DPRC in the News

The following is a selection of news reporting on critical RAND Drug Policy Research Center research and commentary.

• Wine, spirits can now be sold in new sizes in US (Fox News)
• What's Going On with the Opioid Crisis? (Liberty)
• Divided On The President, United On Drugs? (1A)
• What are we drinking during the pandemic? (Los Angeles Times)
• Decriminalization trend means 1 in 3 Americans now lives in a state where marijuana is legal (MPR News)
• Politics Monday: Marijuana Reforms Take Root As NC Panel Backs Decriminalization (WFAE 90.7)
• Lockdown Directly Correlates to Binge Drinking (The Science Times)
• Expansion of Marijuana is on the Ballot (NBC Los Angeles)
• If the Affordable Care Act Falls, People Battling Drug Addiction Will Be Hit Especially Hard, Experts Say (Morning Consult)
• Does Alcohol Really Help You Relax? (Psychology Today)
• Study shows heavy drinking is up during the pandemic, especially by women (13 News Now)
• The 'war on drugs' may be a bigger problem than the drugs themselves, experts say (Insider)
• Is the Pandemic Making Us Drink More, or Less? It's Complicated (Salon)
• 2020’s Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measures, Explained (Vox)
• Uncertainty Swirls Around Marijuana Legalization In Montana (Montana Public Radio)
• Americans Are Drinking 14% More Often During Pandemic, Study Finds (NPR)
• Drowning our sorrows? American adults are drinking more alcohol amid COVID-19, study finds (USA Today)
• Heavy drinking by women up 41% during pandemic: Study (Good Morning America)
• Americans say they’re drinking alcohol 14 percent more often in the pandemic (Washington Post)
• Oregon Voters Reframe The War on Drugs (Lund Report)
• Voters Rejecting the War on Drugs Is a Win for Public Health (Wired)
• Cocaine, meth and weed prices have skyrocketed in Miami. Here’s why (Miami Herald)
• An Overlooked 2020 Election Moment Signals a Change in America’s Marijuana Policy (Inverse)
• To cope with pandemic stress, many women turned to alcohol, continuing a worrying trend (NBC News)
• Booze, weed, gambling, porn, candy, sloth: Will our pandemic-acquired vices hang around after COVID-19 wanes? (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Why the pandemic is inspiring many to give up alcohol (Salon)
• Americans are consuming more alcohol amid coronavirus pandemic, study finds (Hill)
• Americans over 30 have been drinking more during the coronavirus pandemic, research shows (CNN Health )
• Alcohol consumption and other mental health problems up during COVID‐19: Study (Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Weekly)
• Women, Opioids, Benzos, and Alcohol (Psychology Today)
• Clobbering Purdue Pharma Makes Drug Warriors Feel Good, but It Won't Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths (Reason)
• Heavy drinking is killing women in record numbers, and experts fear a coronavirus-related spike (Nola)
• Pandemic-Fueled Drinking (Bloomberg Television)
• Binge drinking is increasing, especially in women during COVID-19 (News-Medical.net)
• Opening More Bottles Than Usual? You're Not Alone (Newser)
• Alcohol abuse on the rise locally and nationally during COVID-19 (LA Crosse Tribune)
• Study says Americans are Drinking More During the Pandemic (Spectrum News 1)
• COVID-Drinking Trends Are No Laughing Matter (MedicalDaily.com)
• Americans really are drinking more during the pandemic (LiveScience)
• More Americans Are Binge Drinking During Pandemic: How to Cope Without Alcohol (Healthline)
• Survey shows increase in alcohol use during COVID-19 pandemic (Healio)
• Alcohol consumption surging amid pandemic – particularly among women (Philly Voice)
• Americans consuming more alcohol during pandemic, study suggests (WESH-TV)
• New Study: Increase in Alcohol Consumption, Especially in Women (KNSD (NBC), San Diego)
• Alcohol consumption spiked during COVID-19 pandemic, new study shows (NJ.com)
• Alcohol consumption has surged during coronavirus pandemic, especially 'heavy drinking' among women: study (Fox News)
• Study says coronavirus pandemic drives women to drink (Boston Herald)
• You aren’t the only one who’s been drinking more since the pandemic began. Especially if you’re a woman. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Americans Are Drinking More During the Pandemic, Study Finds—But Perhaps Not as Much as You'd Think (Time)
• Americans Have Turned To Alcohol During The Coronavirus Pandemic, And It’s Concerning. (Forbes)
• Alcohol consumption in U.S. rose 14% during pandemic, RAND finds (UPI)
• Alcohol Consumption on the rise during the pandemic in the United States (translated from the Frence) (Agence France-Presse)
• Alcohol consumption rising sharply during pandemic, especially among women (ABC News)
• Pandemic Has More Americans Turning to Booze (Health Day)
• Alcohol Consumption Has Risen Sharply During COVID-19 Shutdown, Study Shows (CBS LA)
• End the War on Drugs (Reason)
• Oregon Marijuana Sales Break Another Record Amid Coronavirus (Marijuana Moment)
• Study Shows Few Clinicians Prescribe Buprenorphine to Patients With Opioid Use Disorder (Pew Center)
• The US Just Had Its Deadliest Year for Overdose Deaths (Vice)
• Wuhan’s Other Epidemic (City Journal)
• Vermont May Be the Next State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Sales (Tax Foundation)
• CDC Report: Drug Overdose Deaths Jumped to Record High of Nearly 71,000 in 2019 (Spectrum Online)
• Aurora Cannabis Is Still on a Death March to Zero (Investor Place)
• One Drink, Too Many? Drinking at any level increases cancer risk. (Cancer Today)
• Mexico City Fentanyl Seizures May Point to Shifting Trafficking Trends (InSight Crime)
• Big Pharma: The International Reach of the Opioid Crisis (Harvard Political Review)
• Deaths, Despair Tied to Drug Dependence Are Accelerating Amid COVID-19 (MDEdge)
• Opioid Lawsuits Revived as Some Courts Reopen (The Crime Report)
• Damage From OxyContin Continues to Be Revealed (New York Times)
• Estonia Won Its War on Fentanyl, Then Things Got Worse (Associated Press)
• Want to Know if a New Drug Crisis Is Emerging? (Scientific American)
• One Drink, Too Many? Drinking at any level increases cancer risk. (Cancer Today)
• AMLO's Pacifist Speech Emboldens the Mexican Cartels - translated from the Spanish (Deutsche Welle - Spanish)
• Report Shows High Demand for Treating Vets with Substance Use and Mental Health Problems (Scientific American)
• Substance Use May Keep Veterans from Seeking Mental Health Help, Report Shows (Connecting Vets)
• Estonia Won Its War on Fentanyl, Then Things Got Worse (Associated Press)
• Want to Know if a New Drug Crisis Is Emerging? (Scientific American)
• Coronavirus Is Leading to Shortages of Fentanyl And Meth (Vice)
• Exclusive: Huge Fentanyl Haul Seized in Asia's Biggest-Ever Drugs Bust (Reuters)
• Coronavirus Pandemic 'threatens to Make the Opioid Crisis Substantially Worse' (Yahoo Finance)
• Frequent Alcohol Testing Linked to Reduction in Repeated DUI Arrests (Addiction Professional)
• 40 Americans Are Dying Every Month From Taking this New, Legal Opioid (Vox)
• Fentanyl: the other epidemic in China that is "impossible" to stop - translated from the Spanish (Diario El Sol, Argentina)
• Op-Ed: Get Big Agriculture Out of Cannabis Farming in California (Los Angeles Times)
• Access to Medical Marijuana Tied to Reduced Workers' Comp Claims (Reuters)
• Editorial: Deaths? What Opioid Deaths? 9 Illinois Democrats Voted Against the Ban on Fentanyl-Like Drugs (Chicago Tribune)
• To Prevent Drunk Driver Relapses, Test, Test and Test (Kane's Beverage News Daily)
• China May Still be Selling Addictive Fentanyl Internationally (LegalReader.com)
• The Cartels Are Going to Innovate and Produce a Purer Fentanyl (translated from the Spanish) (Duetsche Welle)
• Drug Overdose Deaths Fell in 2018 — But Were Still Near Record Highs (Vox)
• Drug Overdose Deaths Fell in 2018 — But Were Still Near Record Highs (Vox)
• How the Pandemic Is Restricting Health Options for People Who Use Drugs (Filter Magazine)
• Intubated Patients Need Fentanyl. The DEA Had Recently Cut Production (Filter Magazine)
• No Federal Relief: Cannabis Businesses Cry for Help As Coronavirus Batters Industry (NBC News Online)
• Coronavirus: Cartels Affected by Global Containment (translated from the French) (Le JDD (Journal du Dimanche), France)
• State-run Marijuana Stores? Proponents — Including Rhode Island’s governor — Say It’s an Idea Worth Exploring (Boston Globe)
• What the U.S. and Canada Can Learn From Other Countries to Combat the Opioid Crisis (Brookings)
• One Big Roadblock to Opioid Addiction Treatment (HealthDay)
• Sinaloa Cartel Drug Traffickers Explain Why Coronavirus Is Very Bad for Their Business (Vice)
• What We Can Learn From a Tiny Baltic Country's Two-Decade Fentanyl Crisis (Vice)
• CAPITOL PRESSROOM: Marijuana legalization through a public health lens (WCNY (PBS) - Syracuse, NY)
• 1,000 people sent me their addiction treatment stories. Here’s what I learned. (Vox)
• Kirk: Opt-Out Of Cannabis Industry (MyMotherLode.com)
• Mexican Drug Cartels Are Violent — But They're Not Terrorists (War on the Rocks)
• Medical Marijuana Linked to Small Decline in Workers' Comp Claims (BizJournals)
• State-Owned Marijuana Stores for Rhode Island? (NACS)
• New York State Bar Association Supports Recreational Cannabis (Culture Magazine)
• State Bar Association Recommends Legalizing Recreational Marijuana (The Record)
• Does Legalized Pot Reduce Workers' Comp Claims? (WorkersCompensation.com)
• Synthetic opioids like fentanyl ravaged the US during the last decade. They may do even more damage to Asia in the next (CNN)
• Too Many Drugs, Too Little Data (Route Fifty)
• A New Piece of the Opioid Crisis Origin Story, Revealed (Marketplace)
• NYS Bar Releases Report Supporting Legalization of Adult Recreational Marijuana Use (Syracuse.com)
• RAND: Curtailing Illicit Pot Market Will Take ‘Years’ (Boston Herald)
• Pick Your Poison: How Legal Weed Could Impact Other Vices (WESA (NPR))
• Artificial Intelligence Could Help Catch Illegal Opioid Sales Online (Electronics Maker)
• AI Can Help Find Illegal Opioid Sellers Online. And Wildlife Traffickers. And Counterfeits. (Vox Recode)
• China Cracks Down on Fentanyl. But Is It Enough to End the U.S. Epidemic? (New York Times)
• Pushed into the Shadows: How Punishing Pregnant Women for Opioid Use Leads to More Birth Complications (ABC News)
• Opioid-treatment maker again accused of anti-competitive practices (Columbus Dispatch)
• Why the War on Drugs Must End (The Hill)
• Op-Ed: Illinois cannabis taxes among nation’s highest, could keep black market thriving (The Center Square)
• Few PCPs Have Waivers to Prescribe Buprenorphine (Medscape)
• Only 10% of eligible primary care providers can prescribe medication to treat patients for opioid addiction (Fierce HealthCare)
• Even with legal pot sales, Vermont’s black market could stay strong (VTDigger)
• Inside the Walmart of Weed: From Rural Canada, Big Marijuana Seeks to Dominate Global Market (Boston Globe)
• When Pregnant Women Who Abuse Opioids Are Treated Like Criminals, Their Babies Suffer (Los Angeles Times)
• Meth Is Cheaper, More Potent, and More Common than Ever (Vice)
• A New Study Found Marijuana Legalization Leads to More Problematic Use (Vox)
• Why China's Conviction of 9 Fentanyl Traffickers Is Unlikely to Stop Exports to the U.S. (Time)
• Fatal Substance Found in Vaping Products (Payson Roundup)
• 13 Fascinating Findings From Chronic Pain Research In 2019 (Blogarama)
• Study: California Medical Marijuana Programs Attracted Past Users (Addiction Professional)
• Obscure State Regulations Gave Birth to the Opioid Crisis (Quartz)
• How Young Adults Are Misusing Medical Marijuana Prescriptions (French Toast)
• Many Young Adults Misusing Medical Marijuana, Study Suggests (HealthDay)
• First-of-its-kind Study Concludes that 1996 Release of OxyContin Played Major Role in the Opioid Crisis (Washingtom Examiner)
• The Toll of Fentanyl, Heroin, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine (AACC)
• US Citizen Indicted for Narcotics Distribution in Exchange for Bitcoin (CoinTelegraph)
• With Fentanyl Use Rising in California, We Must Treat Addiction for What It Is: a Disease, Not a Lifestyle Choice (Cal Matters)
• Fujimori Reduced Cocales by 65% During His Presidential Term (translated from Spanish) (Expreso Peru Online)
• Criminalizing Pregnant Women for Drug Abuse Is a Terrible Idea (MedPage Today)
• Mexico Has Reached a Turning Point: Will It Destroy the Cartels or Itself? (AZCentral)
• Criminalizing Pregnant Women for Drug Abuse Is a Terrible Idea (Pain News Network)
• How To Have The Marijuana Conversation This Thanksgiving (Fresh Toast)
• Bridging the Gap: Lawmakers and Researchers Come Together to Address WV's Ongoing Drug Epidemic (The State Journal)
• China, Fentanyl, And The New Opium War (Daily Wire)
• If Biden Won't Support Legalization Until We Know Whether Marijuana Is a 'Gateway Drug,' He Will Never Support Legalization (Reason)
• New Drug Overdose Data Capture Earliest Days of Fentanyl’s Deadly Westward Expansion (Los Angeles Times)
• Marijuana and Vaping: Shadowy Past, Dangerous Present (New York Times)
• The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring (New York Times)
• Someone Tell Joe Biden: Marijuana Is Not a Gateway Drug (The Appeal)
• THC Products Were Involved in Many of the Vaping-Related Illness Deaths, Officials Say (Vox)
• With Safe Injection Sites, ‘Somebody Has to Go First.’ It Could Be Philadelphia. (Pew)
• Leni Robredo Eyes Talks with Beijing vs Chinese Drug Ring (Inquirer.net)
• Punishing Pregnant Opioid Users Increases Risks to Newborn: Study (The Crime Report)
• Study: How Punitive Policies Harm Pregnant Drug Users (Filter)
• States that Penalize Pregnant Women for Drug Abuse See More Newborns with Withdrawl Issues (MEAWW)
• US States That Deem Addicted Pregnant Women 'Criminals' Have Sicker Babies (Daily Mail)
• Babies Suffer Under Punitive Policies for Maternal Drug Use (MedpageToday)
• China Sentences 9 Drug Dealers to Jail, China and US Still Have Long Way to Go Towards Cooperation on Fentanyl (translated from the Chinese) (Voice of American Chinese)
• Philadelphia Supervised Injection Site Wins Legal Fight Against Justice Department (New York Times)
• Cities Are Considering Safe Injections Sites. A Federal Judge Just Said They're Legal. (Vox)
• Legalization of Marijuana for Adults Poses Problems for People Dealing with Teens (Stock Daily Dish)
• There’s Medication for Teenage Opioid Addiction. Why Is It So Hard to Get? (Healthline)
• Flailing on Fentanyl (Washington Post)
• 'Out of Control': Meth Is Making a Big Comeback in the U.S. (Yahoo! Finance)
• Joint US-Chinese Operations Against Fentanyl Led to Trafficking Gang's Downfall (Inverse)
• DEA warns of deadly fake Rx drugs from Mexican cartels (Securing Industry)
• The solution to America's THC vaping catastrophe may be in Canada (Inverse)
• The Vaping Illness Outbreak Is Strengthening the Argument for Legalizing Marijuana (Vox)
• What We Can Learn from Germany About the Opioid Crisis (Pain News Network)
• Marijuana Legalization Plan Shows Sanders Is No Socialist (American Prospect)
• The Rise and Fall of an Eagle Scout's Deadly Fentanyl Empire (Associated Press)
• Experts Debate Risks of Alcohol Consumption (Healio)
• Regulation and the Opioid Epidemic (Regulatory Review)
• Around the World in Five Cannabis Markets (Spinoff)
• Hispanics Continue to Bear the Brunt of U.S. Drug Policies (Dallas Morning News)
• Meth Biggest Overdose Killer in Some States, New Report Says (Epoch Times)
• Ten-Fold Rise in Deaths from Fentanyl, Other Synthetic Opioids (Medscape)
• 9 questions about marijuana legalization you were too embarrassed to ask (Vox)
• Americans Spent Nearly $150 Billion On Illegal Drugs In 2016 (Forbes)
• US Cannabis Expert Explains Our Reform Options (Newshub)
• Chinese Nationals Arrested for Trafficking Fentanyl Into US (Epoch Times)
• Mexico Has a Potential $2 Billion Cannabis Market Coming (equities.com)
• What It's Like to Report On the Mexican Drug Wars (Vice)
• The Opioid Crisis: Policy Solutions That Could Make an Impact (Knowledge@Wharton)
• CBP's Chemical Screening Devices Inadequate as Opioids Claim Another 30,000 Lives in 2018 (Homeland Security Today)
• Is Marijuana the New Zucchini? (VT Digger)
• How America’s Opioid Epidemic Could Get Even Worse (Vox)
• Opioid Epidemic Requires Rethinking Federal Drug Policy: RAND (The Crime Report)
• Tracing Fentanyl's Journey To The United States (WGBH, Boston)
• 10 People Die Due to Drug Overdose in 26 Hours in Ohio (Epoch Times)
• Fentanyl Is Here to Stay. So What Can We Do About It? (Alternet)
• Does marijuana lead to violence? Experts say there’s no clear link (PunditFact)
