Seattle Times, 15 Sep 2010 – The state has added chronic kidney failure to the list of conditions for which medical marijuana is permitted under state law but has rejected petitions to add Alzheimer’s and neuropathic pain. In approving chronic kidney failure, the state Medical Quality Assurance Commission said it was convinced that nausea caused by dialysis could be helped by marijuana. But it noted that using marijuana could also jeopardize a renal-failure patient’s eligibility for transplant or have other adverse effects and that patients need to be informed of that when a provider authorizes them to use marijuana legally.

Seattle Times, 14 Sep 2010 – Marijuana is moving toward legalization. Fourteen states now allow it as medicine, which has changed people’s view of it. The image of a user is no longer Cheech and Chong, but grandma. "The states that were the first to legalize medical marijuana will be the first to legalize marijuana more broadly," predicts cannabis activist Ethan Nadelman of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Alberni Valley Times, 13 Sep 2010 – Vancouver’s Marc Emery has gone from "Prince of Pot" to prison pauper with a five-year U.S. prison sentence for mailing marijuana seeds south of the border. The 52-year-old cannabis activist spent part of the first night of his sentence holding hands with his wife Jodie, during a two-hour Seattle jail visit Saturday.

Yakima Herald-Republic, 06 Sep 2010 – YAKIMA, Wash. — A graduate of Perry Technical Institute’s instrumentation program can land a job at an oil refinery earning as much $92,000 a year with overtime. But with such pay comes tremendous responsibility. One small mistake in calibrating pressure or temperature can cost lives, said Tony Nirk, who heads the Instrumentation & Industrial Automation Technology Department.

Seattle Times, 04 Sep 2010 – The U.S. war against marijuana has failed and actually threatens public safety and rests on false medical assumptions. Guest columnist John McKay, Seattle’s former U.S. attorney, argues why the laws against marijuana should be changed. I DON’T smoke pot. And I pretty much think people who do are idiots.

Bellingham Herald, 23 Aug 2010 – TACOMA: Patient upset with police arrests, raids Cat Jeter wants Tacoma city officials to know how people living and working in the city feel about medical marijuana, but her message needs more than mere words.

Seattle Times, 20 Aug 2010 – Sensible Washington, the group that sponsored a marijuana-legalization bill that didn’t make it on the ballot this election season, plans to launch its 2011 legalization campaign at Seattle Hempfest this weekend. Sensible Washington, the group that sponsored a marijuana-legalization bill that didn’t make it to the ballot this election season, plans to launch its 2011 legalization campaign at Seattle Hempfest this weekend.

The Stranger, 19 Aug 2010 – How Dino Rossi’s Attack on a WSU Cannabis Researcher Backfired When you’re running a campaign for U.S. Senate in which you spend a lot of time attacking "out of touch" D.C. politicians, it’s a no-brainer not to mimic one yourself. Yet that’s exactly what Republican Dino Rossi ended up doing on August 12 when he carbon-copied an ill-founded attack on "wasteful" federal stimulus dollars that D.C. Republicans have been using for months. Rossi’s target: a psychology professor at Washington State University who received $148,438 in stimulus money to do research related to cannabinoids-that is, the psychoactive compounds found in marijuana.

The Stranger, 19 Aug 2010 – Seattle Is at the Vanguard of Legalizing Pot, So Why Are Arrest Levels Worse Than Ever? These Are the Worst of Times If you thought pot legalization in Seattle had already arrived-think again. Despite voters making pot possession the lowest law-enforcement priority in 2003, Seattle police are arresting more people on low-level marijuana charges this year than any year in the last decade.