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Boulder Police too High to Ticket Any One of Thousands of Dope Smoking Students

More than 10,000 stoner students turned out on the campus of Colorado University in Boulder to smoke dope at 4:20 on April, 20.

Andrew Lambros getting higher

10,000 kids. All openly smoking and possessing illegal drugs.

You’d think that police couldn’t hand out tickets fast enough.

But you’d be wrong.

Campus police and Boulder Sheriffs officers note that there were zero tickets written and nobody was arrested.

And why wasn’t anybody arrested or ticketed?

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.”

Outstanding logic, Chief. Since it’s “too big” the police decided to do nothing. Brilliant law-enforcement tactics. They should apply this to everything — then they wouldn’t actually have to solve or prevent any crimes ever again.

Even if they couldn’t have arrested and ticketed everybody — those cops should have been upholding the law and writing tickets to as many students as they could.

Doing something is better than doing nothing. Perhaps they all had contact highs, though, and just didn’t give a shit.

CU freshman Emily Benson, 19, of Kansas City, said:

“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.”

Outstanding job, Emily. Forget picking a university based on their academic excellence in a field that interests you. Pick it because they’re 4:20 friendly.

I hope your parents read this article and decide that a big part of the reason that they are going to quit paying your tuition is that you are an idiot.

When Emily finally does graduate in 8-9 more years with a BA in Art Literature, Women’s Studies, or something else equally useless — I hope that when she starts applying for a job, her potential employers Google her name. And this article from her past comes up. And they decide to hire the kid whose not an idiot dope smoker.

That would be, like, so cool dude.

I’m in a position to make hiring decisions at my current company. I get to decide who we will and will not interview for certain positions within our company. If I ever see a resume with CU on it, I’m immediately filing it in the wastebasket. No way that person even gets a whiff of an interview.

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In related news, the local Taco Bell ran out of everything later that evening.

Lagniappe’s Lair notes that Boulder is also an illegal immigrant “sanctuary city”. Feign surprise: “Hey, the drugs have got to get there from Mexico somehow, don’t they?”

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Monday, April 21st, 2008 | Trackback |

17 Responses to “Boulder Police too High to Ticket Any One of Thousands of Dope Smoking Students”

You know, I read shit like this and get mad. Then I think back to my youth. Did I do it? Well, no, but I did drink a lot and I do remember going into a 1970’s concert hall that was so blue with weed smoke you ended up high whether you wanted to or not. I don’t remember any cops doing anything either and everybody knew it was illegal and a risk of getting thrown in jail. Guess the cops didn’t want to break up a Steppenwolf event even though I’m sure several hundred people took a magic carpet ride home that night.

But now I’m old(er) and I see worthless pieces of shit who are probably all Obama voters and I just want to slap em…lol

Think I’ll go mow the lawn and work out my frustrations.

Left by dianne on April 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm

You actually think the chief is concerned about “not having the manpower”. No. The real reason is that nobody cares if a bunch of teenagers are smoking pot on a college campus.

Are you also outraged that water is wet?

Left by John Jarzemsky on April 21st, 2008 at 2:43 pm

PS: Brilliant decision to unilaterally disqualify anybody who graduated from CU because kids from there who smoke pot make you mad.

Left by John Jarzemsky on April 21st, 2008 at 2:44 pm

that nobody cares if a bunch of teenagers are smoking pot on a college campus

You couldn’t be any more wrong about that statement. Ask their parents if they care. Ask most conservative Americans (you know, the “other” half of this country). Ask their clergy (for the heathens that even bother with church). Ask their future potential employers.

Lots of folks who care. You’re just not far enough removed from college yet JJ to understand or know that.

Left by Robbie Cooper on April 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Excellent article. Even better than mine, I think.

Keep up the good work, my conservative friend!

Left by Lagniappe's Guy on April 21st, 2008 at 6:44 pm

When I was with a large very blue chip corporation back in the late 80’s, the HR people felt that way about the UT students that bothered to show up on time for their interviews. It was a strike against the UT applicants before they even showed up, while the TAMU applicants, who invariably showed up on time, clean and well dressed, and not looking like they just left a party, were viewed positively before they even showed up.
Whether people like it or not, it does matter what the college image is to HR recruiters.

Left by no2liberals on April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 pm

Most of the war on pot follows a circular kind of logic: honestly ask yourself how many people really care about pot users outside of it being illegal?

Take everything you just said and plug alcohol into the equation. Does anybody care then? “Boys will be boys”, right?

I’m all about personal responsibility and choices. Hey, if a company doesn’t want to hire someone who smokes, fine. If you don’t want to hang around stoners, fine. It’s just the moral high ground that anti-pot nutters take that riles me up.

If you wanna get high from time to time, take it with a grain of common sense: don’t drive, don’t do it while you’re working or around children, don’t be an inconvenience to other people. Any dangerous pitfall you can fall into with pot you can also fall into with alcohol (and, statistically, are far more likely to).

Shouldn’t conservatives, who (by my understanding) are all about taking rights back from the federal government, understand that?

[Editor --- I am all in favor of States rights. And I wouldn't mind it at all if it was a state's right issue --- put it to the voters of each state to legalize or criminalize pot use and possession. Now, do you really think that pot would be legalized in Texas if the entire state voted on it? If you do, you really need to get away from campus a little more often.]

Left by John Jarzemsky on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 am

John, discrete use of any intoxicant isn’t a problem for most folks, just not the glorification of it as a lifestyle choice. In the case of students, getting high is not conducive to learning and studying in college.

