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DEA 'Cartel' Claims Lack Facts, Again

Erin Rosa | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver

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Erin Rosa

DEA agents in Denver have a sordid history when it comes to backing up their claims, and their most recent allegation that medical marijuana dispensaries are being supplied by 'cartels' is no different.

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Medical Marijuana: Increased Applicants In Colorado Lead Law Enforcement To Questions Pot Sources

The Denver Post | Mike McPhee and Victoria Barbatelli | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver

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Demand for medical marijuana in Colorado has grown so fast in the past few months that it has outstripped the production of legal "grow" operations an...

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Marijuana Critic Hired By Colorado Newspaper

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

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DENVER — The store has a television lounge and a pool table, and snacks and acupuncture are free for customers who drop up to $130 an ounce on 1...

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John Suthers, Colorado Attorney General, Says New Federal Marijuana Policy Based On Faulty Assumptions

The Denver Post | Jordan Steffen | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver

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Colorado Attorney General John Suthers says that if an Obama administration plan not to arrest medical-marijuana users and suppliers is going to work,...

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WATCH: Ryan Grim Discusses Obama's New Marijuana Policy On MSNBC

Huff TV | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC today to talk about the Obama administration's new policy on marijuana prosecutions. The White...

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Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.

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Medical Marijuana Bill On Backburner Despite New Obama Policy

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

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A bill to legalize medical marijuana that narrowly passed the Illinois Senate in May faces an uncertain future in the General Assembly in spite of wha...

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LA's District Attorney Vows To Shut Down Marijuana Shops

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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LOS ANGELES — Clay Tepel knew there were risks to setting up a medical marijuana shop: it could lose money, be robbed or be raided by authoritie...

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New Medical Marijuana Policy: Obama Administration Will Not Seek Arrests For People Following State Laws

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...

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New Blue Review: And Peter Tosh Will Advertise It

Todd Hartley | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

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Todd Hartley

There was an interesting little tidbit of information out of Aspen last week, with the Aspen Daily News reporting Wednesday on the opening of a fourth medical marijuana dispensary in the tony ski town known for its laissez-faire attitude toward drugs.

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Colorado Medical Marijuana Under Fire As Attorney General Suthers, Towns Call For More Regulation (VIDEO)

Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver

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A KDVR special report last night cited Attorney General John Suthers in claiming that police have been overwhelmed by a rash of crime in areas surroun...

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Marijuana Licensing Fails To Make The Pot Business Safe: NYT

nytimes.com | ABBY GOODNOUGH | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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New Mexico's new medical marijuana law was intended to provide safe, aboveboard access to the drug for hundreds of residents with chronic pain and oth...

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Here Is Your Chance to Help End the Failed War on Drugs

Anthony Papa | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Anthony Papa

Our nation's drug policy should be based on reason, compassion, health and human rights, but to do so will take a great deal of strategizing and organizing.

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Medical Marijuana: Boulder DA Makes Pot Laws Lowest Priority

Daily Camera | Daily Camera | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home

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Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said Tuesday that the state's medical marijuana laws desperately need more clarity, and he's not interes...

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Pot Wars: A Bipartisan Failure

Jessica Corry | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver

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Jessica Corry

Democrats calculate they will have nothing to gain by legalizing. Republicans fear angering a socially conservative base of voters all too eager to forget its beer-bonging college days.

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Medical Marijuana: Law Week Colorado Previews Tuesday's Landmark Decision

Colorado Law Review | Kate Klein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver

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DENVER -- The Colorado Court of Appeals will hear a critical case regarding medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday. People v. Clendenin originated in ...

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The HighPhone: New iPot App Scores You Weed

Posted 11.15.2009 | Technology

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Is your local cannabis dispensary not coming up on Google maps? The iPot iPhone application from NexStudios is the first location-based app designed t...

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Asking President Obama for a Job

Gregory Daurer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

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Gregory Daurer

Things still aren't looking good here in Colorado. As for the stimulus, the keg must have been turned off before the dram trickled down to me.

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Another marijuana-grow operation is uprooted in Pike National Forest

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

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As smoke continues to gather over medical-marijuana operations in Colorado, local law-enforcement agencies continue to find weed-growing op...

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Could Clendenin case deal a blow to Colorado's pot biz?

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Joel Warner, Medical Marijuana, People v. Clendenin, Robert Corry, Home News

As noted in this week's cover story, "Pot of Gold," while Colorado's Amendment 20, which legalized marijuana in 2000, does not cover the sub...

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Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: The label made me buy medical marijuana

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

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The latest buzz in medicine is "green healthcare," where every affliction will be treated by a new strain of marijuana marketing! Labels to ...

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Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: Branding medical marijuana

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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Welcome to the brave new world of "green" healthcare, where every affliction will be treated by a new strain of marijuana marketing! Labels ...

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Meet the other Candy Girls

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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In this week's Westword, Joel Warner reports on the ganjapreneurs, economic adventurers exploring this state's booming business in medical...

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Cash Crop: More on Colorado's booming medical-marijuana business

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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In this week's Westword, Joel Warner reports on the "ganjapreneurs" cashing in on Colorado's booming medical-marijuana business. In it, he...

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Mile Highs and Lows: Peace in Medicine Center

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Joel Warner, Medical Marijuana, Peace in Medicine Center, Home News

As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resem...

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