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Denver Officials Ignore Marijuana Votes

Thu, Mar 06, 2008 12:51 pm

Remember when Denver’s voters decided back in November to make pot “the city’s lowest law-enforcement priority?” The ballot measure joined another, passed in 2005, saying that residents had the right to carry less than an ounce of marijuana, leading to hopes that marijuana arrests were about to become a thing of the past in the Mile High City.

But precisely the opposite has happened. More people are being arrested these days than before the measures passed, according to one disappointed backer who spoke to The Denver Post:

Mason Tvert, a proponent of the marijuana initiatives, said that 1,600 adults faced charges of misdemeanor marijuana possession in 2007, an increase of 18 percent from 2006, an increase of 36 percent from 2005 and an increase of approximately 50 percent from 2004.

Mr. Tvert, who belongs to a group called Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, told another newspaper: “It’s very simple. There’s no excuse for it.” Clearly, it was time for the government to explain itself, which it did on Wednesday by confirming that the ballot measures have been ignored.

“There has not been a policy change,” Vincent A. DiCroce, an assistant city attorney, said at a meeting of Denver’s Marijuana Review Panel, according to Rocky Mountain News.

Say what? Isn’t this a democracy? “The people voted for change,” Mr. Tvert said.

For Mr. DiCroce, the people also voted for his boss. “The city attorney’s office is under the direction of the District Attorney,” not the voters, he asserted, and besides, “these are state-level charges, not city ordinance violations.” he added.

Cleverly, Mr. DiCroce also suggested that the disagreement was not so vast. While voters consider marijuana arrests the “lowest priority,” Mr. DiCroce called them “not high-priority.”

» add a comment

theloadeddragon

May 7 2008, 10:22 pm

if you are truly serious about legalization, register, and go out to vote! Choose your candidates well, as some will fool you into believing they will legalize it just to get your vote. Hillary No! Obama No! McCain No! Vote Ron Paul, Spread the word, Spread Peace and Prosperity, Vote Ron Paul! Do Your Research, Open Your Eyes to What is really happening, read and be informed of the Truth, YOU DECIDE, its all up to you and your own responsibility to yourself and your neighbors. YouTube, freedom vs. Fascism, listen to your military, where are they sending the little money the government gives them? (the actual troops not officers) fuck $50 eighths $250 ounces, we should legally be able to grow this simple flowering herb for free and smoke its flowers anytime.

Johnny Erbal Seed

May 6 2008, 6:55 am

THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE MARY JANE LEGAL IS TO HAVE ALL THE POT HEADS IN THE USA SAVE ALL THIER SEEDS AND EVERY YEAR THE WHOLE COUNTRY GOES ON A PLANTING SPREE! FOR EXAMPLE: JOHNNY ERBAL SEED SAVES HIS SEEDS ALL YEAR LONG AND ON 4/20 OF EVERY YEAR HE GOES FOR A COUNTRY CRUISE AND PLANTS EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM! IF EVERY POT HEAD WOULD DO THIS THE USA GOVT WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ERADICATE ALL THE PLANTS GROWING FROM COAST TO COAST AND FROM BORDER TO BORDER!

WE NEED TO MAKE APRIL 20TH THE DAY OF RECKONING!

CAN YOU DO IT AMERICA? JOHNNY ERBAL SEED HERE THINKS YOU CAN!

umm

Mar 22 2008, 9:56 am

I'm the real deal. No phoneyness about me. I like stonage, and know whats good.

hey umm

Mar 22 2008, 8:27 am

of course thats what you meant . Just like when they say it about you ...phoney.

umm

Mar 20 2008, 7:34 pm

Of course I mean the Criminals are the filthy officials!

umm

Mar 20 2008, 7:33 pm

I'll tell you what gives. A taste of their own medicine would change their filthy behavior. Gee. The way you responded to my comment, you want to let the criminals go. Whats the matter with you?

damn umm

Mar 20 2008, 4:19 pm

your using the same language you accuse haters of using ... what gives ?

umm

Mar 19 2008, 5:55 pm

No. Not at all.

damn umm

Mar 19 2008, 4:03 pm

you're a hater ?

umm

Mar 19 2008, 1:07 pm

And the officials' jobs would need to be filled by someone, and who better suited than a lover of the green.

umm

Mar 19 2008, 1:05 pm

And we could set up a special trust from the properties obtained from the confiscated officals' property, and the property would go to help the imbibers of the wonderful greenery who need homes and cars.

umm

Mar 19 2008, 12:47 pm

And any official who would do this crime to the people isn't fit to have kids either. I say we vote to have the officials' kids put in foster care. So there. And confiscate their houses. And cars. And don't alow them to work.

kinder

Mar 18 2008, 9:08 pm

Hey Denver, are you still blaz'n, what's going on???

