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Westword: Pot versus beer: Are CO's two iconic industries destined to clash over weed legalization?
Written by Joel Warner   
Thursday, 30 September 2010

Has the war between intoxicants formally begun? The California Beer and Beverage Distributors (CBBD), a trade association, recently made headlines for donating $10,000 to oppose Proposition 19, the California marijuana-legalization measure to be voted on in November.

The message seems clear, says Mason Tvert, executive director of the Denver-based SAFER, an organization that argues marijuana is less harmful than alcohol: "These are the world's two most popular recreational intoxicants, and they are economic substitutes. I think it's safe to say if marijuana becomes legal altogether, there will be many occasions where people will choose to use marijuana and not choose to drink."

Read the entire story at: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/09/pot_versus_beer_are_cos_two_iconic_industries_destined_to_clash_over_weed_legalization.php

 
The Huffington Post: California Pot Initiative Opposed By Beer Industry
Written by Ryan Grim   
Tuesday, 21 September 2010

The California Beer & Beverage Distributors is spending money in the state to oppose a marijuana legalization proposition on the ballot in November, according to records filed with the California Secretary of State. The beer sellers are the first competitors of marijuana to officially enter the debate; backers of the initiative are closely watching liquor and wine dealers and the pharmaceutical industry to see if they enter the debate in the remaining weeks...

...Mason Tvert, head of the organization SAFER, which makes the case that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, told Salazar that driving or operating a fork lift while high would still be illegal if the proposition becomes law -- just as alcohol is legal but it's against the law to drive while drunk.

"With all due respect to this gentleman, he is a political consultant being paid by the booze industry to protect their turf," said Tvert. "We also need to consider the fact that this gentleman mentions all the jobs that are created by the alcohol industry. These are all jobs that can be created by the marijuana industry as well. And at the same time, we're giving Californians the ability to use a substance like marijuana that doesn't contribute to domestic violence and sexual assault and overdose... and all the other problems that alcohol contributes to."...

Read the entire story at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/21/this-buds-not-for-you-bee_n_732901.html?ref=fb&src=sp

 
East Bay Express: Legalization Nation
Written by David Downs   
Friday, 17 September 2010

In California, the 'Pot not alcohol' group SAFER is a little miffed at Big Beer's backing of the No on 19 campaign. They "call on the No on Prop. 19 campaign to explain why it is working with Big Alcohol to drive people to drink.”

"We understand why Big Alcohol wants to protect its turf and keep Californians drinking," said Mason Tvert, executive director of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) and coauthor of Marijuana is Safer: So why are we driving people to drink? (Chelsea Green 2009). "But why does the No on Prop. 19 campaign share this goal?

"As a group calling itself 'Public Safety First,' it seems odd they would be working to ensure adults use alcohol — a substance that has been found to contribute to violent and reckless behavior — instead of marijuana, which does not contribute to such problems," Tvert said.
 
WFOR CBS 4 (FL): Campaign To Decriminalize Pot Comes To Miami Beach (VIDEO)
Written by Lisa Cilli   
Wednesday, 16 June 2010


Miami Beach Voters Could See Marijuana Decriminalization on November Ballot

An effort to decriminalize marijuana in Miami Beach kicked off Wednesday evening when a local group held a news conference in front of City Hall to launch a petition drive. The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy is collecting signatures to place the marijuana decriminalization amendment on the November ballot.

If voters approve the amendment, it would make possession of 20 grams or less of marijuana a civil infraction rather than a misdemeanor crime, for which state law calls for up to a year in jail and $1,000 in fines. Under the proposal, punishment of "personal possession'' would be a $100 fine. The amendment will also increase the discretion of the State Attorney to permit a plea to a civil infraction where appropriate.

"The sum total effect of 72 years of marijuana prohibition and more than twenty million arrests since 1965 is that marijuana is now the largest cash crop in the United States and probably the most economically valuable agricultural commodity produced in the State of Florida," said Ford Banister, Chairman of the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy. "According to a recent report by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, Florida spends $573,366,000 annually on wholly ineffectual efforts to eradicate marijuana, a substance that every objective study has determined to be far less harmful than alcohol."

That's the second focus of the committee. It is stressing a marijuana is safer than alcohol campaign that asserts marijuana is less addictive, less toxic and less likely to lead to violence than alcohol.
 
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