Forget California dreamin'. These days Mason Tvert, the media-savvy founder of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), has been dreaming of Washington State -- where the good city of Seattle just rolled out a citywide marijuana measure that Tvert's been pushing Denver to implement for years.

In a letter recently sent to members of the Denver Marijuana Policy Review Panel -- a mayor-appointed body of which Tvert is a member -- and other city officials, Tvert made note of how Pete Holmes, Seattle's new city attorney has announced he's dismissing all marijuana-possession cases that had been underway in the city and will no longer file charges for marijuana possession unless there are "out of the ordinary circumstances." The move is a response to a referendum Seattle voters passed in 2003 that made marijuana the lowest priority for local law enforcement.

For a marijuana-reform advocate like Tvert, the development's got to be good news from a national perspective -- but personally, it's gotta sting. Tvert's been pushing Denver's city attorney's office to make just this sort of announcement for years in response to the fact that Denver voters have also voted to make marijuana the lowest law-enforcement priority, as well as to remove all penalties for private adult marijuana possession. So far, however, Denver's city attorney has refused to do so even though in 2008 the Denver Marijuana Policy Review Panel called on it to refrain from filing charges for marijuana possession "absent compelling reasons articulated... in open court."

"If Seattle's city attorney can establish a formal policy of no longer filing marijuana possession charges despite Washington's state possession law, why is it that Denver cannot do so, according to Denver city officials?" Tvert asks in his letter. "More specifically, can the Denver City Attorney's Office provide any substantial reasoning for not enacting such a policy in light of the measures approved by Denver voters and the aforementioned recommendation of the Panel? Would the City of Denver actually face any state sanction or penalty if the City Attorney's Office adopted a policy similar to that of the Seattle City Attorney's Office?"

So far, Tvert hasn't received an answer to his questions -- but knowing his tenacity, he won't stop until he does.

Check out Tvert's full letter below.