Well that's interesting purely as an exercise in public opinion. On the other hand, as Denver's mayor notes, Colorado state law is unchanged and still views marijuana as a controlled substance.
Cannabis Culture reports:
Denver became the first city in the nation to make the private use of marijuana legal for adults 21 and older as an alternative to alcohol, a far more harmful drug. By 10.45 p.m. Tuesday night, with 100% of the votes tallied, the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative had passed 53.49% YES to 46.51% NO.
The Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative is the first local measure in the nation to draw a comparison between the harms of alcohol and marijuana.
The successful I-100 campaign focused on the vast number of health, safety and social problems associated with alcohol use, promoting marijuana use to avoid the prevalence of such problems. The campaign pointed to government reports and scholarly studies that show alcohol is a contributing factor in domestic violence, sexual assaults, and other violent crimes, as well as overdose deaths, whereas the use of marijuana has never been linked to such violent behavior and there has never been a marijuana overdose death in history."It is time our laws reflect the facts, and it is an indisputable fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol, both to the user and to society," said Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER and coordinator of the I-100 campaign. "Current laws accept and even encourage the use of alcohol over marijuana, thus pushing people toward using a more harmful substance. Why on earth would we prohibit an adult from making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol in their own home?"
So based on that recent blog post from the Office of National Drug Control Policy, I guess it will only be a matter of time until the entire city of Denver is transformed into a population of "life's losers," starts using harder and harder drugs, and develops serious problems with mental illness and "rising emergency room episodes." Sounds pretty serious! Let's check back a year from now and see how well those dire predictions translate into reality.
hell yes i love denver im movin
Posted by: alex mckinney 4m tx | February 21, 2008 at 11:29 AM
hellz yeah treez are better then alcohol any day . colorado needs to get wit the program an chill wit denver
Posted by: BlazinGamer | April 07, 2008 at 01:57 PM