New Fuel for Local Papers: Ads for Medical Marijuana.

COLORADO SPRINGS -- When it hit the streets here last week, the latest issue of ReLeaf, a pullout supplement to The Colorado Springs Independent devoted to medical marijuana, landed with a satisfying thud. Forty-eight pages in all, it was stuffed with advertisements for businesses with names like Mile High Mike's, Happy Buddah and the Healthy Connections (which enticed potential customers with promises of ''naughty nurses'' to tend to patients' needs). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]