• Marijuana and Meth Are Getting More Popular in America, But Cocaine Has Declined (ScienceNews)
• Veteran Drug War Journalist Talks About Mexico's Narco Problem, Possible Solutions (Mexico News Daily)
• The Drug Problem: Our Biggest Curse (PhilStar Global)
• MEDICAL MARIJUANA Mergers, Massive Companies Inevitable, Policy Expert Says (CNHI News)
• How America’s Opioid Epidemic Could Get Even Worse (Courier Journal)
• Should Heroin Be Used to Treat Addiction? (Pain News Network)
• Author details ‘the worst drug crisis in American history’ (Yahoo! Finance)
• Reason Foundation’s Drug Policy Newsletter, September 2019 (Reason)
• Fentanyl Is Here to Stay. So What Can We Do About It? (AlterNet)
• Researchers Find That Synthetic Opioid Use Is on the Rise (Legal Reader)
• This New Program Lets Utah DUI Offenders Keep Their Driver Licenses in Exchange for Sobriety (Salt Lake Tribune)
• World Update: New Report Says Methamphetamine Across the United States Getting Stronger and Cheaper (BBC)
• Spending on Illicit Drugs: About $150 billion in United States (Politico)
• Study: Americans Spent $146 Billion on Illegal Drugs in 2016 (U.S. News & World Report)
• America Has a Huge -- and Very Costly -- Drug Habit (Health Day)
• Synthetic Drugs Will Change the Global Drug Trade Forever (Vice)
• The Brazen Way a Chinese Company Pumped Fentanyl Ingredients Into the U.S. (Atlantic)
• The Heat: Opioid crisis (CGTN America)
• Top U.S. Think Tank Sees No Gauge of Success in PH Drug War (INQUIRER)
• Congressional Report on 'Deaths of Despair' Highlights the Hazards of Drug Prohibition (Reason)
• Is Weed for Fun or Medicine? The Government Might Finally Decide (Vice)
• Guest Commentary: More on marijuana (Brookline)
• Big Pharma Flinches in Opioids Suits: a J&J Loss in Okla. and a Sackler Bid (JDSupra)
• Fentanyl, the Threat to Mexican Cartels (translated from the Spanish) (24 Mexico)
• China Fentanyl Ban Yet to Hamper Mexico’s Crime Groups (InSight Crime)
• Have we reached a humane alternative to the war on drugs? (Big Think)
• America’s Opioid Crisis Could Take a Turn for the Worse If Fentanyl Expands (ZME Science)
• Morning Roundup: Sept. 3, 2019 (The Fix)
• Synthetic Opioid Crisis Requires Innovative Action (Healio Psychiatry)
• 'Nontraditional Strategies' Needed to Address Fentanyl Overdoses, Researchers Say (Becker's Hospital Review)
• Opioid Overdoses Drop, But Fentanyl Crisis ‘Likely to Get Worse’ (Pain News Network)
• How Innovative Responses to Prohibition Set Off a Deadly Fentanyl Explosion (Reason)
• Expert: Here's 1 Clear Way to Fight the Fentanyl Epidemic (Yahoo! Lifestyle)
• Former Heroin Addict Celebrates a Year of Being Clean (Epoch Times)
• The Stoner Behind a Mexican Marijuana Industry that Won't Get You High (OZY)
• Americans Are Spending Nearly $150 Billion on Illicit Drugs Each Year (Emerald Magazine)
• Amazon Fires, Drug Trends and Aggressive Spiders: This Week in Science (Battalion)
• Study: Washington Teens Used Less Marijuana Following Legalization (Morning Call)
• New Report Reveals How Much Americans Spend on Illegal Drugs (Cannabis Magazine)
• Americans Spend Almost $150 Billion a Year on Illicit Drugs (24/7 Wall Street)
• US citizens spent $150 Billion on Cannabis, Cocaine, Heroin and Crystal Meth in 2016 (Illawarra Mercury Online)
• For Methamphetamine, Other Drugs, Reliable Use Estimates Hard to Come By (Addiction Professional)
• Expert: Here's 1 Clear Way to Fight the Fentanyl Epidemic (Yahoo! Lifestyle)
• Why Researchers Are Ill-Equipped to Study Surging Meth Harms (Filter)
• Mark Kleiman, Who Fought to Lift Ban on Marijuana, Dies at 68 (New York Times)
• Panel Seeks Bipartisan Security Solutions for Opioids Shipments (CQ)
• Here’s why eliminating the illegal drug trade will be impossible: It’s a $150 billion-a-year industry (National Sentinel)
• Americans spend nearly $150 billion on illicit drugs each year (Healio - Psychiatric Annals Online)
• Americans Spent As Much On Illegal Drugs As On Alcohol (MedicalResearch.com)
• For Methamphetamine, Other Drugs, Reliable Use Estimates Hard to Come By (Addiction Professional)
• Remembering a Trailblazer in Criminal Justice Policy (The American Prospect)
• Americans Spend Nearly As Much on Illegal Drugs As They Do on Booze, Which Shows What a Ripoff Prohibition Is (Reason)
• Illegal Drugs Are a $150-Billion-a-Year Business (Washington Free Beacon)
• CDC: More than 68,000 drug overdose deaths in 2018 (WLNS.com)
• New Report Reveals How Much Americans Spent on Illicit Drugs Over 10 Years (High Times)
• Americans spend $150 billion a year on illicit drugs (ZME Science)
• Americans Are Now Spending Nearly $150 Billion Each Year on Illegal Drugs (Earth.com)
• Illicit drugs in the US: Big money spent on marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine (Global Dispatch)
• Drug Addicts Spend $150 Billion a Year in the United States (translated from the Spanish) (EFE)
• 'They Thought They Were Buying Fentanyl': How Fentanyl Invaded the U.S. (Yahoo Finance)
• Does the Drop in US Drug Deaths Mean the Opioid Crisis Is Ending? (New Scientist)
• Emergency department residents drive buprenorphine waiver campaign (M.D.Alert)
• Drug overdose deaths drop after record high in 2017 (CQ News)
• Is It Even Possible to Smoke $40,000 of Weed in a Month? (Leafly)
• Marijuana Should Be Legal, But There Are Still Good Reasons to Curtail Pot Advertising (Los Angeles Times)
• ‘Czar of Pot’ Professor Emeritus Dies at 68, Remembered for Public Policy Expertise (Daily Bruin)
• Joe Biden Is Coming for Your Legal Weed (Vice)
• Winning the 'Drug War'? U.S. Think Tank Says Effectiveness of Violent Campaign 'unclear' (PhilStar)
• PH ‘friend’ China Is Top Source of Drugs, Precursors – Rand Corp Report (INQUIRER)
• Do Mexican Drug Cartels Make $500 Billion a Year? (Washington Post)
• Gee Whiz: Testing of Sewage Confirms Rise in Marijuana Use (Associated Press)
• Pros and Cons of Various Regulatory Approaches To Cannabis (BNN Bloomberg Online)
• Opioid Death Rate Rose Despite Medical-Marijuana Laws, Study Finds (Wall Street Journal)
• Greensboro Deputy Police Chief Will Talk Opioid Crisis in DC (WFMY 2 News)
• Medical Pot Laws No Answer for US Opioid Deaths, Study Finds (Associated Press)
• Crossing The Line: The Busy Reader's Guide To 9 Facets Of The U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis (Forbes)
• Merlot versus marijuana: Wine Country feuds over measure to grow pot (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Where in Illinois Will People Be Able to Use Marijuana? Local Governments Will Decide (Belleville News-Democrat)
• Illinois Can Be The Next Adult-Legal Cannabis State If It Can Learn From Its Medical Program (Forbes)
• Teenagers Less Likely to Use Recreational Cannabis in States Where It Is Legal, Study Finds (Independent.co.uk)
• Drug-Injection Sites Are Battleground in Fight Against Opioid Overdoses (The Wall Street Journal)
• Every Town Should Ban Pot in Public Places (Chicago Sun Times)
• How a Bogus Anti-Weed Stat Seeped into the Mainstream (Vice)
• Here's What Legal Pot Means for Your Local Dope Dealer (Crain's Chicago Business)
• The Midwest Is About to Have a Weed Revolution (Vice)
• Cannabis and Tobacco/Nicotine Co-Use Common Among Young Adults (MedicalResearch.com)
• A New Study Backs Up a Lifesaving Approach to the Opioid Epidemic (Vox)
• Young adult pot use increases if they live near signed dispensaries, study says (Press of Atlantic City)
• China Says North American Marijuana Legalization Results in Increase in Marijuana Smuggling Cases (translated from the Chinese) (Voice of America Chinese)
• Access Leads to More Kids Smoking Pot (KIDO Talk Radio)
• Insider NJ’s Morning Intelligence Briefing: 6/21/2019 (Insider NJ)
• Cannabis use by young adults rose with ready access to dispensaries, visible signage: U.S. Study (GrowthOp)
• MS ranks near the bottom of yet another list. (WKNN-FM)
• If you live near a marijuana business, you smoke young marijuana (translated from the Korean) (Korea Daily News)
• RAND: More Marijuana Stores Linked to Higher Use Among Young Adults (KFI AM 640)
• Today: To Build or Not to Build in Wildfire Zones? (Los Angeles Times)
• Living Near Legal "Pot Shops" Increases Use Among Youth, RAND Study Finds (Santa Monica Lookout)
• Adults Staying Near Medical Marijuana Stores Use It More (MedIndia)
• Study: Young Adults Living Near Dispensaries With Ads Consume More Cannabis (Cannabis Now)
• Study: Youth Living Near Marijuana Dispensaries More Likely to Consume the Drug (Huffs & Puffs)
• The Darkweb is the global coffee shop (Stand.nl)
• Board Rejects Marijuana as Treatment for Depression and Insomnia (Columbus Dispatch)
• Cannabis Canada Daily: Is the next wave of legalization in headed for a rough start? (BNN Bloomberg Online)
• Research Posits Reformulating Opioid to Deter Abuse May Have Led to Unintended Consequences (Pain Medicine News)
• Report: China Unlikely to Curb Fentanyl Exports (Politico)
• Study on Marijuana Legalization Finds Uptick in Drug Abuse, Decrease in Chronic Pain Reports (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Opioid Overdose Deaths Decline When Pharmacists Can Dispense Naloxone (Reuters)
• Uruguay goes global with cannabis (PRI)
• Out of the Shadows — or Back In? (Dope Magazine)
• Dispensing Opioid Antidote Without a Prescription Might Save Lives (HealthDay)
• Opioid overdose deaths fell by up to a THIRD after states made it legal for pharmacies to sell naloxone over the counter, study finds (Daily Mail)
• Cannabis Wire (Cannabis Wire)
• Deconstructed: Fentanyl (Frame Media)
• China To Close Loophole On Fentanyl After U.S. Calls For Opioid Action (NPR)
• Opioid Treatment Grew With W.Va. Expanded Medicaid (U.S. News & World Report)
• Nations Are Reforming Illicit Drug Policies, but China Is Unlikely to Curb Fentanyl Exports (Health Europa)
• China Set to Regulate All Fentanyl-Related Drugs (Al Jazeera - English)
• Lawmakers Push to Allow Banks to Work with Marijuana Companies (FoxNews.com)
• The Public Health Case for Legalizing Marijuana (National Affairs)
• California Bill Could Triple the Number of Cannabis Retailers (KCBS Radio)
• Cassidy Puffs Up What Stats Say About Teen Marijuana Use (Politifact)
• Researchers Discuss Worsening Trend of Concurrent Marijuana, Tobacco Use (Addiction Professional)
• Using Cannabis and Tobacco Together Is a Health Hazard, Research Proves (Cannabis Health Insider)
• 5 Things Responsible for the Opioid Crisis — Besides Big Pharma (Deseret News)
• In Push for Marijuana Legalization, 2020 Democrats Side with Industry (The Washington Post)
• Don't Gasp, But Latest Pot Bill Makes Sense for Texans (Houston Chronicle)
• Let Philly Try Safe Drug-Injection Sites (National Review)
• Cannabis Conundrum (The Caucus)
• Can Americans treat drug use as a disease? (Medium)
• Is Marijuana a Gateway to Opioids? (Reason)
• Recapping the 2019 North American Cannabis Summit (Boston Globe)
• Catherine Antley: The costs of marijuana commercialization (VTDigger)
• China's Fentanyl Controls Could Reduce Flow of Deadly Opioids to US (ABC News - Channel 9)
• China Agrees to White House Demand to End Fentanyl Exports to U.S. (Aleteia)
• US Hails China's Crackdown on Fentanyl (China Daily)
• Study: OxyContin Reformulation Led to Rise in Hepatitis C Rates (U.S. News and World Report)
• Opioid Danger to Newborns Varies by Region (HealthDay)
• The Illicit Market Is Eating the Legal Marijuana Industry’s Lunch. One Proposed Solution Is to Cut Taxes (89.3 KPCC)
• Are Canadians Safe in Mexico? This Narco Says Violence at Tourist Hot Spots Has Never Been So Bloody (The Star)
• Federal Drug Task Force Arrests 61 in Dark Net Opioid Bust (The Washington Free Beacon)
• Experts: Gillibrand’s Opioid Legislation Is Not 'the Right Way to Do It' (Yahoo! Finance)
• Is Alex Berenson Trolling Us With His Anti-Weed Book? (Rolling Stone)
• Did Marijuana Use in Colorado Spike After Legalization? (Politifact)
• If We Make Marijuana Legal, We Have to Protect our Young People (Hartford Courant)
• Portland’s $6 Eighth-Ounces Are the Future of Cannabis (Pot Portal)
• Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think? (The New Yorker)
• Marijuana Legalization Means a Buyer’s Market (Cannabis Now)
• Could Safe Injection Sites be the Answer to the Opioid Crisis? (The Crime Report)
• "Yellow Peril" - How Blaming China for Fentanyl Continues a Racist Legacy (Filter)
• Teen Pot-Smoking Drops in Washington State after Legalization (HealthDay)
• Study: Adolescent Pot Use Dropped After Washington Legalized (wn.com)
• The Strongest Evidence Yet for a Highly Controversial Addiction Treatment (The Atlantic)
• The Marijuana Advertising Double Standard Is Stifling Our Industry (Green Entrepreneur)
• CT's Window to Rake in Big Bucks From Pot Could Be Closing (The CT Mirror)
• Support for N.D. Marijuana Initiative Outweighs Opposition, Poll Finds (Route Fifty)
• Buying guns and drugs on the dark web is 'as easy as buying on eBay' finds RAND Europe (Cambridge Independent)
• Marijuana on the Ballot: What States Will Consider in November (Route Fifty)
• The Downside of Legalization (The Globe and Mail)
• Hepatitis C Cases Spiked After Oxycontin Reformulated to Deter Opioid Abuse (Modern Healthcare)
• 'Safer' OxyContin Pills Drove a RISE in Hepatitis C Rates (Daily Mail)
• Changes in Opioids May Have Driven Hepatitis C Infections (CQ)
• Making OxyContin 'Tamper Proof' Helped Spread Hepatitis C (HealthDay)
• Did OxyContin Reformulation Boost HCV Rates? (Medpage Today)
• Abuse-Resistant OxyContin Fueled the Spread of Hepatitis C (POZ)
• Study shows Purdue's switch to 'abuse-deterrent' OxyContin helped drive a spike in hepatitis C infections (STAT)
• New Problem Emerges From Altering Opioids: Hep C Rates Soared When People Switched To Injecting Heroin (Kaiser Health News)
• Rise in HCV Infection Rates Linked to OxyContin Reformulation (MDedge)
• Reformulated OxyContin Led to Spike in Hepatitis C Infections (Pharmafile)
• California's Multistep Marijuana Permit Process Rightly Impeded Weed Rollout (Daily Bruin)
• What Alex Berenson’s new book gets wrong about marijuana, psychosis, and violence (Vox)
• Scientists And Experts Say Anti-Marijuana Book Misunderstood Their Research (The Fresh Toast)
• Survey: Most Medical Cannabis Users Drive While High (Pain News Network)
• States Struggle to Address Issue of Driving While High on Cannabis (the fix)
• Does Legalizing Marijuana Cause 'Sharp Increases in Murders and Aggravated Assaults'? (Reason)
• Josh Decatur: In Support of a Tax and Regulate System for Marijuana (Brattleboro Reformer)
• Washington State Teens Are Toking Less Since Cannabis Was Legalized, New Study Says (The Seattle Times)
• New Study: Pot Use Among Washington Teens Fell Following Legalization (the Stranger)
• Teen Marijuana Use Actually Declined In Washington State After Legalization, Study Finds (WM)
• Medical Officials Oppose Effort to Legalize Recreational Use of Marijuana (The State Journal-Register)
• Could Prescription Heroin Help Stem Opioid Deaths In The U.S.? (HuffPost)
• Should We Embrace Prescription Heroin To Treat Heroin Addiction? (Wisconsin Public Radio)
• Summit Drug OD Data Offer Hope, But Struggle Continues (Akron Beacon Journal)
• Marijuana Legalization Seems Headed to Minnesota, But It's Unclear When (StarTribune)
• Maine Taps Los Angeles Consulting Firm to Help Write Recreational-Marijuana Rules (Press Herald)
• Providing Supervised Access to Medical-Grade Heroin for Heavy Users (Scitech Europa)
• Research Backs Prescription Heroin, Safe Injection Sites (The Crime Report)
• Almost 30% of Opioid Prescriptions Don't Have This Medical Explanation (Healthline)
• The U.S. vs. Supervised Injection Sites (WHYY-TV)
• Medical Marijuana Goes on Sale in Ohio, and Pain Patients Wait in Line (NBC News)
• Cluster of California Fentanyl Overdoses Alarms Authorities (NBC News)
• How Do Illegal Drugs Get into Remote Australia? Check with the Flight Attendants. (The Washington Post)
• Supervised Injection Site Implementation Faces Uphill Climb (CQ News)
• Do Supervised Drug Consumption Facilities Save Lives? (The Washington Post)
• Is America Ready For Prescription Heroin? (NPR)
• A big new review of the evidence finds that prescription heroin works (Vox)
• Feds Issue Scathing Response to Denver's Supervised Injection Ordinance (9News)
• New Approach to Opioid Crisis: Supervised Heroin Injection Programs? (HealthDay)
• An Awakening: 24/7 Sobriety Program Credited with Turning Lives Around (Omaha World-Herald)
• The Overdose Crisis Is So Bad That Some Experts Want To Prescribe Heroin To Treat Addiction (Buzzfeed)
• OxyContin Abuse Deterrent Formulation Linked to HCV Surge (MD Magazine)
• Add Hepatitis C to the List of Unintended Consequences of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids (Cato Institute)
