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Federal Crackdown Forces the City of Sacramento to Scale Back Its Medical-Marijuana Tax-Revenue Projections

Owners of six Fort Collins medical marijuana businesses are going to court in an effort to derail a voter-approved ordinance that bans marijuana dispensaries and growing operations from the city.

With a deadline looming at the end of this month in the most dramatic federal-state showdown yet in Colorado over marijuana, a state lawmaker has proposed a bill that would raise another cannabis clash.

Workers are using bleach in a bid to beat drug tests at Bay of Plenty businesses. Latest figures from the New Zealand Drug Detection Agency reveal the number of workplace tests in the region has more than doubled in the last year.

Opinions

I would like to clarify a few issues regarding the Health Canada Medicinal Marihuana Access Regulations (MMAR) program.

An Online Town Hall With President Obama Omits a Popular Question About Legalizing Pot Google is more interested in probing our President about how he feels about dancing and late-night snacks than asking about whether people should still be going to jail for smoking a joint.

This Year of the Dragon is starting out on a real high. Monday night, for example, our new so-called "conservative" Spokane City Council agreed unanimously that medical marijuana should be legal and available to those who need it.

"A solution of 6.55 g of 3.4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) as the free base and 2.8 mL formic acid in 150 mL benzene was held at reflux under a Dean Stark trap until no further H2O was generated."

Letters

As a currently serving police officer, I must preface the following commentary with the proviso that the opinions expressed below are simply my own personal opinions and do not represent the position/thoughts/policy of my employer.

As a currently serving police officer, I must preface the following commentary with the proviso that the opinions expressed below are simply my own personal opinions and do not represent the position/thoughts/policy of my employer.

Dear Editor, "Round 2 In Medical Marijuana Fight" (Jan. 26, 2012), seeks to add protection for sick citizens who use cannabis (marijuana) and businesses that help distribute the God-given plant. When this fight is over, the extremely popular plant will be completely RE-legalized and all citizens will be protected against an irrational overzealous federal government which insists on labeling cannabis a Schedule I substance alongside heroin, while meth and cocaine are only Schedule II substances. The historical truth of cannabis will reign over government lies, half-truths, propaganda and discrimination.

Has not a single one of our federal officials traveled to The Netherlands and observed that the coffeeshops are no big deal? ["Weed All About It," WW, Jan. 25, 2012.] The federal marijuana prohibition is bad law that makes kids less safe.

Dear editor: Re: Marijuana legalization is not a pressing need, Jan 23. Legalizing marijuana would indeed create jobs and go to strengthening both our Canadian economy and our international image -- just like when medical marijuana was first announced.

Dear Editor: Regarding "County pursues licensing for medical marijuana" (Jan. 18, The Aspen Times), we do know what the federal government is going to do.

Citizens are learning that the lies, half-truths and propaganda that prohibitionists have been teaching about cannabis (marijuana) are just harmful reefer madness - and Ontario County Sheriff's Deputy John Peck wants to know how to "reverse this troubling trend" (Editorial: "Parents key in lowering teen marijuana use," Jan. 22)? One of the many negative consequences of lying to teens and adults about the plant is that it increases hard drug addiction rates. Does Peck (and other cannabis prohibitionists) believe it's acceptable to label cannabis a Schedule I substance alongside heroin while cocaine and meth are only Schedule II substances?