Slog - Comments on Add Denver to the List http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list Last night voters in the Mile High City gave the thumbs up to Question 100 – with 55.5 percent of the vote – making marijuana possession Denver’s lowest law-enforcement priority. Q-100 is closely modeled after Seattle’s Initiative 75. Since I-75 passed in 2003, word of it reducing arrests sparked a series of similar proposals in cities around the country, including Oakland, San Francisco, Missoula, three cities in California that begin with “Santa,” and Eureka Spring, Arkansas. Woo, Eureka! Marijuana offenses were stricken from Denver’s books by voters in 2005, but under state law prosecutions continued—they actually increased. The group behind... Copyright 2008 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:45:03 -0800 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:17:46 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by charles bronson's testicles Hooray, Denver! Hooray, Seattle! Hooray, pot reform! This is very good news. Let the drug war die the death of a thousand little cuts!

]]> charles bronson's testicles http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list#c843652 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list#c843652 Politics Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:37:05 -0800 Comment by JMR If enough cities pass stopgap measures like these, pot activists posit, a state or two will legalize marijuana.

I thought the whole kernel of the problem with this was that there are federal marijuana laws that states/cities can't do a whole hell of a lot about.

]]> JMR http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list#c843682 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list#c843682 Politics Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:07:21 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden 2. States can stop pot arrests and prosecutions that aren't charged federally. And less than one percent of pot cases are charged federally--those are mostly grow operations of over 250 plants or trafficking.

So, for instance, if a state decriminalizes pot for under 40 grams, anyone who stays below that limit would be protected.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list#c843701 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list#c843701 Politics Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:24:06 -0800 Comment by kurtz i'll smoke to that! huge congrats to SAFER for all their efforts, and for being effective while still being themselves. ;)

]]> kurtz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list#c843780 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/add_denver_to_the_list#c843780 Politics Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:17:46 -0800