It’s not official yet, but the measure appears to be passing. Need some foil with your coffee? Explain why the SWAT team counted the votes. The SWAT team??? Anyway, good on the voters:

Denver voters appeared to be approving an initiative to make adult possession of less than an ounce of pot the “lowest law enforcement priority” in the city.
Initiated Question 100 was put on the ballot by SAFER, the same group behind a successful 2005 initiative that made the possession of small amounts of marijuana legal in Denver.

Votes in favor led by a 5-to-4 ratio in incomplete counting.

“The voters of Denver have made it very clear that they do not think our city’s limited law enforcement resources should be used to arrest and prosecute simply for possessing small amounts of marijuana,” said Mason Tvert, the executive director of SAFER or Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation.  Read more 

Matt and his crew are rapidly becoming my newest heroes. Please read his excellent work on the not-quite-legal activities of some of your favorite political players as the citizens of NV struggle to bring some common sense to our drug regulation laws. I am not qualified to speak at length on what seems to be happening there, but it seems pretty basic to me: public officials should not have the right to condemn initiatives put forth by the general public while on the clock and while using resources bought with your taxdollars. Yet that is exactly what’s going on here, and like Matt, I wonder why the Democrats aren’t following up on very similar and possibly related lawbreaking on Rove’s part. Harry? Nancy? Anyone?  Read more