Denver Police Needs Money For Marijuana

The Denver Police Department has too much marijuana and needs more room for all the pot seized by their narcotics officers. They are asking their city council for $125,000 to deal with the thousands of pounds of pot seized annually.

Lt. Cliff Carney, who manages the department's evidence section speculates that once marijuana became legal, people thought they could get away with large grows but quantities are regulated. “We’re no longer getting small amounts like we used to. Instead of 15 to 20 plants grown in someone’s basement, they’re finding 1,000 to 1,500 plants in a warehouse and all the equipment that goes with it.”

“Processed and packaged pot can sit in the property bureau for years as cases work their way through the criminal justice system. But live plants quickly rot and turn putrid, so, they aren’t kept very long.’

Colorado’s surplus marijuana tax revenue is about $66 million with some of those funds benefiting a new bully prevention grant from the Colorado Department of Education. There should be plenty on money to go around but I have one question:

Could  the marijuana that isn’t returned to the innocent and the prepared pot that will last without decaying be sold  to licensed distributors and pay for the expansion of storage and the two new employees need?