THE TRUTH ABOUT POT
Author: Luke Malek, Kootenai County native and an attorney.
On a fall day in 2002, my childhood friend, Brendan Butler was left dead along a rural road in Kootenai County, strangled to death, and throat slit for good measure. It is still hard for me to envision Brendan as a drug dealer, because most of the images I have in my head of him are of snowball fights and sledding at his parents’ home in Hayden, or debating the coolest cars and trucks with him. But I have no illusions: Pot