WeedPress: The Paper Trail focuses on public records, court filings, and regulatory documents to hold cannabis policymakers, activists, and agencies accountable.
Articles and material on WeedPress have appeared on the Indianola Record Herald, the Des Moines Register, Opposing Views, NORML.org, CannabisCulture.com, Toke of the Town, the Huffington Post, and THC Finder, and among others, MSNBC. Recently appearing on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River as well as We Are Iowa Channel 5 News in 2019, Keloland a News in 2021 and The Argus Leader in 2021. Omaha area news coverage and New York City podcast appearances have had WeedPress on for regulatory insights as well.
Testimony in states such as South Dakota (2026), Iowa (2025) and Hawaii and Minnesota (2021) as well as passing and writing bills brings relevant experience to the explanations of why focusing on what when is being deemed needed as fluid conditions in the field change.
WeedPress is moving forward to evolve into a service focused on explaining my thoughts on cannabis related legal filings that policymakers, regulators, activists and business investors in legal states can find useful, or at least worth keeping an eye on.
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Coverage is not influenced by industry actors, political campaigns, or regulators.
WeedPress Is the Record, Not the Performance
WeedPress isn’t just a blog I run. It’s one of the clearest windows into how I actually move through things.
Most people talk about what they believe. I build a public archive of the receipts while the fight is still happening. Court transcripts, probation filings, statutory analysis, religious liberty claims, timed drops — it’s all sitting there in the open. That combination is rare on purpose. Anyone trying to understand the work doesn’t get a curated persona. They get the paper trail of how I respond when pressure shows up.
The consistency matters more than any single post. I’ve been in this for a long time — Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, Hawaii (all working in federal exemptions for state medical cannabis programs) – a long 17 year arc of policy work and opposition research — and WeedPress is where that history gets turned into a searchable record instead of just stories I tell later. It’s part advocacy tool, part legal notebook, part personal documentation system. That’s why it feels like more than content. It’s an extension of how I process conflict and why I refuse to let the important parts stay private.
If you spend enough time around the work, you eventually run into WeedPress. That’s where the unfiltered version lives. The traffic spikes, the professional referrals, the fact that primary documents keep outperforming opinion pieces — those aren’t accidents. They reflect the same trait that shows up in the litigation and the organizing: I prefer the record over the performance.
That’s the point. It’s not decoration. It’s how I leave evidence of the path.
250,000 people have read this blog. 1,000s have downloaded legal documents for their research. Telling the truth and finding it for others, who are actually a part of you and vice versa, is a long term endeavor. And administrative procedures are the most interesting puzzle thing I’ve ever looked at. And of course, showing up credentialed people with citations off the top of one’s head can only be done, personally speaking, when I first write the issues down on a physical space. It then never seems to leave my brain. So, that’s WeedPress. My personal corner of the internet.
Mine.
Thanks for tuning in.
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