Nearly a year after voters made the Garden City a little greener by asking county law enforcement to ignore adult marijuana offenses, Missoula's top prosecutor has adopted an official policy to uphold the referendum.

“In the interest of compliance with the 2006 voter initiative on marijuana ... we are asking law enforcement officers to stop arresting individuals or writing and submitting tickets (with mandatory appearance dates) where the offense committed is solely possession of marijuana in misdemeanor amounts or possession of drug paraphernalia intended for use of marijuana,” according to a draft of the policy by Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg, an outspoken opponent of the measure.

Van Valkenburg's policy also instructs deputy prosecutors to charge misdemeanor marijuana cases on a lowest-priority basis when marijuana is the sole offense

Here's an update on our case:

We have been tasked with the care of an elderly family member down in Florida. We had a court appearance scheduled Monday, 10/29 to answer as to counsel, since our attorneys quit on 10/18. (I forgot to tell you all about that, I've been kinda busy)

Since we really needed the funds, and this sick man really needed help, we left our Bishop, the Right Reverend Gregory Karl Davis, to attend in our stead,and answer the court with documents we signed, notarized, and left with him. He was also to argue our motion to continue, because our attorneys quit 11 days before our trial date.

We simply weren't ready for trial. We still had an outstanding motion that hadn't been scheduled for hearing.