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Like any good blog post on pot, this one comes a day late.

Denver's Initiative 100 passed on Tuesday.  It was a good day for pot smokers. But for those who like to blame the ills of the world on weed, I doubt Initiative 100 has anything to do with why the Denver Election Commission is still counting ballots. 

SAFER (Safe Alternatives For Enjoyable Recreation) head Mason Tvert, who leads the charge to legalize marijuana, is a brilliant, brilliant person.  Even the NY Times thinks so.  I mean, they wrote about him the day before the election.  Denver's other golden boy, John Hickenlooper, didn't get ink in the NY Times the day before the election.

 

DENVER — In 2005, voters here approved a measure making it legal for an adult to possess an ounce or less of marijuana. But arrests for misdemeanor marijuana possession have risen since then.

Now, voters are to decide on a ballot measure that would make possession of small amounts of marijuana the lowest enforcement priority for the police.

“People didn’t want anyone arrested,” said Mason Tvert, executive director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, a pro-marijuana group that sponsored the 2005 measure and is sponsoring the latest one. “That’s what they voted on.”

For the second time in 3 years Denver voters have said let folks have a little weed.  Now we get to wait and see if this was just another token measure.  Let's hope it's more than that.


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