dope poet

Mar 13 2008, 6:40 pm

smoke some weed
thats all u need
to be happy and free
smoke a blunt
have some fun
rap a paper around the tree
smoke some dope
gives u hope
then all u people will see
the second weed is legal
everyone will be happy

dope poet

Mar 13 2008, 6:40 pm

dope poet

Mar 13 2008, 6:40 pm

Brando

Mar 12 2008, 6:56 pm

"The Horror"

kinder

Mar 12 2008, 6:27 pm

Just a thought,
WHAT WOULD BRANDO, DO?

umm

Mar 12 2008, 3:15 pm

The title of the aticle used the word Officials. Officials are to carry out their duties. The will of the voters IS their duty. They aren't doing their duty.
The Officials in this case should theirfore be picked up by the authorities. Tried, then given a mandatory minimum sentence with no chance of a parole.

grump

Mar 11 2008, 8:39 am

Do not buy from university scientific. Three weeks have past whith no luck.
Ph.# is no good.
E-mail is no good.
They do not respond to ticket request.

Crazy Dave from Boston$$$

Mar 10 2008, 2:47 pm

Here we go again our, we vote these people into power and this is how they treat us, we were only good enuf to put you in position and vote for you but when it comes time to do something for the people you forget all about us! POWER 2 THE PEOPLE ! LEGALIZE MARIJUANA ! So we can have some decent time to ourselves.

nothing new here

Mar 10 2008, 2:43 pm

they ignore us, we ignore them, life goes on.

if voting really worked they would make it illegal.

Tauzin420

Mar 10 2008, 10:22 am

I belive in using cannabis for multipul reasons. Environment and personal. The way I see things is it is all about the money not the well being of the world. The government would rather see us burn up than to make it legal and use it to slow down on the use of oil.

John Doe

Mar 10 2008, 6:20 am

From reading the post below ,I see my prediction (thursday mar. 6th) is developing . Althogh I admit I thought it would come from "them " first .

"watch and see . I'm not wrong much "

420 Kush Master

Mar 10 2008, 1:33 am

Yeah I live in Denver and they are still cracking down on weed, so that is true. But the reason for the increase is the increased amount of smokers. Once the votes passed, more people decided pot wasn't that bad of a drug and started hittin the pipe. That's why they let the people think that pot was legal so more people would do it, and the more people picked it up, the more people they would pick up, which equals more money for the corrupt government.

Legalize Thc High

Mar 9 2008, 9:26 pm

Weed should be a Publicly Traded Company!

Just imagine Square Miles of Weed on the American Soil. Everybody going want move in on America like Crazy.

METH KILLS

Mar 9 2008, 10:05 am

MARAJAUNA HEALS

Hulk MAD

Mar 8 2008, 6:54 pm

Hulk write angry email to Douchbags! WITH ALL CAPITAL LETTERS! AND BIG BOLD FONT! Hulk Want EGG Houses of stupid Democracy stopping ASSHOLES! we killed for democracy elsewhere, supposedly, so why not try that shit here!?!?!?

to below

Mar 8 2008, 6:45 pm

well ..... don't fuck if your sick .

...

Mar 8 2008, 1:56 pm

the state of this country makes me fukin sick...

Stir Fried Again

Mar 8 2008, 12:26 pm

Muppets for AARP .

Baked again

Mar 8 2008, 12:02 pm

Puppets for the DEA.

HU210

Mar 8 2008, 10:40 am

True that Green Hit. A democratic form of government bound by the chains of a constitutional republic.

The idea being that the bill of rights is protection of the minority(Example:cannabis consumers)from the tyrrany of the majority. A majorty deriving its strength by its numbers alone.

man FTP and the GOV too!!

Mar 8 2008, 9:24 am

each year it just gets worse and worse here.(im in ohio) but each and every year i watch more people get arrested(mainly because people do dumb shit with pot aka driving around baked out and wut not) but still its a joke the way the gov(police,court system) treat pot and any1 associated with it(the judge called me a doubie brother for fuck sake) the gov is evil here and the sad thing is all you can do is go "vote for change" even tho your votes dont count for shit just look at the '04 elections......so who knos i honestly think war(or some form of violence) is the only thing that would bring about change in this country because nething else they just laugh and put u in jail and charge u with just about anything they want 2

to umm

Mar 8 2008, 7:28 am

Look up the word dictatorship.

skate boarding

Suggs4Drugs

Mar 8 2008, 1:36 am

I stand by what I say.
American's live under a dictatorship, they just trick you into thinking your free. This may sound funny, but just take a step back, and look at the system for what it realy is and youll realize im right. Marijuana wont be free anytime soon, dream all you like, or you can join the ban wagon sort to speak and get rich while its still illegal. If the Gov. is going to profit, its your right as an American to profit.

umm

Mar 7 2008, 9:29 pm

Call the states what you wish, but the man runs it like a dictatorship.

waterboarding

Green Hit

Mar 7 2008, 9:20 pm

Just for the record, the United States is not, and was never a democracy. It is a republic, which is a fundamentally different political system.

