DOJ Gives Green Light for Pot Reformers
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DOJ Gives Green Light for Pot Reformers APPROVAL: Federal Government Gives Blessing With Sweeping New Policy Statement Gene Johnson and Pete Yost The Associated Press SEATTLE — For generations, pot cru- saders have called for an end to the nation's prohibition of marijuana, citing everything Pete Caster / [email protected] from what they say are the government's Mossyrock Fish Hatchery specialist Mario Troche leads a group on horseback — with mules in tow — as they follow the Paciic Crest Trail to the moun- exaggerated claims about its dangers to the tain lakes in the Wenatchee National Forest to drop of 825 2-month-old Cutthroat into three lakes on Tuesday afternoon. racial disparities in who gets busted for drug possession. UPHILL CLIMB: Plant is Part of Now, they will get their chance in Colora- Recreationalist Culture do and Washington state to show that legaliz- ing pot is better, less costly and more humane By Lisa Broadt than the last 75 years of prohibition — all [email protected] with the federal government's blessing. In a sweeping new policy statement, the Every other summer, representatives for the Wash- Justice Department said Thursday it will not ington State Department of Fish and Wildlife load fish stand in the way of states that want to legal- — this year 825 2-month-old Cutthroat — into plas- ize, tax and regulate marijuana as voters in tic containers and drive more than 60 miles from the Washington and Colorado did last fall, as Mossyrock Fish Hatchery to White Pass. long as there are effective controls to keep Once at the White Pass Horse Camp trailhead, just off U.S. Highway 12, the real work begins. please see REFORMERS, page Main 16 The fish are loaded onto horses and mules and transported up, into the mountains, to be deposited in remote mountain lakes. On Tuesday, Mario Troche and Laura Summers, ROCHESTER POT FARMER both of Fish and Wildlife, stood by the indoor raceways at the Mossyrock hatchery and prepared for the day’s Mossyrock Fish Hatchery fish specialists Mario Troche, left, and Tim Summers trans- REMAINS SKEPTICAL OF fer 2-month-old Cutthroats into a container that will be carried up into the moun- FEDERAL REGULATORS please see HORSEBACK, page Main 16 tain lakes of the Wenatchee National Forest on Tuesday morning at the hatchery. By Amy Nile and The Associated Press [email protected] Though the federal government this Woman Injured in Vader House Fire Dies week took a historic step toward ending the drug war, a south Thurston County CORONER: Staph caught fire two weeks ago Fire crews arrived shortly ed when a candle next to her pot farmer said uncertainty remains in his has died as a result of infec- after 1 a.m. Aug. 15 to a one- bed tipped over, catching her business. Infection Kills Woman tion that came from her sec- and-a-half story house at 721 bedding and her body on fire, Dennis Klamn, a co-owner of American ond-degree burns, the Lewis C Street in Vader. The house Breen said. Cannabis Corp. in Rochester, which grows Injured in Blaze that medical marijuana for Sweet Greens Co-op County Coroner’s Office was already fully engulfed, The house did not have Destroyed a House on confirmed Friday afternoon. with flames coming out of in Grand Mound and several other regional running water or electricity, dispensaries, has been operating in a legal Aug. 15 Jeanette Spain died last all the windows. The fire had he said. gray area for years. week, a little more than a spread to nearby trees and an The Vader woman sus- Now, after 75 years of prohibition, By Stephanie Schendel week after the house she was adjacent house. tained second-degree burns the Justice Department issued a game- [email protected] sleeping in caught fire, said While investigators are to her face and upper body, Detective Sergeant Dusty working to determine the and was transported to Prov- please see SKEPTICAL, page Main 16 The woman who was in- Breen from the Lewis Coun- cause of the fire, the 39-year- side a Vader home when it ty Sheriff’s Office. old told police the blaze start- please see FIRE, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Centralia School Board Election Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 57 Durazo, Nadine Alice, Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW: High 78 Neil Kirby 83, Onalaska @chronline Sunny Abbott, Judith Lynne, see details on page Main 2 Responds to 64, Chehalis Find Us on Facebook Piepgras, Brenda Lee, www.facebook.com/ Weather picture by thecentraliachronicle Kayla Ward, Mossyrock Website Claims 42, Centralia Elementary, First Grade Johnson, Voine / Main 6 Evelyn, 94, Centralia IT’S BACK-TO-AWESOME HAIR TIME. 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The Chronicle, file photo For questions about Established in the 1970s, the The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument is presenting the third of its calendar items, call Doug Packwood Flea Market is the three-part Music on the Mountain concert series today at the Johnston Ridge Ob- Blosser at The Chronicle, (360) largest of its type in the North- servatory Ampitheatre. west. 807-8238. Hundreds of vendors sell an- Brown Edition to Play at Mount St. Helens Concert tiques, novelties, clothing, and mance is $12. all kinds of household and deco- Opening for Four Shillings The Mount St. Helens Na- The Brown Edition will be rative items. Short will be Annie Henry, a tional Volcanic Monument will playing 6:30-8:30 p.m. Admis- Through Sunday, the numer- Celtic and folk fiddler and singer, present the third of its three- sion to the concert is free. 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