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Written by Joel Warner
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Friday, 21 August 2009 |
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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
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Written by SAFER
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 |
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Written by SAFER
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 |
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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!
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Written by David Luhrssen
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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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