Denver has this peculiar thing that’s been in the news the last couple of years in which the city has more or less decriminalized, or stopped enforcing, marijuana laws for small amounts. On the other hand, Colorado state laws override the city’s initiative, and they suck. But overall, if you want to smoke your marijuana cigarettes, Denver’s a pretty good place to do so. EXCEPT WHEN THE STUPID DEMOCRATS COME TO TOWN.
According to the AP, “Police say pot smokers who light up during the Democratic National Convention can expected to get busted under state laws, even though a voter-approved city ordinance makes small amounts of marijuana the ‘lowest law enforcement priority.’” The Denver police contend that nothing will change, those damn state laws have always been on the books.
The potheads, however, are of course freaking out about the POLICE STATE:
Mason Tvert, leader of the group that sponsored the ordinance that discourages marijuana busts, said city officials are ignoring the will of the voters.
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“We’re concerned during the Democratic National Convention that they are going to use the law to cite people or detain them,” Tvert said.
Those vile coppers. They are going to “use the law” to “detain” people when they, um, break the law. Where in the Constitution, pray tell, does it allow police to enforce the law, as it were?
But of course he’s right, this Tvert fellow. The police probably will pretend to care about state pot laws next week, and then they will continue to not give a shit. And yet it’s doubtful that the police will spend all of their hectic Convention week gleefully cracking down on those hippie pot smokers they’ve been wiretapping for months. Just don’t smoke in front of a cop, for Christ’s sake.
Police to enforce pot laws during Dem convention [AP/9News]
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this is big news.
I think you’re misspelling “Tvert”‘s name. It’s “Tvat.”
What are the Munchies Lobbyist saying about this?
Is pot how people in Colorado stay so non-obese? Because it always makes me hungry.
Dude, if I can’t smoke in front of a cop, then I can’t smoke at all. Because if they’re going to be all, like, harsh and shit and enforcing the stoopid *laws* and everything, then I’m gonna get all bugged out. And when that happens, I think EVERYbody looks like a cop. Well, not EVERYbody, but you know, people I don’t know and people who aren’t high. So if I can’t smoke in front of a cop and EVERYbody looks like a cop, then I won’t be able to smoke in front of ANYbody. Except you, Wonkette. You’re cool. But, like, I know you, y’know? Hey did you ever look at your hand? I mean, *really* look at your hand?
Hello? There’s no law about eating brownies in public, right?
But, there’s so menny cops, mannn….gawd…hhh….’ere….pffsshhh
How on earth are the convention’s librul attendee’s expected to whip themselves in a “reefer madness like frenzy” for Barry’s speech without weed?
Since this is Obama’s convention, if you can’t smoke dope can you do maybe a little blow if you afford it? But not smack, though.
sooo…when yer in Denver, en sumbudy sez – ayy mannn, r’yew holden – be all, like – nawww, mannn i em mose defentlee noht holdenn.
ayy – dednt i see yeww at bonnaroo….ppfffssstt
…dont smoke dope; smoke HOPE!
This is the darkest day in American History.
Pass the Cheetos.
Yes but they didn’t say anything about Acid or Crystal Meth; so fight on, you liberators of reality.
Bill Maher, call your office!!!
I’m glad I decided to stay in Californee, get blazed, and watch the convention on the teevee instead of paying to fly to Denver to stand outside the convention center without booze or drugs. High on Hope my ass.
Incarceration is my anti-drug.
The Democrats will handle this the way they handle everything. They’ll have it reefered to committee.
[re=64189]gjdodger[/re]: As long as they use one of Reid and Pelosi’s sternly-worded memos for paper.
This is even weirder:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/obama-denver.html
Stay off weed, kids: smoke Hopeyweed! Now pass me my goddamn Goose martini and STFU.
Fine, I’ll just do a little blow instead.
[re=64183]SayItWithWookies[/re]: What about carcinogens?
Be careful out there, stoners. If caught, you might get blasted with microwaves or sonic poop rays. POOP RAYS, PEOPLE!
They’re gonna need a bigger jail.
[re=64145]MoodProcessor[/re]: POOP RAY FOR YOU!
*mmmmmmm*
Pffffft! Splorch!
When the Libertarian Party had their convention there they blew weed right on the convention floor.
So I guess Denver’s finally trying to live down that whole Rocky Mountain High image now? Yeah, and good luck with that!
if anyone knows a good supplier let me know! I’ll only smoke it in the closet with the police chief
[re=64231]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: So, what *about* carcinogens? Do they give a good buzz?
[re=64231]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: That’s Bob Novak’s anti-drug.
Actually, this is very good news. Given the Denver PD’s terrible track record of shooting innocent bystanders when investigating almost any infraction, distracting the Boys in Blue with a big Dope Hunt could save lives all around. So take one for your fellow man. Get busted.
Just as long as them coppers stay out of my Hopeyum Den, we’ll be all right.
[re=64334]graceless[/re]: Graceless, props for posting *exactly* at 4:20.
Note to Barry: steer clear of the cops, pack Visine.
[re=64198]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: Very interesting. So know we know that Barry will be choosing his veep candidate from among Denver’s clean cut and totally not high homeless population. I guess this makes as much sense as any of the other options.
Er, one of those ‘know’s was supposed to be a ‘now’.
Re the story about haircuts for Denver homeless: In the comments section on the LATimes story, Jamie Glennon of Denver’s Road Home, an organization devoted to ending homelessness in Denver, says that the free haircuts are a feature of the org’s program that has been in place for some years now, not something new for the convention. URL for the org is http://www.denversroadhome.org. These are good guys, not nutters.
[re=64141]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: Excellent idea. Let’s hope some underground entrepreneur supplies this demand.
Take my advise and blast up at home. I mean, have you had what passes for weed in Denver? You SHOULD get busted for smoking it.
Thanks to poppy-eradication efforts, Afghan farmers are turning to weed, and the result is shitloads of excellent cheap black Afghani hash across North America. What are the Denver cops going to do about that?
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