Last week, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey told city council members that there were “twelve homicides related directly to medical marijuana.” He subsequently said the figures were “loose” and didn’t all occur in MMJ facilities. But when contacted by Westword, Morrissey’s office did indeed come up with a roster of twelve deaths in ten separate incidents that prosecutors believe were related to pot.
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According to Denver police, a pair of kids who look no more than 12-years-old broke into the Good Meds medical marijuana dispensary last month and made off with $16,000 in cannabis. The tiny burglars were apparently pretty good at their job, as nobody has any leads whatsoever.
Of course, it doesn’t help that police aren’t giving out pictures of the wee crooks. That’s because police are afraid of “violent drug dealers” getting the photos and tracking down the kids.

When President Obama took office in 2009, his Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy proclaimed that the new administration would no longer use the term “War on Drugs”, as they found it to be “counter-productive”. In June of 2011, the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a scathing report which clearly stated that “the global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world.”