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.
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.â€
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.â€
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?”
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.
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?
PS: Brilliant decision to unilaterally disqualify anybody who graduated from CU because kids from there who smoke pot make you mad.
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.
author of this article is an absolute prick. its people like you who prevent anything of actual importance being accomplished these days. the world’s in an economic crisis, and you’re pissed because the cops didn’t want to incriminate a bunch of young adults standing in a field smoking plant material. i’d rather the cops be on the streets looking for actual crime then busting picnic-ers. take your closed minded head out of your ass and look whats going on around you for christ’s sake.
Jason, you’re a freak’n moron. You’ll be serving french fries and living with your parents for most of your life. Get used to it.
As for, “i’d rather the cops be on the streets looking for actual crime” — smoking, possessing, and being under the influence of marijuana is an actual crime. But, just as most criminals do, you find a way to justify your particular crime as being “ok.”
To all the close minded retards who are talking shit about the university of colorado students for choosing to live a certain lifestyle, and to those who have the arrogance to judge there intelligence, let me tell you this close minded ones. Being a marijuana smoker does not determine who you are. If someone decides they want to live in a place where marijuana is tolerated , it does not mean there some stupid stoner who trying to figure a way he can always be high.
I Personally know student at THE UNIVERSITY OF HARVARD who smoke pot every single day and where high all through out high school. The writer of this article has some serious nerve for even questioning the cu’s student drive and intelligence just because they enjoy the marijuana culture. I personally know many doctors ,lawyers , and high end business men who smoke marijuana daily. You know why those cops did not make any arrest? They did’nt because they used there brains and said ” hey , these kids are not here to hurt anyone, there just having harmless fun, let em be ” . OPEN UP YOUR MIND. TO THE CU STUDENT, dont forget to puff puff pass right before class!
PS The guy who wrote this article need to chill the fuck out and grow a sack and not be such a oussy
wow you guys are all douche bags. you really need to relax and realize smoking weed really is not that big of a deal. There are so many influential people that smoke and you conservative cocksuckers have your heads so far jammed up your ass you sound like dumb asses. So stop your bitching and take a chill pill, or smoke a joint
Go raid your cheetos stash, stoner, your advice is as valuable as your short term memory.
Enjoy you dope, but don’t forget to ask the customers if they’d “like fries with that,” when you get to work tomorrow.
Mr. cooper,
I have personally been smoking pot along with my colleagues for about 25 years now. Now since this is an anonymous ill just be frank. I am multi millionare who enjoys marijuana every day with a group of my friends , that consists of a heart surgeon , 2 Lawers, and a very successful contractor. It close minded fools like you who make my success all the better. My success is simple concrete evidence that smoking marijuana has no effect on what or who you will be in the future. Your insecurities are what causes you to have conflict with weed smokers. I wish I had more time to write , but before I go I should let you know. Tonight when I smoke a fat joint reminiscing about my success , I will get the munchies , and eat fast food like a kid again, and I will ” definitely want fries with that “.
PS To the kids at boulder, work hard and party hard, you will be fine. GO puffs!
Excellent article. Even better than mine, I think.
Keep up the good work, my conservative friend!
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.
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.]
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.
Hmmm…that should read having had a grandfather that was an alcoholic.
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?
PS: If marijuana were regulated by the federal government, there would be no criminal enterprise behind it, thus no narco-terrorist funding.
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...]
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
“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.
“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.
*cough*Ward Churchill*cough*
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.
this might be the dumbest article ive ever read… who cares if they smoked marijuan ON 4/20, you were probably the snitch at your school and so you were never invited to join the fun… i really cant see any other reason for you to get offended by college kids smoking marijuana
ps you really should take that picture of that kid and his name and the other girl’s name off of your website, thats seriously messed up to mess with their future like that when they did nothing to you… its marijuana and you act like its murder
To the writer of this article – you are an idiot.
