BOULDER -- Crafty school officials at the University of Colorado turned on the sprinklers Wednesday afternoon at Farrand Field to try to curb "420," an annual event that celebrates and advocates the legalization of marijuana use. Craftier pot enthusiasts clogged the irrigation system with wadded T-shirts or snapped off the sprinkler heads completely and carried on as planned. A dense haze of smoke rose from the cheering crowd of at least 1,000 students and activists at 4:20 p.m. as about a dozen CU police officers, and hundreds of students, looked on. [continues 511 words]
Task Force Asked To De-Emphasize Pot Busts BOULDER -- County commissioners Tuesday allowed the county's drug task force to accept a $175,000 federal grant, but prefaced the decision with another order to de-emphasize the group's marijuana enforcement. Commissioner Will Toor questioned why a grant application listed marijuana use at the University of Colorado in Boulder alongside methamphetamine production and heroin use as one of the problems the task force handles. "I would think that's the sort of thing that should be at the very bottom of the list," Toor said. [continues 348 words]
