The Third Meeting

We had our third meeting for the paper this week and we were really happy about the results. We covered a number of new topics that have developed in the past few weeks including the wrongful termination of our format directors’ wife for failing a drug test at her job. She informed them that she was a legal medical patient and that she had the credentials to prove it. They fired her anyway!  Now, with the backing of the ACLU, she is going to court. Given that it’s a story in our own backyard, we’ve been given the exclusive story. Considering that Wal-Mart is in the news for the same thing, we hope this story will hit a bit harder. Another thing that’s finally ready is our flyer asking for reporters and artists interested in getting their work published. Part of the mission of this paper is to highlight the local area by utilizing citizen journalism. We want to present news from as many different perspectives as possible. We want to help people make an informed decision by presenting all the facts we can, even if we don’t necessarily agree with them. Another issue we plan to cover is the patch work of counties that all have different ordinances concerning marijuana. We plan to make a map that separates them into three categories: green for good or safe, red for bad or unsafe, and yellow for unknown or undecided. Then we decided to label all the compassion clubs and dispensaries on it so if people wanted to, they could use our map during the holiday season for any traveling inside the state. Going to grandma’s?  Stop off and medicate along the way. Going hunting and need some medication? Plan a pit stop. Medication is literally available everywhere. From there, we decided that it might not be a bad idea to sponsor our own Club Crawl. After much discussion, we decided to table that proposal until the next meeting. Either way, it really feels as though the paper is really coming together.