• North American Cannabis Summit Takes Place in Los Angeles (KABC-TV)
• Safe Injection Sites Aren't Safe or Legal (Boston Globe)
• U.S.-China Fentanyl Pact Is Not Expected to Produce Immediate Results (The Washington Post)
• America's New Opioid Law 'is Historic in Its Breadth' (Yahoo News)
• Is Medically Prescribed Heroin the Answer to the Opioid Crisis? (HealthLine)
• Cannabis Debate Takes Shape This Week (Rutland Herald)
• Here's What's Behind Mexico's Radical Move Toward Legalizing Marijuana During Its War on Drugs (Los Angeles Times)
• How High Is Too High to Drive? (Kaiser Health News)
• Opioids and Suicides, a Worrisome Relationship (translated from the Spanish) (Hola Doctor)
• A Cannabis Futurist Foresees Dirt-Cheap Weed, THC Appetizers, and a Big Impact from Canada (Philly Inquirer)
• Brazen Fentanyl Sales Continue Online as China Vows Crackdown (Washington Examiner)
• Prescribing Supervised Heroin Injection Tied to Lesser Harms (HepMag.com)
• Trump Touts Fentanyl Deal With China. Experts Say Hold Your Applause. (Newsy)
• Prescription Heroin Is Actually a Good Idea, Analysis Shows. But It Probably Won’t Happen. (Vice News)
• Brainstorm Health: Prescription Heroin, Joy of Cooking, Health Care Spending (Fortune)
• Can Opioid Addiction Be Treated With Heroin? (The Washington Free Beacon)
• Report: It's Time To Start Clinical Trials On Medical-Grade Heroin Treatment (WESA 90.5)
• New Approach to Opioid Crisis: Supervised Heroin Injection Programs? (The HealthCast)
• Fighting the Opioid Epidemic with Opioids: Prescription Heroin to Treat Addiction (Philly Voice)
• Morning Update: Good Morning, Dear Void (Buzzfeed.News)
• It's a Really Good Time to Be a Weed Smuggler (Vice)
• China's Vow to Curb Fentanyl Won't End US Opioid Crisis: Experts (AFP)
• RAND: U.S. Should Pilot Supervised Injection Sites, Heroin-Assisted Treatment (Fierce Healthcare)
• Heroin-Assisted Treatment Successful in Foreign Countries, Should Be Considered in US (Healio)
• Prescribing Heroin To Treat Addiction Is Being Proposed By Some Experts (Erbilia)
• Trump Calls China’s Fentanyl Regulation Promise a “Game Changer.” It’s Not. (Filter)
• Marijuana Seizures Plummet in US and Mexico. Will Illegal Profits Follow? (InSight Crime)
• Billionaire Partner of Imprisoned El Chapo Consolidates Empire (BNN Bloomberg)
• Pressure Mounts as Fentanyl from China Floods into the US (Asia Times)
• Fentanyl Smuggled from China Is Killing Thousands of Americans (Los Angeles Times)
• New Opioid Legislation Passed by Congress (Everyday Health)
• Chinese Leaders Must Stifle Fentanyl Trafficking: Senators (Bloomberg BNA)
• We Need to Talk About Brett Kavanaugh and Alcohol (Vox)
• Fentanyl crisis: Is China a major source of illegal drugs? (BBC News)
• Why Amsterdam Is Jealous of America's Rising Weed Industry (CNBC)
• Nearly 30 Percent of Opioid Prescriptions Lacked Medical Reason for Use, Analysis Finds (USA Today)
• Nearly 30% of All Opioid Prescriptions Lack Medical Explanation (CNN)
• The Future of MA Legalization Deliberated (The Suffolk Journal)
• Feds Funding Study of Cannabis as Opioid Alternative (Pain News Network)
• SPH Hosts Forum to Explore Future of Post-Legalization of Recreational Marijuana in Massachusetts (The Daily Free Press)
• Study: 28.5 Percent of the Time Doctors Don't Write Down Why They're Prescribing Opioids (Boston Globe)
• Does Robust Documentation Decrease Opioid Prescribing Rates? (Medical Bag)
• Fentanyl Changed the Opioid Epidemic. Now It’s Getting Worse (Rolling Stone)
• As Smaller Marijuana Businesses Get Squeezed, State Revenue Takes a Hit (Pew Charitable Trusts)
• Will Legalization Lead to More Marijuana Use? (labroots)
• Risky Prescribing Boosts Opioid Death Risk (HealthDay)
• Do You Really Need That Opioid Prescription? (Consumer Reports)
• Despite Its Reputation, Weed Is Still Illegal in the Netherlands (Outline)
• Canna-Curious? Poll Finds Legalization Sparks New Interest In Weed (VPR)
• Why You Shouldn't Dismiss the Risk of Marijuana Addiction (Vox)
• Harvard Study: 29 Percent of Opioid Prescriptions Come Without Pain Diagnosis (The Harvard Crimson)
• Study: Doctors Who Prescribed Opioids Had No Reason to 1/3 of the Time (The Morning Call)
• 28% of Opioids Prescribed in Outpatient Settings Lack Physician Explanation, Study Finds (Becker's Hospital Review)
• Opioids Prescribed Without Documented Pain Diagnosis 30% Of Time: Study (AboutLawsuits.com)
• Nearly 30 Percent of Opioid Prescriptions Given to Patients Who Had No Pain Diagnosis (WSTale)
• Opioid Epidemic: Doctors Gave No Reason for Nearly Third of Prescriptions (Click Lancashire)
• 30% of Opioid Prescriptions Lack Pain Diagnosis (HealthExec)
• Doctors Gave No Medical Explanations For Nearly 30% Of Opioid Prescriptions (Kaiser Health News)
• Opioids Often Prescribed in the Absence of Pain Diagnosis (Drugs.com)
• Opioid Epidemic: Doctors Gave No Reason for Nearly Third of Prescriptions (newsmax)
• Clinical Need Absent, Unclear in Nearly 30 Percent of Outpatient Opioid Prescriptions (Health News Digest)
• Study: Nearly One-Third of All Opioid Scripts Are Prescribed Without a Stated Medical Reason (The Daily Caller)
• Brainstorm Health: Gottlieb on Price Gouging, Opioid Prescriptions, AliveCor's Bloodless Blood Test (Fortune)
• Nearly 30% of Opioid Prescriptions Lack Valid Medical Justification (big think)
• Binge-Drinking Rates Are Highest in These Military Services (Military.com)
• Your Congressman: China Is Behind America's Fentanyl Problem (Freehold Patch)
• California Weed Laws: What New Regulations Mean for Buyers and Sellers (Newsweek)
• Treatment for Opioid Abuse Grows, but Many on Medicaid Don't Receive It (HealthDay)
• Cannabis Legalisation: Are There More Young Users in the US? (BBC News)
• More Medicaid Enrollees Receiving Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder, But Disparities Remain (MedicalResearch.com)
• One Possible Use of Medical Marijuana in Ohio: Fighting the Opioid Epidemic (The Enquirer)
• Would You Smoke a Joint in Front of Your Kids? (The Boston Globe)
• 5 Myths About Cannabis and the Opioid Crisis (Pain News Network)
• Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Practices Linked to Opioid Overdose Risk (MD Magazine)
• USA: Overdoses Kill More than Guns (translated from the French) (Alternatives Economiques)
• Perspectives: Stop China From Spreading Fentanyl Into The U.S. (Kaiser Health News (KHN))
• It's Ok to Toke… Your Own, in Private; Recreational Use, Possession, Growth of Marijuana Is Legal July 1 (Mountain Times)
• New York Appoints Group to Draft Legislation for Adult-Use Marijuana Program (Insurance Journal)
• This Group Wants More Booze in the Commissary (Military.com)
• On Instagram, Banning Drug-Related Hashtags Is Anything But Simple (Refinery29)
• Alcohol Misuse 'A Costly Problem' For US Military (Forces Network)
• Other States Use Medical Marijuana to Curb Opioid Deaths. Will Florida Follow? (Florida Politics)
• Scope of Addiction Crisis Dwarfs Response to Opioids (CQ Magazine)
• Medical Marijuana Ads May Spur Teen Pot Use (HealthDay)
• Legal Marijuana Dispensaries Appear to Reduce Opioid Abuse (Mother Jones)
• Study: Medical Marijuana Advertising Linked to Teen Use (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Report: Marines Lead All Services in Binge Drinking, Sex Partners (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Opioids and Pot: Inside the Fight for Real Research (Rolling Stone)
• 1 In 5 Mass. Adults Have Recently Used Marijuana Recreationally, Study Finds (WFUR-FM)
• Everyone Praises the Healing Power of This Drug—but Many Don't Realize the Damaging Effect It Has on Teens (Reader's Digest)
• Medical Marijuana May Help Combat the Opioid Crisis. But There Are Better Solutions. (Vox)
• Dr. Sanjay Gupta to Jeff Sessions: Medical marijuana Could Save Many Addicted to Opioids (CNN)
• Public opinion leading the way on legalizing marijuana (Lehigh Valley Live)
• Growing Like a Weed? California Marijuana Market Off to Slow Start (CBS News)
• The Cannabis Debate: How Utah Fits Into the Nationwide Conversation (Deseret News)
• Following Trump's Lead, Sessions Urges Federal Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty Against Major Drug Dealers (Los Angeles Times)
• Marijuana Matters: Vt. Advocates Look Ahead to Legal Marketplace (WCAX-TV)
• How a Marijuana Researcher Talks to Her Kids About Pot (Westword)
• Ads for legal marijuana send conflicting messages to students (Education Dive)
• https://cannabisnow.com/how-to-talk-to-teens-about-cannabis/ (Cannabis Now)
• California Could Cut Pot Taxes in Bid to Lure Legal Users (U.S. News & World Report)
• Rocky Boy starts 24/7 Sobriety Program (Havre Daily News)
• A Gateway Drug? Breaking Down Two Commonly Cited Assertions by Tory Senators as Cannabis Legalization Nears (The Globe and Mail)
• How Synthetic Opioids—New and Lethal—Are Tested and Trafficked on the Darknet (Opioid Institute)
• Ads Linked to Marijuana Usage Among Adolescents (Addiction Professional)
• 4 Your Health: Opioid Deaths Benefiting Organ Recipients; Marijuana Advertising Tempts Teens; Birth Rates Drop Again (KVOA.com)
• Medical Marijuana Advertising Exposure May Increase Adolescents' Marijuana Use (Healio)
• Marijuana Ads Make Kids More Likely to Use and See Pot Positives, Study Says (Westword)
• USA: Overdoses Kill More than Guns (Alternatives Economiques)
• Fewer Opioids Prescribed in Medical Marijuana States (Pain News Network)
• Overshadowed by the Opioid Crisis: A Comeback by Cocaine (New York Times)
• Sessions Urged To Reconsider Cannabis Stance In Open Letter (the fix)
• CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta Urges Jeff Sessions to Consider Cannabis for the Opioid Crisis (Herb)
• Do Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Opioid Overdoses? A New Study Adds a Layer of Nuance. (The Denver Post)
• Marijuana for Rheumatology Patients? (The Rheumatologist)
• Can Cannabis Save Us from the Opioid Crisis? (audio) (89.3 KPCC)
• Pot and Parenting: How to Talk to Kids About Legal Marijuana (KCTV5)
• Jeff Sessions: Marijuana Helped Cause the Opioid Epidemic. The Research: No. (Vox)
• California Has Already Issued More than 2,000 Cannabis Cultivation Licenses. Are Growers Being Set Up to Fail? (California Political Review)
• These Are the World's Cheapest Places for Drugs, Booze and Cigarettes (Bloomberg)
• Another New Study Shows States with Legal Marijuana Have Less Opioid Abuse (10,000 Couples)
• NIH Rejected a Study of Alcohol Advertising While Pursuing Industry Funding for Other Research (STAT)
• AG Sessions Says Patients Should Take Aspirin or Suffer Through Pain to Prevent Opioid Addiction (Daily News)
• Marijuana Opioid Study - Interview with David Powell (CBC Radio, Canada)
• In Mexico, Is Legalized Pot Just A Pipe Dream? (National Public Radio (NPR))
• Making the Case for Regulated Marijuana (Drug Topics)
• Prescription Opioids Rarely Lead to Heroin Use (Pain News Network)
• Maybe it's Marijuana: Marijuana Can Decrease Opioid Dependence Despite Anti-Pot Rhetoric (Tuscon Weekly)
• Dimes Into Dollars: The Marijuana Economy (WAMU 88.5)
• America's War on Pain Pills Is Killing Addicts and Leaving Patients in Agony (Reason)
• The 2010s Have Been a Banner Decade for Unintended Consequences (Reason)
• January Was the Biggest Month Yet for Marijuana Legalization, Despite Trump's New War on Pot (Vox)
• With U.S. Competition Hurting Its Marijuana Business, Mexico Warms a Little to Legalization (Los Angeles Times)
• Michael Brubeck: How to Identify a Winning Cannabis Investment (Ganjapreneur)
• Study: Marijuana Dispensaries Helped Cut Opioid Deaths (The Inquirer)
• Study Links Easier Access to Medical Marijuana with Reduced Number Of Opioid Deaths (KATU2)
• According to Investigators, the Netherlands Has Become a Narcostate. Is It Really That Bad? (translated from the Dutch) (deVolkskrant)
• Advocates for Marijuana Sales Point to Big Economic Boost (The CT Mirror)
• New York Considers Legalizing Marijuana for Opioid Addiction (Herb)
• Medical Marijuana Not Reducing Demand for Rx Opioids (Pain News Network)
• Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Save Lives, Study Finds (Marijuana Moment)
• Study: Medical Cannabis May Not Be Panacea to Prevent Opioid-Related Deaths (MJI News)
• Study: Easy Access to Dispensaries Prevents Opioid Deaths (Cannabis Now)
• New Study Finds That Easy Access to Weed Reduces Opioid Overdose Deaths (Herb)
• Pot Studies Edition: What's Hot, What's Not (Boulder Weekly)
• Field Guide: Best V-Day gifts, Seattle travel guide, and the force is strong with Sour Kenobi (GreenState)
• How Will Cannabis Legalization Affect Alcohol Consumption? (GreenState)
• DePasquale, Peters Debate Marijuana Legalization (The Sentinel)
• Weekend's Best: Wine & Cannabis Tours, Korova mini-cookies, and Black Panther (GreenState)
• Marijuana Dispensaries Have Ability To Reduce Opioid Overdoses and Substance Abuse (MedicalResearch.com)
• Jeff Sessions Is Trying To Take Criminal Justice Back To The 1990s (FiveThirtyEight)
• Over the Limit: DUI Solutions That Target Drinking Not Driving (The Sentinel)
• In Linking Immigration and Opioids, Trump Downplays Core Issues of the Epidemic (National Journal)
• Medical Cannabis Effective for Elderly Pain Patients (Pain News Network)
• Vermont Just Became the 9th State to Legalize Marijuana. Here’s What Makes It Different. (Washington Post)
• Brussels Playbook (Politico)
• Jeff Sessions Makes False Link Between Marijuana and the Opioid Crisis (Alternet)
• Can marijuana help ease the opioid epidemic? New UCLA cannabis research center aims to find out (Cannifornian)
• Sessions Suggests Connection Between Marijuana and Opioid Addiction (Newburgh Gazette)
• Jeff Sessions Says Marijuana Fuels the Opioid Epidemic. Study After Study Finds the Opposite. (Mother Jones)
• Jeff Sessions' Solution to the Opioid Crisis: Take Two Aspirin and Go to Bed (Metro)
• Jeff Sessions makes 2 ridiculous claims about the opioid crisis in less than a minute (ThinkProgress)
• Jeff Sessions' Talk About the Opioid Crisis Shows All the Ways He Is Wrong About It (The Response)
• Cloud of Uncertainty Hovers Over Passage of Marijuana Bill (Mountain Times)
• Heady Times: Eli Harrington Champions Pot in Vermont (Seven Days)
• Legal Weed Isn’t The Boon Small Businesses Thought It Would Be (FiveThirtyEight)
• 2017 Was Mexico's Deadliest Year. Will Sessions Marijuana Policy Make the Violence Worse? (McClatchy)
• Vermont Senate Passes Marijuana Legalization Bill, Which Now Heads To Gov. Scott (Vermont Public Radio (VPR))
• Marijuana Policy Sessions Rescinded Was Meant To Hurt Cartels: Former DOJ Official (International Business Times)
• How Much Does Legal Pot Cost? (KCRW)
• Commercial Pot Sales Become Legal in California Next Week (KQED Radio)
• Rehab Riviera: Are Drugs for Drug Addicts a Solution or a Crutch? (The Orange County Register)
• #SoCalSoCurious: Your Marijuana Questions Answered (89.3 KPCC)
• A Taxing Problem: How to Price, Tax Legal Weed to Stamp Out the Black Market (National Post)
• Emily Merz: Marijuana license regulations necessary for new recreational market (Daily Bruin)
• The Health 202 (The Washington Post)
• High Taxes Could Be Driving Legal Pot Consumers Back to Black Market (LA Weekly)
• Still Mellow But Ready to Fight. That's the State of Washington's Pot Industry (The News Tribune)
• Vermont Set To Become First State To Legalize Pot Through Legislature (the fix)
• Sessions Ends Policy That Allowed States to Embrace Legal Pot (Courthouse News)
• How Jeff Sessions' Weed Enforcement Reversal Could Impact Medical Marijuana Patients (Gizmodo)
• Jeff Sessions' Marijuana Ruling Is 'Counterproductive' For Opioid Crisis (the fix)
• It's Time for Vermont to Reap Marijuana's Benefits (Stowe Reporter)
• B.C.'s Pot Distribution Plan Has Advantages, Says Policy Expert (CBC News British Columbia)
• Britain's cocaine glut (The Economist)
• Going After Weed in the Middle of a Deadly Opioid Crisis Is Insane (Vice)
• 'Cannabusiness' as Usual, Despite Sessions’ Pot Crackdown Threat (Courthouse News)
• Editorial: Update Marijuana Laws (Times Union)
• Illegal Online Trade: In the Darknet (translated from the German) (Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung)
• Smokers Are 7 Times More Likely to Use Marijuana Daily, Study Says (CNN)
• Marijuana, Other Drugs Are More Potent Than Before In The US (International Business Times)
• Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Marijuana Are All Getting Stronger in the U.S. (Pacific Standard)
• Sessions Hints at Crackdown on Recreational Pot, Affecting California, Other States (McClatchy)
• Abuse-deterrent Opioids Cross an Ethical Line (The Orange County Register)
• Tangled Incentives Push Drugmakers Away From an Opioid Solution (Bloomberg)
• High Crimes: The Pros and Cons of Marijuana Decriminalization (The Sentinel)
