Marijuana supporters want to ask the governor why his young son can have a drinking party inside the governor's mansion while other citizens can't smoke marijuana inside their own homes without the fear of prosecution. 

A Metropolitan State College student charged with marijuana possession declined a Denver prosecutor’s offer Wednesday to plead guilty to a lesser charge of drug paraphernalia possession.

A voter-approved city ordinance legalizing private possession of up to an ounce of marijuana for adults 21 years and older in Denver will take the limelight today in a city trial against a a 24-year-old college student.

Tim Arndt, a freshman at Metro State College of Denver, is facing a jury trial over possession charges that were incurred when he was stopped by police while walking in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and found to be carrying a few grams of marijuana.

Man faces possession of less than 1 ounce charge 

Denver’s continued marijuana enforcement is going on trial this morning with the case of a Metro State College student who is challenging his citation for possessing a couple grams of marijuana.

Timothy Arndt, 24, will argue his case in front of a six-person Denver jury at 8 a.m. Ardnt’s case marks the first time a marijuana citation will be challenged before a jury based on the 2005 voter-backed initiative that legalized adult possession of up to an ounce of marijuana.

"Good news!" an excited student announced to a gathering of about 20 students: Issue 5 passed.

Zach Germaniuk, president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy at Ohio State, had just arrived at a meeting sponsored by the group Sunday night at Stillman Hall. The news pleased Germaniuk, a senior in English, who announced the results with zest at the meeting. Although the meeting was to begin with a viewing of "Reefer Madness" and fundraising for the upcoming Hempfest, the Issue 5 news stole the show.

According to the Undergraduate Student Government's Web site, the passage of Issue 5 will make university penalties for possession of marijuana or paraphernalia on campus no greater than the penalties currently given by the university for possession of alcohol on campus.

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration is claiming that proposals to legalize marijuana in Colorado are causing an increase in organized crime, but the agency says it doesn't have any hard data to back up such statements.

Now proponents who worked to push pot legalization measures in Denver and throughout the state are crying foul over what they say are baseless claims.