Election 2012 – And the winner is . . .

Regardless of the partisan battles between the politicians, one undeniable result of the 2012 election is that cannabis won.  The prohibition was challenged in five states, and it was defeated in three of them.  In Massachusetts, medical cannabis earned 63% of the vote, while the winning presidential and senatorial candidates garnered 61% and 54%, respectively.  In Colorado, marijuana...
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Jean and Steve Marlowe

In 2008, I agreed to represent Polk County NC activist Steve Marlowe, who faced charges for growing of medical cannabis for his former wife and fellow activist Jean Marlowe and two other patients.  It was another one of those supposedly once-in-a-lifetime cases that have come my way. This case wasn’t the Marlowes’ first brush with the law prohibiting marijuana.  In fact, the...
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