candidate forums around the state. But in an election dominated by talk of the economy, jobs and the state budget, Wednesday morning’s version stood out for its subject matter. The forum at the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County was about substance abuse in Vermont, and candidates fielded questions on alcohol use, drug addiction and the problem of illegal substances in prisons during the event, co-hosted by Friends of Recovery Vermont.