It’s good to see a headline like this coming from my home state of Idaho!

Boise Weekly - Idaho’s Only Alternative: News: News: Cannabis Crusader
Ryan Davidson has been a thorn in the side of city officials in Ketchum, Sun Valley and Hailey since he began his campaign to legalize marijuana in one of Idaho’s Democratic strongholds. It started with the 30-year-old’s desire to make politics a career and a chance discovery of the Marijuana Policy Project’s grant program.

He was awarded a $60,000 grant, but less than a month later, the group pulled his funding after giving him only $16,000.

Still, in the last four years, he took all three cities to court numerous times, managed to get four pro-marijuana initiatives on the ballot—three of which were passed by voters last year—and is now threatening to put all four initiatives back on the May primary ballot in an effort to force city officials to enact them.

The fact that the initiatives violate both state and federal law hasn’t seemed to faze him. In fact, he’s preparing for another round of lawsuits under the auspices of the Idaho Liberty Lobby, his one-man Libertarian juggernaut.

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