CU-Boulder 4/20 student protesters: Case dropped after they volunteer for Amendment 64

Michael, jury nullification isn't an argument that can be put to a jury -- in Colorado, which is no bastion of Liberty (unlike the Granite State, where juries are now allowed to consider the application of the law).  There is a certain, small-but-tasty irony in the system contenting itself with the arrestees' work on behalf of ending Prohibition, but I hope that they and other students will organize to deal with the root of the problem, which is the people presently maladministering the University and their misperceptions about students' use of cannabis and 4/20, among many other subjects.

The University has engaged in a series of ineptitudes:  hiring Ward Churchill to head a department, firing him only because his rantings made it politically expedient to do so, bending the Administration's efforts to the suppression of 4/20 and cannabis in the face of an utter lack of evidence that it presents a problem, and despite the school's historical problem with alcohol and incestuous relationship with alcohol-peddlers.  While the Administration obsessed about cannabis and even closed the campus, people who think classrooms would be safer with more handguns in them were infiltrating.  Now that anyone may carry guns on campus the only reason this hasn't completely blown up is that the gun proponents have not pressed the issue -- yet.

The Administration's closure of campus to visitors to suppress dissent and its misdirection of money and effort to fight 4/20 has in no way redounded to an improvement in anyone's opinion of the University.  I consider that the opposite is the case, not least because so many recognize that the University faces real challenges that have absolutely nothing to do with cannabis.  The University of Colorado must find some leaders worthy of the grandiloquent titles, fancy suits, and munificent, publicly-paid salaries we are doling out.  It is outrageous that princely sums go to grandstanding retrogrades like Distefano, who imagines that his brief includes crusading against cannabis, while Colorado spends less to educate a college student than it does a second-grader, and students' debt is soaring.  The Chancellor should be devoting his efforts to securing State support for higher education, especially since Colorado now ranks 49th in the nation!  UC's reputation is being imperilled by an Administration so alienated from the fundamental concerns of students and citizens, and if students take the lead in objecting to this misrule, people off campus will take notice.