• Wondering About Legalized Marijuana? We Have Answers (LA Weekly)
• Guest Opinion: Treat Opioid Addiction Like the Chronic Health Disease It Is (The Herald News)
• High Crimes: A review of marijuana decriminalization in Harrisburg (The Sentinel)
• Can Vaping Help Smokers Quit? The Real Story from a Real Story (BASIS)
• Potency, Purity of Drugs Reaching Even Higher and Deadlier Levels (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
• How to Have the Marijuana Conversation this Thanksgiving (Daily News)
• Opioid Crisis: What Does It Mean to Declare a National Public Health Emergency? (Newsweek)
• Trump Just Declared the Opioid Crisis a 'Public Health Emergency' — Here's What That Means (Business Insider)
• Declaring Opioids A Health Emergency Could Make Treatment More Widely Available (FiveThirtyEight)
• Will a Border Wall Stop Drugs from Coming into the United States? (Politifact)
• Goldstein: OC Supervisors Should Rethink Proposed Ban on Cannabis Activities (Voice of OC)
• Can Marijuana Help Addicts Kick Opioids? (The Conservative American)
• How Cannabis Might Treat Rheumatic Diseases (Rheumatology Network)
• Vt.'s Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Corner The Market. The Biggest Wants Competition. (VPR)
• How Drug Reform Could Reduce Deaths From Illicit Drugs (International Business Times)
• How Legalization Caused the Price of Marijuana to Collapse (The Washington Post)
• Scientific Community Continues Searching for Answers to Cannabinoid Questions (Pharmacy Times)
• Cocaine Consumption On the Rise? Think Again (InSight Crime)
• Experts Say Marijuana Taxes Unlikely to Weed Out Customers (Daily Bruin)
• Marijuana Legalization Creates Drug Education Challenges (Education Dive)
• We're Undercounting Opioid Overdoses by Thousands (Mother Jones)
• Cannabis: Ottawa recognizes it may violate treaties (translated from the French) (ICI Radio-Canada Première - En ligne)
• How Legalization Caused the Price of Marijuana to Collapse (The Washington Post)
• Fact Check: Will President Trump's Border Wall Stop Drug Smuggling? (USA Today)
• Uruguay Finds No Banks for the Bongs (Bloomberg View)
• Did Marijuana Kill This Young Man? Doctors May Never Know for Sure (Today)
• ACLU Releases "Cannabis Crackdown" Report (WHP-TV)
• ACLU: Marijuana Arrests on the Rise in Pennsylvania (Philly Voice)
• For This Pot Guy, States Are His Biggest Customers (Governing)
• Global Crackdown Shuts Two of the Dark Web’s Biggest Sites for Drugs and Guns (The Wall Street Journal)
• Collaborative Approach Effective at Treating Opioid Addiction in Primary Care Settings, Researchers Find (Becker's Hospital Review)
• Integrated Primary-Care Models Expand Access to Opioid Abuse Treatment (Modern Healthcare)
• Misdiagnosing the Opioid Crisis (InsideSources)
• With Marijuana Legal, Group Wants New School Program to Teach SLO County Kids About Drugs (The Tribune)
• Teen Drug Overdose Deaths Increased 19% in 2015 (LiveScience)
• Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a 'National Emergency' — Here's What That Means (BusinessInsider)
• Here's One Marijuana Trend You Should Actually Be Worried About (The Washington Post)
• Republicans and Federal Marijuana Policy (Cato Institute)
• Scott Creates 13-member Panel to Look at Pot Legalization (Vox)
• It's Not Just Opioid Addiction. Alcoholism May Be on the Rise Too. (Vox)
• Most Drunken-driving Programs Focus on Driving. This One Worked Because It Focused on Booze. (The Washington Post)
• What a Scientist Suggests You Tell Your Kids About Legal Marijuana (PBS News Hour)
• These College Students Lost Access To Legal Pot — and Started Getting Better Grades (The Washington Post)
• Dealers Use Spy Tactic to Deliver Drugs and Arms (The Times)
• Most People Addicted to Opioids Receive No Treatment (The Economist)
• Three Key Factors Significantly Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths (Medscape)
• The Fourth of July Is One of the Deadliest Days for Drunk Driving (Vox)
• Senate health plan would end payment for addiction treatment (The Orange County Register)
• Gardener’s Supply, Magic Hat Founders Seek Medical Marijuana License (VTDigger)
• Data On Drug Use Is Disappearing Just When We Need It Most (FiveThirtyEight)
• Three Simple Steps Might Reduce Opioid OD Deaths (HealthDay)
• Better Medical Care Could Cut Opioid Deaths By One-Third (HuffPost)
• Three Simple Ways to Treat Opioid Addictions (Healthline)
• Where There's Smoke: A Look at Drug Use on the Job (Builder Magazine)
• Three Keys to Lowering Mortality Rates in Opioid Disorder Patients (Addiction Professional)
• Certain Process Measures May Lower Mortality in Opioid Addiction (Healio)
• The Silk Road Is Dead, But the Internet's Illicit Drug Economy Is Alive and Well (reason.com)
• NFL Players Stance On Marijuana Use Won't Tackle The Real Problem (Forbes)
• Nevada Marijuana Emergency Shows The Real Size Of America's Demand For Cannabis (benzinga)
• Not So Fast: Health Care Needs Reform Before Marijuana Is Legalized (Calgary Sun)
• Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web to Send Deadly Drugs by Mail (The New York Times)
• Vermont Governor Vetoes Marijuana Bill (Rolling Stone)
• Vermont Governor Plans to Veto Bill That Would Legalize Marijuana (NBC News)
• Alcohol Addiction Led to True Blood Actor Nelsan Ellis's Death. He's Far from Alone (Vox)
• Opioids in America: 6 things to know about the evolution of an epidemic (Becker's Hospital Review)
• California Desert Town Adelanto Plans Its Future Around Pot (Marketplace)
• To Solve Alcoholism, Native Americans Must Look Inside Reservations (USA Today)
• Marijuana Adult-Use Legislation Reaches Vermont Governor's Desk (Rolling Stone)
• We shouldn’t care less about the Times Square crash just because it probably wasn't terrorism (Vox)
• Higher Illicit Pot Use in States That OK Medical Marijuana Use: Study (HealthDay)
• Can Marijuana Help Mitigate America's Opioid Crisis? (The Hill)
• Kimberly Cheney: Move Forward on Marijuana Compromise (VT Digger)
• Jeff Sessions Says Social Media, Encrypted Apps Hamper War on 'Modern Slavery' (Reason.com)
• Don't Live Next to a Meth Lab (CityLab)
• Clock Ticking on Marijuana Legalization Decision in Vermont (NECN)
• Who Served That Last Drink? Iowa Targeting Problem Bars to Battle Drunk Driving (The Des Moines Register)
• Canada Is Moving to Legalize Marijuana — and It May Violate International Drug Law to Do It (Vox)
• Medical Marijuana May Be a Salve for the US Opioid Epidemic (New Scientist)
• Meet The Anti-Pot Crusaders Trying To Take Back 4/20 (BuzzFeed)
• Will California Become a Sanctuary State for Weed? (audio) (KCRW-FM Online)
• 24/7 Sobriety Program Is a Winner for Iowa (Sioux City Journal)
• Trump's Health Secretary Isn't a Fan of the 'Gold Standard' Substance-use Treatment — Bad News for the Opioid Crisis (Business Insider)
• Vermont is steps away from legalizing marijuana (RT)
• Lawmakers Consider Medical Marijuana Treatment For Opioid Epidemic (WBAL-AM Online)
• Let's Just Tell Attorney General Sessions 'No' to a New War on Drugs (Miami Herald)
• Board of Health Reluctant to Speak on Marijuana Ballot Question (Daily Times Chronicle)
• Redondo Beach leaders mull strict marijuana regulations (Daily Breeze)
• A Shift To Abuse-Deterrent Opioids May Fuel Greater Heroin Use In New Jersey (Daily Caller)
• Federal Agency Admits That Marijuana Could Curb Opioid Addiction (Attn)
• Do Medical Marijuana Laws Encourage Adults to Misuse the Drug? (Healthline)
• Trump's Wall Won't Stop The Drugs (FiveThirtyEight)
• Growing evidence (Commons Online)
• Opioid Abuse Tied to Higher Suicide Risk in Veterans (Reuters)
• 'Iowa Is a Great Place to Live If You Are a Drunk,' a Victim's Mom Says. She Could Be Right. (The Des Moines Register)
• While Overdoses Skyrocket, Others Struggle With Addiction (Daily Caller)
• Pennsylvania's Costly War on Marijuana Consumers (Philly420)
• Who Just Made the Case for Drug Legalization? Drug-Warrior in Chief Jeff Sessions, That's Who (Salon)
• Vermont Senate Revives Marijuana Legalization (WPTZ-TV Online)
• Senate OKS Marijuana Legalization Amendment (VT Digger)
• Vermont Senate Votes 21-9 for Marijuana Legalization (Seven Days Online)
• Marijuana Bill to Piggy-back on Drug Penalty Bill (Bridge Online)
• Illinois Sues Drug Manufacturers For Lying About Opioid Risks (Daily Caller)
• Mike Pintek Talks to Patrick Nightingale About PA Cannabis Rally (KDKA AM)
• Memo to Homeland Security: Marijuana Is Not a Gateway Drug. Science Says So (Hill Online)
• Jeff Sessions: "Stupid" to Say Marijuana Can Fight Opioid Epidemic. Research: It May Be a Good Idea. (Vox)
• Illinois Lawmakers Propose Legalizing Recreational Marijuana (Chicago Tribune)
• Another Reason to Fight Opioid Addiction: Economics (Bloomberg View)
• Safer Weed? Experts Call for Research to Reduce Marijuana's Harms (Live Science)
• Drug Smugglers Have Already Beaten Trump's Wall (Reason)
• Trump Budget Drives Fears at Opioid-Epidemic Hearing (Courthouse News Service)
• McWiet on Every Street (translated from the Dutch) (AD Algemeen Dagblad)
• More Trouble for Republican Repeal Efforts (Politico)
• The Weed Price Is Likely to Fall, Increasing the Use (translated from the Dutch) (Volkskrant Online)
• 6.5 Hectares Is Enough for All Dutch Marijuana (translated from the Dutch) (Nrc.nl)
• Can Decriminalizing Marijuana Improve Public Safety in Houston? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Marijuana Legalization in Rhode Island Gaining New Detractors, Supporters (GoLocal Prov)
• Makers Of OxyContin Sued For Allegedly Flooding Black Market With Pills (Daily Caller)
• Auditor General Eugene DePasquale Proposes Legalizing Marijuana (Reading Eagle)
• PA Auditor General Says State Should Regulate Marijuana (News Channel 36)
• Pa. Auditor General: State Should Legalize Marijuana (Philadelphia Magazine)
• Auditor General: Regulating, Taxing Marijuana Would Bring in Revenue, Create Jobs (Times Leader)
• A Better Way to Spend Trump's Border Wall Money (Yahoo Finance)
• Class of 2017: The students turning to the Dark Web for their drug fix (Independent.co.uk)
• Does Cannabis Legalization Work? From the Data We Think So (translated from the Italian) (AGI.it)
• Study: Gun Owners with a History of Alcohol Abuse Are Much More Likely to Commit Crimes (Vox)
• Marijuana Legalization in Rhode Island Gaining New Detractors, Supporters (GoLocalProv.com)
• Marijuana Could Help Injured Workers with Chronic Pain (Business Insurance Online)
• Pa. Auditor General: Time for State to Get on Board 'Marijuana Train' (Philly Voice)
• Federal marijuana law enforcement: What you need to know (The Cannabist)
• Trump Paints Bleak Picture as He Rallies Police Chiefs (Daily Mail.com)
• Chronic Marijuana Use Is Up in Colorado (Mother Jones Online)
• The Portuguese 'Maria': Portugal, the Leading Producer of Cannabis in Europe (translated from the Spanish) (El Español)
• Trump Administration's Dubious Claims About Pot and Opioids Are Dead Wrong (Hill Online)
• Pot Belongs in the Anti-Opiate Arsenal (Columbia Daily Tribune)
• Experts Debate Whether Medical Marijuana Can Help Curb Opiate Abuse (WBIR-TV Online)
• If President Trump Wants to Help American Businesses, He Should Start by Legalizing Marijuana (Los Angeles Times)
• Tallahassee Votes on 120-Day Medical Marijuana Moratorium (Tallahassee Democrat)
• As Price Plummets to Historic Low, Marijuana Entrepreneurs Need to 'Pivot, or Die' (Inc.)
• 'Safer' OxyContin Caused Thousands of Heroin Deaths, Researchers Find (Daily Beast)
• Marijuana Law Enforcement Should Be Left to the States to Save Lives (American Spectator)
• Preventing Big Cannabis: How to Nip Marijuana Lobby in the Bud (New Scientist)
• How an 'Abuse-Deterrent' Drug Created the Heroin Epidemic (The Washington Post Blog, WONKBlog)
• Heroin Resurgence an 'Unintended Consequence' of Attempt to Curb OxyContin Abuse, Study Finds (Los Angeles Times)
• At the Sessions Hearing, the Business of Government Is ... Hysteria (Los Angeles Times)
• 20 Things to Know About Legal Marijuana in Nevada (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Can Twice-Daily Breath Tests Cure Iowa's Drunken Driving Problem? (Des Moines Register)
• Trump's Choice: Create American Jobs or Enrich Mexican Cartels (High Times)
• Can Marijuana Help New York Kick Its Opioid Habit? (Crain's New York Business)
• Into the Weed: What Utah Can Expect If Medical Marijuana Is Legalized (Deseret News)
• It's Not Just Painkillers and Heroin. Americans Have a Growing Alcohol Problem Too. (Vox)
• How a Trump Presidency Might Affect Legal Weed in California (audio) (KCRW-FM Online)
• This State's Prescription Painkiller Addiction Ignited A Massive Turn To Heroin (The Daily Caller)
• Report: Heroin Took Place Of OxyContin In Kentucky After Reformulation (WFPL)
• Mail Order Arms: How Criminals Use Dark Web to Trade Guns and Drugs (iPaper)
• How One Pain Pill Sparked A Three-Fold Increase In Heroin Deaths (The Daily Caller)
• What the Future of Marijuana Legalization Could Look Like Under President Trump (The Washington Post)
• Tuesday's Vote Saw More U.S. States Legalize Pot: Why Canada Could Benefit (CBC News Network)
• California Lends Its Weight To Wider Marijuana Acceptance (Kaiser Health News)
• Marijuana Enters New Era in Sonoma County with Passage of Proposition 64 (The Press Democrat)
• Marijuana Industry Keeps a Wary Eye on How Trump Will Respond to Pot Legalization (Denver Post)
• What Can Change in Mexico With the Legalization of Marijuana in California (translated from the Spanish) (New York Times [Español])
• Abuse-Deterrent Opioid Primary Cause of Heroin Overdose Boom, Researchers Find (Becker's Hospital Review)
• How Marijuana Anonymous Helps Combat Cannabis Dependency (LA Weekly)
• Marijuana Is Legal in California. Now What? (KQED-FM Online)
• Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces Death of Eric M. Hilton (TravelPulse)
• Federal Government Admits Marijuana Should Be Regulated, But How? (High Times)
• Can Twice-Daily Breath Tests Cure Iowa's Drunken Driving Problem? (Des Moines Register)
• It's Not Just Painkillers and Heroin. Americans Have a Growing Alcohol Problem Too. (Vox)
• Weed Grows Up (Made Man)
• A New, Unexpected Reason to Celebrate Legalizing Pot (Mother Jones)
• Pot Advocate: Neighbors' Legalization Pave Way for Vt. (Burlington Free Press)
• California Votes On Recreational Pot, Considers Impact Of Driving High (KPIX-TV Online)
• Prop. 64: Bay Area Voters Back California Pot Measure by Big Margin (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
• Marijuana Measures May Put Dent in Pueblo County's 'Napa Valley of Weed' (The Gazette)
• Marijuana Growers Prepare for a Price Crash If Prop. 64 Passes (San Francisco Chronicle)
• The Trend Toward Legalizing Recreational Marijuana (NPR)
• When People Can Legally Drink, They Suddenly Begin Committing Way More Crime (Vox)
• How Would Legalizing Marijuana Affect Drug War at San Diego's Border? (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• One Surefire Way for Hillary Clinton to Shore Up Support Among Young Voters (The Washington Post - WonkBlog)
• Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug? (The Boston Globe)
• Prop 64: How Much Money Could Legal Weed Bring In – And Where Would It Go? (CBS Sacramento)
• The DEA Is About to Make Life Even More Dangerous for Heroin Users (Vice)
• The Great Cannabis Price Crash (High Times)
• 3 Initiatives To Address the Opioid Epidemic (Psychiatry Advisor)
• These California Politicians are Emerging as Strong Prop. 64 Supporters (Leafly)
• IPE Symposium Spotlights Global Drug Trade (The Middlebury Campus)
• A Closer Look at Prop 64 in California: Part 2 (The Marijuana Times)
• Legal Pot in Massachusetts Could Spark Legislative Action in Vermont (Seven Days)
• How Legislators Can Help Schools Prevent Drug Use (BDN Maine)
• Fewer Physicians Than Anticipated Treat Opioid Use Disorder With Buprenorphine (Interview with Brad Stein) (MedicalResearch.com)
• Physicians Treating Few Patients with Buprenorphine (Medical Xpress)
• Opioid Addiction Drug Barely Prescribed, Briefly Used (STAT)
• Doctors Might Need to Up Their Patient Load During Opioid Epidemic (HealthExec)
• Could California's Recreational Pot Vote Worsen The Drought? (Huffington Post)
• Dueling Dispensary Owners on Prop 64 and Legalizing Pot (audio) (KCRW)
• THE ECONOMICS OF POT Possible Marijuana Legalization Brings New Ideas for Ventura County farmers (VC Reporter)
• With Pot on the Ballot, an Expert Answers Questions on Stoned Driving, Mexican Cartels and More (Los Angeles Times)
• Cannabis Policy in the Netherlands: The Drug Mafia Makes the Big Deal (translated from the German) (NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung Online)
