Colorado gives itself another black eye as "tolerance" of drug activity actually lures potheads to Boulder.

Yesterday was April 20th, and for potheads, the number 420 takes on almost mythical status as they reach out to fellow law-breakers and gather to smoke their dope.

And on this day, as shown in this story, they trek to Boulder, Colorado in large numbers in response to one of the Colorado legislature's many dumb moves, this one being the decriminalization, at least tacitly, of marijuana use. Boulder leads the way of course, as they do in many aspects of disrespect for and disregard of the laws that the rest of this country obeys without crying or even questioning. (They're an illegal alien sanctuary city too...but hey, the drugs have got to get there from Mexico somehow, don't they?)
So on this April 20th, some ten thousand stoners, burnouts, and other life losers all gathered on the Boulder campus of University of Colorado and sat around ingesting drugs and patting themselves on the back for demonstrating their selfish contempt for the law and this country. Some even brag that they chose University of Colorado because of the lax attitude in regard to drugs.

CU freshman Emily Benson, 19, of Kansas City, said she thinks the decriminalization of marijuana will become a hot topic in the upcoming political season and said she felt part of something bigger than just a smoke-out on Sunday.

“We’re at the starting point of a movement,” she said. “This is a big part of the reason I applied here — for the weed atmosphere.”

I'm sure that mommy and daddy are just pleased as punch that you based your educational future on your desire for drugs, Emily. If they read this, I hope that they stop paying your tuition and rent and then you can go find a job behind the counter at some video store, which is how most potheads wind up finishing out their lives.

And good job to you, UC Board. You could have attracted a future doctor, engineer, or scientist, but instead you drew a stoner to suck up a seat instead, even though she'll probably not spend much time in class or ever graduate. So much for the reputation of UC as a serious academic institution. I guess Ward Churchill wasn't embarrassing enough, eh?

Sadly the police took no action, citing the disparity in numbers between their force and the size of the druggie gathering.

CU police handed out zero citations.

“At this point, none are anticipated,” said CU police Commander Brad Wiesley.

Officers in the past have gone to great lengths to catch people in the illegal act of smoking pot on 4/20.

In 2006, CU police dispatched undercover photographers to snap pictures of smokers. Photos of 150 alleged offenders then were posted on the department’s Web site, and witnesses were offered $50 to positively identify the suspects — who then were ticketed. Another year, smokers on Farrand were doused with sprinklers.

“We can’t do the same thing year after year,” Wiesley said hours before Sunday’s smoking began. “So I doubt we’ll do anything like the pictures. ... There’s no way our 12 to 15 officers are going to be able to deal with a crowd of 10,000. We just can’t do strong enforcement when we’re outnumbered 700 or 800 to one.”

About 15 CU officers and a half-dozen deputies with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office had a presence Sunday among the mass of pot smokers...

I call BS. They still could have made an effort to snag at least a few of them, or work to either ID them or drive them off as they've done in the past, and they could have brought in more help from off-duty officers and other jurisdictions. But they cowed and just let the overgrown adolescents have the day and the campus, granting them even more claim to legitimacy. At least if they'd made even a token effort to punish people, there would not be the impression that it's really ok to flout the law and smoke dope. But as the illegal aliens and the Anti-American anti-war vandals have proven time and time again, if you defy the law in a large enough group, no one will ever make an effort to hold you accountable.

The Colorado legislature should be ashamed, and the city council of Boulder should be impeached and removed, as should the command staff of the university police force. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing, and if it's pot today, how long until these pathetic societal dropouts start smoking crack or ingesting heroin in the streets.

Oh wait, we already know that one. If this was a group of black people smoking crack, arrests would have been made and the Boulder jail would be bursting with black prisoners. But since it's spoiled and pampered rich white kids breaking the law...

Justice for all? Rarely if ever when Liberals are in charge.