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The 14 States with Medical Marijuana Laws

The Marijuana Policy Project has a white paper called “The Fourteen States and One Federal District With Effective Medical Marijuana Laws” that gives a brief overview of key provisions of each of the 15 medical marijuana laws.”

June 6, 2010, Columns on Arizona’s Immigration Law

1. abc15.com: “Thousands rally in favor of Arizona immigration law”

2. Arizona Republic: “Arizona immigration law supporters gather for rally”

3. Arizona Republic: “Arizona immigration law sponsor Russell Pearce thrusts state into political storm”

4. Arizona Republic: “Pearce disavows ‘cling-on’ racists, neo-Nazis”

5. Arizona Republic: “Civil rights groups ask court to block immigration law”

6. Washington Times: “Racial profiling is price for rule of law”

7. Arizona Republic: “Lawyers flooded by calls on immigration laws“

Mexico Opens Office in California to Provide IDs for Illegal Immigrants

Washington Examiner: “The Mexican government is opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island — a small resort off the California coast with a history of drug smuggling and human trafficking — to provide the island’s illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards . . . .”

Cost of Feud Between Maricopa County Officials to Go Higher

Arizona Republic: “For two years, supervisors and other officials have complained about the high legal costs for Maricopa County tied to their internal power struggle. Now, some of those same people have filed legal notices asking for millions in damages because of the emotional stress caused by the political warfare.”

Joe Arpaio, Andrew Thomas and the Hunt for Judge Gary Donahoe

Phoenix New Times: “It wasn’t enough . . . to file three felony charges against [Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gary] Donahoe, despite a complete lack of evidence. . . . Last year, drunk on the conspiracy theory that all county officials were corrupt and that county judges were shielding them, Arpaio and Thomas went nuts. They charged Supervisors Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox with cases so weak that a wiser prosecutor is on the record saying that she saw no evidence of a crime.”