Care to elaborate on which point it is that you disagree with, Ruben? Or are you too stoned to string together more than one sentence at a time? And, no thanks, I wouldn’t like fries with that. Just give me my change, register boy.
gotta love 4/20
I don’t generally approve of breaking the law, and I think inhaling smoke (cigarette, marijuana) is bad for your lungs but…
1. It seems likely George W. Bush experimented with marijuana in his college days. See “Bush caught on tape admitting to Marijuana use”http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1307155.htm
2. Before she was a vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin admitted doing marijuana -see http://prompt.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/16/1873122-palin-acknowledged-marijuana-use(although I believe that due to the vagaries of Alaskan law, which is more forgiving, what Sarah Palin admitted to was not in violation of the law in that state)
3. I earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and I never once smoked marijuana or did any other illegal drug. That’s the honest truth.
you are are morons 4/20 is a protest for leaglizing pot. so the cops cant do shit becasue it is a legal protest. go out there and smoke as much as u want then drive to mcdondals and get 3 double quater pounders! thats the way to do it
So, Mensa, according to your logic, any acts committed during a protest are exempt from the law? So, if I decide to start smashing skulls and killing people as part of my protest, I’m exempt from arrest?
Wow this article looks like it was written from the viewpoint of a sour nhilistic shut-in. You probably don’t know the first thing about either the cops duty nor anything about the nature of the students (or marijuana for that matter).
Wow Robbie have you ever heard of non violent civil disobedience? There is a difference between murdering someone and a non violent crime. It is because people like you that the government continues to spend and waste billions of dollars on the war on drugs. This is a war against the youth and not a war on the actual drugs. Statistically there has been more drug users every year since prohibition. Arresting those college kids would only have clogged up the judicial system and would have been a waste of resources for the town.
Oh wow and I love how you believe that the only jobs stoners will have is serving burgers and fries. That just shows your incoherence and ignorance of the actual subject and debating with you is worthless. You only reply with immature insults to degrade individuals who choose a lifestyle. How about you write an article about the thousands of deaths and violence from alcohol and not about cannabis which has been medically proven that it is safer than alcohol and cigarettes.
And from an employer point of view i would rather have a stoner than an alcoholic. And I hope that you realize there has been hundreds of cannabis users more successful then you will ever become.
Wow, I really understand the reason why we are always going to war and wasting our money on the pursuit of harmless things. Because of conservative right wing douchebags like you, editor and followers. Do me a favor, think back on all the lonely, depressed nights you had in school while people were chilling and smoking and enjoying life, and look to where you are now and how unhappy you are and proud at the same time to be working for a fricking little know republican blog site. Get a life, get a real job, and smoke chronic asshole.
You’re a borderline illiterate moron, J. Fourst from Longmont, CO. I guess with just that little information, it wouldn’t take me more than five minutes to find out exactly where you work, who your boss is, and contact info for your city council or city manager. And another thirty seconds to forward them your comments, and ask them, as a concerned citizen, to check into your boasts of illegal drug use.
You do realize what a complete idiot you are for using your real name and posting about your illegal behavior when you’re a public servant, don’t you?
oh and by the way, i went to CU, I am a firefighter whose employees all know that I smoked weed, I’ve had countless saves, am a paramedic and making 200k a year. Stick that up your tight conservative hole.
Making $200k delivering pizzas? Wow, you must drive fast. Better be careful, or you’ll be like another famous alum, Rae Carruth.
The University of Colorado – the bitch of the Big XII since 1995. And the bitch of the Big 8 for decades prior.
Sal Aunese was a punk. Chauncey Billups is a bald headed bitch. Kordell was on the down low. I’d tell you to take a class with Ward Churchill, but he got fired.
*why authority wastes money on the pursuit criminalizing harmless things
Haha, this article is exactly why the right wing conservatives are morons. Our actual problems are not good enough so lets try to attack potheads and gays. I love the comments as well. I know potheads that are teachers who are generally liked by their students and have been nominated for awards for their ability to teach. Stoners cant get jobs flipping burgers since thats where all the meth addicts, coke fiends and crackheads work. Those are the true demons to society, not marijuna. Why arent there more articles about the dangers of these other drugs than to pot? Oh and guess what, I voted for Obama so apparently I must be an idiot eh? Its funny cause Im younger than most of the fools leaving comments and I know for a fact that I am much more intelligent than you right wing nut jobs. Also, the left wing is full of the same idiots, just arguing for these things. Im not capitalist, socialist or a communist. Im a “I just dont give a fuckist” Ill do what I want and not care about the government cause all government and religion do is try to brainwash its citizens and members into what they want. Nothing good has ever come from religion and government when you compare it to the evil it has brought. So for the sake of this article, yall can put that in your pipe and smoke it haha!
New research has shown that people who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as likely to have psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions than people who have never used the drug.
You, my friend from the University of Alabama (either a professor or a student…which means I SERIOUSLY doubt your claims of success and wealth), appear to be a perfect example of somebody suffering from the delusional affects of smoking too much dope.