• Prop. 64 Would Legalize Marijuana For Recreational Use (video) (KCBS-TV Online)
• Nearly 25 Percent Of Americans Could Soon Be Living In States With Legal Marijuana (The Huffington Post)
• RAND Europe: European Legal Systems Fail Drug Addicts and Tax Payers (New Europe)
• Gov. Jerry Brown Licenses California's Smallest Medical Pot Farmers (East Bay Express Online)
• Doctors Who Treat Opioid Addiction Often See Very Few Patients (NPR)
• Many Doctors Don't Prescribe Medication for Opioid Addiction Despite Epidemic (CNBC)
• Experts Answer Museum-Goers' Questions About Marijuana (Oakland North)
• Janel Ralph: Medical Marijuana Key To Stopping Opiate Abuse Epidemic (FITSNews)
• Studies Suggest Medical Marijuana Could Lower Opioid-Related Deaths (Becker's Hospital Review Online)
• '100 Per Cent Pure Meth and Ecstasy Pills Immaculately Packaged': The Australian Website That Promises to Deliver Drugs Straight to Your Door (Daily Mail, UK)
• Does Access to Medical Marijuana Reduce Opioid Deaths? (STAT)
• What California's Illegal Pot Farmers Think About Legalization (Vice Online)
• 2016's Marijuana Legalization Votes, Explained (Vox)
• Legal Pot in California Could Have Social Justice Impact in WA (KUOW.org)
• Marijuana Legalization Didn't Cause the Heroin Epidemic. If Anything, It May Help End the Epidemic (Vox)
• Netherlands Plays Prominent Role in Drug Trade Facilitated by Cryptomarkets: Report (EconoTimes)
• Study Identifies the Profile of the Average Pot User (audio) (KPCC-FM)
• The Justice System Needs to Take Rape More Seriously. That Doesn't Mean Longer Prison Sentences (Vox)
• California Businesses Seeing Green in Legal Marijuana and Prop. 64 (KQED, Forum)
• A New Study Says Weed Use Among Weed Users Has Skyrocketed (Vice Online)
• Here are the Methods Police Use to Catch 'Deep Web' Drug Dealers (Business Insider)
• Six Cases of Illicit Pot Exports from California (Sacramento Bee Online)
• War on Drugs: What Is It Good for? (PRI/Public Radio International)
• DEA Scheduling of Marijuana (audio) (The Lancet)
• Why the Federal Government Still Rejects Marijuana as Medicine (Christian Science Monitor)
• Online Drug Sales Triple After Silk Road Closure (NBC News)
• Online Sales of Illicit Drugs Triple Since Silk Road Closure (cnet)
• Britain's Booming Online Drugs Market Proves 'Utter Futility of the War on Drugs', Campaigners Say (Independent)
• Drug Sales on Dark Web Triple Since Silk Road Closure (Newsweek)
• Does Medical Marijuana Reduce Opiate Addiction? (Tucson Local Media Online)
• Weeding Out the Truth: DEA's New Stance on Marijuana Largely the Same as the Old (bioethics.net blog)
• Dutch Lead the West in Online Drug Sales: Report (Dutch News)
• How Decriminalization Has Changed Marijuana Use in the US (Patch)
• Wholesale Illicit Drug Sales on the Dark Web are Likely Fueling Offline Markets (Quartz)
• The Darknet – More Than Just Illegal Black Market (Translated from the German) (MSN Germany)
• Report: Internet Drug Sales Tripled After Silk Road Shut Down (Vocativ)
• Post-silk Road, Feds Bust Chaps for 'Dealing Heroin, Coke' on World's Largest Dark web Souk (Register)
• Despite Silk Road's Demise, 'More Illicit Drugs are Being Bought Online' (Sputnik News)
• DEA Says Marijuana Has No Medicinal Value (BreakPoint)
• Big Week for Weed! State Confirms Legalization Measure for Ballot, ASU Forum Starts Today (Phoenix New Times)
• Money and marijuana: Donors with Ties to Industry Give to Legalize Pot (Sacramento Bee Online)
• Decriminalizing of Drugs, the Only Pathway (Africa Report)
• UK Top for Online Drug Sales in Europe (BBC)
• Approach Online Trading Illegal Drugs Will Be Intensified (Emerce Online)
• Cannabis Is a Dead End (LifeZette)
• UK Is Biggest Online Drug Dealing Country in Europe (The Guardian)
• More Americans Use Marijuana Now Than Live in the State of Texas (Vox)
• US, UK Top Cryptomarkets Online Illegal Drug Trades (BitNewz)
• Black Market Drug Sales Triple Since Silk Road's First Closure (YourEDM)
• UK Becomes Europe's Top Online Drug Dealer: Report (Press TV)
• Online Market for Illegal Drugs Skyrockets: 6 Things to Know (Becker's Hospital Review)
• Drug Sales on the Dark Web Have Tripled Since the Demise of Silk Road (Mic)
• Illegal Online Drug Sales Tripled Since Silk Road's Closure (Ubergizmo)
• Compiled Top Most Popular in the "Dark" of Drugs Internet (translated from the Russian) (mixnews.lv)
• Silk Road, Copycats And Nostalgia (Pymnts.com)
• 'War on Drugs Futile in Face of Dark Web Marketplace,' Say Campaigners (Russia Today)
• Growing Drug Trafficking on the Internet Is Still Small (translated from the German) (Computer Base)
• Named the Best Selling Internet Drugs (translated from the Russian) (Korrespondent.net)
• AFTER SILK ROAD: Drug Trafficking in the Darknet Is Continuously Growing (translated from the German) (Aiciti)
• The Illegal Market of Online Drugs Has Tripled in Three Years (translated from the Italian) (Zazoom)
• Close Silk Road Only Serves to Multiply Drug Sales on the Internet (translated from the Spanish) (PlayGround)
• The UK Is the European Leader in Deep Web Drug Deals (Vice)
• An In-Depth New Study Shows that the Online Market for Illegal Drugs Is Skyrocketing (Business Insider)
• Global Drug Trafficking on the Internet Has Tripled Since 2013, Says Study (translated from the Portuguese) (Globo Online)
• Study: Drug Trafficking Takes Place Only Marginally on the Internet (translated from the German) (heise online)
• Dark Web Drug Deals Triple as UK Named Biggest Online Drug Dealer in Europe (Computer Business Review)
• Drug Sales on the Dark Web 'have Tripled' Since 2013 (BT.com)
• Online Drug Sales Tripled After Silk Road Takedown (Hardware.info)
• Growing Drug Sales on the Internet, Where Marijuana Is the Most Sold (translated from the Spanish) (Independente)
• Drug Sales Increased Three Times Since the Closure of the Silk Road (translated from the Polish) (Wirtualna Polska)
• Online Drug Market Booming Despite Law Enforcement Efforts (Police Professional)
• Britain "Leading Centre" for Booming Online Market in Illegal Drugs (iNews)
• Aust Major Seller of Dark Web Drugs (The Australian)
• Illegal Drug Sales Online Growing, Study Says (GigaLaw)
• Dark Web Drug Sales Triple in Three Years Since Silk Road 1.0 Closure (International Business Times)
• Online Trade in Illicit Drugs Is Growing, Study Finds (Wall Street Journal)
• Scientists Have Finally Figured Out How Much Weed Is in a Joint (Washington Post Blog , WONKBLOG)
• Legalize Marijuana and Reduce Deaths from Drug Abuse (Hill Online)
• How Much Marijuana IS There in the Average Joint? Less Than We Think, Study Reveals (Daily Mail)
• How Much Marijuana Is In A joint? Amid Legalization, New Research Debunks Estimates Of Cannabis Cigarettes (IBT)
• One of the Big Questions in Marijuana Research Has Been Answered (The Washington Post)
• Why Parents Really Are Right: Teenagers Who Use Alcohol and Smoke Weed DO Get Poorer Grades (Daily Mail)
• Marijuana, Alcohol Use May Harm Teens' Mental Health, Academic Outcomes (Medical News Today)
• Study: Marijuana Use Predicts Significant Problems in School (Addiction Professional)
• How Can You Deter Teenagers from Smoking? (audio) (BBC Online)
• Trump Victory Would Wound Drug Cartels (Washington Times Online)
• States Smoking the Most Marijuana (USA Today Online/USAToday.com)
• Cannabis News Roundup: Richmond Goes for the Gold (KALW Radio San Francisco)
• Buprenorphine Models Must Be Re-Examined (Addiction Professional)
• New Study Found Weed and Alcohol Reduce Teens' Mental Faculties (Digital Journal)
• Teen Marijuana and Alcohol Use May Hurt School Performance, Mental Health (Medical Daily)
• Research Shows Average Joint Contains Much Less Marijuana Than Thought (Science Blog)
• How Much Weed Is In An American Joint (Weed Reader)
• Alcohol and Drugs Cause Teens to Perform in School Badly (Parent Herald)
• Is Legal Weed a Net Benefit or Cost to Public Health? (Newsweek)
• Public Health Effects of Legalized Marijuana in New Jersey (New Jersey Herald)
• Federal Marijuana Smuggling Is Declining in the Era of Legal Weed (The Washington Post)
• Flower Power: Regulators Weigh Cannabis Potency Caps (Cannabis Wire)
• Philly420: Could NJ become pot tourism destination? (Philly.com)
• Testimony on Drug Trade Highlights System's Complexity (InSight Crime)
• American Kids See About 3 Alcohol Ads Each Day: RAND Study (CNBC)
• Alcohol Advertising Does Not Hide From Kids (translated from the Dutch) (MSN BE)
• After legalization loss, Vt cannabis economy looks ahead (Burlington Free Press)
• Kids Are Being Inundated with Booze Ads, Study Finds (New York Post)
• Alcohol Advertising Edges Into Middle Schoolers' Lives, Increasing Risk Of Underage Drinking (Medical Daily)
• Report: Marijuana Smuggling Crashed After States Legalized (Daily Caller)
• The Gateway Drug Hypothesis Is a Fallacy (Pueblo Chieftain Online)
• Middle Schoolers Exposed to Alcohol Ads Every Day: Study (Health)
• Should the UK Legalise Cannabis? (The Conversation, UK)
• Canada Aims for Pot Legalization in 2017 (USA Today)
• Could Marijuana Help Treat Painkiller and Heroin Addiction? (AP)
• When smuggling Colo. Pot, Not Even the Sky's the Limit (USA Today)
• Congress Confronts Americans' Opiate Abuse (Voice of America)
• Newsom, Pot Proponents Kick Off Campaign for California legalization (San Francisco Chronicle)
• The Gateway Debate Over Marijuana (Commonwealth Magazine)
• Why Cocaine Consumption in the U.S. Halved (translated from the Dutch) (MSN BE)
• Canada to Legalize Cannabis in 2017 (Whaxy)
• It Sure Looks Like Marijuana Legalization Will Make Your Weed a Lot Cheaper (Vox)
• Legalizing Marijuana Has Made It Cheaper (Refinery29)
• Legalizing Marijuana Makes It Cheaper — And That's a Good Thing (Mic)
• Low-Cost Highs: Price of Legal Marijuana Plunges in Washington State (Russia Today)
• Vermont's Marijuana Legalization Dreams Go Up in Smoke (VermontWatchdog.org)
• So, Something Interesting Happens to Weed After It's Legal (The Washington Post)
• Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug? Here's What the Research Says (Vox)
• Canada's Liberal Party Aims To Legalize Marijuana For Recreational Use By Spring 2017 (Inquisitr)
• Debby Haskins: Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Is Worse Than Doing Nothing (VT Digger)
• The 3 Deadliest Drugs in America Are All Totally Legal (Vox)
• AM Alert: California Lawmakers Meet in the Lobby (The Sacramento Bee)
• America Can End Its War on Drugs. Here's How (Vox)
• How Bad Government Might Create Bad Drivers (Vox)
• Nosedive: Why So Few People Are Snorting White Powder for Fun (The Economist)
• On 4/20, Top Minds Discuss Critical Issues in the Marijuana Policy Debate (Brookings Institution)
• A New Report Evaluates Marijuana Legalization in Colorado So Far. It's Mixed News. (Vox)
• America's weed industry is going to be massive. Is Big Marijuana a good thing? (Quartz)
• Will 2016 Be Weed's Tipping Point? (Vocativ)
• Regulating Concentrates Is Next Big Hurdle for Legal Marijuana (panampost.com)
• Marijuana Sales Top Spending on Wine and Milk in Spokane County (The Spokesman-Review)
• Safety Leaders Honored at Lifesavers Conference (Automotive Fleet)
• How Decriminalising Drugs Could Reduce Islamic Terrorism in France and Belgium (Vice)
• One Way to Fight the Opioid Epidemic? Medical Marijuana. (Vox)
• Washington's New 24/7 Sobriety Program Runs Into Snags (Northwest Public Radio, WA)
• How to Design a Marijuana-License Lottery (New Yorker Online)
• Legislature Should Create 24/7 Program in Iowa (Sioux City Journal Online)
• Narcotics boom in Afghanistan. Size makowych fields and the opium trade reach record proportions, and the Taliban are counting the profit (translated from the Polish) (Wirtualna Polska)
• Want to Reduce Incarceration Rates? Try Targeted Surveillance (Real Clear Markets)
• Vermont Close to Legalizing Marijuana (PJ Media)
• How A Top Cannabis Investor Evaluates Your Company (National Marijuana News)
• Vermont Legislature on Track to Be First in U.S. to Legalize Marijuana (Reuters Online)
• Legislature Should Pass Bill to Create '24/7' Program in Iowa (Sioux City Journal Online)
• Voters Are Doing What Politicians Won't on Marijuana Reform (Washington Post Blog, WONKBLOG)
• Scientist Brad Stein on Drug Addiction and Abuse (video) (CCTV America)
• Decriminalizing marijuana gaining support among Wilkes-Barre officials (Citizens Voice Online)
• Cannabis Interceptions on Mexican Border Down Again (High Times Online)
• Legal Marijuana Causes Mexican Drug Cartel Revenues to Plummet (San Francisco Chronicle Online)
• Booze Bracelets Effective at Keeping Repeat Drink-Drivers Sober, Advocates Say (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Making Prevention a Priority (VT Digger)
• Will Marijuana Legalization Push the Pusher Out of Business? (Globe and Mail, Toronto)
• 6 Proven Policies for Reducing Crime and Violence Without Gun Control (Vox)
• Montana Weed War Forms Along Petition Lines (Billings Gazette Online)
• Reconsidering the Legalization of Marijuana (Commonwealth Times)
• Amanna, Savel & Veitch: Marijuana Legalization and the Transfer of Wealth from Local Communities (VT Digger)
• Vermont Senate Could Vote Soon on Marijuana Legalization Bill (Daily Chronic)
• Legal Marijuana Is Finally Doing What the Drug War Couldn't (Washington Post Blog, WONKBLOG)
• Bill Would Impliment 24/7 Sobriety Program for Multiple OWI Offenders (WFRV-TV Online)
• Cannabis to Be as Big as Tobacco by 2029: Ackrell (Vator.tv)
• Parliamentary Drug Summit to Hear Case in Favour of Decriminalising Possession (theguardian.com)
• Vermont Could Become the First State to Legalize Marijuana Through the Legislature (Vox)
• Vermont Senate Approves Marijuana Legalization 16-13 (Boston Globe)
• Vermont Senate Approves Bill to Legalize Recreational Marijuana (WPTZ.com)
• Law Enforcement Associations: We Oppose Marijuana Legalization (VT Digger)
• When Smart People Make Mistakes: Economists Wage War on Drug Facts (Hudson Institute)
• Editorial: Use All Tools to Fight Drunken Driving (Des Moines Register Online)
• Attorney General Sorrell and Former Attorneys General Cheney and Diamond Support Marijuana Legalization Bill (Vermont Business Magazine Online)
• On Alcohol Instead of Prison Saves Lives in South Dakota (translated from the Swedish) (Accent Online)
• Amanna, Savel & Veitch: Marijuana Legalization and the Transfer of Wealth from Local Communities (VT Digger)
• Europe has lower drinking ages than the US — and worse teen drinking problems (Vox)
• Ballot Initiative VS. Legislation on Marijuana Legalization (Medical Marijuana Help)
• Marijuana Legalization Hits Hurdles, Panel Vote Friday (VT Digger)
• Could Vermont Be the First State to Produce Artisanal, Socialist Marijuana? (New Republic)
• Forced Abstinence Reduces Mortality in U.S. State (translated from the German) (Deutsches Arzteblatt)
• Opinion: Commercial Marijuana Wrong for Vt. (Burlington Free Press)
• Vt. Debates Legalizing Cannabis (Vermont Cynic: University of Vermont)
• Senate Panel Passes 25 Percent Tax on Pot (VT Digger)
• Vermont Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Second Committee (Daily Chronic)
• Senate Elizabeth Warren Asks CDC to Consider Cannabis for Dealing with Painkiller Epidemic (Joint Blog)
• Reeferegulatory challenge (The Economist)
• Closely Monitoring People Involved in Alcohol-Related Crimes Can Reduce Deaths: Study (Join Together)
• How 'Mandatory Abstinence' Can Cut Crime and Save Lives (Washington Post Blog, WONKBLOG)
• Frequent Monitoring May Keep Alcohol Offenders Sober (HealthDay)
• Want to Save Lives? An Innovative Program Targets One of the Big Causes of Death: Alcohol. (Vox)
• Mandatory Abstinence For Alcohol-Involved Offenders May Cut Crimes, Save Lives (Tech Times)
• Sobriety In South Dakota Linked To 4% Drop In Deaths, Mainly Among Women (Medical Daily)
• This Inexpensive Anti-Drunk Driving Program Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year (Vox)
• RAND Releases Report on 24-7 Sobriety: Program Saves Lives in South Dakota (The Reality-Based Community)
• LDS Church's Opposition Does Not Necessarily Doom Medical Marijuana Bill, Sponsor Says (KSL-TV Online)
• Medical Pot Patients Are More Likely to Vaporize, Eat Edibles Than Rec Users (Cannabist)
• Medicinal Users More Likely to Vape or Consume Edibles Than Recreational (Green Rush Daily)
• The Master of High Finance: Leslie Bocskor, Medical Marijuana Investment Whiz (Vegas Seven Online)
• Stuart Savel: Legalizing Marijuana (Vermont Business Magazine Online)
• Vermont Next State Likely to Legalize Marijuana (24/7 Wall Street)
• Howard Fairman: Keep Marijuana Business Local (VT Digger)
• Five New Facts About Medical Versus Recreational Pot Users (SFGate)
• How Banking and Legalized Marijuana Might Work in Vermont (WPTZ-TV)
