Voters in Breckenridge, Colorado are deciding whether to decriminalize personal possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by adults. The editorial board of the local Summit Daily News has already come out in favor of this Measure 2F:
(Summit Daily News) …Breckenridge residents this Election Day will decide whether possessing less than an ounce of the intoxicating weed should be decriminalized.
…While police blotters and courts are filled with an extraordinary amount of problems directly related to alcohol abuse, it’s rare to ever find pot at the bottom of things like domestic abuse, bar fights, car crashes and the like.
…What the Breckenridge code change would do is one thing: decriminalize less than an ounce for adults. It will not make it more available to minors, won’t make it legal to smoke it on the street, won’t get you out of trouble if you’re stoned behind the wheel. What it says is that if you, as an adult, choose to possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use, you won’t be busted for it. It’s still a much more stringent law than those that apply to alcohol — a substance you can own as much as you want of and consume in public.One last item remains, though: As the recent pot busts at Arapahoe Basin show, consumption of marijuana can have a greater potential “footprint” than, say, drinking a beer. No one wants to have to walk with their children through a parking lot full of cars emitting clouds of pot smoke, and we’re behind the Summit County Sheriff for cracking down on these folks. Eventually, it seems these small possession busts will be a thing of the past state-wide, which makes us conclude some kind of “nuisance pot smoke” ordinance needs to take their place — roughly analogous to public intoxication statutes. Sure, smoke your weed, but don’t blow it in our faces.
Ah yes, decriminalize the marijuana possession, but make the public use of marijuana an arrestable offense. If it’s in your baggie, it’s OK, but if it’s in your pipe, it is not. If I may paraphrase the late Johnny Cochran, “If the joint’s not lit, you must acquit!”
Topics: Breckenridge, Colorado, Election Day
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apparently the “recent pot busts at Arapahoe Basin” that saved families from having to “walk with their children through a parking lot full of cars emitting clouds of pot smoke” actually just refers to 6 people being ticketed from Oct 9-21.
Six. Google “arapahoe basin marijuana” and it seems like six tickets got a hell of a lot of press.
Dam, dont fart near me of Ill have you busted! We make it legal then we have to fight the Second Hand Pot Smoke issue?
Second hand tobacco smoke causing cancer is a lie so for sure second hand pot smoke that doesnt harm the smoker shouldnt be an issue, but they will make it one!
Just good to see some movment, baby stepping our way out of prohibition.
BRING IT !!!!!!!