“The ongoing joke is that the highway patrol only stops every third car, eastbound,” one Kansas highway patrolman wrote of the half-hearted efforts to stem the flow of cannabis products across the border from neighboring Colorado.
The Kansas Attorney General’s office, in a recent report surveying the KS effects of CO cannabis laws, points to an influx of personal-use cannabis as triggering changes that are trickling into may aspects os society, including law enforcement.
Survey results show that the legal system has been swept by changing attitudes about marijuana, with some jurisdictions no longer enforcing pot laws much. When they do, they’re finding it tough to win convictions, The Wichita Eagle also reported. “The criminal justice system is moving in the direction of what appears to be changes in public attitude,” Attorney General Derrick Schmidt said.