• Group Urges Vermont to Look at Health Effects of Marijuana Legalization (VT Digger)
• Chapo's Video Is A Snooze – But It Might Just Wake Up Jeb Bush (WLRN-FM Online)
• Marijuana Is Not a Gateway Drug, So Why Do Leading Republicans and Democrats Say Otherwise? (AlterNetOnline)
• Oppenheim: Legal Pot (Digital Vermont Public Radio)
• Marijuana Legalization: Should Bernie Sanders' Home State Embrace Socialized Cannabis? (International Business Times)
• Philly420: Pot Arrests Plummeted Across Pa. in 2015, Led By Huge Decrease in Philly (philly.com)
• Pot: Should Vermont Race to Legalize, Regulate and Tax It? (Montpelier Bridge)
• Experts Stress 'Goldilocks Point' for Pot Taxes: Not Too Low or High, But Just Right (Toronto Star Online)
• Philly420: Vermont Legislature Could Be First to Legalize Marijuana (philly.com)
• The Only Way to Stop the Next El Chapo: Why America Needs to Legalize All Its Drugs (Salon)
• Vermont Marijuana Legalization Hearings to be Held Tuesday (Daily Chronic)
• Study: Alcohol, Tobacco Typically Precede Marijuana Use (Norml)
• One way to fight the opioid epidemic? Medical marijuana (Vox)
• Normal Marijuana Users Treated Like Junkies in Arizona (Phoenix New Times)
• The Legalization of Marijuana Should Continue to Expand (Villanovan, Villanova University)
• Another Approach on Drunken Driving: 24/7 Sobriety Program Better at Changing Long-Term Behavior (CommonWealth Magazine)
• Vermonters Should Have Say (Rutland Herald)
• Another Approach on Drunken Driving: 24/7 Sobriety Program Better at Changing Long-Term Behavior (CommonWealth Magazine)
• Manhattan's First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens And Is Already Working with Mt. Sinai Hospital (Forbes Online)
• A Cure for Economic Woes and Addiction? A Boon for Agriculture? Or a Cause for Pause? (Montpelier Bridge)
• State A.G. Backs Drug-Abuse Program (Dominion Post)
• Cannabis Users Not Likely to Mix Weed With Alcohol, Survey Says (Ganjapreneur)
• Mexican Marijuana Farmers See Profits Tumble as U.S. Loosens Laws (Los Angeles Times Online)
• Session Preview 2016: Marijuana Legalization's Last Best Chance (VT Digger)
• The Drug Dealer's Dilemma: Inside New York City's Marijuana Black Market in the Era of Legalization (Crain's New York Business Online)
• Marijuana Decriminalization Won't Affect Pitt Policy (The Pitt News: University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus)
• Marijuana Legalization is Already Making Mexican Drug Cartels Poorer (Vox)
• Vermont's Governor Wants to Legalize Marijuana. Here's How He Would Do It (Washington Post Blog - WONKBLOG)
• Rob Williams: A Vermont Approach to Cannabis Legalization (VT Digger)
• AG Pushes for Sobriety Program (The Herald Dispatch Online)
• Medication-Assisted Addiction Treatment Faces Cost and Payment Concerns (Modern Healthcare Online)
• United States Marijuana Laws Are Starting To Weaken Cartels (Inquisitr)
• Way More Americans Are Drinking Themselves to Death. Here's Why (Vox)
• After Two Years, Debate Remains Over Marijuana Legalization's Impacts (Denver Post online)
• Heroin Creates Crowded Illicit Economy in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun)
• Tired of Unhinged Hot Takes? Here's a Mild, Reasonable Take on Marijuana Legalization (Vox)
• Washington State To Add 222 New Cannabis Retailers In 2016 (Inquisitr)
• Tech Billionaire Sean Parker Matching All Donations to Pot Legalization (San Francisco Chronicle Online/SFChronicle.com)
• Pittsburgh City Council to Hold Preliminary Vote Wednesday on Plan to Decriminalize Marijuana (WPXI-PIT (NBC))
• Legalizing Pot Will Not Be a Revenue Windfall (VT Digger)
• Hiking the Alcohol Tax Could Be as Effective for Fighting Gonorrhea as Distributing Condoms (Vox)
• S. Burlington Leaders See Trouble in Pot Legalization (Burlington Free Press, VT)
• Want to Reduce Obesity? Legalize Medical Marijuana, Researchers Say (Washington Post Blog, WONKBLOG)
• Opinion: Marijuana Is Nation's Cash Crop (Burlington Free Press)
• Washington Relaxes Limits on Retail Marijuana Licenses (Daily Astorian Online)
• Is Cocaine Legend White Boy Rick Serving Life for Busting Crooked Cops? (Daily Beast)
• El Chapo Escape: Video Of Drug Kingpin Joaquin Guzman Partying Is Likely Authentic, Former DEA Chief Says (International Business Times)
• Big Marijuana Is Coming – and Even Legalization Supporters Are Worried (Vox)
• Marijuana Legalization in Vermont 2016: Latest on Pot Debate and State of Legal Weed (Mic)
• The Best Way to Prevent Drunk Driving? That's Debatable (GOVERNING Online)
• Prevention Is Key (Youth Today Online)
• Weed in the Green Mountains (Seven Days)
• Drug Laws and Gun Controls Are Just Business Opportunities for Corrupt Cops (Reason Online)
• Report Offers Framework for Vermont's Marijuana Business (VT Digger)
• US Trial Sees Drink-Driving Offenders Who Can't Pass Twice-Daily Breathalyser Test Jailed (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
• Washington Shifts Gears, Becomes More Tolerant to Marijuana Legalization (El Pais, Spain)
• Pot Stores: State Says Cities Can Have As Many As They Want (KUOW-FM Online)
• Washington Regulators Lift Quotas for Pot Stores (Northwest Public Radio)
• Will Only Perfect Capitalist Marijuana Legalization Pass Muster Now? (Marijuana Politics)
• Washington's Marijuana Regulators Give Up Cap on Pot Stores (Northwest Public Radio)
• Mexican Marijuana (KCRW-FM Online)
• US State That Breathalyses Drink Drivers Daily Sees Drop in Repeat Offences (www.caradvice.com.au/feed)
• Mexico's Supreme Court Opens The Door To Marijuana Legalization (Outside The Beltway)
• Stay Sober or Stay in Jail: Program (The West Australian)
• Mexican Marijuana Activists on a High After Supreme Court Ruling (BBC Online)
• DEA Chief: Medical Marijuana is "a Joke." Science: No, It's Not. (Vox)
• Marijuana for Millionaires (Mother Jones Online)
• Vermont Leaders Hold Marijuana Forum (WFFF-TV)
• Ohio's Marijuana Proposal Was Lambasted for Creating a Cartel. But Pot Cartels Could Work (Vox)
• Why Did Ohio Vote Against Legalizing Marijuana? (CNN Online)
• Why Ohio Voters Voted Down Marijuana Legalization Even Though They Support Marijuana Legalization (ThinkProgress)
• The Big Business of Pot in Ohio (Media Awareness Project)
• Lawmakers Mull How, Not If, to Legalize Marijuana (Rutland Herald)
• This Map Shows How Far El Chapo’s Power Extends Past Mexico (Huffington Post)
• Senate Panel Schedules Hearings on Pot Legalization (wptz.com)
• Access to Opioid Treatment Programs, Part 1 (Academy Health Blog)
• Group Looks to Slow Marijuana's Momentum in Vermont (VT Digger)
• Legalizing Marijuana Won't Be Quick or Easy: US Policy Advisor (CKWX-AM Online)
• Marijuana, Ohio, and Esau (Huffington Post)
• Opinion: Medical Pot Can Help With Other Addiction (Newsday Online)
• Worried He's an Alcoholic? Use These Tools (SpouseBUZZ)
• Kids' Feelings About Marijuana in Sixth Grade May Predict Future Risk of Drunk Driving (Los Angeles Times Online)
• Middle Schoolers' Views on Pot May Forecast Later DUIs (LiveScience)
• Ed Gogek: Stop Misleading the Public on the Benefits of Pot Legalization (National Post, Canada)
• Smoke Pot, Drive Drunk? (LifeZette)
• Pot Use Among Young People in Multnomah County in Spotlight (Oregonian Online)
• Factors in Middle School Tied to Impaired Driving Later on (Reuters Online)
• Teens and DUI: Many Factors Increase Risk (MedPage Today)
• Study: Tweens Who Think Marijuana Is Cool More Likely To Drink And Drive Later (KSTW-TV Online)
• SAL RODRIGUEZ: To Control Drugs, Accept Failure of 'War on Drugs' (Press-Enterprise Online)
• Who Would Own Ohio's 10 Pot Farms? (Cincinnati Enquirer)
• Should marijuana be legalized for recreational use? (Minnesota Public Radio Network)
• Blog: Impaired Driving: Another Look (American Thinker)
• Our View: An Idea Worth Emulating Elsewhere(Daily Nonpareil - Council Bluffs, IA)
• The Business Case for Legalizing Weed in Rhode Island (CityLab, from The Atlantic)
• Editorial: Drunken driving and 24/7 Sobriety (Chicago Tribune)
• The Synthetic Marijuana Trade Is a Multimillion-Dollar Industry (Business Insider)
• Philly420: PA., N.J. Dither as Other East Coast States Move to Legalize (philly.com)
• House Speaker Smith: Vt. Should Move to Legalize Marijuana (WCAX-TV)
• Could Medical Marijuana Alleviate the State's Drug Epidemic? (Boston Globe Online)
• Federal Spending on Medical Marijuana Research Is Pathetic (Vox)
• The Cannabis Experiment (Nature)
• Next 11 States That May Legalize Marijuana According to 24/7 Wall Street (Westword Online)
• A Simple Fix for Drunken Driving (The Wall Street Journal)
• Ben Simpson: Marijuana Prohibitionists - From the Heart, but Wrong (VT Digger)
• Internet Mob Justice Is Random and Severe. So Is Formal Criminal Justice (Vox)
• The Case for Raising the Alcohol Tax, in One Paragraph (Vox)
• High Praise: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Save Lives (Huffington Post)
• Growers: Keep Recreational Pot Local (Burlington Free Press)
• Sorting Through the Marijuana Mess in Ohio (Norml)
• Town Hall Ohio: Marijuana Legalization 2 (audio) (Ohio Farm Bureau)
• Could You Lose Your License to Drink? (CNN)
• The Case for Taking Away Some People's Right to Drink (Vox)
• Marijuana Dispensaries Save Lives, New Study Shows (MSNBC Online)
• Notes from the Senate: Marijuana Legalization Is Inevitable (Brattleboro Reformer)
• A Heroin Epidemic is Invading Our Suburbs (Chicago Tribune Online)
• Marijuana Policy 'the Vermont way' (The Commons - Windham County, VT)
• Study Finds Medical Marijuana May Reduce Opiate-Based Narcotic Deaths, Website Reports (Times-Picayune Online)
• Oregon Now Lets You Legally Possess More Marijuana Than Any Other State (Vox)
• Study: Medical Marijuana May Literally Save Lives (Vox)
• As Heroin Use Grows in U.S., Poppy Crops Thrive in Afghanistan (NBC News)
• Why America’s Ongoing Heroin Epidemic May Soon Run Its Course (Vice News)
• Teens Who See Medical Marijuana Ads More Likely to Use the Drug: Study (Join Together)
• RAND: Teens Who See Medical Marijuana Ads More Likely TO Use (POLITICO Online)
• Time to Do Away with Employee Drug Testing (The Hill)
• Medical Marijuana Ads May Prompt Pot Use Among Teens (HealthDay)
• Medical Marijuana Ads May Influence Teens To Smoke Pot; Or Maybe It's Just Exposure To The Drug (Medical Daily)
• The Familiar Economics of Legal Weed (VT Digger)
• Good News, Stoners: Legalization Is Driving Down the Price of Weed (Vice news)
• Medical Marijuana Advertising Sparks Interest in Pot Use Among Teens, Study Finds (Los Angeles Daily News)
• Middle-Schoolers Who View Med Marijuana Ads More Likely to Use (Columbus Dispatch Online)
• What You Need to Know About Marijuana Initiative (Cincinatti.com)
• Is Marijuana Legalization in Future for Illinois?; State's Path Similar to Others That OK'd Recreational Use (Chicago Tribune)
• The Twisted Legacy of Colombia's Aerial Cocaine Crop Spraying Program (VICE)
• Marijuana Decriminalization Faces Key Vote in NH Senate (Foster's Daily Democrat)
• Philly420: Gov. Wolf's Marijuana Decrim Could Save Pa. Millions (philly.com)
• The Problem of Legalization (translated from the Spanish) (Nuevo Diario)
• Debate Swirls Around Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana in Illinois (GateHouse News Service)
• Marijuana, Lower Prices with the Liberalization (translated from the Italian) (Panorama Magazine online, Italy)
• What You Need to Know About Marijuana Initiative (Chillicothe Gazette Online)
• Oregon's Big Marijuana Harvests: How Do You Bring All That Pot into the Legal Market? (Oregonian Online/OregonLive.com)
• Legislative Wrap: Child Protection Reforms Topped Criminal Justice Agenda (VT Digger)
• Kids Allowed to 'sip' Alcohol May Start Drinking Earlier (Reuters)
• Prices for Marijuana Are Projected to Come Down (Examiner.com)
• Strong Marijuana Harvest Will Drive Down Prices (24/7 Wall St.)
• As Legal Use of Marijuana Spreads, Researchers Seek to Better Assess the Risks and Benefits (AAAS)
• Teen Sleep Tied to Substance Use (Psych Central)
• Teens With Sleep Problems More Likely to Drink, Smoke (New York Daily News)
• What If Ohio Goes to Pot? (Akron Beacon Journal Online/Ohio.com)
• How D.C. Pot Legalization Has Become 'the Dealer-Protection Act of 2015' (Washington Post Online/WashingtonPost.com)
• Are State Republicans Addicted to Marijuana? (The Stranger)
• Ignore Legal Pot Mistruths (Cincinnati.com)
• Deep in the Weeds: How Colorado Is Dealing With Legalized Marijuana (Globe and Mail Online)
• Unprecedented Changes in Marijuana Policy: Year In Review 2014 (Britannica Book of the Year)
• Big Marijuana Is Scary. But Not as Scary as Continuing Prohibition. (Vox)
• Vermont Lawmakers Threaten To Reinstate Prohibition If Pot Isn't Legalized (Huffington Post)
• Legalizing Weed: 6 Quotes From Lawmakers After Pot Became Decriminalized in Vermont (NewsMax.com)
• If Marijuana Is Medicine, Why Can't We Buy It in Pharmacies? (Healthline)
• Philly420: Racial Disparities Persist in Phila. Marijuana Arrests (philly.com)
• Why Washington State Is Extinguishing Medical Marijuana (Mashable)
• Will Legalizing Pot Affect Violence in Latin America? (article and video) (syndicated on local TV affiliates)
• Regulating and Taxing Marijuana Will Strengthen Our Economy (GoLocalProv.com)
• Philly420: Pa. House Committees Entertain Medical Marijuana Fiction (philly.com)
• Vermont Marijuana Users Come Out of the Cannabis Closet in Survey (Seven Days)
• Entrepreneurial Dream Team Sets Sights on Marijuana (Seven Days)
• Lawmakers Propose Ban on Alcohol to Make Pot Point (VT Digger)
• The War on Drugs - Interview With Beau Kilmer (audio) (Radio New Zealand)
• Weed World: Lessons from Marijuana Legalization Around the Globe (Foreign Affairs)
• Louisiana Medical Marijuana Chances Not Just Pipe Dream as National Industry Grows (BayouBuzz)
• Kids Allowed to 'Sip' Alcohol May Start Drinking Earlier (Reuters)
• Marijuana: the Discussion Is Not Binary (El Universal, Mexico)
• Castleton Poll Shows Support for Marijuana Legalization (VT Digger)
• Soft Drugs Convenient to Legalize Because It Is the Lesser Evil ( International Business Times)
• Who Uses the Most Marijuana — and What It Means for Legalization (Vox)
• Dabbing: The New, Explosive Way to Smoke Marijuana (HealthLine)
• Shumlin: Legalizing Pot Not the Budget Solution (Rutland Herald)
• No Clear Consensus on Legal Pot (Rutland Herald)
• Windham Senator Urges Thorough Marijuana Debate (Brattleboro Reformer)
• This Man Wants to Build the Tim Hortons of Marijuana (Fusion)
• Joe Benning: The Marijuana Debate (VT Digger)
• Unknowns and Uncertainties After One Year of Marijuana Legalization in Colorado (deseretnews.com)
• Chris Stock and W.B. Markovits: Neither a Monopoly nor a Cartel to Legalize Marijuana in Ohio (Ohio.com)
• Heroin Overdose Deaths in U.S. Have Tripled Since 2010 (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Vermont Lawmaker Moves to Legalize Marijuana (Politico)
• Vermont Could Be Next State To Legalize Recreational Marijuana (Huffington Post)
• Bill Introduced To Legalize Marijuana, Regulate It Like Alcohol (Vermont Public Radio Online)
• Marijuana Legalization Bills to Be Introduced in Vt. Legislature (NECN/New England Cable News Online)
• Marijuana Legalization Bill Introduced, No Action Expected This Session (VT Digger)
• Marijuana Bill Would Allow Retail Shops, Cannabis Lounges (WVNY-TV Online)
• Pot's Just One Toke Over the Line (BostonHerald.com)
• Just Back from Colorado, Vt. Prosecutor Urges Caution on Legalizing Pot (WPTZ.com)
• Green Mountain High? Vermont Senator Proposes Bill to Legalize Marijuana (TravelPulse.com)
• Marijuana Bill Introduced in Senate, Identical House Bill Coming (WVNY-TV Online)
• Fortune 5: The Most Potent Pot Economies in the World (Fortune.com)
• Even as Marijuana Use Rises, Arrests Are Falling (Washington Post Blog, WONKBLOG)
• Bill Bennett's Marijuana Gateway Theory (and Harry Anslinger's) (Forbes Online)
• Fact Finders Head to Colorado for Marijuana Study (Burlington Free Press, VT)
• State Delegation Travels to Colorado for Marijuana Research (WPTZ.com)
• The Science Of Decriminalizing Drugs (Popular Science)
• Lawmakers Want More Warnings On Edible Marijuana Packaging (Vermont Public Radio Online)
• Leading from Behind (the Meth Pot) (Kokomo Perspective)
• Marijuana Tourism: a Trojan Horse (Mountain Times)
• Vermont Lawmakers Consider Legalizing Marijuana (USA Today)
• Entrepreneurs Look to Brand Marijuana the Vermont Way (VT Digger)
• 18 Legal Marijuana States By 2020? (AlterNet Online)
• Philly420: Marijuana Arrests Plummet in Philly after Decriminalization (Philly.com)
• Gregory Dennis: Toking, Taxes and the New Vermont Green (VT Digger)
• Five Months After Decriminalizing Marijuana, Here's What's Happened in Philadelphia (Mic)
