i love denver

[leatherback]

This is news to me. Last time (3 years) I was in lodo nobody offered me a J. I better move in with my cousin! Hopefully, Portland is on the way.

[screwedcork]

i figured it'd never pass. BUT IT DID!
colorado basically totally rocks

[KoRnStaR]

Making plans to go there for Spring Break..

[187]

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21254.shtml read the whole thing please its still illegal in denver because the state law still has it being illegal thats weird that they weren't arrested

[CocaCola]

Why is it that when Denver legalizes it, some dude from Colorado uni. releases some pro-Marijuana bullshit. Which by the way, I find incredibly hard to believe...

But anyways, why now when it's legalized do they spout all that shit? There is some fucking plot going on, you'll all see!1 We'll all be smoking BUT there will be some kind of catch. I sure hope not, though... of course.

[Ganj]

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21254.shtml read the whole thing please its still illegal in denver because the state law still has it being illegal thats weird that they weren't arrested

wow, i'm excited! i've been wanting to move back to colorado ever since i moved to texas. with this information, i could----i better keep that to myself.
i wonder if my job could transfer me?? ahh, blast! i don't make enough! my mother always tells me i should end my sentences earlier...

[daZenfmeister]

dude i bet that with a little work and organization we could all turn this into a national trend, a HUGE move towards a pro-cannabis america!!! fuck yeah, as soon as i turn 18 I'm gonna start a petition or referendum or whatever and get weed legalized in MY city!

[dirtyhippy420]

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21254.shtml read the whole thing please its still illegal in denver because the state law still has it being illegal thats weird that they weren't arrested

Something great happened yesterday, and how there are people still nay saying it is sad. Denver metro police wouldn't dare arrest people and charge them under state law, for the charges would be dropped because they would be circumventing the laws they swore to uphold. Furthermore, it would weaken the authority of all city/municipal laws, creating a precedent that local law enforcement wouldn't dare to touch.

Mayor Hickenlooper and the DA's saying that these charges would still be prosecuted is a scare tactic. A passive aggressive way of saying that the voters don't matter, and they're going to do whatever they want. Sure they might arrest someone using this tactic, but I can almost guarantee you that they won't be found guilty.

This reminds me of a little while back, where a sheriff in California kept arresting medical users after prop 215 passed saying that it was still illegal on a federal level. Not one of the people he arrested were found guilty.

The point is the power structure in Denver is pissed that the voters didn't vote the way they wanted them to, and right now they are in a childish frame of mind. They're thinking something that is fundamentally wrong. That the voters of the fine city of Denver aren't the bosses of them. Sooner or later, through public out cry or the votes themselves, they will realize that it's the voters who decide who's a criminal or not.

[STDzRus]

THIS IS FUCKING CRAZY!

[dirtyhippy420]

Oh, and here's a quote from the man who is actually in charge of arresting people.

"If they vote to pass it, we'll follow the will of the people."
-- Capt. John Kilpatrick, Denver Police Department vice and drug bureau, August 17, 2005, in the Fort Collins Weekly

This is why "they weren't arrested".