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.

The winning strategy for passing sensible drug laws is focusing upon the money. Republicans and Democrats alike will (are) be forced to make hard choices at the local level, as resources dry up and revenues decline. Wasting millions on jailing pot users is costly and stupid. And makes more criminals in society, not fewer. Other communities should study how SAFER got this passed, and follow that example.