• 7 States That Are Next in Line to Legalize Marijuana (Salon.com)
• Marijuana Legalization in Vermont Worth $75 Million per Year (United Press International Online)
• Will Vermont Be the East Coast Hub of Marijuana Tourism? (Los Angeles Times Online)
• A Dozen Ways to Legalize the Marijuana Supply Chain, in Vermont or Any State (Washington Post Online)
• Landmark Study Lays Out Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Legalizing Marijuana in Vermont (Washington Post Online)
• Legalize It? Study Outlines Questions About Legal Pot (Vermont Public Radio Online)
• Marijuana News: New Report Says Legal Pot Could Mean Millions in Revenue for Vermont (Oregonian OR)
• Should Vt. Legalize Marijuana? Bill Expected Soon (WPTZ.com)
• The $75 Million Reason Vermont Should Legalize Marijuana (Mic)
• Vermont Could Raise $75 Million by Legalizing Cannabis (Fast Company)
• Legal Cannabis in Vermont? RAND Lays Out the Options (Washington Monthly blog)
• State Could Earn $20-$75 Million from Legal Pot, Report Says (VT Digger)
• Implications of Legalizing Marijuana in the State of Vermont (WPTZ-TV)
• Marijuana Legalization Could Be Heading to Vermont Next (Vox)
• Legalizing Marijuana Could Generate Up to $75 Million in Revenue (Vermont Public Radio Online)
• Community Courts Let the Punishment Fit the Crime, Compassionately (Christian Science Monitor)
• Vermont Forces For, Against Legalizing Marijuana Gathering (Associated Press)
• Legalization Supporters Join Forces (VT Digger)
• Can Vermont Bring Legal Weed to the Northeast? (VICE)
• Philly420: Is Pa. smoking $2 Billion of Marijuana? (Philly.com)
• Vermont Advocates Call For Regulating Marijuana Like Alcohol (WAMC 1400 AM - Albany, NY)
• Marijuana Use Rises in States with Legalization (Vox)
• Marijuana Legalization Hasn't Made US Teens More Likely to Use Pot, Federal Agency Says (Vox)
• 3 Things We Learned from Colorado's First Year of Legal Marijuana Sales (Vox)
• The Brand of Bob Marley and the Birth of Big Weed (Financial Times)
• Our Opinion: Making Vermont Even More Green (Brattleboro Reformer)
• Lawmakers Briefed on RAND Marijuana Study (VT Digger)
• Houston Police Chief Calls Drug War a 'Miserable' Failure, Says Feds Need to Lead Reform (Huffington Post)
• Vt. Lawmakers Weigh Pros and Cons of Legalizing Marijuana (WCAX-TV Online)
• Vermont Takes Comment on Possible Marijuana Legalization (BenningtonBanner.com)
• State to Hold Hearing on Marijuana Legalization (Boston Globe Online)
• Report To Address How To Tax And Sell Marijuana (Vermont Public Radio Online)
• Bob Marley: Marlboro Man of Marijuana? (Financial Times online)
• 9 Questions About Marijuana Legalization You Were Too Stoned to Ask (Vox)
• Legalize-Marijuana Movement Gains "Significant" Wins (CBS News Online)
• Marijuana-Legalization Supporters See Next Battleground in California (Wall Street Journal)
• Legalized Marijuana Spreads to Two More States and D.C. Next Up, California (Christian Science Monitor)
• What's the Future of Marijuana Legalization? (KCRW (Santa Monica), To The Point)
• Legal Marijuana's Coming to Oregon — Now What? (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
• Afghan Opium Cultivation Hits Record High, Fueling Taliban Insurgency (Jazeera America Online)
• Pro-pot Efforts Hoping for Young Voting Crowd (CBS News)
• Why Four Marijuana Initiatives Might Face Trouble on Nov. 4 (Christian Science Monitor)
• What If States Just Sold Marijuana Themselves? (Governing)
• The Problem with Marijuana Ballot Initiatives (Vox)
• Vermont to Hold Hearing on Marijuana Legalization (Associated Press)
• Afghanistan Opium Production At Record High Amid Instability, Slowing Economy And High Demand (International Business Times)
• Oregon, Alaska, D.C. Voters to Weigh Legal Marijuana in November (Reuters)
• These Cannabis Bills Could Change Toking in Texas for Good (Houston Press)
• Oregon Initiative Seeks Lower Pot Taxes Than Cities Want (Wall Street Journal)
• Cannabis Legalization in Oregon: Is Measure 91 Close Enough for Government Work? (Washington Monthly)
• 'Hay Que Ser Flexibles en Política De Drogas' ("We Must Be Flexible in Drug Policy") (El Espectador)
• Faster Justice, Closer: The Power of Community Courts (Pacific Standard)
• Poll: Vermont Voters Split on Marijuana Legalization (WCAX)
• Buprenorphine Use Remains Hit or Miss (Behavioral Healthcare)
• RAND: State Policies to Tackle Heroin Addiction (POLITICO)
• Hardly Anyone Uses Heroin. So Why Do We Keep Freaking Out About It? (Wonkblog - The Washington Post)
• 24 Maps and Charts That Explain Marijuana (Vox)
• Study Looks at Marijuana Market (WPTZ-TV)
• The Threat of Commercialized Marijuana (Vox)
• 24/7 Sobriety Program Ready to Be Rolled Out (Powell Tribune)
• Legalize It? Latin America Reconsiders Pot (Politico Pro)
• Seven Books About...Where There's Smoke: Marijuana Titles (BostonGlobe.com)
• Fortune 5: The Biggest Organized Crime Groups in the World (Fortune)
• Study: Teens Who Smoke Pot Daily Are 62 Percent Less Likely to Finish College (Vox)
• Medical Marijuana and Workplace Safety (Safety and Health Magazine)
• As Marijuana Decriminalization Spreads, Public Health Prepares: Health Effects, Regulations Examined (Nation's Health)
• Mike Brown Autopsy Results: Marijuana Found in Ferguson Teen's Body; Does Pot Increase Violent Behavior? (International Business Times)
• Study Predicts $11 Million Annual Revenue From Legalized Pot (VT Digger)
• Can Big Pot and Big Alcohol Get Along? (TPM)
• Research Uncovers Inequities in Zoning Rules, Health Impacts of Pot Shops (Health News Colorado)
• Smoke Clearing on Pot Tax Bucks (Portland Tribune Online)
• Marijuana Study to Focus on Use, Costs and Precedents (VT Digger)
• The Study That Could Shape the Future of Marijuana in Vermont and the Rest of the Country (Firedoglake)
• Britain's Streets Are Now Booze Soaked War Zones (The Telegraph)
• Why Marijuana Legalization in Guatemala Won't Solve the Child Migrant Crisis (Vox)
• Windham Senate Dems Make Their Case in Final Forum (Brattleboro Reformer)
• Making Kids Count (Vermont Public Radio Online)
• Should Vermont Legalize Recreational Marijuana? (WCAX TV Online)
• The Number of Marijuana Dealers in the United States (FiveThirtyEight)
• As Marijuana Becomes Legal, a Hedge Fund Looks to Profit (ThinkAdvisor)
• Shumlin Administration Launches Pot Legalization Study (VPR News)
• Recreational Marijuana Gets a New Test, in Washington State (Wall Street Journal)
• Washington's Legal Marijuana Mess (Reason Magazine)
• Everything You Want to Know About Legal Pot in Washington (Seattle Times)
• We Can Do Better (Harvard Magazine)
• Estimates Differ on Marijuana Revenues (Portland Tribune)
• Can Uruguay Kill Drug Cartels by Legalizing Marijuana? (Vox)
• Pope Francis Speaks Out Against Legalization of Marijuana and Other Drugs (Newsweek)
• High Times on Wall Street (Businessweek)
• Schumer's $100 Million Cure for the Heroin 'Epidemic' is Snake Oil (Forbes)
• 6 Months Since Legalizing Pot, Washington Looks Very Different Than Colorado (PolicyMic)
• Prescription Drugs Have Pushed Heroin to the Suburbs (Newsweek)
• How Colorado Has Gone to Pot (CBS News)
• One Frustrating Statistic Proves Just How Much of a Failure the War on Drugs Has Been (PolicyMic)
• Our Moral Responsibility to Undocumented Central American Youth (Commentary) (Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY))
• No, Marijuana Isn't a Gateway Drug (Vox)
• Indiana's Interactive Map Plots Meth Lab Data (Government Technology)
• 4 Keys to Moving Forward with Marijuana Reform (Crosscut, WA)
• Here's What 5 Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Think About the War on Drugs (PolicyMic)
• As Cannabis Arrests Soar, Experts Meet to Consider If Banning Drug is Best Policy (The Herald Sun)
• Border Is Nothing More Than a Speed Bump (WND U.S.)
• What Ever Happened to 'Just Say No'? (The Atlantic)
• Cannabis, Bill Bennett, and the Technique of Selective Reading (Washington Monthly blog)
• The Business Of Legalized Marijuana And Ongoing Health Concerns (WAMU, The Diane Rehm Show)
• Youth Access To Marijuana Remains A Concern Under Legalization (Northwest Public Radio (NPR), WA)
• Marijuana Advocates Take the Spotlight at Minnesota Capitol (The Star Tribune)
• Twice-Daily Breath Tests Could Replace Car Locks for Repeat DUI Convicts (The Florida Times-Union)
• How Legalized Pot Would Change America (Vox.com)
• This Infographic Shows the Illegal Drugs Americans Spend the Most Money On (Business Insider)
• Measuring the Scourge of Hard-Drug Use (Frederick News Post, MD)
• 5 Biggest Myths About Marijuana, Debunked (Salon)
• Medical Marijuana Users Tend to Be Young and in Pain (Tampa Bay Times)
• As Cannabis Arrests Soar, Experts Meet to Consider If Banning Drug is Best Policy (The Herald Sun)
• What Ever Happened to 'Just Say No'? (The Atlantic)
• Cannabis, Bill Bennett, and the Technique of Selective Reading (Washington Monthly blog)
• The Business Of Legalized Marijuana And Ongoing Health Concerns (WAMU, The Diane Rehm Show)
• Youth Access To Marijuana Remains A Concern Under Legalization (Northwest Public Radio (NPR), WA)
• Marijuana Advocates Take the Spotlight at Minnesota Capitol (The Star Tribune)
• Twice-Daily Breath Tests Could Replace Car Locks for Repeat DUI Convicts (The Florida Times-Union)
• How Legalized Pot Would Change America (Vox.com)
• This Infographic Shows the Illegal Drugs Americans Spend the Most Money On (Business Insider)
• Measuring the Scourge of Hard-Drug Use (Frederick News Post, MD)
• 5 Biggest Myths About Marijuana, Debunked (Salon)
• Gov't Abandons Best Survey for Counting U.S. Drug Users (The Daily Beast)
• More Pot, Safer Roads: Marijuana Legalization Could Bring Unexpected Benefits (Forbes.com)
• Cocaine, Like Coca-Cola, on the Decline (MarketWatch)
• Lines Are Out, Joints Are in: Cocaine Use in U.S. Cut in HALF While Marijuana Use Jumps 30 Percent (Daily Mail, UK)
• Americans Spent About a Trillion Dollars on Illegal Drugs in the Last Decade (The Huffington Post)
• Anti-Drug Ad Group Just Says No to Fighting Legalized Pot (AdAge)
• If Politicians Really Want to Save Money, These Initiatives Actually Cost Less Than Doing Nothing (Huffington Post)
• White House Study Shows Americans Spent $109 Billion on Drugs (The Fix)
• Cocaine Usage Way Down, but Marijuana Picks Up the Slack (Newsweek)
• How to Measure Heroin Use When No One Will Admit to Using Heroin (The Atlantic Cities)
• Marijuana's Health Effects Need More Study, Say Experts (CBSNews.com)
• Cocaine Goes Out of Fashion in U.S. While Popularity of Cannabis Soars (International Business Times)
• Here's How Much America Spends on Illegal Drugs (PolicyMic)
• How Many Daily Heroin Users Are There in the U.S.? Somewhere Between 60,000 and 1 Million. Maybe. (Forbes.com)
• More Pot, Less Cocaine: Sizing Up America's Illicit Drug Market (BloombergBusinessweek)
• Editorial: La Caída del 'Chapo' (eltiempo.com)
• Will Mexican Cartels Survive Marijuana Legalization? (Fusion.net)
• The Pitfalls of Central Pot Planning in Washington (Forbes.com)
• To Legalize or Not To Legalize (The Fix)
• Colorado Expected to Make $184 Million in Marijuana Tax Revenue (CNN, Erin Burnett OutFront)
• Entrepreneurs Seek Profits From Pot (The Wall Street Journal)
• The President Inhales (The Wall Street Journal)
• Legalizing Pot Would Be Good for NJ: Opinion (NJ.com, New Jersey)
• The Long, Strange Challenge Facing Marijuana Entrepreneurs (Inc.com, NY)
• How to Legalise Cannabis Safely Without Curbing Liberty (Financial Times)
• International Obligations (The North Coast Journal)
• Before Pot Goes to Polls, Tampa Gets Its First College of Cannabis (Tamps Bay Times)
• Legal Weed's Strange Economics in Colorado (Businessweek)
• U.S. Marijuana Possession Enforcement Intensity is Down Over 40% (Washington Monthly Blog)
• Colorado's 'Pot Shops' Might Do More to Stop the Mexican Cartels Than Any Law Enforcement (The Independent, UK)
• Washington State's Debate on Cannabis Has Only Just Begun (Globe and Mail, Toronto)
• 15 Things You Might Not Know About Marijuana Consumption in Washington (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Death of a Pot Salesman? (East Bay Express, CA)
• A Mission Gone Wrong: Why Are We Still Fighting the Drug War? (The New Yorker)
• Why Legalizing Marijuana Is a Smart Fiscal Move (The Fiscal Times)
• Rocky Mountain High (Register-Guard, OR)
• Washington Residents Smoke Way More Weed Than Officials Thought (TIME Magazine)
• Study: Marijuana Use In Washington State Double Previous Estimates (video) (Fox Business Network)
• The Spreading of Good Cheer — and Wads Of Cash (Seattle Times)
• Washington State Smokes About Twice As Much Marijuana As Previously Thought: Study - about new RAND study (Huffington Post)
• People From Washington Are Even More Stoned Than We Thought (Daily Mail, UK)
• 175 Metric Tons: RAND Study Shows 2013 Washington Marijuana Use, County By County (Seattle Post-Intelligencer online)
• Uruguay Is Poised to Become First Country to Legalize and Regulate Pot (Newsweek)
• Uruguay Opts Out of the War on Drugs (KCRW Santa Monica)
• Drug Issues Stay High on Agenda (Financial Times)
• In the Weeds: Can Colorado and Washington Make Legal Marijuana Work? (The American Prospect)
• Buzzkill: Washington State Discovers That It's Not So Easy to Create a Legal Marijuana Economy (The New Yorker)
• Probing Pot: HSU's Marijuana Institute Tends a New Crop of Research (North Coast Journal)
• Что дальше в борьбе за легализацию марихуаны? (What's Next in the Fight for the Legalization of Marijuana?) (Russiapost)
• Dispatch From Denver: What's Next in the Fight for Pot Legalization? (The Nation)
• Experts: Maine, Michigan Votes Another 'Green Light' for Marijuana Legalization (CNN)
• Why Stoners Should Be Stoked About Colorado's New Weed Tax (The Week)
• Colorado Voters Expected To Approve Taxes On Legal Marijuana (Medical Daily)
• Colorado Voters Deciding How High to Tax Pot (USA Today)
• Has U.S. Gone Further Than Netherlands Over Marijuana? (CNN)
• Debate in the USA: How Do You Legalize Marijuana? (ARD News, Germany)
• Medical Marijuana Sold in Oregon Dispensaries Must Be Tested for Pesticides, Mold, Says New Law (The Oregonian)
• Dane County May Begin Twice-Daily BAC Tests For Alcohol Offenders (WPR, Wisconsin Public Radio)
• Pot: Alaska, Oregon May Vote to Inhale Next Year (Reuters)
• Marijuana Legalization Activists Target States For 2014, Ahead of Presidential Election (Medical Daily)
• Federal Marijuana Memo Could Affect Other Countries, Expert Says (Los Angeles Times)
• The Methiest States in the U.S. (Huffington Post)
• Pot Zoning — Where Will Bellevue Put It? (Bellevue Reporter)
• Marijuana Legalization: The Republican Argument for Doing It (PolicyMic)
• National Group Wants Maine to Legalize Marijuana (Portland Press Herald)
• Drop in Teen Binge Drinking, But 'Extreme' Drinking Level Holds Steady (Healthline)
• White House Won't Come After States that Legalize Pot (KPCC Southern California Public Radio)
• Ask the Experts: Should Uncle Sam Take a Toke to Fill His Coffers? (CardHub.com)
• Mexican Drug Cartel Activity in U.S. Said To Be Exaggerated in Widely Cited Federal Report (Washington Post)
• Marijuana Advocates Rejoice (Colorado Springs Independent)
• As Haze Clears, Are American Opinions on Marijuana Reaching Tipping Point? (CNN.com)
• Teens Quit Pot If Their Friends Are Smoke-Free (LiveScience)
• Viewpoints: New Approach to Prison and the War On Drugs (BBC)
• Do Medical-Marijuana Laws Save Lives on the Road? (Boston Globe)
• Global Trendsetter? Uruguay Moves to Legalize Marijuana (Christian Science Monitor)
• The Zombie Apocalypse That Wasn't: Bath Salts! (Salon.com)
• Minimum Alcohol Pricing: Position of the European Commission (BBC)
• Seeing More $2 Bills Lately? Could Be Because of a Campaign by Marijuana Advocates (Michigan Public Radio/NPR)
• Round-The-Clock Alcohol Monitoring Part of New DUI Law (Northwest Public Radio)
• Drink Driving Deterrents Becoming Less Effective (The Canberra Times)
• Legalization of Marijuana in the U.S. Would Benefit Therapeutic Users, Hurt Drug Cartels (CNN Mexico)
• What's the Right Price for Legal Pot? (NPR)
• 5 Things to Know About Marijuana in the U.S. (CNN)
• Expert Details Misuse of Prescription Drugs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Legalization in the U.S. and Crime in Mexico (New York Times)
• Washington State Releases Draft Rules for Legal Pot (Associated Press)
• Drug Expert Speaks on Policies, Legalization (The Almanac)
• Civil Liberties Erode When Drug Use Widens (Houston Chronicle)
• The Case Against Legalizing Marijuana in Maine (Bangor Daily News)
• Louie Gohmert Says al Qaeda Has Camps with Drug Cartels in Mexico (PolitiFact)
• Marijuana Dispensaries May Have to Quality Test in Mass. (Boston Globe)
