one giant leap for stoners one small step for mankind

[tokosan]

FUCK YEA IM MOVIN THERE WHOS WITH ME!

Denver voters OK marijuana possession

By JON SARCHE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

DENVER -- Residents of the Mile High City have voted to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults. Authorities, though, said state possession laws will be applied instead.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday, 54 percent, or 56,001 voters, cast ballots for the ordinance, while 46 percent, or 48,632 voters, voted against it.

Under the measure, residents over 21 years old could possess up to an ounce of marijuana.

"We educated voters about the facts that marijuana is less harmful to the user and society than alcohol," said Mason Tvert, campaign organizer for SAFER, or Safer Alternatives For Enjoyable Recreation. "To prohibit adults from making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana is bad public policy."

Bruce Mirken of the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project said he hoped the approval will launch a national trend toward legalizing a drug whose enforcement he said causes more problems than it cures.

Seattle, Oakland, Calif., and a few college towns already have laws making possession the lowest law enforcement priority.

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The Denver proposal seemed to draw at least as much attention for supporters' campaign tactics as it did for the question of legalizing the drug. Tvert argued that legalizing marijuana would reduce consumption of alcohol, which he said leads to higher rates of car accidents, domestic and street violence and crime.

The group criticized Mayor John Hickenlooper for opposing the proposal, noting his ownership of a popular brewpub. It also said recent violent crimes - including the shootings of four people last weekend - as a reason to legalize marijuana to steer people away from alcohol use.

Those tactics angered local officials and some voters. Opponents also said it made no sense to prevent prosecution by Denver authorities while marijuana charges are most often filed under state and federal law.

The measure would not affect the medical marijuana law voters approved in 2000. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that medical marijuana laws in Colorado and nine other states would not protect licensed users from federal prosecution.

Also Tuesday, voters in the ski resort town of Telluride rejected a proposal to make possession of an ounce or less of marijuana by people 18 or older the town's lowest law enforcement priority. The measure was rejected on a vote of 308-332.

tokosan Reviewed by tokosan on 11-02-2005. one giant leap for stoners one small step for mankind FUCK YEA IM MOVIN THERE WHOS WITH ME! Rating: 5

[beachguy in thongs]

Denver is a big city. Maybe, it will set an example so everyone won't have to relocate. :smokin:

[DiLoS]

Wow, that's amazing. Especially for it being the US where I hear your pot laws are enforced more than ours (I live in Canada). Hopefully this will let other governments considering doing this as well. This is good news to hear.

[tokosan]

srsly, im moving there

not only is it the best region of the US, but now its stoner heaven! fuck yes!

srsly whos with me

[jahjahjahjah]

hey i live in denver i posted this every one knows, it doesnt matter im 18, and selling and growing is still illeagle its only legal to posess marijuana the same rules apply to alcohol and its only an oz it wont be sold in stores but this is huge for us in the big D, are you 21 years old, we are way to populated as it is way to many mexicans!!!!!!!!!

[D.Boone]

nah ill stay here in iowa i dont think i would last long with all those broncos fans.

[tokosan]

what about the suburbs, or is this only within denver city limits?

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

srsly, im moving there

not only is it the best region of the US, but now its stoner heaven! fuck yes!

srsly whos with me

All the way from China?

Crikey

[D.Boone]

ive been to denver its not that great lots of rich people there its a nice city and all but to suburban for me.

[tokosan]

All the way from China?

Crikey

i hear that there is a communist party in the US

might come check it out