Two pieces of cannabis-related news from the New York Times: Oregon Doctor Stands Out in Marijuana Prescriptions. One Portland MD has granted 50% of the authorizations under Oregon’s recently-passed medical-marijuana law. Regulators who cannot quibble with the law, the will of Oregon voters, are turning to the standards of care the doctor uses to diagnose and treat his patients. He has previously been disciplined for inappropriate prescribing of pain medications.

And: the DEA has extended its deadline for banning hemp in food, about which I wrote when the regulation was first proposed as one of those examples of narrow-minded misguided witchhunt mentality I’m so fond of railing against…