Are they High?

No, but they plan to be. Some headlines just write themselves.

It seems a group of folks is asking the Denver cops to not make any marijuana arrests during the Democratic Convention.

Really.

DENVER - A panel convened to implement a voter-approved Denver ordinance making possession of small amounts of marijuana the "lowest law enforcement priority" voted Wednesday to approve a resolution urging police to refrain from making arrests or issuing citations during the Democratic National Convention.

Mason Tvert, leader of the group Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, said city police and prosecutors are ignoring the will of the voters. He said the city still requires violators to show up in court, which he warned could clog the court system

"After the Democratic National Convention ends, there will be hundreds of marijuana cases all showing up at the same time," Tvert said.

I don't know what to say about this article. It's simply too weird.

Evidently, the guy hasn't had much luck in making marijuana... legal. Here's the deal. We've heard all the arguments on all the sides about making marijuana legal, or making it illegal, or whatever. The simple fact of the matter is that the cops don't get to make the laws. The legislature makes the laws. If the leges go into session and pass a law taking marijuana out of the criminal code, I probably wouldn't be bothered one way or the other. There are plenty of laws on the books for me to enforce.

However, the leges aren't about to do anything to make marijuana legal, in this state anyway, because they know that they wouldn't be re-elected. Whether marijuana is legal or not is a question for the legislature, not the police.

Hat tip to Flopping Aces for the story.