Pubdate: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 Source: Denver Post (CO) Copyright: 2013 The Denver Post Corp Contact: http://www.denverpost.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n466/a05.html Author: Stuart L. Bell POT BACKERS MUST POLICE SELVES Re: "A clear violation of state pot laws," Sept. 11 editorial. More than just the members of the Denver City Council should be voicing concern over Monday's "flouting" of the pot laws [the open smoking of marijuana joints during a pot giveaway]. The individuals in the so-called pro-pot community should also be concerned. Amendment 64 was a community asking to be let out of the shadows, to be treated like responsible adults, to no longer be criminals. They asked and majority of us said "yes." However, when the law is so flippantly ignored as it was on Monday, it jeopardizes all that they asked for. It is not the police who need to crack down and enforce; it is those who consider themselves pro-pot who need to accept responsibility for the position they now find themselves in, as members of the community as a whole. Stuart L. Bell, Denver - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom