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
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