Drug Truce
Commission to Voters: Lee-Guh-Lyze It
By Richard Martin, 9-29-06
Just over five weeks ahead of the mid-term elections the news out of Aspen is, uhh, dazed but not confused: This week The Pitkin County Board of Commissioners unanimously endorsed Amendment 44, the ballot measure that would allow adults to possess up to an ounce of marijuana legally. (One commish reportedly responded to the vote by exclaiming, "Dude, I'm so stoked!")
This cannot be good news for Ricky Magnuson, “community resource officer” for the Aspen P.D., who is running against five-time incumbent Bob Braudis, who's taken a pragmatic approach to enforcing laws on recreational drugs in the resort town, on a clean-up-the-county platform.
“There are a lot of drug issues here,” Aspen Police’s community resource officer Ricky Magnuson told the Denver Post recently. “There are a lot of substance-abuse problems, and I don’t think he’s addressing them.”
Tell it to the commissioners, Ricky boy. You might have to shout, though -- they've got Massive Attack cranking on the headphones.
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Legalize marijuana, tax it to the hilt (like tobacco), and if they still want it they'll pay for it. Some say people will grow their own pot, sidestepping the taxation, but I don't think they'll go to the trouble. Can you imagine beer drinkers brewing their own ale before a Sunday football game, as opposed to running to 7-11 for a 12 pack? No way-- We like convenience in the USA.