Personally, I didn’t use to have as strong an anti-drug view as I do now, as I became aware over time, just how much cash we are talking about, that goes back to the hands of some very evil people, and what they do with that cash. Narco-terrorist are a growing problem, and besides the obvious effects of getting high has on people, especially young people whose decision making isn’t grounded in experience, the threat to our national security is my main concern now. By speaking out against illegal drug use, if only one kid hears the negative about it, and decides not to get high, then that is one less person’s money going to fund terrorist, and may be the one person who doesn’t have an accident while driving, killing or injuring someone else. If the demand didn’t exist for the illicit products, it would go away.

Don’t even get me started on alcohol, and the damage it has done…as a legal product. Having been a policeman, and a grandfather who was an alcoholic, I have witnessed too many times the devastation alcohol has caused.

Left by no2liberals on April 22nd, 2008 at 5:24 am

Hmmm…that should read having had a grandfather that was an alcoholic.

Left by no2liberals on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:56 am

N2L: I understand where you’re coming from but you’ve got to understand that not everybody who smokes pot is a ritualistic stoner dumbass who screams 420 at the top of their lungs every evening while blasting Jimmy Buffet on the stereo and stinking up their Birkenstocks, just like not everyone who likes a drink now and again is a raging fratbag who drinks 14 keystones then gangbangs the passed out drunk chick.

Responsible pot use does exist.

Robbie: No, they wouldn’t. But would that be because it’s really just so, so awful or would it be because they’ve grown up in a society that’s spread outright lies about what pot will do to you? And if that vote came up, how would you vote?

Left by John Jarzemsky on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:08 am

PS: If marijuana were regulated by the federal government, there would be no criminal enterprise behind it, thus no narco-terrorist funding.

Left by John Jarzemsky on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:33 pm

You act like pot is some sort of big bad wolf. Perhaps you should move to College Station

[Editor --- Or, you know, you could just quit doing illegal drugs. Every person with an illegal vice finds a way to justify it...]

Left by Robert on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Well, I’ve read my daily requirement for fiction now. Thank you for that.

Fact 1 Alcohol is far more dangerous and VERY legal.
Fact 2 The Marajuana smoked in Boulder was grown in and around Boulder and not unlikely that the parents of some students grew it. Probably some faculty as well are currently growing and have kids smoking it.
Fact 3 The same paradigm is taking place in 100’s (probably 1000’s) ofcollege town across the country.
Fact 4 A fish riding a bicycle is more of a National Security threat than 420 in Boulder.
Fact 5 Boulder is ranked #1 by Forbes magazine currently as the smartest city in the US.
Fact 6 Not everyboy is Xn
Fact 7 Boulder is home to NCAR, NOAA, NIST, National Wind energy Lab, and CIRUS just to name a few. The men and women that work for these Gov orgs. are the some of the brightest and most accomplished SCIENTISTS in the world, much less the US.
They live there b/c at some point, most of them, conducted research at C.U, or attended school there. They love it there. They raise their families there b/c to them, quality of life is measured bythe freedoms they are allowed.
Just about everything you touch, see, and experience in your daily lives is different (better) because of SCIENCE. EVERYTHING.
Rupert Murdoch and everything he touches has turned into propoganda. By the way….you should re-familiarize yourself with the definition of this word.
Here ’s my favorite catch word……….. who’s meaning has changed for those who gather their info from anything owned by Mr. Murdoch
1. Liberal=evil
Thomas Jefferson was Liberal. It once meant “states rights”
How did our country pull out of the great depression?
We pulled out b/c of the New Deal…..LIBERAL SPENDING.

Ug,
I guess democracy only works when the majority of citizens/participants are well informed and free from rampant propoganda.

The world will change fellas. The world does change. What causes those changes? Views that deviate from the norm. Individuals that go against the grain. SCIENCISTS, HIPPIES, AND LIBERALS

Left by Jeff on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm

“I’m in a position to make hiring decisions at my current company. I get to decide who we will and will not interview for certain positions within our company. If I ever see a resume with CU on it, I’m immediately filing it in the wastebasket. No way that person even gets a whiff of an interview.”

Could you be a bigger dumbass?? There were roughly 10,000 people on Norlin Quad.. not all were students and there are about 30,000 undergrad at CU Boulder. That is a very disturbing thought that because of some college-aged students who are getting an INCREDIBLE education at a world-renowned university decide to smoke weed you are going to ignore any peer that applies to your company. That’s complete bullshit and I hope that who ever’s application that you do throw in the wastebasket is hired by your competition and kicks your company in the balls with all of the brilliance they will bring your competition. YOU’RE AN IDIOT YOU CONSERVATIVE HEAD CASE.

Left by Zelda on April 23rd, 2008 at 4:10 pm

“If I ever see a resume with CU on it, I’m immediately filing it in the wastebasket. No way that person even gets a whiff of an interview.”

Well, you conservative ass… here’s something that you can look forward to.

CU Boulder is a world-renowned university where some of the brightest minds teach and learn. I hope that you end up hiring some idiot from a school that doesn’t have a huge peaceful gathering–where 10,000 people could get together and not have any arguments… good luck finding that anywhere… and they SUCK at their job. Then you can find out that your competition hired a CU grad for the same position and they kick your company’s ass.

Try not to be such a douche bag all of the time will you? I know it’s difficult to pull your head out of your asshole but it’s worth a try.

Left by Zelda on April 23rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm

CU Boulder is a world-renowned university where some of the brightest minds teach and learn.

*cough*Ward Churchill*cough*

Left by no2liberals on April 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm

The national religion is hatred. There is only one other subject that is as well taught as the unreasoned hatred of marijuana, and that is 9/11. The War on Some Drugs - It was only practice.

Left by Christen-Mitchell on May 12th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

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