SMELL THE REEFER, CSU

It shouldn't surprise anyone, but CSU has fallen way behind our dirty
hippy friends over at CU-Boulder in terms of forward thinking on
medical pot regulations.

In April, the school decided to waive the requirement that freshmen
students must live in the dorms for students who have a legal medical
marijuana card. Marijuana, obviously, is still banned in the dorms,
but CU-Boulder came to terms with the fact that forcing students who
have a legal right to a legal medicine to forgo using that medicine in
their homes just wasn't hip.

CSU needs to follow suit, man.

With the number of medical marijuana cardholders in Fort Collins, the
university is going to run into more and more issues with cardholders
being forced to move on campus in spite of the dorm requirement, and
getting ahead of that problem only makes sense.

Critics will be quick to point out that many cardholders are probably
just stoners who want to get on the right side of the law.

And yes, we realize your roommate doesn't really have chronic pain and
that your next door neighbor's sleep disorders are more imagined than
real, but ridiculous or not, Colorado's medical marijuana laws aren't
going anywhere and some people do have real medical issues they treat
with weed.

CSU's current freshman dorm requirement needs to make exception for
medical marijuana cardholders or the university needs to be prepared
to deal with a plethora of issues that will result from putting both
medical marijuana patients and the university and a bad headspace.