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Written by Michael Roberts
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
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Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer
Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), has spent five years arguing that marijuana is less harmful
than alcohol -- and even critics would have to agree that his creativity
in promoting this idea is off the charts.
A boycott of Starbucks because of the store's tenuous
link to an anti-weed group? Absolutely. Bamboozling his way onto the Amazon books best-seller list? Sure. Suggesting
that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger might have been able
to avoid sexual-assault accusations if he'd smoked instead of drank?
Damn straight. His latest gambit: Shortly after Congress adapted Representative
Betsy Markey's resolution in praise of the craft-beer industry, Tvert
publicly beseeched her to do the same for the medical marijuana
business. After all, his release declares, MMJ dispensary owners "are
also entrepreneurs who are crafting a product that is useful to
society."
Voting for the measure is "a no-brainer," Tvert feels. To find out
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Written by Michael Roberts
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Friday, 28 May 2010 |
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Yesterday, we told you the story of John Gailey, who was cited for
trespassing and banned from the Town Center of Aurora mall for a year
because he refused to take off a "Yes We Cannabis" T-shirt.
No word yet about whether the mall has apologized and approved the
wearing of marijuana-themed shirts in the future, as Gailey's attorneys,
Rob and Jessica Corry, have asked. But marijuana advocate Mason Tvert
isn't waiting. He's organizing a 4 p.m. protest tomorrow during which
protesters, including Gailey's parents, will march through the mall
wearing pro-pot T-shirts. |
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Written by Phil Smith
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Friday, 28 May 2010 |
At the same time Colorado
legislators were approving a bill to impose new restrictions on medical
marijuana dispensaries, a near majority of Colorado voters were telling
the Rasmussen Report poll they favor legalizing and
taxing pot. Some 49% of respondents said it should be taxed and
legalized, while 39% disagreed and 13% were undecided.
As well-known Colorado marijuana activist Mason Tvert of SAFER noted in
the Huffington Post this week, legal weed is polling
higher than any of the state's contenders for the governorship or the US
Senate. No senatorial candidate is polling higher than 48% and no
gubernatorial candidate is polling higher than 47%. |
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Written by Marsha Sutton
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Friday, 28 May 2010 |
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For parents with soon-to-be high school graduates about to head off to
college this fall, the weeks ahead are fraught with danger. Graduation
night itself, lazy summer months, and that first year away at college
are alcohol-soaked minefields for students and the stuff of nightmares
for parents.
Kids 18 to 20 years of age (do we still call them kids when they can
vote, enter into legally binding contracts, marry, adopt children and
enlist in the armed forces?) are prohibited from legally drinking
alcohol in this country. States set their own legal drinking age until
1984 when President Ronald Reagan authorized the National Minimum
Drinking Age Act, which effectively established a minimum drinking age
of 21. |
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