Denver Direct: Part 2 – City Council Proposed Marijuana Ordinance and Other Important Matters as Discussed By Denver DA Morrissey


Saturday, August 18, 2007

Part 2 – City Council Proposed Marijuana Ordinance and Other Important Matters as Discussed By Denver DA Morrissey

Denver DA Mitchell Morrissey answer questions at his 8-18-07 briefing of the Denver Democrats of House District 8.

– Indirect consquences of felony creep (or, what happens when you boost the criterion for a felony crime involving money from $500 to $1000).

– re City Council’s absurd idea to pass a marijuana-low-priority ordinance and have it tested in the courts before the ballot question can be brought to the people for a vote: Morrissey says, “There’s something about marijuana that makes people…..(wait for it)..silly.”