CITY OF LAS VEGAS

It wasn't much of a feel-good week. Democrats wrapped up their
nauseating, made-for-television cheerleading rally. The Bush
administration quickly returned the American focus back to terrorism,
announcing threats on East Coast financial institutions. Hundreds died
in a Paraguay supermarket fire. And, locally, the Sierra Club managed
to halt construction on U.S. 95.

But on Aug. 2, the city of Las Vegas gave us a real reason to feel
good. They granted Bill Kosinski a business license for his consulting
company to help marijuana patients find marijuana. The license is a
small jab against the crippling Drug War, but it is a major advance in
the state's medical marijuana program.

As CityLife profiled with Pierre Werner, who repeatedly attempted to
legally start his consulting business, the state's Medical Use of
Marijuana Act was basically useless. While licensed Nevadans could
legally smoke medicinal marijuana, there was nowhere for them to find
it except with unsafe and unreliable street dealers. Kosinski now has
the power to alter that, hopefully sparking other businesses and
public opinion to travel this high (and legal) road to reform.