• Cash-Starved States Eye Pot Tax (Politico)
• Why We Need To Solve Our Alcohol Problem to Solve Our Crime Problem (Washington Post)
• Meth Addiction Cure: Ibudilast Tested On Human Addicts (Huffington Post)
• Marijuana Tax Touted as Budgetary Benefit to U.S. and States. Really? (Christian Science Monitor)
• Cash-Strapped States Eye Pot Tax (MSNBC)
• Lawmakers, Economists Divided Over Tax Benefits Of Legalizing Marijuana (OpposingViews.com)
• British Youth More Exposed to Alcohol Ads (West - Welfare Society Territory)
• Meet Washington State's New Marijuana Expert (CNN)
• New Marijuana Consultants (TVW - Washington State Public Affairs Network)
• Bills Take Aim at Federal Marijuana Ban (USA Today)
• Marijuana, By Air: Mexican Gangs Use Cannon to Hurl Drugs Across U.S. Border (Time)
• Bill Calls for Maine Referendum to Legalize Pot (Portland Press Herald)
• Narcotraficantes Mexicanos Usan Cañones Para Pasar la Droga Por la Frontera con EEUU (el Economista)
• St. Louis Company May Have Answer To Ending Meth Labs (KWMU - NPR)
• Drug Czar Discusses Marijuana 'On the Issues' (Marquette Tribune)
• US Drug Policy Rankles Latin American Leaders (Fox News Latino)
• Should Cigarettes Be Illegal? (MyHealthNewsDaily)
• Neighbor States On Guard Against Pot From Colo., Wash. (USA Today)
• Community Justice Center Passes the Test (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Legalize Pot and Reap the Benefit From Influx of Toking Tourists: Liberals (National Post)
• 'Pot For Profit' Laws Attract Entrepreneurs (Marketplace / American Public Media)
• Drug Companies Battle Meth Scourge (MSN Money)
• US Drug Legislation to Slow Mexico Violence? (Al Jazeera)
• The Business of Selling Pot...Legally (Marketplace / American Public Media)
• Community Supervision Is Better Than Incarceration (New York Times)
• Do Alcohol and Marijuana Mix? Colorado Is About To Find Out (The Denver Post)
• The Problem with the All-or-Nothing Approach to Incarceration (National Review)
• Richard Roper: Legalize Pot and Gamble With Our Kids' Futures (Dallas Morning News)
• The High Road to Marijuana Legalization in California (Sacramento News & Review)
• Best Marijuana Non-Fiction 2012 (SFGate.com)
• Interview: Beau Kilmer on U.S. Marijuana Laws (CNTV)
• Senseless in Seattle: Washington State's Decision to Legalise Marijuana Possession is at Odds With Federal Law (The Independent)
• When Will California Legalize Pot? (East Bay Express)
• Marijuana Advocates Hope to Rise from 'Prohibition' (CNN)
• Why Legalizing Pot Won't Curb the Drug War (The Atlantic)
• How Pot Advocates Are Manipulating the Truth (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• High Hopes: Does Legalised Marijuana Have A Future? (Economy Watch)
• Washington Dispensary Owners Against Marijuana Legalization (Huffington Post)
• Looking Ahead to U.S. Marijuana Legalization (Minnesota Public Radio)
• Is Marijuana Bad For You? (The Week)
• US Marijuana Legalization Fuels Mexico Drugs War Debate (BBC)
• Pot legalization Proceeds in Key States With Feds Mostly Silent (Reuters News)
• New U.S. Legalized Marijuana Laws Have 'Profound Impact' in Mexico (Washington Times)
• How Marijuana Legalization Will Affect Mexico's Cartels, in Charts (Washington Post)
• What Obama and the Feds Will Do About Washington and Colorado Legalization - Expert Analysis (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Marijuana: Mexico's Latest Export to the US? (Financial Times)
• Marijuana Votes: A Cue for Nevada Lawmakers to Act (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Biggest Blow To Mexico Drug Cartels? It Could Be On Your State Ballot (Christian Science Monitor)
• The Regulatory Catch-22 of Legalized Marijuana (Fox Business Network)
• Colorado and Washington Legalized Recreational Marijuana, But How Will Federal Authorities Respond? (KPCC-FM AirTalk - Southern California Public Radio)
• US States Vote To Experiment With Marijuana (New Scientist)
• Colorado And Washington Are The First Places In The World Where Weed Is Truly Legal (Business Insider)
• New Marijuana Laws Will Be a Public Health Experiment, Experts Say (MyHealthNewsDaily)
• Some in Colorado, Washington Fear Pot Tourism Industry (USA Today)
• Could legal marijuana become big business? (MSN Money)
• Colorado, Washington Blow Smoke in Feds' Face by Ok'ing Pot For Fun (Washington Times)
• As Cannabis Arrests Soar, Experts Meet to Consider If Banning Drug is Best Policy (The Herald Sun)
• What Ever Happened to 'Just Say No'? (The Atlantic)
• Cannabis, Bill Bennett, and the Technique of Selective Reading (Washington Monthly blog)
• The Business Of Legalized Marijuana And Ongoing Health Concerns (WAMU, The Diane Rehm Show)
• Youth Access To Marijuana Remains A Concern Under Legalization (Northwest Public Radio (NPR), WA)
• Marijuana Advocates Take the Spotlight at Minnesota Capitol (The Star Tribune)
• Twice-Daily Breath Tests Could Replace Car Locks for Repeat DUI Convicts (The Florida Times-Union)
• How Legalized Pot Would Change America (Vox.com)
• This Infographic Shows the Illegal Drugs Americans Spend the Most Money On (Business Insider)
• Measuring the Scourge of Hard-Drug Use (Frederick News Post, MD)
• 5 Biggest Myths About Marijuana, Debunked (Salon)
• Gov't Abandons Best Survey for Counting U.S. Drug Users (The Daily Beast)
• More Pot, Safer Roads: Marijuana Legalization Could Bring Unexpected Benefits (Forbes.com)
• Cocaine, Like Coca-Cola, on the Decline (MarketWatch)
• Lines Are Out, Joints Are in: Cocaine Use in U.S. Cut in HALF While Marijuana Use Jumps 30 Percent (Daily Mail, UK)
• Americans Spent About a Trillion Dollars on Illegal Drugs in the Last Decade (The Huffington Post)
• Anti-Drug Ad Group Just Says No to Fighting Legalized Pot (AdAge)
• If Politicians Really Want to Save Money, These Initiatives Actually Cost Less Than Doing Nothing (Huffington Post)
• White House Study Shows Americans Spent $109 Billion on Drugs (The Fix)
• Cocaine Usage Way Down, but Marijuana Picks Up the Slack (Newsweek)
• How to Measure Heroin Use When No One Will Admit to Using Heroin (The Atlantic Cities)
• Marijuana's Health Effects Need More Study, Say Experts (CBSNews.com)
• Cocaine Goes Out of Fashion in U.S. While Popularity of Cannabis Soars (International Business Times)
• Here's How Much America Spends on Illegal Drugs (PolicyMic)
• How Many Daily Heroin Users Are There in the U.S.? Somewhere Between 60,000 and 1 Million. Maybe. (Forbes.com)
• More Pot, Less Cocaine: Sizing Up America's Illicit Drug Market (BloombergBusinessweek)
• Editorial: La Caída del 'Chapo' (eltiempo.com)
• Will Mexican Cartels Survive Marijuana Legalization? (Fusion.net)
• The Pitfalls of Central Pot Planning in Washington (Forbes.com)
• To Legalize or Not To Legalize (The Fix)
• Colorado Expected to Make $184 Million in Marijuana Tax Revenue (CNN, Erin Burnett OutFront)
• Entrepreneurs Seek Profits From Pot (The Wall Street Journal)
• The President Inhales (The Wall Street Journal)
• Legalizing Pot Would Be Good for NJ: Opinion (NJ.com, New Jersey)
• The Long, Strange Challenge Facing Marijuana Entrepreneurs (Inc.com, NY)
• How to Legalise Cannabis Safely Without Curbing Liberty (Financial Times)
• International Obligations (The North Coast Journal)
• Before Pot Goes to Polls, Tampa Gets Its First College of Cannabis (Tamps Bay Times)
• Legal Weed's Strange Economics in Colorado (Businessweek)
• U.S. Marijuana Possession Enforcement Intensity is Down Over 40% (Washington Monthly Blog)
• Colorado's 'Pot Shops' Might Do More to Stop the Mexican Cartels Than Any Law Enforcement (The Independent, UK)
• Washington State's Debate on Cannabis Has Only Just Begun (Globe and Mail, Toronto)
• 15 Things You Might Not Know About Marijuana Consumption in Washington (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Death of a Pot Salesman? (East Bay Express, CA)
• A Mission Gone Wrong: Why Are We Still Fighting the Drug War? (The New Yorker)
• Why Legalizing Marijuana Is a Smart Fiscal Move (The Fiscal Times)
• Rocky Mountain High (Register-Guard, OR)
• Washington Residents Smoke Way More Weed Than Officials Thought (TIME Magazine)
• Study: Marijuana Use In Washington State Double Previous Estimates (video) (Fox Business Network)
• The Spreading of Good Cheer — and Wads Of Cash (Seattle Times)
• Washington State Smokes About Twice As Much Marijuana As Previously Thought: Study - about new RAND study (Huffington Post)
• People From Washington Are Even More Stoned Than We Thought (Daily Mail, UK)
• 175 Metric Tons: RAND Study Shows 2013 Washington Marijuana Use, County By County (Seattle Post-Intelligencer online)
• Uruguay Is Poised to Become First Country to Legalize and Regulate Pot (Newsweek)
• Uruguay Opts Out of the War on Drugs (KCRW Santa Monica)
• Drug Issues Stay High on Agenda (Financial Times)
• In the Weeds: Can Colorado and Washington Make Legal Marijuana Work? (The American Prospect)
• Buzzkill: Washington State Discovers That It's Not So Easy to Create a Legal Marijuana Economy (The New Yorker)
• Probing Pot: HSU's Marijuana Institute Tends a New Crop of Research (North Coast Journal)
• Что дальше в борьбе за легализацию марихуаны? (What's Next in the Fight for the Legalization of Marijuana?) (Russiapost)
• Dispatch From Denver: What's Next in the Fight for Pot Legalization? (The Nation)
• Experts: Maine, Michigan Votes Another 'Green Light' for Marijuana Legalization (CNN)
• Why Stoners Should Be Stoked About Colorado's New Weed Tax (The Week)
• Colorado Voters Expected To Approve Taxes On Legal Marijuana (Medical Daily)
• Colorado Voters Deciding How High to Tax Pot (USA Today)
• Has U.S. Gone Further Than Netherlands Over Marijuana? (CNN)
• Debate in the USA: How Do You Legalize Marijuana? (ARD News, Germany)
• Medical Marijuana Sold in Oregon Dispensaries Must Be Tested for Pesticides, Mold, Says New Law (The Oregonian)
• Dane County May Begin Twice-Daily BAC Tests For Alcohol Offenders (WPR, Wisconsin Public Radio)
• Pot: Alaska, Oregon May Vote to Inhale Next Year (Reuters)
• Marijuana Legalization Activists Target States For 2014, Ahead of Presidential Election (Medical Daily)
• Federal Marijuana Memo Could Affect Other Countries, Expert Says (Los Angeles Times)
• The Methiest States in the U.S. (Huffington Post)
• Pot Zoning — Where Will Bellevue Put It? (Bellevue Reporter)
• Marijuana Legalization: The Republican Argument for Doing It (PolicyMic)
• National Group Wants Maine to Legalize Marijuana (Portland Press Herald)
• Drop in Teen Binge Drinking, But 'Extreme' Drinking Level Holds Steady (Healthline)
• White House Won't Come After States that Legalize Pot (KPCC Southern California Public Radio)
• Ask the Experts: Should Uncle Sam Take a Toke to Fill His Coffers? (CardHub.com)
• Mexican Drug Cartel Activity in U.S. Said To Be Exaggerated in Widely Cited Federal Report (Washington Post)
• Marijuana Advocates Rejoice (Colorado Springs Independent)
• As Haze Clears, Are American Opinions on Marijuana Reaching Tipping Point? (CNN.com)
• Teens Quit Pot If Their Friends Are Smoke-Free (LiveScience)
• Viewpoints: New Approach to Prison and the War On Drugs (BBC)
• Do Medical-Marijuana Laws Save Lives on the Road? (Boston Globe)
• Global Trendsetter? Uruguay Moves to Legalize Marijuana (Christian Science Monitor)
• The Zombie Apocalypse That Wasn't: Bath Salts! (Salon.com)
• Minimum Alcohol Pricing: Position of the European Commission (BBC)
• Seeing More $2 Bills Lately? Could Be Because of a Campaign by Marijuana Advocates (Michigan Public Radio/NPR)
• Round-The-Clock Alcohol Monitoring Part of New DUI Law (Northwest Public Radio)
• Drink Driving Deterrents Becoming Less Effective (The Canberra Times)
• Legalization of Marijuana in the U.S. Would Benefit Therapeutic Users, Hurt Drug Cartels (CNN Mexico)
• What's the Right Price for Legal Pot? (NPR)
• 5 Things to Know About Marijuana in the U.S. (CNN)
• Expert Details Misuse of Prescription Drugs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Legalization in the U.S. and Crime in Mexico (New York Times)
• Washington State Releases Draft Rules for Legal Pot (Associated Press)
• Drug Expert Speaks on Policies, Legalization (The Almanac)
• Civil Liberties Erode When Drug Use Widens (Houston Chronicle)
• The Case Against Legalizing Marijuana in Maine (Bangor Daily News)
• Louie Gohmert Says al Qaeda Has Camps with Drug Cartels in Mexico (PolitiFact)
• Marijuana Dispensaries May Have to Quality Test in Mass. (Boston Globe)
• Cash-Starved States Eye Pot Tax (Politico)
• Why We Need To Solve Our Alcohol Problem to Solve Our Crime Problem (Washington Post)
• Meth Addiction Cure: Ibudilast Tested On Human Addicts (Huffington Post)
• Marijuana Tax Touted as Budgetary Benefit to U.S. and States. Really? (Christian Science Monitor)
• Cash-Strapped States Eye Pot Tax (MSNBC)
• Lawmakers, Economists Divided Over Tax Benefits Of Legalizing Marijuana (OpposingViews.com)
• British Youth More Exposed to Alcohol Ads (West - Welfare Society Territory)
• Meet Washington State's New Marijuana Expert (CNN)
• New Marijuana Consultants (TVW - Washington State Public Affairs Network)
• Bills Take Aim at Federal Marijuana Ban (USA Today)
• Marijuana, By Air: Mexican Gangs Use Cannon to Hurl Drugs Across U.S. Border (Time)
• Bill Calls for Maine Referendum to Legalize Pot (Portland Press Herald)
• Narcotraficantes Mexicanos Usan Cañones Para Pasar la Droga Por la Frontera con EEUU (el Economista)
• St. Louis Company May Have Answer To Ending Meth Labs (KWMU - NPR)
• Drug Czar Discusses Marijuana 'On the Issues' (Marquette Tribune)
• US Drug Policy Rankles Latin American Leaders (Fox News Latino)
• Should Cigarettes Be Illegal? (MyHealthNewsDaily)
• Neighbor States On Guard Against Pot From Colo., Wash. (USA Today)
• Community Justice Center Passes the Test (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Legalize Pot and Reap the Benefit From Influx of Toking Tourists: Liberals (National Post)
• 'Pot For Profit' Laws Attract Entrepreneurs (Marketplace / American Public Media)
• Drug Companies Battle Meth Scourge (MSN Money)
• US Drug Legislation to Slow Mexico Violence? (Al Jazeera)
• The Business of Selling Pot...Legally (Marketplace / American Public Media)
• Community Supervision Is Better Than Incarceration (New York Times)
• Do Alcohol and Marijuana Mix? Colorado Is About To Find Out (The Denver Post)
• The Problem with the All-or-Nothing Approach to Incarceration (National Review)
• Richard Roper: Legalize Pot and Gamble With Our Kids' Futures (Dallas Morning News)
• The High Road to Marijuana Legalization in California (Sacramento News & Review)
• Best Marijuana Non-Fiction 2012 (SFGate.com)
• Interview: Beau Kilmer on U.S. Marijuana Laws (CNTV)
• Senseless in Seattle: Washington State's Decision to Legalise Marijuana Possession is at Odds With Federal Law (The Independent)
• When Will California Legalize Pot? (East Bay Express)
• Marijuana Advocates Hope to Rise from 'Prohibition' (CNN)
• Why Legalizing Pot Won't Curb the Drug War (The Atlantic)
• How Pot Advocates Are Manipulating the Truth (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• High Hopes: Does Legalised Marijuana Have A Future? (Economy Watch)
• Washington Dispensary Owners Against Marijuana Legalization (Huffington Post)
• Looking Ahead to U.S. Marijuana Legalization (Minnesota Public Radio)
• Is Marijuana Bad For You? (The Week)
• US Marijuana Legalization Fuels Mexico Drugs War Debate (BBC)
• Pot legalization Proceeds in Key States With Feds Mostly Silent (Reuters News)
• New U.S. Legalized Marijuana Laws Have 'Profound Impact' in Mexico (Washington Times)
• How Marijuana Legalization Will Affect Mexico's Cartels, in Charts (Washington Post)
• What Obama and the Feds Will Do About Washington and Colorado Legalization - Expert Analysis (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Marijuana: Mexico's Latest Export to the US? (Financial Times)
• Marijuana Votes: A Cue for Nevada Lawmakers to Act (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Biggest Blow To Mexico Drug Cartels? It Could Be On Your State Ballot (Christian Science Monitor)
• The Regulatory Catch-22 of Legalized Marijuana (Fox Business Network)
• Colorado and Washington Legalized Recreational Marijuana, But How Will Federal Authorities Respond? (KPCC-FM AirTalk - Southern California Public Radio)
• US States Vote To Experiment With Marijuana (New Scientist)
• Colorado And Washington Are The First Places In The World Where Weed Is Truly Legal (Business Insider)
• New Marijuana Laws Will Be a Public Health Experiment, Experts Say (MyHealthNewsDaily)
• Some in Colorado, Washington Fear Pot Tourism Industry (USA Today)
• Could legal marijuana become big business? (MSN Money)
• Colorado, Washington Blow Smoke in Feds' Face by Ok'ing Pot For Fun (Washington Times)