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Written by SAFER
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 |
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How often does a Web site dedicated to football cross paths with those dedicated to marijuana and ending the War on Drugs? Popular pro football news site RealFootball365.com has a great piece on SAFER's action to draw attention to the NFL's hypocrisy on marijuana on alcohol. On behalf of the suspended Kevin Faulk, national marijuana policy reform organization SAFER will today appeal to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell by means of online petition and official letter for changes to the league's marijuana policy... As SAFER sees it, the heart of the issue lies in the fairly obvious
hypocrisy exhibited by the NFL...
Unlike most of the mainstream news stories on Faulk, which simply reported he got busted with pot, RealFootball365 Senior Writer Os Davis explores some interesting facts surrounding the incident in question: The
Patriot was busted at the Lafayette, La., Cajundome while attending a
Lil’ Wayne concert on a misdemeanor possession charge when a search
turned up four “marijuana cigarettes.” Faulk pleaded no contest,
maintaining that the blunts came from the owner of the jacket; in fact,
Faulk took and passed a drug test within days after the arrest. In
July, Faulk was given a five-month suspended sentence, one year of
probation, 40 hours of community service, and 20 hours of “NFL-approved
substance-abuse treatment.”
We figure the NFL's substance-abuse treatment is something along the lines of the scene from "A Clockwork Orange," in which players are strapped down with their eyes held open, forced to endure hours of Coors NFL commercials and anti-marijuana propaganda ads on repeat. Meanwhile, the story was also featured in the world's leading Drug Policy newsletter, the Drug War Chronicle, and popular blog Celebstoner.com included SAFER Executive Director Mason Tvert's quote regarding the NFL in its Quotes of the Week:
SAFER executive director Mason Tvert on the NFL's decision to suspend Kevin Faulk over an off-season pot bust:
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NFL has no problem with players using alcohol and it accepts hundreds
of millions of dollars to promote booze to football fans of all ages.
Yet the league punishes those players who make the safer choice to use
marijuana instead of alcohol to relax and recreate. The NFL is driving
its players to drink."
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Written by SAFER
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Today's episode of the NORML Daily Audio Stash features an interview with SAFER Executive Director Mason Tvert. Mason and host "Radical" Russ Belville discuss last week's Democratic National Convention in Denver, the Democratic Party's position (or lack thereof) on marijuana reform, and more.
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Written by David Usborne
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
Mile High Mellow?
Denver police are being pressured to respect a ballot initiative approved by city voters three years ago that essentially made it legal for residents to carry "small amounts" of marijuana. The pot promoter Mason Tvert says the city should give everyone the "option of using marijuana instead of alcohol. After all, it's alcohol not marijuana that fuels riots, violence and property damage." But dope smoking is still illegal under state laws and those are the ones the police will be following next week.
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Written by Rob Lovitt
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
More true tales of award-winning weirdness: Honoring knuckleheads, nincompoops and National Aviation DayThat’s right, August 19 is National Aviation Day, which was officially
established in 1939 to “stimulate interest in aviation in the United
States.” Unfortunately, it seems that some folks have gotten a little
overstimulated recently, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for
another round of Dotty Awards. For those unfamiliar with the concept, the original honors were given
in this space on April 1, a date that celebrates both general
buffoonery and the official debut of the U.S. Department of
Transportation, aka DOT (in 1967). The judges — no strangers to
buffoonery themselves — suspect the concurrent timing could be a
coincidence, but decided to name the awards the Dotties anyway.
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