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Written by SAFER
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 |
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SAFER's Mason Tvert has a
new piece on The Huffington Post
discussing a recent poll that found more support for marijuana legalization among Colorado voters than for any of the candidates in the state's gubernatorial and Senate races. Here's
an excerpt, or you can CLICK
HERE to read the entire post:
 Marijuana Legalization Tops All
Colorado Gubernatorial and Senate Candidates
According to a statewide poll released this week by Rasmussen
Reports, marijuana legalization is more popular in Colorado
than any of the candidates running for governor and the U.S. Senate. As popular Colorado political blog FaceTheState.com reported today: Now, according to Rasmussen, a full 49 percent of Coloradans
support legalizing and taxing marijuana, and only 39 percent think it
should remain illegal. With the remaining 13 percent undecided, these
new numbers might give a likely new legalization ballot measure this
year some real ammunition.
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Written by SAFER
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Monday, 17 May 2010 |
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 The message that marijuana is safer than alcohol is spreading in California as the vote draws closer on a statewide initiative to Control and Tax Cannabis.
As the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reports:
Whatever the medical value
of cannabis is, proponents of the new initiative make no bones about
their view that there's nothing wrong with recreational marijuana use.
"People like to
party. People like to alter their consciousness," [marijuana advocate Lanny] Swerdlow said. "We've
been doing this for so long that there's probably a genetic reason for
it. We've got to give people a safer alternative."[emphasis added]
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Written by SAFER
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Monday, 17 May 2010 |
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 To celebrate SAFER's 5th anniversary, Denver restaurant Sexy Pizza is offering a special SAFER pie with proceeds benefitting the Denver-based marijuana reform organization. As Westword reports:
Sexy Pizza's now offering up a little politics with
its pie. The Capitol Hill pizzeria, located at 1018 East 11th Avenue,
started offering a new pizza last week, with a portion of each purchase
going to Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, a local drug policy
reform organization.
The SAFER pizza comes with red sauce, basil, tomatoes, garlic, feta
and mozzarella and will sell for the same prices as its other specialty
pizzas: $17.99 for a large; $16.99 for a medium; and $13.99 for a small.
One dollar of each pizza, and 25 cents of each slice, will be set aside
for SAFER. Slices go for $2.50 apiece.
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Written by Mason Tvert
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
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Russ Belville of NORML has a great piece posted on the NORML Stash Blog regarding the University of Notre Dame's hypocritical approach to marijuana and alcohol, particularly in light of a football player being busted for marijuana and a recent alcohol-related death involving a recruit. An excerpt is below or you can CLICK HERE to read the entire piece: If you are under the age of 21, both alcohol and marijuana are drugs
that are illegal for you to possess and use. But only one of them is
celebrated in our culture, considered a normal part of “growing up”, and
leads to countless student sexual assaults, violence, and the
occasional death... ...Y’know, college kids just naturally engage in illegal drinking, it’s
what college kids do. Sure, some of ‘em die from drinking games, keg
stands, and beer bongs, so why is it even an issue? But if the football
player is caught smoking a cannabis bong…?
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