Increasingly, Coloradans driving out of state are finding themselves the target of questionable highway patrol stops that seem to always end with an attempt to flush out any weed the driver may have on themselves. Cops in other states deny they are singling out Coloradans, but anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention knows that’s crap.
One Coloradan is stepping up and doing something about it: 69-year-old Darien Roseen, a man who has never once tried marijuana in his life. Roseen has filed a lawsuit against Idaho State Police officers in Payette County, Idaho.

Mothers of children with afflictions they believe could be treated by medical marijuana claim Governor Dayton “suggested” to them during a private March 13 meeting that they should just buy pot off the street in lieu of having legal access. (Watch video of one mother detailing what was said at the meeting at the bottom of this post.)
According to a WCCO report, Dayton wasn’t contradicting that version of events as recently as Wednesday. “The governor does not deny he told at least one of the parents to buy illegal pot off the street,” Pat Kessler reported. Gov. Waffles tune changed during a news conference late last week, however.

When brother and sister David and Natalie DePriest got busted last October for growing 17 marijuana plants in their Farmington home, they told police that there was no reason they should be arrested. After all, weed will soon be legal everywhere. Also, they supported Ron Paul.
But that argument didn’t fly with the police, so they were arrested. And after a trial in which the DePriests were found guilty on charges of marijuana cultivation and trafficking, their statements to police were brought up again and Judge Kenneth Pratte took them into consideration. These were people who clearly believed they did nothing wrong and had no respect for Missouri law.

Mason Tvert, founder of SAFER and father of Amendment 64, showed up outside the Colorado Governor’s mansion last Friday to call Governor John Hickenlooper a hypocrite for installing craft-beer taps there and turning it into Colorado’s version of Animal House.
But while Tvert’s protest outfit — a bed-sheet toga — was intentional — he swears the timing was a coincidence. After all, the members of the Colorado Brewers Guild who paid for the tap system and the governor himself weren’t showing up until 6 p.m., so Tvert was all alone except for a few cameras. Denver Westword has more.

A St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer with three years on the force shot a robbery suspect during a foot chase Thursday night near Fairground Park, striking him in the thigh.
Turns out, suspect Keon Davis wasn’t involved in the robbery police were investigating. But a department-issued bullet in the leg didn’t stop the Circuit Attorney’s Office from charging the seventeen-year-old with unlawful use of a weapon, possession of up to 35 grams of marijuana and resisting arrest.

Was marijuana a contributing factor in the death of two-year-old Coloradan Levi Welton earlier this year?
Expect this to be among the arguments made against his parents, Julia and Chris Welton. More than two months after Levi died following a fire in the family’s Sterling, Colorado home, his mother and father have been accused of negligent child abuse resulting in death, among other charges — and pot smoking appears to be central to the case against them.

Look, we know we don’t have to tell you all that marijuana prohibition just doesn’t work. We know it’s preaching to the choir to tell you all that marijuana laws are enforced wildly unequally between white people and minorities and that, despite the same rates of usage, a black man is far more likely to be arrested for pot than a white man is. And you certainly know that states spend millions upon millions each year fighting simple marijuana possession crimes.

Senator Claire McCaskill might be Missourians’ “liberal” voice in Washington D.C., but when it comes to reforming marijuana laws, the Democrat lawmaker is quite the conservative.
On Monday, McCaskill attended a town hall in Columbia where she fielded questions on a wide array of issues, including jobs, the economy, Ukraine, and of course there was some guy asking about Benghazi. But among the main concerns of McCaskill’s constituents was the cannabis question.