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Marijuana Reform: Colorado Springs City Council Vetoes People’s Will

Analysis, Perspective for Hire / By Lindsay Deen

In this video about Marijuana Reform, USR columnist and editor Lindsay Deen explores government officials’ reactions to Amendment 64 and, in her opinion, their attempts to ignore the will of the majority. She offers thoughtful commentary and detailed evidence to support her claims. Check it out today! Click here to access the interactive flash video on a new […]

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Retail Marijuana: The Pot Liberation Front

Nonfiction, Perspective for Hire / By Lindsay Deen

Retail marijuana could be on its way to Colorado Springs. In many ways, the Springs provides a microscopic sample of our national demographic. We have the serious ultra-conservative right-wing Republicans, fun but slightly insane Democrat fanatics (like the ones dancing in the streets after Obama won), a strong Libertarian front dedicated to creating and maintaining

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Rocky Mountain High, Colorado

News / By a featured contributor

Rocky Mountain High is taking on a new meaning. As most everyone knows by now, on November 6, 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington State approved initiatives that allow the sale of marijuana and its use as a recreational substance. Both states allow the sale and use of the herb for medicinal purposes. The revenue

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Obama’s Win in Retrospect

Analysis, Nonfiction / By a featured contributor

We now have the opportunity to observe the last Presidential campaign for what it was and, accordingly, peer more clearly into the future. Barack Obama’s win for reelection was not a failure of democracy but can be viewed as a failure of American voters, marking a shameful period in American history. Rather than using the election as an

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