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Written by SAFER
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
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UPDATE: From Denver's Fox affiliate:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to an article featured in today's Denver Post and making its way around the news outlets, more Coloradans appear to be opting for a safer alternative to alcohol: Coloradans say they are doing less hard
drinking than they did in the past few years but say they are more
likely to smoke pot, according to a two-year federal assessment to be
released today. 
Of course this news has resulted in several calls seeking comment from SAFER, which has been working in Colorado to bring about laws that allow adults to make the safer choice. From the Post: "We've been saying for some time that many adults want a safer alternative to drinking," said Mason Tvert, executive director of the Denver-based pot-legalization group Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, which has passed two pro-pot public votes in the city since 2006.
From Denver's ABC affiliate: "It demonstrates a growing movement toward more rational recreational
activities. There are millions of Americans that enjoy using marijuana,
and more and more they are feeling free to use it or discuss it with
other people. There‘s obviously a growing sentiment," said Mason Tvert,
a marijuana legalization advocate. "It’s unsurprising that more and
more people are making the safer choice.”
Mason will also be featured on several Colorado radio programs discussing this recent news, including: News Radio 850 KOA's "The Ride Home" - Today (June 4) @ ~4:10 p.m. (MDT) - CLICK HERE to listen AM 760 Progressive Talk's "Jay Marvin Show" - Tomorrow (June 5) @ ~7:05 a.m. - CLICK HERE to listen
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Written by SAFER
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Tuesday, 05 May 2009 |
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From Asheville Citizen-Times columnist Dave Russel's latest piece: What about alcohol? In many ways, legalizing marijuana
makes more sense than legalizing even alcohol. Marijuana, while
habit-forming, is not addictive. No one has ever overdosed on
marijuana, but people drink themselves to death, sadly. Overall,
alcohol use, through DUI accidents and long-term health issues, kills
about 100,000 people a year. I’ll take a stoned driver over a drunk
driver any day. Studies show that alcohol contributes to incidences
of domestic violence and sexual assault and marijuana use does not. As
a matter of fact, studies show that alcohol use contributes to
aggressive behavior and acts of violence, whereas marijuana use
actually reduces the likelihood of violence. And finally, like it says
on more than one bathroom wall, “God made marijuana, man made alcohol.
Who do you trust?”
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Written by SAFER
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009 |
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 SAFER launched the SAFER Campuses Initiative earlier this month, just as students at two major universities were voting in favor of SAFER Campus Referendums and college presidents nationwide were receiving information about the "Emerald Initiative" -- our latest project, which is designed to spark a major national debate about the relative safety of marijuana compared to alcohol and the insanity of laws and policies that steer people away from marijuana and toward drinking. CLICK HERE or go to http://www.SAFERcampuses.org to check out our fantastic new Web site, watch the short (yet compelling) SAFER Campuses Initiative video, and read more about the this major national campaign and the latest developments. Click below for more!
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Written by SAFER
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 |
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 There was a fantastic piece published at Alternet and the Huffington Post by our good friend Norm Stamper, who was formerly the chief of the Seattle Police Dept. and is now an author and advisory board member for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) and NORML.
We strongly encourage you to check it out for yourself, but here is a great excerpt: Over the past four years I've asked police officers throughout the
U.S. (and in Canada) two questions. When's the last time you had to
fight someone under the influence of marijuana? (I'm talking marijuana
only, not pot plus a six-pack or a fifth of tequila.) My colleagues
pause, they reflect. Their eyes widen as they realize that in their
five or fifteen or thirty years on the job they have never had to fight
a marijuana user. I then ask: When's the last time you had to fight a
drunk? They look at their watches. All of which begs the question. If one of these two drugs is
implicated in dire health effects, high mortality rates, and physical
violence--and the other is not--what are we to make of our nation's
marijuana laws? Or alcohol laws, for that matter.
Anybody out there want to launch a campaign for the re-prohibition
of alcohol? Didn't think so. The answer, of course, is responsible
drinking. Marijuana smokers, for their part, have already shown (apart
from that little matter known as the law) greater responsibility in
their choice of drugs than those of us who choose alcohol.
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