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Westword: Mason Tvert bamboozles his way onto the Amazon bestseller list
Written by Joel Warner   
Friday, 21 August 2009

Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), which ran a successful 2005 campaign to legalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana in Denver, has long been the merry prankster of Colorado weed activists -- a prankster who knows how to have serious impact. When photos surfaced of Governor Bill Ritter's son hitting the booze at a governor's mansion party, Tvert and his posse threw a media-grabbing kegger on the mansion lawn to prove the point that the encouragement of alcohol but not pot was a total party foul. He was also responsible for arguably the most successful billboard that never actually existed: In 2005, as part of the Denver pot legalization campaign, SAFER proposed a billboard celebrating Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams, who'd been suspended for marijuana use. The billboard attracted national attention -- even though Tvert never actually put it up.

 
'Marijuana Is Safer' Book Launch in Denver - Sunday, Aug. 23, 2-5p
Written by SAFER   
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
 
SAFER on MarijuanaRadio.com
Written by SAFER   
Wednesday, 19 August 2009

 SAFER's Mason Tvert was a featured guest on MarijuanaRadio.com last night, discussing the new book he co-authored, Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?

CLICK HERE to listen to the show! 

 
ExpressMilwaukee.com: Marijuana is Safer: Denouncing Reefer Madness
Written by David Luhrssen   
Friday, 31 July 2009
Alcohol fuels violence and pot does not. That's at the core of the argument in the self-explanatory Marijuana is Safer:So Why Are Driving People to Drink? (published by Chelsea Green). Authors Steve Fox, Paul Armentano and Mason Tvert are marijuana reform activists with a professed agenda. Their position is buttressed in the foreword, where Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief, takes up their case. In his experience, cops are forced to respond to booze-induced fighting nightly. Pot violence? Never heard of it.

If the purpose of law is to prevent people from harming each other, then the preponderance of anecdote and evidence is on the side of the authors. Also, the old argument that pot "leads" to harder drugs is specious because nicotine or alcohol, not marijuana, are usually the first drugs Americans ingest, yet the expensive and failed War on Drugs continues to be waged. Pot smoking as an adolescent right of passage hasn't stunted the careers of more recent generations of professionals. Barack Obama was candid about pot in his youth. So was Newt Gingrich. 
 
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