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Written by Michael Roberts
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 |
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April 20 isn't only the anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School. It's also 4/20, a national celebration of cannabis culture -- something long supported by Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation),
who led the successful 2005 campaign to legalize possession of up to
one ounce of marijuana for 21-and-up Denverites. However, events
sponsored by SAFER on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus
today aren't being portrayed as a prelude to that sacred day, which is
less than two weeks away. Instead, Tvert is tying into National Alcohol
Awareness Month, as well as the Amethyst Initiative,
an organization made up of college chancellors and presidents who want
to reduce drinking on campuses. He's promoting the "Emerald
Initiative," which implies that drinking might be curbed if
restrictions against pot use were eased -- and he's calling on the
Barack Obama administration to lend a hand in the name of science. Yes,
science. Check out the latest variation on Tvert's rap, as well as a schedule
of events at CU, which begin at noon, by clicking "Continue."
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Written by Joe Windish
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 |
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The Inside Higher Ed headline, Can We Be Buds? The story is about a student group, SAFER (Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation), pressing the same college presidents pushing lowering the drinking age onto the national agenda to pick up pot. Figuratively, of course:
SAFER,
a nonprofit organization that supports the reform of marijuana laws, is
calling on college presidents to join its cause, arguing that students
would be safer taking bong hits than tequila shots. The group is
specifically seeking the endorsement of presidents who signed the Amethyst Initiative, which stated that the current legal drinking age of 21 might be contributing to drinking deaths and should be re-examined.
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Written by SAFER
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Friday, 13 March 2009 |
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Interesting news story out of the Nutmeg State:
Connecticut voters support
decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, but in a
weird twist on this emerging liberal agenda, they oppose allowing
grocery stores to sell wine and distilled spirits, according to the new
Quinnipiac University Poll.
Liberal, conservative, twisted, or untwisted, it just sounds like the folks in Connecticut are well-informed on the relative harms of marijuana and alcohol, and they clearly prefer the safer choice... The poll shows a strong 58 percent in support of shifting marijuana possession from misdemeanor to infraction status (much like the ballot initiative recently adopted by voters in Massachusetts), and it reinforces decriminalization legislation proposed by State Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven):
 "This is pretty substantial," Looney said of the 58 percent approval rating. "The change in Massachusetts was
passed with over 60 percent of voters in favor. Clearly the public sees
this as a reasonable idea to prioritize within the criminal justice
system...
"I think it has a chance this year partly because the public seems
ahead of politicians on this issue," Looney said, adding that an
estimated $15 million could be saved in Connecticut by freeing public
defenders and prosecutors from handling low-level pot possession cases. His name aside, this guy sounds like he just might be on to something. Looney's decrim bill is currently awaiting a public hearing in the Joint Committee on Judiciary, but in the meantime we encourage you to contact Sen. Looney and the bill's co-sponsors (Sen. Toni Harp, Rep. Mary Fritz, Rep. Jeff Berger, and Sen. Gary LeBeau) and applaud their efforts to bring about more rational state marijuana laws. And while you're at it, you can also send a more persuasive one to the rest of the committee, letting them know it's time they join their colleagues and a large majority of Connecticut voters in supporting such sensible legislation.
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Written by SAFER
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Friday, 13 March 2009 |
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 A recent story in the Asheville Citizen-Times recalled how a North Carolina sheriff went on a beer and pizza run for a local drug task force that was busy taking down a marijuana cultivation site. Of course the excuses came pouring out smoother than a frosty cold beer:
The team had spent the day searching the house and they were waiting
for a truck to arrive so that they could pack up the marijuana growing
equipment. They worked three more hours after dinner loading the truck
in what the sheriff called “tropical” heat created by the lamps used in
the pot growing operation... None of the officers were in uniform that day and all were working in an undercover capacity, he said.
Ah, the cops were undercover and none were in uniforms. I guess that makes it okay for public officials to drink on the job. Or, for that matter, private citizens to go undercover as police officers and use marijuana... Of course a reader's letter criticizing this stellar logic followed suit:
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