You really have to appreciate the bleatings of law enforcement as their cash cow of marijuana arrests slowly becomes extinct. All those statistics-padding low-level marijuana arrests, with their attendant asset forfeitures, overtime pay, and federal grants, have all but disappeared in Colorado and Washington and are turning into arrest-free fines in places like Maryland. So terrified are the police of being forced to apprehend real criminals and do real work that they sometimes can’t even keep their own scaremongering straight.
The latest example is in the Colorado Springs Gazette (motto: “The Colorado Newspaper For Real Americans Who Don’t Believe That Commie Liberal Pot-Loving Denver Post”) where an article entitled “Law enforcement from neighboring states agree, Colorado has strongest marijuana in the world” features cops from Nebraska and Oklahoma wailing about the “skunk” marijuana from the Centennial State.
“There is no place in the world where you can buy as strong marijuana legally as you can in Colorado,” said the sheriff of Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. “It’s the most powerful stuff you can find.”