Interesting, this little saga of the Wichita marijuana ordinance which reduces penalties for first-time possession and essentially turns having a joint or two in your pocket into the same sort of violation of public decency and order as maybe overtime parking or not shoveling your sidewalk.
It’s interesting because fewer than 20 percent of Wichita voters actually voted on April 7, but 20,075 of them, or 54 percent, voted for the petition-generated ballot measure and 17,091 or 46 percent voted against it.
You just have to take a short toke of the issue and see how many ways it goes.