-Newsweek, October 15, 2009 by Jessica Bennett
http://www.newsweek.com/id/217942/output/print
“This is a new world,” says Robert MacCoun, a professor of law and public policy at UC Berkeley and the coauthor of Drug War Heresies. “If you’d have asked me four years ago whether we’d be having this debate today, I can’t say I would have predicted it.”
-The Daily Californian, October 21, 2009 by Michael Garcia
http://www.dailycal.org/article/107162/federal_policy_highlights_new_view_of_medical_mari
“This year we’ve seen a shift from stigma to a search for new tax revenues,” said MacCoun. “Two years ago, when the economy was better, nobody was talking about that.”