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Durango Herald: Fort Lewis bans possessing medical marijuana on campus
Written by Shane Benjamin   
Thursday, 17 December 2009

The change came about Monday after The Durango Herald published a front-page story mentioning that FLC allows students with medical marijuana licenses to smoke on campus but not in dorm rooms.

Since then, FLC spokesman Mitch Davis said, circumstances have changed.

The article “inspired a great deal of discussion on campus," he said, and several department heads decided to enact a specific policy with regard to medical marijuana.

“Really, there was just confusion over whether there was an exception for medical marijuana or not," Davis said.

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Durango Herald: Students have point about pot
Written by Durango Herald (Editorial)   
Wednesday, 16 December 2009

More than 40 years since Woodstock, Colorado is still having trouble figuring out what to do about marijuana. As that unfolds, some Fort Lewis College students are asking that as an infraction of school rules, pot users be treated the same as those caught violating the college's policy on alcohol.

It seems like a reasonable request. There is no reason college policy should arbitrarily deem one more serious than the other.

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Westword: Mason Tvert sees good news in survey showing teen marijuana [use] up, binge drinking down
Written by Michael Roberts   
Tuesday, 15 December 2009

A new University of Michigan survey shows binge drinking among teenagers declined over the last year, but more tenth and twelfth graders used marijuana.

Panic time? Not for Mason Tvert, founder of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation). He's repeatedly stressed that marijuana is less risky than alcohol, even writing a book on the subject (and promoting it with a little help from his mom).

This morning, Tvert is on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris -- the perfect opportunity to answer some questions about the survey via e-mail. Look below for a Q&A on the subject:

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Durango Herald: Student group seeks to even marijuana, alcohol sanctions at FLC
Written by Shane Benjamin   
Monday, 14 December 2009

A student group at Fort Lewis College wants to revamp the Student Conduct Code to make marijuana offenses similar to alcohol offenses when it comes to disciplinary sanctions.

As it is now, marijuana use is considered a more-serious offense than alcohol abuse on campus, said Marissa Williams, a senior.

“We want to change these policies to at least equal status," Williams said. “We believe marijuana is safer than alcohol and should be treated that way."

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Psychology Today: Is Pot Saner Than Booze?
Written by Susan K. Perry, Ph.D.   
Sunday, 13 December 2009

Joint authors flow in pot book collaboration.

An only child, I didn't learn to collaborate very well (i.e., share the work and the credit) until I got married the second time (and there's ongoing debate about how well I do that even now). Thus, the concept of creative collaboration has always interested me. I'll focus here on one instance of collaboration, the writing of Marijuana is Safer - So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? by Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert, with a Foreword by Norm Stamper, former Chief of the Seattle Police Department. It's a very credible book, clearly and persuasively written.

I interviewed Steve Fox, Director of State Campaigns for the Marijuana Policy Project, and a graduate of Tufts University and Boston College Law School. I asked him about the actual logistics of coordinating the inputs of three authors.

Click HERE to read the entire piece at PsychologyToday.com

 
Westword: Mason Tvert and Brian Vicente's plan to legalize Colorado pot in 2012
Written by Joel Warner   
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Move over, Cheech and Chong: The two most important people in Colorado's marijuana scene are Brian Vicente and Mason Tvert -- and they're out to prove it by passing a statewide initiative in 2012 that will legalize marijuana for all Coloradans over 21.

Vicente and Tvert unveiled the plan last Monday at their marijuana-reform "Thanksgiving celebration" at the Gilmore Art Center at Mile High Framing -- and they admit there's a lot of work ahead before Colorado sanctions (as well as regulates and taxes) recreational marijuana use. After all, just three years ago, state voters rejected by a 60/40 margin a constitutional amendment organized by Vicente, Tvert and others that would have decriminalized just an ounce or less of weed.

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