Iam Yur God

Mar 7 2008, 5:08 pm

Blame the police for the arrests, they are directly responsible. Then the Prosecutors and the Judge.

They are violating the cities Democracy. Citizens Arrest them.

sorentinas

Mar 7 2008, 2:29 pm

the american government are spraying their own soldiers with bio-chemicals in Iraq

Legalize Thc High

Mar 7 2008, 2:13 pm

Carrots could Mimic Glass Pipes, but, of course, with, Glass pipe you get Thc Resin. I mean, to think about it, people were toking out of Wood Pipe Before!? in the 70s. I did toke out of a wood pipe. Wood creates black smoke, not gray smoke or white smoke.

Legalize Thc High

Mar 7 2008, 2:09 pm

I would use a drill machine to create airway passage in the carrot. Of course, size of the carrot has to be big, for get drilled, then, yeah, use toothpicks to punch holes to make a filter, like carving a pumpkin. There are freaking big carrots out there, giant carrots, actually. It should be grreeatttt. Funnel up the Weed, then, toke it with pleasure, there are Vitamins in the Smoke. So it is a win and win situtation. Carrots has nutritional value that are very healthy for your Eyes.

umm

Mar 7 2008, 12:23 pm

Personally, I don't see any happy future in the states.

I suggest looking for a kinder place to live a calm and peacefull life.

Exodus

Sneakatoke

Mar 7 2008, 9:35 am

People dont get it anymore we dont need to stand up for our rights because in the governments eyes we have no rights they dont give two fucks about you. As a matter of fact they dont give one fuck about you. The ignoring of the vote in Denver is a great example. How are we going to sit around the five million hibitual marijuanna smokers will let a group of old white hipocrites tell us what to do with our bodies. America was a great idea when it started but money and corruption have ruined our leaders. We dont need to ask for marijuanna we need a revolution from this fucked up system

Legalize freedom

Virginia Gentleman

Mar 7 2008, 9:08 am

Makes you wonder about what else is being ignored ?
If you can't have faith in the system , the system can't expect any thing less in return .

Personal Observation

Mar 7 2008, 6:42 am

This is just another demonstration of how THEM are protecting you from yourself . THEM don't care what you voted on , to THEM you are just children that don't understand what you have done .
If the people of Denver allow this to progress any further , they have nobody to blame but the people of Denver .

RUDEDOG1986

Mar 7 2008, 1:29 am

im fucking serious i haved three witnesses to the weed carrot all you have to do is make sure the part you carved out is dry with a napkin. trust me friend desperate times call for ingenous measures. and since i stay at home in the summer, momma cant be finding no papers or bowls so i had to resort to apples and once they were gone carrots for a day or two. believe it or not this pot head tokes up with almost anything, seriously try it, tastes pretty good if you sk me

MaximXL

Mar 7 2008, 12:16 am

LOL

Legalize Thc High

Mar 7 2008, 12:14 am

Lol, yeah right. I seriously, doubt you toked out of a Carrot, sir.

RUDEDOG1986

Mar 6 2008, 11:32 pm

YES SIR I MADE MY FIRST THIS PAST SUMMER I HAD RUN OUT OF APPLES, I WANTED A QUICK HIT ON THE WAY TO WORK SO I IMPROVIZED AND CUT OFF THE TIP OF THE FAT END AND MOST OF THE SLENDER PART AND CARVED OUT THE MIDDLE OF THE STUB GRABBED A TOOTH PICK AND WEED CARROT WAS BORN, NONE THE LESS I WAS PLEASANTLY BLASTED AT WORK. THE CARROT WAS GOOD FOR LIKE 2 DAYS, MY BROTHER COULDNT STOP LAUGHING WHEN HE SAW IT TRUE STORY.

Legalize Thc High

Mar 6 2008, 11:14 pm

Have there ever been a pipe carved out of Carrot? I just thought of that, let me know if somebody already invented it before me. I never heard of it before, I don't think anybody have ever smoked out of a carrot before, in the history of Marijuana. This got to be History, guys.

Fatty!!!

Mar 6 2008, 10:23 pm

Well Well, the city politicians are ignoring the peoples vote! This in not American, this my friends is one more step towards a police state. Keep growing and smoking.

kinder

Mar 6 2008, 8:23 pm

Well like my dad always said,
you can't fight city hall.
And my reply:
True, but you can BLOW THE
FUCKER UP.
But i know city hall ain't
the problem here. It,s FEAR,
that one little seed could really benefit man kind in so
many ways.And Denver,you said it loud and clear and the leaders who lead us give us
chains instead of THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. How long can we stand the chains?

