Kudos to these student activists with NORML and Students for Sensible Drug Policy, who used this year's 4/20 "marijuana holiday" to convey the fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol. 

According to an article that appeared in the Washington State University newspaper, The Daily Evergreen:

About 30 students gathered on the sky bridge between the Lighty Student Services Building and the Glenn Terrell Mall Wednesda... with signs reading “Cannabis is safer than alcohol...

The same sentiment was also conveyed by activists just down the coast in Santa Cruz, Ca. From an article published by the San Jose Mercury News:

"Marijuana brings people together. I think its safer than alcohol. It is a medicine and you never hear of violence from smoking pot."

At 11:30 a.m. this morning in the State Capitol's Senate press room, members of the Women's Marijuana Movement will mark both Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Alcohol Awareness Month by arguing that increased cannabis use may help prevent rapes fueled by booze.

It's a subject that WMM co-founder Toni Fox understands from personal experience...

Read the entire article at: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/04/pot_legalization_booze_sex_assault_womens_marijuana_movement.php

This week, Grand Junction and Castle Rock banned retail sales of medical marijuana, joining Loveland and many other Colorado municipalities that have enacted similar prohibitions.

Do these votes suggest that a proposed 2012 ballot measure to legalize pot for adult recreational use is doomed to failure? Hardly, says SAFER's Mason Tvert, who's expected to be at the center of the campaign.

"It doesn't make me fear that at all," Tvert says. He chalks up the failures of Grand Junction and Castle Rock voters to support medical marijuana businesses to the votes taking place in April, when turnout is traditionally lower than for November elections in even-numbered years, with the majority of those taking part skewing older and more conservative.

As such, he believes that "those communities represent a minority of Coloradans when it comes to their opinions about marijuana." Most of the survey he's seen of late show support for marijuana legalization in the 50 percent range, "and the rate is increasing dramatically with each poll, as it has for the past five years. And that's been fueled by people seeing the medical marijuana industry emerge and the lack of problems it presents."

Read the entire article at: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/04/medical_marijuana_bans_pot_legalization_2012_mason_tvert.php