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05.17.10
Quotable

Patrick Corcoran, writing in Mexidata: The DEA and its Fallacious Reasoning on Drugs in Mexico

05.14.10
DC: Jared Polis Grills Eric Holder On DEA Raids Of Medical Marijuana
DC: Jared Polis Grills Eric Holder On DEA Raids On Medical Marijuana

Huffington Post / 14 May / 2010

04.29.10
UT: Drug Agents Warn Utahans Of Back-Country Marijuana Grows
UT: Drug Agents Warn Utahans Of Back-Country Marijuana Grows
KSL.com / April 29th, 2010 / Sam Penrod

04.29.10
UT: Drug Agents Warn Utahans Of Back-Country Marijuana Grows
UT: Drug Agents Warn Utahans Of Back-Country Marijuana Grows
KSL.com / April 29th, 2010 / Sam Penrod

04.29.10
UT: Utah Marijuana Growers Well-Organized, Well-Funded
UT: Utah Marijuana Growers Well-Organized, Well-Funded
KSL.com / August 28th, 2009/ Staff

WAYNE COUNTY -- Sheriff's deputies uncovered more than 20,000 plants in Wayne County, and drug authorities say it's not locals growing it. The marijuana grow found in Wayne County Friday may be one of the biggest marijuana-growing operations ever discovered in Utah.

04.27.10
DC: An obstacle to D.C.'s medical marijuana law
DC: An obstacle to D.C.'s medical marijuana law
WashingtonPost/ Eric E. Sterling / 04,26,2010

04.26.10
CA: Legalize marijuana? Not so fast
CA: Legalize marijuana? Not so fast
PressTelegram / Thomas Elias / 04,24,2010

04.25.10
CA: Agents seize plants, cash in investigating 2 Sacramento indoor-growing operation
CA: Agents seize plants, cash in investigating 2 Sacramento indoor-growing operation
LATimes / 04,24,2010

04.20.10
Medical Marijuana: Arizona Legalization

medical-marijuana-arizonaHeather Torgerson, a survivor of brain cancer is well-qualified to speak about the efficacy of medical marijuana.  Speaking of her chemotherapy treatment, she said, “although it worked, I became deathly ill, I was to the point where my next round o

04.13.10
CA: L.A.’s Pot Revolution

CA: L.A.’s Pot Revolution
Reason | MAY [2010] ISSUE | Brian Doherty

How Los Angeles became the “Wild West” of medical

04.06.10
CO: Colorado's top DEA agent says medical-pot growers following the law aren't...
Colorado's top DEA agent says medical-pot growers following the law aren't worth raiding
4-6-2010 | John Ingold | The Denver Post

Jeffrey Sweetin, the Drug Enforcement Administration's top agent in Colorado, said Monday there must be "aggravating factors" before he would raid businesses involved in the state's medical-marijuana industry.

03.17.10
MEX: Bloodbath in Mexico: Drug Prohibition Is to Blame for Thousands of Mexican and N
Bloodbath in Mexico: Drug Prohibition Is to Blame for Thousands of Mexican and Now American Deaths
AlterNet | 3/15/2010 | Tony Newman

There is war in our backyard that can match the violence anywhere in the world, and that is the Drug War in Mexico.

03.16.10
CA: Time to put a cap on dispensaries
CA: Time to put a cap on dispensaries
3-16-2010 | The Sacramento Bee | SacBee

03.16.10
CO: Lawmakers To Feds: Halt Medical Marijuana
CO: Lawmakers To Feds: Halt Medical Marijuana Raids
Seattle Times / March 16, 2010 / Colleen Slevin

03.11.10
John DiIulio statement is no surprise, but a reminder to urge change on medical marijuana

In the spring issue of the journal Democracy, John J. DiIulio Jr., the former White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W.

03.10.10
USA: Editorial: Feds should back off medical marijuana charges

USA: Editorial: Feds should back off medical marijuana charges
Aurora Sentinel | 3/10/10 |

Good for the handful of state lawmakers who are leaning on the federal government to back off of running raids on those involved in the state’s medical marijuana controversy, but it’s not good enough.

03.09.10
CO: Lawmakers: Stop raids
Lawmakers: Stop raids
Ask AG for moratorium on DEA medical marijuana raids
Denver Daily News | 3/9/2010 | Gene Davis

03.08.10
LA City Attorney Revives Cynical Bush Tactic of Threatening Medical Marijuana Dispensary Landlords

Finally, nearly two weeks after Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich issued a press release announcing nuisance abatement actions against local dispensaries, Americans for Safe Access has unearthed one of at least 18 letters sent to medical marijuana providers and their landlords threatening imminent eviction.

03.07.10
TX: Drug Budget: Time To Throw Tomatoes?
TX: Drug Budget: Time To Throw Tomatoes?
The Austin Chronicle | 3/5/2010 | Jordan Smith

03.02.10
US: DEA Marijuana Seizures Nearly Double

DEA Marijuana Seizures Nearly Double
Main Justice | 3/1/2010 | Ryan J. Reilly


A chart shows the flow of drugs into the United States (DEA).

02.28.10
Obama Continues Bush-Era "Drug War" Hypocrisy

US: Obama Continues Bush-Era "Drug War" Hypocrisy
Cannabis Culture | 2/26/2010 | Jesse Ventura, The Huffington Post

Despite President Obama's promises, the DEA is still going after medical marijuana providers.

02.26.10
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis Speaks Out

Following DEA arrests at medical marijuana facilities in Colorado, U.S. Representative Jared Polis has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

In the letter, Rep. Polis wants to know “whether [DEA] Agent Sweetin’s comments that DEA will ‘arrest everybody’ remains United States policy.”

In comments on the website Squared State, where Congressman Polis publicly shared his letter, he referred to the DEA agents involved as “rogue agents:”

02.24.10
CO: Rogues Gone Wild

CO: Sirota: Rogues Gone Wild

Summit Daily | 2/22/2010 | David Sirota

“I am in control here in the White House.” — Secretary of State Alexander Haig, 1981

02.24.10
PTSD, Vets and Medical Cannabis

Did you know that since 2001 more USA vets have committed suicide than have died on the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan?  Or that 20% of soldiers returning from the killing fields suffer from

02.22.10
NM: VA docs forbidden to recommend medical marijuana
VA docs forbidden to recommend medical marijuana
2-22-10 | Marjorie Childress | The New Mexico Independent