HU210

Mar 6 2008, 7:45 pm

Disobeying a direct order from the goverened?

Deebard From Mass

Mar 6 2008, 7:03 pm

Thats America for yah...

John Doe

Mar 6 2008, 5:38 pm

Heres a prediction for you guys

Its still lowest priority , the reason for more arrests is because the iniatives attracted more users . The increase in arrests is just an illusion . More crime equals more arrests .So at best , the amount of arrests are in direct proportion to the offenders .

Watch and see . I'm not wrong much .

kinder

Mar 6 2008, 5:24 pm

To RED WOLF IN COLO.
THANK YOU FOR MORE INSIGHT
INTO THE MATTER.

yeah

Mar 6 2008, 4:50 pm

thers lots of $ to be made during prohibition. look at the Kennedys. They made their fortune in booze back when it was banned.

RedWolf in Colorado

Mar 6 2008, 4:42 pm

Unless I am mistaken, the District Attorney is an elected official. I know the City Council and Mayor are elected officials. I also know there are people of many walks of life that support Mason and his cause, including attorneys. Too bad, though, that the government doesn’t pay nearly what an attorney can make in his private practice.

But, if I am not mistaken again, I think the Chief of Police answers to the Mayor or at least to the City Council. Maybe if we, here in Denver, voted in a Mayor and City Council from the group who support Mason and his movement, maybe the police would get different orders. It’s a thought.

Also the line “these are state-level charges, not city ordinance violations” does not make sense to me since Denver city police are making the arrests, not state troopers or feds. Also, many of the people charged are being tried in Denver City courthouses, not federal or state courthouses. Once again, those who opt to pay more than the $100 fine, by hiring an attorney, can choose to bring their attorney and chances are, the charge will be dropped, if the city is involved instead of the state or feds.

Jay

Mar 6 2008, 4:28 pm

I just finished planting 50 more seeds because of this. Keep it up boys, you are doing a great job of keeping the black market intact and keeping the prices high. Maybe I won't have to go back to work after all...

John Doe

Mar 6 2008, 4:17 pm

the Feds .

kinder

Mar 6 2008, 4:16 pm

And the FEDS,answer to......

John Doe

Mar 6 2008, 4:11 pm

I don't get it . You people didn't see this coming ?...big as a macke truck .
The city answers to the state ... the state answers to the Feds . C'mon , you're not even trying .

umm

Mar 6 2008, 4:02 pm

It appears that law means nothing, as the haters do as they please.

Denver People

Mar 6 2008, 3:50 pm

HUH ? We can't here you . Can you speak a little louder ? or maybe come a little closer ? Thanks .

Suggs4Drugs

Mar 6 2008, 3:48 pm

Yeah America is just a little bitch country. They kinda remind me of Germany.

kinder

Mar 6 2008, 3:26 pm

PEOPLE OF DENVER,IGNORE THE OFFICIALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MassHaze

Mar 6 2008, 3:17 pm

Any official who ignores the votes of the people should have his HEAD SAWED OFF IN PUBLIC.

This is a mother fucking democracy and if that shit got voted then that district attorney should be shot. That is straight up fucking unacceptable.

to idiots

Mar 6 2008, 2:56 pm

you ain't come across the right one yet . You have to leave your house and go outside for that . :o)

Bummer Dude!

Mar 6 2008, 2:11 pm

Just Google "Japanese-Americans 1942" 110,000 Americans rounded up, no judge, no jury, no lawyers, no appeal. There's your rights. You get to vote to shut you up. Doesn't mean anything. Always check who carries the BIG guns, they make the rules.

Idiots

Mar 6 2008, 1:56 pm

America is soft!

dear, a true american

Mar 6 2008, 1:42 pm

sorry to break this to you but what you do in your home is not protected under the constitution, we are a democratic nation, democracy is not the worst form of government, and FACT: your an idiot.

RE:

Mar 6 2008, 1:38 pm

damn if I didn't call this one right on the money .

Not really

Mar 6 2008, 1:19 pm

Thats a little extreme. There only doing there job. If we could get cannabis off the schedule 1 stance then maybe the politicians would listen to a bunch of druggies. You got to remember that coke and speed have known medical uses but cannabis has no medicinal use recognized by the government.

a true american

Mar 6 2008, 12:58 pm

dam nazis are at it again. you vote on a matter it pass and the law and other cock sucks ignor your rights as a free human.its time to shot everyone whos in office all the way to the top. what i do in my home is proteced under the constatuion.fuck the goverment.we are a republic not a democray.democray is the most evil of all goverment,steps on people s rights ,invades privacy,and lie to start wars for drug and oil money.fact goerg bush is the bigest drug dealer alive more so the poblo was.