Coming off the Colorado Cannabis Convention over the weekend, attorney Rob Corry, a steadfast supporter of medical marijuana, debated state Attorney General John Suthers, a staunch critic of the current medical-marijuana system, at the University of Denver yesterday in what The Denver Post calls a “rhetorical cannabis cage match” watched by law students and medical marijuana supporters.

The debate served to underscore increasingly entrenched divisions over the state’s growing medical marijuana industry and culture, along with gray areas of the law.

Meanwhile, on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus, administrators are trying to clear up some of the murky issues created by students who are licensed to use marijuana medicinally. Freshman students using medical pot are no longer required to live in dormitories their first year, reports the Daily Camera, although some students believe a better alternative would be to designate smoking areas inside the dorms.

Student rallies urge marijuana over alcohol

What's a college party without the beer? Safer, says one group of activists called ... SAFER.

The non-profit group Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) aims to educate the public "about the relative harms of the nation’s two most popular recreational drugs: alcohol and marijuana," their Web site states. And on Thursday, California college students will rally to spread the same message.

Students will gather at San Francisco State University at 2 p.m. as part of SAFER's Emerald Initiative, which poses the question: "Why are we driving students to drink?"

The student activists will deliver copies of their Emerald Initiative to the university president's office. It was designed in response to the Amythyst Initiative, which addresses questions about lowering the drinking age in an effort to curb problems associated with alcohol.

The rallies, also planned for the San Diego State and Fullerton College, were set for April because it's National Alcohol Awareness Month. More than 80 colleges rallied on April 1 for the cause but SF State, SDSU and Fullerton were on Spring Break. Partying, no doubt, with some type of mind-altering substance.

What do you do when you hold a protest rally and nobody comes?

If you’re Brendan Miller, you rally on.

Burlington’s news media converged on the University of Vermont campus Thursday in anticipation of a drug-and-alcohol-liberalization rally. What they encountered, however, was a demonstration of one — a single student who was prepared and pleased to hold forth in successive interviews.