4/20 is upon us–As if I needed another reason to get incredibly stoned, eat an entire meat lovers pizza, and watch Toy Story on Blu Ray. I’ll do the exact same thing on 4/21, but instead eating White Castle and watching Toy Story 2.
But the true purpose of the holiday (ya, I said holiday) isn’t to give me guiltless permission to do something I was going to do anyway, it’s to celebrate the beauty of marijuana on a grand scale. It’s to bust out the proverbial cultural megaphone and shout praises for the substance that makes everything better: food, sex, your grandmother’s funeral, etc.
And if one state in the Union is going to show us how to 4/20, it has to be the state that first legalized it. Colorado is like that cool cousin with really tasteful tattoos who can play the guitar but doesn’t carry it every where he goes. The dude who perfectly walks the line between looking homeless and looking like an indie rock star. Fuck Colorado, let’s fuckin’ chill sometime.
And Colorado’s chillness has apparently rubbed off on its law enforcement.
This is how you law enforce. Instead of creating a preemptive, unnecessary divide with the citizens of your city, you have the cool intern in the office post a Chamillionaire tweet about getting stoned and then laughing at your own joke in capital letters (come on, do you really expect police to not show any aggression?)
Smoke on, Denver. And Denver Police: let’s get silly stoned when you’re off duty.