Travel by air becomes more stressful every day; we are practically stripped searched before we can board our plane and airliners are adding new surcharges to compensate for the high price of jet fuel.

Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) has come up with an excellent idea for alleviating stress at the airport:

Marijuana should be legal in smoking lounges at airports nationwide, according to one pro-pot group that claims the move would help fliers deal with the anxiety of air travel.

Air travel is a total hassle, man, and marijuana advocates in Denver say everyone would find the normally excruciating process a lot more pleasant if they could enjoy a few bong hits before boarding. It might even help solve a few of the problems that airlines have been experiencing lately. The way they see it, if people can knock a few back before a flight, they should be able to spark one up. They're calling on airports nationwide to install marijuana lounges.

Mason Tvert is at it again. Denver's pro-pot activist, and the man behind SAFER, or Safer Alternatives For Enjoyable Recreation, called for marijuana smoking lounges at the Denver International Airport, according to news reports. Tvert contends that pot is safer than alcohol, and so it should be legalized. Tvert cited several recent disturbances on flights leaving or flying into DIA, and blamed alcohol for the incidents, saying "Does it make sense to allow adults to use a drug that causes problems on airplanes and not allow them to use one that does not cause problems on airplanes?"

“Every objective study on marijuana has concluded that it’s far less harmful than alcohol,” Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) Executive Director Mason Tvert explained, “not only to the people who use it but to those around them.”

Thus, Tvert told Fox News’ Trace Gallagher and fellow panelist, defense attorney John Richardson, cannabis should be allowed in airport smoking lounges to help reduce pre-flight anxiety, noting the frequent presence of alcohol in the bloodstreams of those involved in on-flight conflicts and aggression.

A day after a woman appeared in court for allegedly smoking a cigarette and attacking a flight attendant while drunk on a cross-country flight, a local group announced it wants air travelers to have an alternative to alcohol.

Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) plans to hold a press conference on Tuesday to call for the addition of marijuana lounges in airports nationwide to "address the growing number of in-flight problems involving drunk disorderly passengers."