Marijuana Prosecutions Decline.
February 5, 2009
The Denver Post (CO)
Marijuana prosecutions have dropped 21 percent in Denver in a year since voters passed a measure to make pot the city's lowest law- enforcement priority.
Mason Tvert, a proponent of the measure who sits on the city's Marijuana Policy Review Panel, announced the decline Wednesday.
Tvert noted the panel encouraged city attorneys to halt prosecutions for marijuana-possession arrests over the past year and specifically during the Democratic National Convention.
In 2007, prosecutors filed 2,105 marijuana-possession cases. In 2008, 1,658 cases were filed. | 
