On Friday, SAFER's Mason Tvert announced that he would lead a march at Town Center of Aurora to protest
the treatment of John Gailey a week earlier.
Back then, Gailey was cited for trespassing and banned from the mall
for a year because he wore a "Yes We Cannabis" T-shirt, and refused to remove it.
Approximately thirty marchers participated in the event, and none of
them were hassled by mall security -- which is the way it should be,
Tvert says.
"The mall was very hands off, and didn't
stop a single person wearing a marijuana T-shirt," Tvert notes. "And we
hope they'll continue that policy in the future."
Wearing T-shirts spouting a variety of pro-marijuana messages, a
group of about 40 marijuana advocates quietly strolled into Town Center
at Aurora on Saturday in support of a man banned from the mall last week
after wearing a similar shirt.
Unlike the man banned last week,
28-year-old John Gailey, Saturday’s group wasn’t asked to leave the mall
or change their attire.
Instead, the group walked from store to
store like any other shoppers.
Mason Tvert, executive director of
Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, which organized the event,
said his group hoped the event would make it easier for other marijuana
advocates to wear pro-marijuana shirts without problems.
The
Denver-based marijuana advocacy groupSafer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation(SAFER) will pack
the Denver Grand Hyatt on Saturday evening. The event will feature a
keynote speech from former two-term New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson.
Five short years
ago SAFER set out to change the way Coloradans view the recreational use
of marijuana.
Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer
Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), has spent five years arguing that marijuana is less harmful
than alcohol -- and even critics would have to agree that his creativity
in promoting this idea is off the charts.
His latest gambit: Shortly after Congress adapted Representative
Betsy Markey's resolution in praise of the craft-beer industry, Tvert
publicly beseeched her to do the same for the medical marijuana
business. After all, his release declares, MMJ dispensary owners "are
also entrepreneurs who are crafting a product that is useful to
society."
Voting for the measure is "a no-brainer," Tvert feels. To find out
why, read on:
